The British deafening shoegazing extraordinaires are back!

My Bloody Valentine, who haven't played a show since the early 90s, and haven't released an album since their masterpiece Loveless in 1991, are touring. They have scheduled shows around the world: Paris, London England, Glasgow Scotland and are currently in the US!
Shows in New York City are SOLD OUT
Shows in Illinois are SOLD OUT
With only 7 scheduled tour dates in the US, the band won't be around very long.
What is the big deal, you ask?

This band has one of the most unique sounds you will ever hear.
You put on your headphones and you get hit by a wall of noise; blaring tremolo-driven guitar, distorted muffled ghostly vocals, and an almost translucent drum backing the entire track. But the more you listen to the band, the more you can't get enough of them. Listening to My Bloody Valentine is often like listening to the soundtrack of a really good daydream. According to a 1992 edition of Hype magazine, "Their music has been described as 'beauty under siege' by one admiring critic; 'the sound of an everyday netherworld' by another." You can't describe them without using some sort of abstract metaphor! There really is no other band like My Bloody Valentine.

Most genre-whores put them in line with shoegazer bands: bands that are characterized by the way they perform, while gazing at their shoes. Bands like The Cure, Dinosaur Jr., The Velvet Underground, and Galaxie 500 among others. While fairly accurate in description, MBV only influenced the bands in the genre, it was never really a part of it. Many of those bands proceeded in MBV's footsteps.

And now, with the reunion shows and frontman Kevin Shields' appearance on the soundtrack to Lost in Translation, it looks like MBVs promise of another album release is going to come true very soon. Loveless will be a tough album to follow and expectation will be high, but I don't think it will be too high for them to reach. We shall not be disappointed.

I love this band, I love walking while listening to this band, and really wish I could have seen them at the soldout Roseland Ballroom show in NYC tonight. The tickets for that show would have cost 130$ a piece! Luckily the ear plugs would have been free; they are being handed out at the door to keep sensitive ears from being blown wide open from MBVs awesomely loudass sound.
But loudness doesn't take away from the quality. Leader and guitar player Kevin Shields is apparently a huge audiophile and soundmaster, which means their show would be that much more pleasing to the ears. I wish everyone who gets to see them on tour a truly awesome experience. And I wish the rest of you to open your ears and check them out.

Tracks to check out:
You Made Me Realise
Soon
Only Shallow
Cigarette in Your Bed

Discography:
This Is Your Bloody Valentine (January 1985)
Ecstacy (November 1987)
Ecstacy And Wine (February 1989)
Isn't Anything (Novmber 1988)
Loveless (Novemeber 1991)

(www.mybloodyvalentine.net)