{"podcast":{"title":"Word In Your Ear","slug":"word-in-your-ear-3755187","podcast_index_feed_id":3755187,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5ff0586154e2a73589267809?cache=false","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/1620937674526-4e6eb29c967e869bd9d5a9d205d55599.jpeg","author":"Word In Your Ear","episode_count":986,"summary":"Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like \"Rock On\", \"Whistle Test\" and VH-1. Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience. Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit wiyelondon.com . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T06:19:56.425854+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187"},"episode":{"title":"Shoegaze, slackers, ‘noise chasms’ and the 10-year reinvention of rock","slug":"shoegaze-slackers-noise-chasms-and-the-10-year-reinvention-of-rock","published_at":"2026-05-19T13:08:30+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187/shoegaze-slackers-noise-chasms-and-the-10-year-reinvention-of-rock","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187","url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a0c60cec7cb17aacef1cbbd/media.mp3","summary":"A whole new age of psychedelia kicked off in the mid-‘80s, of dream-weavers and glorious underachievers, a complete rejection of the standard rock approach to stagecraft, sound and self-promotion. Simon Reynolds was at the heart of it, writing for Melody Maker and piping aboard the pioneering noise-mongers aiming to entrance and disorientate, as recalled in his new book ‘Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock 1984-1994’. He looks back with us here from his home in Los Angeles at its key bands, events and spiritual godfathers, these among them …   … the return to childhood via Syd Barrett and Jonathan Richman to Sarah Records    … is ‘feeble little horse’ the most Shoegaze band name ever?    ... what it was about Morrissey that made Smiths singles sink after Top Of The Pops    … the reason Bowie formed a band    … charming/infuriating interviews with the Cocteau Twins: “words only have any meaning when they’re sung”   … how Britpop brought down the curtain of the wall of sound     … Shoegaze, Dreampop, Lovelynoise, Wide-Brimmed Hat Music and the rock press attempt to impose order: “if a band was on the cover they could double their fee”    ... the divine arrogance of Lawrence of Felt who “didn’t want ordinary people buying my records”   … the ever-extending “noise chasms” of My Bloody Valentine   …  “shattering quartz”: reviewing music that’s about sound not words    … Shoegaze DNA in the 21st Century   ... and the greatest album of that decade, “each track like a session beer”.   Order copies of ‘Still In a Dream’ here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/still-in-a-dream/simon-reynolds/9781399618373 Help us to keep The Longest Conti…","meta_description":"A whole new age of psychedelia kicked off in the mid-‘80s, of dream-weavers and glorious underachievers, a complete rejection of the standard rock approac…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2678,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-3755187/episodes/shoegaze-slackers-noise-chasms-and-the-10-year-reinvention-of-rock/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187/shoegaze-slackers-noise-chasms-and-the-10-year-reinvention-of-rock.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}