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Shitgaze

Shitgaze is a microgenre of rock music and scene coined in 2005 by Kevin DeBroux of Pink Reason to describe the music of Midwestern rock band Psychedelic Horseshit from Columbus, Ohio. Lead singer Matt Whitehurst added the term to the band's Myspace page, where it became the tag for a "Columbus-centric genre". It was then adopted by the music press and…

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Cultural origins
c. 2005, Columbus, Ohio and Los Angeles, California
Stylistic origins
Lo-fi · DIY · noise rock · noise pop · indie rock

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Shitgaze

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Avg. degree1.96
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Shitgaze

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related to Origins · 22
Shitgaze → According, Cafe Bourbon Street, Columbus, DIY, Eat Skull, Magic Flowers Droned, Mirror, Paisley Reich, Pink Reason, Pink Reason's Cleaning, Present, Psychedelic Horseshit, Psychedelic Horseshit's, Rip It Off, Siltbreeze, Spin, The Philadelphia, Times New Viking, Times New Viking's Dig, Vivian Girls
related to Etymology · 21
Shitgaze → According, Columbus-centric, DeBroux, Horseshit's Myspace, I'm, In, Kevin DeBroux, Man, Matt, Matt Whitehurst, Midwestern, Midwesterners, Pink Reason, Psychedelic Horseshit, Quietus, Spin, The, TV Ghost, Tyvek, We
Stylistic origins · 9
Shitgaze → DIY, garage punk, garage rock, indie rock, Lo-fi, noise pop, noise rock, psychedelic rock, slacker rock
related to Characteristics · 9
Shitgaze → Additionally, Artists, DIY, Ohioans Guided, Psychedelic Horseshit's, Spin, Vocals, Voices, You
related to Decline · 3
Shitgaze → Flood, Mike Lesuer, Tumblr
is a · 2
Shitgaze → microgenre of rock music and scene coined in 2005 by Kevin DeBroux of Pink Reason to describe the music of Midwestern rock band Psychedelic Horseshit from Columbus, portmanteau of
Cultural origins · 1
Shitgaze → c. 2005, Columbus, Ohio and Los Angeles, California

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music scene psychedelic rock columbus lo-fi horseshit new pink spin like term bands times reason magazine became viking whitehurst shoegaze

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ShitgazeCultural originsc. 2005, Columbus, Ohio and Los Angeles, California1.00infobox
ShitgazeStylistic originsLo-fi1.00infobox
ShitgazeStylistic originsDIY1.00infobox
ShitgazeStylistic originsnoise rock1.00infobox
ShitgazeStylistic originsnoise pop1.00infobox
ShitgazeStylistic originsindie rock1.00infobox
ShitgazeStylistic originsslacker rock1.00infobox
ShitgazeStylistic originsgarage rock1.00infobox
ShitgazeStylistic originsgarage punk1.00infobox
ShitgazeStylistic originspsychedelic rock1.00infobox
Shitgazeis amicrogenre of rock music and scene coined in 2005 by Kevin DeBroux of Pink Reason to describe the music of Midwestern rock band Psychedelic Horseshit from Columbus0.90text
Shitgazeis aportmanteau of0.90text

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