Trends and fads are interesting phenomena; they’re almost impossible to predict, let alone create, which is the eternal frustration of the music industry. At any rate, in our current dystopian hellscape fueled by social media and algorithms, and in the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, Zoomers aka Gen Z, through TikTok, Spotify, etc. have discovered a lot of music, ’90s music in particular, or have reconnected with music they heard in their childhood or early teen years. One of the biggest musical youth movements going on is a new shoegaze revival. Now, shoegaze is a very interesting case … Continue reading Nu Gaze or: How Gen Z Discovered Shoegaze