ShoegazeAuthor: Ryan Pinkard What the hell is shoegaze? A scene? A movement? A sound? Back in the Nineties, many would have said the so called genre was entirely fabricated. The term itself, an offensive piss take given by the notoriously catty and scene obsessed British music press, was plainly rejected by the absurdly small collection of bands to which it supposedly applied. Today shoegaze is undeniable. As a descriptor and as a source of influence, it is