It doesn’t seem like there’s quite enough umbrage taken with the lack of shoegaze in the current market. While inundated with the likes of radio hip-hop, dragons who imagine and practically everything ...

Whirr is angry and doing something about it. The Bay area rock act released its monolithic sophomore album Sway last year and has hit its sonic stride with a sound that seems too preposterously heavy ...

Shoegaze outfit Whirr will be releasing their next LP on September 29, 2014. The record is titled Sway and follows up Around [EP] from 2013. The band has posted a song from the album.

Former Deafheaven member and current Nothing bassist Nick Bassett’s band Whirr make gravelly, heavy shoegaze. Earlier this month, we premiered “Mumble,” the first single from their upcoming album, ...

Music genre revivals have the innate ability to polarize listeners: they're easily written off as pastiche or unoriginal, but yet can reinvent idioms by adding new, unexpected layers or constructs.

Whirr conjure up some of shoegaze’s loneliest vibes. The first two singles from their upcoming album Sway, “Mumble” and “Heavy,” were as bummed-out as they were beautiful, and after a fragile intro, ...

Slide Away, the shoegaze “festival that celebrates itself” created by Nothing, will hold NYC and LA editions this spring. Whirr are returning to the stage for their first shows in a decade to play ...