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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Kevin shields - The Untold Story

Shoegaze guitar has never been bigger – and these 5 pedals are a shortcut to its otherworldly tones

From do-it-all multi-effects to lush reverbs, glitchy delays, and a must-have My Bloody Valentine signature pedal, our guide to the ultimate shoegaze stomps

Guitar World

My Bloody Valentine wow crowds with ear-piercing Royal Albert Hall set

Widely acknowledged as one of the loudest bands of all time, the group’s performance shook the foundations of Royal Albert Hall.

Evening Standard

“There’s a misconception about the vocals being buried - they aren’t”: My Bloody Valentine’s sound engineer on wrangling the shoegaze pioneers’ huge live setup

Sound engineer Marc Carolan shares the challenges and excitement of helping bring My Bloody Valentine's first headline tour in over a decade to life

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My Bloody Valentine at OVO Arena Wembley: 'Like a velvet tsunami'

4/5 My Bloody Valentine return to bring the noise and hit the heights without truly punishing eardrums

Evening Standard

My Bloody Valentine review – shoegaze pioneers find prettiness in pulverising noise

Earplugs safely distributed, the band proceed to rattle ribcages with a two-hour show that showcases their unique ability to mesh the dreamlike with the apocalyptic

The Guardian - UK

My Bloody Valentine reunite for secret gig marking first show in seven years

My Bloody Valentine reunited on Wednesday (19.11.25) for a secret warmup gig ahead of their UK tour later this year.

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“You could take everything away from me but leave the laptop and I'm confident I could make interesting music quite happily for the rest of my life”: Lone on the gear behind his technicolour, rave-adjacent electronica

We spoke to the producer about his unique approach to shaping sound and the tech he can't live without

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“What angle have we missed on this? Ah yeah, getting some other ****er to sing it!”: the 10 best Manics songs featuring a guest singer (and the odd bassist and guitarist)

From Cate Le Bon to Duff McKagan and Lucy Rose to Kevin Shields, the Welsh legends have often welcomed other artists into their songs. Here’s ten of their finest.

Louder

My Bloody Valentine announce first UK headline tour in over a decade

Dublin shoegaze legends My Bloody Valentine will play UK arena shows this coming winter

Louder

"They’d usually freak, there’d be a lot of threats, a lot of aggression." Why shoegaze legends My Bloody Valentine had to hire their own security guard to protect audiences from angry security guards at their gigs

My Bloody Valentine's infamous live white noise freak-out could have strange effects on those subjected to it

Louder

‘You got it or you didn’t’: the sweat, smoke and sonic excess of the indie scene pre-Britpop

A new photography book captures the ramshackle squats and grimy venues that were a playground for confrontationally uncommercial early-90s bands like My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab and Silverfish

The Guardian - UK

Death By Audio resurrects the Octave Clang, with the new and improved V2 offering “discordant ringing drones, visceral octave scrapes, and ground-shaking distortion”

The gnarly octave fuzz that's found its way onto the pedalboards of Kevin Shields and Joanne Shaw Taylor now comes a footswitchable octave and a “supercharged” circuit…

MusicRadar

Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis: ‘I still get a kick out of making a racket’

The revered shredder may be celebrating four decades in the business, but with a new album out and everyone from Fred Armisen to Kevin Shields singing his praises, he’s not ready for the potting shed just yet

The Guardian - UK

“I showed the Strymon BigSky to Lana, and she was like, ‘Oh, we need that.’ I plugged into a 100-watt Marshall, and the riff came out in 10 seconds”: Lana Del Rey guitarist Blake Lee thrives on making his Strat sound like anything but a guitar

The boundary-breaking guitarist – aka Blake Stranathan – had an unlikely route to session guitar success. He reveals how gear shaped his collaborations with one of the biggest singer-songwriters of our age, his theory on how “the less paint or lacquer on the guitar, the better it will sound” and…

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Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker, influential guitarist with Killing Joke, dies aged 64

Guitarist celebrated by Jimmy Page and Kevin Shields for his intense, multi-layered sound suffered a stroke over the weekend

MusicRadar

J Mascis and Kevin Shields join forces to create alt-rock heaven with Cure cover

The My Bloody Valentine man joined Dinosaur Jr in London to perform Just Like Heaven – and songs from their own bands

Guitar World

"That otherworldliness comes from very tight rhythm playing": Kevin Shields on hiding music inside his new Fender pedal, his Jazzmaster setup secrets and what guitarists overlook about his technique

My Bloody Valentine's sonic architect on how he made a fuzz pedal that responds like an amp, that time he gigged without his rig, and why he has an entire pedalboard for one part in one song…

Guitar World

Kevin Shields shares the secret to ensuring your Fender Jazzmaster or Jaguar won’t go out of tune – and it’s not a Mastery bridge

The My Bloody Valentine guitar genius and offset expert says he has a method that achieves tuning stability without aftermarket components

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A beginner's guide to Creation Records in five essential albums

How Alan McGee's indie label changed music, via five essential Creation albums

Guitar World

My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields hid new music in a flash drive inside his signature Fender Blender pedal

With the flash drive comes instructions for listeners to “please play at 80db and above on speakers“

MusicRadar

Fender unearths a shoegaze fuzz holy grail for My Bloody Valentine fans with the Kevin Shields Blender

The Kevin Shields Blender has two channels, an octave-up fuzz and sag controls, is limited to 700 units worldwide, and available exclusively through Fender, Reverb and Andertons

Guitar World

Fender and Kevin Shields make history with the firm’s first ever signature fuzz pedal – and it‘s a retro joy

It might cost $499, but the limited-edition Shields Blender – designed with the My Bloody Valentine tonal pioneer – is a two-channel vintage-style monster in every sense of the word

The Guardian - UK

My Bloody Valentine’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Ten years since the release of their last album, mbv, we celebrate the greatest tracks by a band best known for its sonically extreme offerings

Belfast Live

Stena Line passenger's items 'stolen from car' during Belfast sailing

Those onboard were told to disable the alarms on their cars

The Guardian - UK

My Bloody Valentine criticise Spotify for showing ‘fake’ lyrics to their songs

The band, who are famously cryptic about their songs, called the inaccurate lyrics ‘completely incorrect and insulting’

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