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PUNK ROCK GIANTS DESCENDENTS  SET TO TOUR AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND OCTOBER 2023!

Brace yourselves punk rock enthusiasts! One of the most irreverent bands ever to come out of the Southern Californian punk scene, Descendents are returning to Australia and New Zealand this October playing six headlining shows plus a highly anticipated performance at Wollongong’s biggest music festival, Yours and Owls.

  Descendents have one of the most enduring legacies of any punk rock band in history. Known for their early, defining timeless classic albums such as ‘ Milo Goes to College ‘ and ‘I Don’t Want to Grow Up ’ as well as spawning hit songs, ‘ Hope ‘, ‘ Suburban Home ‘ and ‘ Good Good Things ’, all of which fans can expect to hear on the band’s upcoming tour.

Descendents set themselves apart by taking punk rock back to its roots, and their music continues to captivate generations.

The band – Milo Aukerman (vocals), Bill Stevenson (drums), Stephen Egerton (guitar), and Karl Alvarez (bass) will be joined by a swag of local supports listed below.

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES

Wed 11 Oct POWERSTATION, AUCKLAND +Flirting with Disaster and The Flash Harrys Fri 13 Oct PRINCESS THEATRE, BRISBANE +VOIID and The Cutaways [SOLD OUT] Sat 14 Oct YOURS AND OWLS FESTIVAL WOLLONGONG Sun 15 Oct METRO THEATRE, SYDNEY +Nursery Crimes and Tantichrist [SOLD OUT] Tue 17 Oct THE GOV, ADELAIDE +Chinese Burns Unit and LOLA Wed 18 Oct FORUM, MELBOURNE +Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion Thu 19 Oct TORQUAY HOTEL, TORQUAY +Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

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Descendents are certified pop punk royalty.

Emerging from Southern California in the 1980s with their groundbreaking debut album Milo Goes To College , they went on to shape the sound and attitude of skate punk in a way that continues to resonate with countless bands today.

Six years on from their last visit Down Under, the classic line-up – bespectacled, former biochemist frontman Milo Aukerman , drummer Bill Stevenson , guitarist Stephen Egerton and bassist Karl Alvarez – are returning for a headline run of the country.

Following a show in New Zealand, Descendents will play six Australian shows, taking in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Torquay, and the previously announced Yours & Owls – Wollongong's biggest and best music festival.

Still delivering lively, kick-ass performances nearly 50 years into their career , expect the group to roll out enduring hits – 'Hope', 'I'm The One', 'Bikeage', 'Everything Sux', 'Good Good Things' – as well as material from their latest album, 2021's 9th & Walnut.

Whether you're reconnecting with the influential punk titans or experiencing them for the first time, these shows are sure to be sweaty nights out to remember.

See The Descendents playing the following shows, with a string of support acts.

Tickets are on sale Tuesday 4 July but there's a pre-sale happening from 29 June ( more info here ).

Wed 13 October – Princes Theatre: Turrbal Jagera, Brisbane with special guests VOIDD and The Cutaways

Sat 14 October – Yours & Owls Festival Dharawal Land, Wollongong More info here

Sun 15 October – Metro Theatre: Gadigal Land, Sydney with special guests Nursery Crimes and Tantichrist

Tue 17 October – The Gov: Kaurna, Adelaide with special guests Chinese Burns Unit and LOLA

Wed 18 October – Forum: Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Melbourne with special guests Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

Thu 19 October – Torquay Hotel: Wadawurring Country, Torquay with special guests Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

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Californian punk veterans Descendents have locked in a full Australian tour in October this year. The news comes off the back of the band being announced as a headliner for Wollongong festival Yours and Owls .

Descendents’ Australian tour will kick off on Wednesday, 13th October at the Princes Theatre in Brisbane, with shows down the east coast and in Adelaide to follow (sorry Perth). The tour will wrap up in Torquay on Thursday, 19th October – see the full run of dates and ticketing details below.

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The band – Milo Aukerman (vocals), Bill Stevenson (drums), Stephen Egerton (guitar), and Karl Alvarez (bass) – are now 50 years into their illustrious career, which began with the debut album Milo Goes To College in 1982.

