Sparkler is a compilation of early songs by the Texas shoegaze trio Ringo Deathstarr. Originally released only in Japan, the album is now being released domestically in North America with one additional track not on the original CD. ALSO AVAILABLE ON LP!

Purple Bloom is a Japanese shoegaze band formed by Linden (vocal) and Tsuyoshi (guitar and others) in Tokyo. Their sounds blended high-pitched whispered female vocal with noisy guitar are straight-ahead dreamy shoegaze. This is the first album of 'Purple Bloom' produced by themselves. All tunes was recorded at their tatami room, and remastered for this album. The artworks also are designed by themselves. Lyrics translated into English are included for only CD.

ASD's 3rd LP, 2 years in the making, tells the story of how easy it is for us all to lose track of time, and the realization that every good relationship and lifespan eventually comes to an end. The band has been best described as creating “melodipsych night music” by combining lush sampled textures, waves of crashing guitars and a wall of vocals layered like a synth, similar in vein to bands such as Cocteau Twins, Porcupine Tree and Sigur Rós.

RESTOCK! It's been a while since we've seen the Vera Violets, a popular Tampa band known for dark, fuzzy but always beautiful music. Their eight albums harken back to the glory days of '80s goth and early '90s shoegaze, they've been compared to everyone to the Jesus and Mary Chain to Sonic Youth. Their new album In Between Fires is an inventive, catchy blend of Stone Roses-style trip-rock and Interpol-style gloom-rock.

Elika mix stunning female vocals with textured guitars; throbbing bass; synths; field recordings; and meticulously programmed drums to create memorable songs with the atmosphere of childhood and layers of detail. The album follows themes of love, fear, domesticity, faith, family, illness, guilt and paranoia, but even the dark songs have an element of hope. Having toured the UK, USA, Peru & Canada, Elika has been well received across continents and cultures. They have shared the stage with friends and likeminded peers Ulrich Schnauss and Asobi Seksu.

On It’s Sweet to Do Nothing, his seventh full-length, Guitar purposefully takes a 180-degree turn by blending classical string arrangements (harp, piano, violin, contrabass, etc.) with drum programming and samples. Michael returns to his roots here, as his first love of music, his most collected and most listened-to music, is modern classical chamber music. Upon initial listen, the album may seem far removed from Michael’s earlier work with symphonic walls of guitars, but ultimately the arrangements are similar -- minus the distortion this time.

After building a loyal following in the independent shoegaze scene Soundpool have enhanced their palette and, in turn, crafted a pop masterpiece. The nine songs are infectious, overflowing with strong bass hooks, driving beats, shimmering guitars, and Kim Fields' captivating, ethereal voice. "Post-shoegaze ambient dance with a canonball of cosmic sounds" - Kenyon, Advance Copy

RESTOCK!! The Daysleepers manage to improve upon the shoegaze/dreampop sound of their debut EP, while adding post-punk and new wave elements into the mix. Like a cross between My Bloody Valentine and The Cure, or Slowdive meets Cocteau Twins. There is a lot of variety on this 6 track EP, from fuzzed out fast paced songs to slow ambient drifting melodies.

Ten live recordings from legendary British indie label SARAH RECORDS artists The Orchids, St. Christopher, Gentle Despite, The Wake, The Field Mice, and Heavenly. Originally released by Fierce Recordings UK in 1992, now available again for the first time in eighteen years and for the first time ever on vinyl.

Huge, enchanting shoegaze melodies blended with dreamy Finnish melancholia. Add a dash of electro-pop and gently catchy indie goodness, and this Japanese double-CD echoes the best of The Radio Dept, Slowdive, and My Bloody Valentine all in one package. Disc one is their first album, plus two bonus tracks. Disc two is a special bonus EP, BREAKING THE PATTERNS, which was released in 2009 on the band’s own Homesick Music label.

Out of print for several years now, Monster Movie's second album from 2004 is here again (very briefly, I'm sure). We have a VERY LIMITED amount of stock returned from our old distributor! If you sleep, you will miss them. An album of celestial wonder and expanse, To the Moon soars to stratospheric altitudes via volcanic bursts of guitary distortion and delay. Darkly-introspective lyrics, whose scope encompasses everything from arctic stars to ellipsis, reveal rare emotional depth and candor.

