"Autodidact" not only sets the tone for the album, but also sums up Swervedriver's past and present. Wistful and yearning, it flirts with both beauty and dissonance as Franklin offers humbly poetic ...

Before Swervedriver reformed in the late ’00s, frontman Adam Franklin made music as a solo artist. The title of his first solo album, 2007’s Bolts of Melody, became the name of his backing band. Ten ...

Shoegaze greats Swervedriver have released a second song from their new album I Wasn’t Born To Lose You, titled “Autodidact,” which sounds like classic soaring, roaring Swervedriver. Stream it below.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portrait of Swervedriver in 1998. The band are sat down and all wearing sunglasses. Adam Franklin’s been busy. He's recently ...

Swervedriver have announced their return by sharing their heavy new single ‘Mary Winter’, the first track to be taken from their upcoming new album ‘Future Ruins’. The Oxford band will follow up their ...

Swervedriver’s jagged axes and psy-fi lyricism helped endow so-called shoegaze with its increasing credibility. But although Swervedriver’s new tour revs up Thursday in New York, a new full-length ...

The last 15 or 20 years have whizzed by, but hearing "Rave Down," from Swervedriver's terrific 1991 breakthrough Raise, still feels like a revelation. The track presciently fills the gap between ...

In the early 1990s, there was a certain otherworldly guitar sound that wasn't quite grunge and wasn't quite shoegazer. It was totally Swervedriver. Blasting a noisy kaleidoscope of guitar pedals, a ...

Swervedriver have announced details of a new live show, celebrating 35 years of their debut album ‘Raise’. The show comes as a one-off date at the Village Underground venue in London, and will be held ...

Swervedriver will kick off its reunion tour with a newly confirmed booking on the final day of this month's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. The U.K. rock group will then begin a North American ...

U.K. rock act Swervedriver is aiming to hit the road in the spring for its first tour in nearly a decade, frontman Adam Franklin tells Billboard.com. By Jonathan Cohen U.K. rock act Swervedriver is ...