WTSH Shoegaze Spotlight
on the Strangeways Radio Blog:
A Weekly Gaze.
About this week's spotlight:
Who: Nightmare Air
What: WTSH Shoegaze Spotlight feature
Where: Strangeways Radio blog
When: Weekly
A Weekly Gaze.
About this week's spotlight:
Who: Nightmare Air
What: WTSH Shoegaze Spotlight feature
Where: Strangeways Radio blog
When: Weekly
Every week WTSH will
present a shoegaze/dream pop band on Strangeways' blog, highlighting
how very awesome the band is and how you should be listening to them and
buying their music and supporting them because they deserve it.
This week's focus -
Nightmare Air is an LA-based trio fronted by the dynastic duo of Dave
Dupuis (guitar, vocals) and Swaan Miller (bass, vocals). Dupuis, a
veteran of L.A. shoegazers Film School (Beggars Banquet) and Miller,
whose stark early-2000s acoustic album on Important Records melted
hearts and faces everywhere, meticulously layer indie boy-girl
harmonies, psych noise loops, fuzz-ripped bass and howling rock power
into a fresh, upbeat sound all their own. In 2012 Dave and Swaan teamed
up with Detroit heavy hitter Jimmy Lucido on drums to create a live show
that is not to be missed...