The band have locked in a heap of local support acts for the upcoming dates: VOIDD and The Cutaways will join them in Brisbane; Nursery Crimes and Tantichrist in Sydney; Chinese Burns Unit and LOLA in Adelaide; and Something Something Explosion and Nursery Crimes again in Melbourne and Torquay.

The band will headline Yours and Owls alongside acts like   Earl Sweatshirt ,  Lil Tjay ,   Chet Faker ,  Meg Mac ,  Ocean Alley ,  Safia , Vera Blue , and more. See the full lineup right over here .

Descendents Australian Tour 2023

• Wednesday, 13th October – Princes Theatre: Turrbal Jagera, Brisbane with special guests VOIDD and The Cutaways
• Saturday, 14th October – Yours & Owls Festival Dharawal Land, Wollongong
• Sunday, 15th October – Metro Theatre: Gadigal Land, Sydney with special guests Nursery Crimes and Tantichrist
• Tuesday, 17th October – The Gov: Kaurna, Adelaide with special guests Chinese Burns Unit and LOLA
• Wednesday, 18th October – Forum: Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Melbourne with special guests Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion
• Thursday, 19th October – Torquay Hotel: Wadawurring Country, Torquay with special guests Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

You can register for priority access to tickets via SBM Presents . General tickets are on sale Tuesday, 4th July.

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Descendents Set To Tour Australia & New Zealand October 2023

Brace yourselves punk rock enthusiasts! One of the most irreverent bands ever to come out of Southern Californian punk scene,   Descendents  are returning to Australia and New Zealand this October playing six headlining shows including a highly anticipated performance at Wollongong’s biggest music festival,  Yours and Owls .

Descendents have one of the most enduring legacies of any punk rock band in history. Known for their early, defining timeless classic albums such as ‘ Milo Goes to College ‘ and ‘ I Don’t Want to Grow Up ’ as well as spawning hit songs, ‘ Hope ‘, ‘ Suburban Home ‘ and ‘ Good Good Things ’, all of which fans can expect to hear on the band’s upcoming tour.

Descendents set themselves apart by taking punk rock back to its roots, and their music continues to captivate generations.

The band – Milo Aukerman (vocals), Bill Stevenson (drums), Stephen Egerton (guitar), and Karl Alvarez (bass) will be joined by a swag of local supports listed below.

DESCENDENTS AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES

Wed, Oct 11: Powerstation,  Auckland with Flirting With Disaster and The Flash Harrys

Fri, Oct 13: Princess Theatre,  Brisbane with Voiid and The Cutaways

Sat, Oct 14: Yours & Owls Festival,  Wollongong 

Sun, Oct 15: Metro Theatre,  Sydney with Nursery Crimes and Tantichrist

Tue, Oct 17: The Gov,  Adelaide   with Chinese Burns Unit and Lola

Wed, Oct 18: Forum,  Melbourne with Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

Thurs, Oct 19: Torquay Hotel,  Torquay with Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

All shows are 18+

General public tickets on sale Tuesday, July 4 at 11.00am (AEDT)

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Brace yourselves punk rock enthusiasts! One of the most irreverent bands ever to come out of the Southern Californian punk scene, Descendents are returning to Australia and New Zealand this October playing six headlining shows including a highly anticipated performance at Wollongong’s biggest music festival, Yours and Owls.

Descendents have one of the most enduring legacies of any punk rock band in history. Known for their early, defining timeless classic albums such as 'Milo Goes to College' and 'I Don't Want to Grow Up’ as well as spawning hit songs, ‘Hope','Suburban Home' and 'Good Good Things’, all of which fans can expect to hear on the band’s upcoming tour.

Descendents set themselves apart by taking punk rock back to its roots, and their music continues to captivate generations.

The band - Milo Aukerman (vocals), Bill Stevenson (drums), Stephen Egerton (guitar), and Karl Alvarez (bass) will be joined by a swag of local supports listed below.The band - Milo Aukerman (vocals), Bill Stevenson (drums), Stephen Egerton (guitar), and Karl Alvarez (bass) will be joined by local supports Nursery Crimes and Tantichris

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Southern California punk rock legends Descendents  aren’t only one of 17 whopping headliners at this year’s Yours & Owls festival, but they’re going to be spending more time in Australia touring across the country this October.

