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Shoegaze is a genre of late 80s and early 90s British indie rock, named after the bands motionless performing style, where they stood on stage and stared at the floor while they played. ... The sound of the music was overwhelmingly loud, with long, droning riffs, waves of distortion, and cascades of feedback. ... Most shoegaze groups worked off the template My Bloody Valentine established with their early EPs and their first full-length album, Isnt Anything, but Dinosaur Jr. ... In 1992 — after the groups had dominated the British music press and indie charts for about three years — the shoegaze groups were swept aside by the twin tides of American grunge and Suede, the band to initiate the wave of Britpop that ruled British music during the mid-90s. Some shoegazers broke up within a few years (Chapterhouse, Ride), while other groups — such as the Boo Radleys and Lush — evolved with the times and were able to sustain careers into the late 90s. ...
Post-rock was the dominant form of experimental rock during the 90s, a loose movement that drew from greatly varied influences and nearly always combined standard rock instrumentation with electronics. Post-rock brought together a host of mostly experimental genres — Kraut-rock, ambient, prog-rock, space rock, math rock, tape music, minimalist classical, British IDM, jazz (both avant-garde and cool), and dub reggae, to name the most prevalent — with results that were largely based in rock, but didnt rock per se.
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