Ceremony
Rocket Fire

In 2003, Fredricksburg, Virginia trio Skywave released a fabulous shoegaze album called Synthstatic. While the band's singer/guitarist Oliver Ackerman...

Combining two staple of indie music like shoe gaze and indie pop is always a somewhat dangerous plan but when it works it works. Two examples of this ...

Ceremony certainly wear their influences on their sleeve. Aside from naming themselves after a Joy Division song, their bio fully embraces their simil...

There is no better sound to me than that of thickly layered, heavily distorted guitars, bursts of feedback all played at an overwhelming volume. I’m b...

Fredericksburg, Va., noise rock trio Skywave broke up long before they had the chance to spread their distortion-driven tunes to a wide audience. The ...

This Fredericksburg, VA duo’s 3rd album is an excellent set of noisy, shoegazer psych-rock recalling past noisemaking heavyweights like The Jesus & Ma...