Booked to play six headlining gigs in Australia and New Zealand, including a highly anticipated performance at Wollongong’s Yours & Owls, this tour is a rare treat, with Descendents returning to Australia after six years.

If you want to jump onto the exclusive fan pre-sale, you can go here on Thursday, 26 June, at 11 am AEST. The general public on-sale begins on Tuesday, 4 July, also at 11 am AEST, here .

Starting their Australian and New Zealand tour at Auckland’s Powerstation on 11 October, Descendents will then perform at Brisbane’s Princess Theatre, Yours & Owls, Sydney’s Metro Theatre, Adelaide’s The Gov, Melbourne’s Forum, and the Torquay Hotel.

Local openers will join Descendents at all shows – you can find all the details below. Nursery Crimes , who opened for the band in 2017, will also open three shows on this tour.

Upon the band’s most recent visit to Australia in February 2017,  The Music remarked that the show was a “ masterclass ”. Reviewer Mark Hebblewhite added, “It may only be February, but I can’t see any punk or hardcore band (let alone any other musician, quite frankly) topping this show for the rest of the year.”

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Descendents aren’t the only punks on the Yours & Owls bill; they’ll be in good company with Angel Du$t , RedHook , RVG ,   Teen Jesus And The Jean Teasers and many more outstanding acts. You can check out the full line-up here .

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2023 AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES

Wed 11 Oct POWERSTATION, AUCKLAND   +Flirting with Disaster and The Flash Harrys  Fri 13 Oct PRINCESS THEATRE, BRISBANE   +VOIID and The Cutaways  Sat 14 Oct YOURS AND OWLS FESTIVAL WOLLONGONG  Sun 15 Oct METRO THEATRE, SYDNEY   +Nursery Crimes and Tantichrist  Tue 17 Oct THE GOV, ADELAIDE   +Chinese Burns Unit and LOLA  Wed 18 Oct FORUM, MELBOURNE   +Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion  Thu 19 Oct TORQUAY HOTEL, TORQUAY   +Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

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They will be bringing their four-decades of experience to Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, but it is well worth noting that experience doesn’t necessarily equal maturity in this case. Hypercaffium Spazzinate is the first album in 12 years from the band from California, and still features the reckless energy that the band has become known for.

For many years they have been the benchmark for other pop punk groups, which makes sense given they pretty much invented the genre way back in 1978. Playing songs from the new album and hits like ‘I’m The One’ and ‘Everything Sucks’, the live shows will no doubt be a spectacle worth witnessing.

February 16 – The Gov, Adelaide SA February 17 – Capitol, Perth WA February 20 – 170 Russell, Melbourne VIC February 22 – Eatons Hill, Brisbane QLD February 24 – Enmore Theatre, Sydney NSW

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DESCENDENTS – Punk Rock Giants Set To Tour Australia & New Zealand October 2023

Brace yourselves punk rock enthusiasts! One of the most irreverent bands ever to come out of Southern Californian punk scene,   Descendents  are returning to Australia and New Zealand this October playing six headlining shows including a highly anticipated performance at Wollongong’s biggest music festival,  Yours and Owls.

Descendents have one of the most enduring legacies of any punk rock band in history. Known for their early, defining timeless classic albums such as ‘ Milo Goes to College ‘ and ‘ I Don’t Want to Grow Up ’ as well as spawning hit songs, ‘ Hope ‘, ‘ Suburban Home ‘ and ‘ Good Good Things ’, all of which fans can expect to hear on the band’s upcoming tour.

Descendents set themselves apart by taking punk rock back to its roots, and their music continues to captivate generations.

The band – Milo Aukerman (vocals), Bill Stevenson (drums), Stephen Egerton (guitar), and Karl Alvarez (bass) will be joined by a swag of local supports listed below.