Here's another goodie in super-limited supply! Also out of print for many years, this is the second volume of collected goodies from a variety of Tonevendor-friendly labels and bands, including exclusive tracks from Midsummer, Le Pepes, The Birthday Machine, Sexconsciousyoungmoderns, Remora, Morella's Forest, Your Favorite Horse (aka Accelera Deck), Pony Express(members of Starflyer 59), Trace (ex-Rocketship / Electro Group), Shakespace, Ksine, and Silver Screen. Plus 12 other tracks! All at a great price.

LIMITED EDITION VINYL VERSION NOW AVAILABLE! Tears Run Rings has a talent for marrying hauntingly beautiful textures and pop melodies. In Distance, they have refined their lush, melancholy sound and set it to a beat informed by Factory Records. For their second full-length album, the band proudly wear their influences on their collective sleeve. Chorus-laden and reverb-drenched guitars, breathy boy/girl vocals, and Madchester-via-Factory Records era beats are all common themes throughout Distance.

Not actually a used CD - it is actually unplayed and untouched, but it is not sealed and has a hole punch thru the barcode. We pressed up too many promo copies and just found a whole box of em. It seems silly to have them collecting dust, and even though the CD is almost completely out of print, you can still get a "new" and unplayed copy for crazy cheap cheap!

Colour Trip is 55% spot-on homage to some of the mid-80's to early-90's best genre tracks, and 45% fresh and original blendings of those influences. reverent homage and head-nods to Medicine, The Primitives, Psychocandy-era JAMC, and Strawberry Wine-era MBV ever-present. Noisy guitars and breathy/lazy male vox are de rigeur. Colour Trip is an album that easily, comfortably, happily, and very proudly sits alongside all the albums it's influenced by.

Mild to Wild depicts the band's new musical transition through layers of meticulously layered bits of Colour Kane signature sounds – sweet voice, lush guitars, narrative bass, tickling beats, electronics, subtle hiss and white noise.

Even though their latest album Isolation contains nearly an hour of new material, it was not the entirety of their recent efforts. The Eye To Eye EP collects 4 new songs that, for a variety of reasons, don't appear on Isolation. From their trademark high-energy bursts of power pop perfection to intimate acoustic-based tracks to Space Echo & reverb laden droners that indulges a bit in the "shoegaze" sound that described the bands earlier recordings. To call this an assortment of b-sides or outtakes would be a misnomer. More accurately, it's a brief collection of top-shelf new songs that fans of The Brother Kite will undoubtedly enjoy.

Two brand new and exclusive tracks from TBK on limited edition 7" vinyl! Includes a download code for both tracks. A perfect accompaniment to the band's Isolation album, these two songs stand proudly as their own perfectly-functioning unit.

Throughout Isolation, TBK blends various elements ranging from atmospheric power-pop, to experimental synth rock, extending well beyond the band's earlier Beach Boys meets My Bloody Valentine leanings. It is surely one of the year's most ambitious rock records, and one that deserves all the attention that The Brother Kite has so lovingly put into creating it.

Tears Run Rings has a talent for marrying hauntingly beautiful textures and pop melodies. In Distance, their second album on Clairecords, they have refined their lush, melancholy sound and set it to a beat informed by Factory Records. For their second full-length album, the band proudly wear their influences on their collective sleeve. Chorus-laden and reverb-drenched guitars, breathy boy/girl vocals, and Madchester-via-Factory Records era beats are all common themes throughout Distance.

Six new awesome tracks, dancey and shoegazey and blissfull and poppy and just like the Panda Riot songs you already love - only maybe even a smidge or two better than that. Track Listing: julie in time, motown glass, streetlights and you and me, when you said/ When I said, parallax, 16 seconds. "Their new EP Far & Near is a testament to their talent, featuring six songs that combine classic elements of the genre with electronic touches for ear-catching results" - The Examiner

New Tonevendor t-shirts for 2009! Printed on American Apparel cotton. Available in adult sizes small through XL.