With the release of MBV's Loveless, 1991 marked the high water mark for shoegaze before the music press turned its back with a nose-high snort of derision. Ben Cardew looks over the history of the genre and asks if its decline was simply because the music just got boring
Two decades and 150 releases since their formation in the Porto underground, Lovers & Lollypops has grown into one of Europe's most vital connecting points for DIY culture. Anu Shukla charts their story so far via 10 key releases, from early makeshift gigs with battered soundsystems to the thriving community of today