Silversun Pickups - Melatonin

SIlversun Pickups are perhaps the most notable and most successful of the nu-gaze bands—post-millennium bands influenced by, and carrying on the traditions of, the shoegazing sound with a modern twist.

I had the privilege of seeing the Pickups recently at a local venue, and the show was all I'd hoped it would be.  I particularly loved the fact that bass-player Nikki Monninger unironically wore  a little black cocktail dress and heels while kicking ass on the bass—a refreshingly post-grunge, post-punk, post feminist move that shows true individualism rather than the relentlessly tattooed-pierced-ugly-punk-alternative look which has become de rigueur and which is every bit as much a uniform as the military uniforms or corporate suits that the "rebels" of alt-music pretend to oppose.

ANYWAY, the Pickups have picked up the mantle of post-shoegazer fuzz and drone, and any number of their songs would do as a sample, but this one is particularly fuzzy and drony, so I chose it to illustrate their continuity with the tradition.