DESCENDENTS AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES

Wed, Oct 11: Powerstation,  Auckland with Flirting With Disaster and The Flash Harrys

Fri, Oct 13: Princess Theatre,  Brisbane with Voiid and The Cutaways

Sat, Oct 14: Yours & Owls Festival,  Wollongong 

Sun, Oct 15: Metro Theatre,  Sydney with Nursery Crimes and Tantichrist

Tue, Oct 17: The Gov,  Adelaide   with Chinese Burns Unit and Lola

Wed, Oct 18: Forum,  Melbourne with Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

Thurs, Oct 19: Torquay Hotel,  Torquay with Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

All shows are 18+

General public tickets on sale Tuesday, July 4 at 11.00am (AEDT)

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Descendents Punk Rock Giants Set To Tour Australia & New Zealand October 2023

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DESCENDENTS  Punk Rock Giants Set To Tour Australia & New Zealand October 2023  

Brace yourselves punk rock enthusiasts! One of the most irreverent bands ever to come out of Southern Californian punk scene,   Descendents  are returning to Australia and New Zealand this October playing six headlining shows including a highly anticipated performance at Wollongong’s biggest music festival,  Yours and Owls .

Fans can jump the queue early and sign up to access the band’s exclusive fan Pre-sale from Thursday, June 29 at 11.00am (AEDT)    HERE    

Descendents have one of the most enduring legacies of any punk rock band in history. Known for their early, defining timeless classic albums such as ‘ Milo Goes to College ‘ and ‘ I Don’t Want to Grow Up ’ as well as spawning hit songs, ‘ Hope ‘, ‘ Suburban Home ‘ and ‘ Good Good Things ’, all of which fans can expect to hear on the band’s upcoming tour.

Descendents set themselves apart by taking punk rock back to its roots, and their music continues to captivate generations.

The band – Milo Aukerman (vocals), Bill Stevenson (drums), Stephen Egerton (guitar), and

Karl Alvarez (bass) will be joined by a swag of local supports listed below.

DESCENDENTS AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES  

Wed, Oct 11: Powerstation,  Auckland with Flirting With Disaster and The Flash Harrys

Fri, Oct 13: Princess Theatre,  Brisbane with Voiid and The Cutaways  

Sat, Oct 14: Yours & Owls Festival,  Wollongong 

Sun, Oct 15: Metro Theatre,  Sydney with Nursery Crimes and Tantichrist

Tue, Oct 17: The Gov,  Adelaide   with Chinese Burns Unit and Lola

Wed, Oct 18: Forum,  Melbourne with Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion 

Thurs, Oct 19: Torquay Hotel,  Torquay with Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion 

All shows are 18+ 

General public tickets on sale Tuesday, July 4 at 11.00am (AEDT)

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Fans can jump the queue early and sign up to access the band’s exclusive fan Pre-sale from Thursday, June 29 at 11.00am (AEDT) sbmpresents.com/tour/descendents-2023

Descendents have one of the most enduring legacies of any punk rock band in history. Known for their early, defining timeless classic albums such as Milo Goes to College  and I Don’t Want to Grow Up  as well as spawning hit songs, Hope , Suburban Home  and Good Good Things , all of which fans can expect to hear on the band’s upcoming tour.

Descendents set themselves apart by taking punk rock back to its roots, and their music continues to captivate generations.

The band – Milo Aukerman (vocals), Bill Stevenson (drums), Stephen Egerton (guitar), and Karl Alvarez (bass) will be joined by a swag of local supports listed below.

DESCENDENTS AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES

Wed, Oct 11: Powerstation, Auckland with Flirting With Disaster and The Flash Harrys

Fri, Oct 13: Princess Theatre, Brisbane with Voiid and The Cutaways

Sat, Oct 14: Yours & Owls Festival, Wollongong  

Sun, Oct 15: Metro Theatre, Sydney with Nursery Crimes and Tantichrist

Tue, Oct 17: The Gov, Adelaide with Chinese Burns Unit and Lola

Wed, Oct 18: Forum, Melbourne with Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

Thurs, Oct 19: Torquay Hotel, Torquay with Nursery Crimes and Something Something Explosion

All shows are 18+

General public tickets on sale Tuesday, July 4 at 11.00am (AEDT)

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It took over 30 years for legendary, and legendarily inactive, Californian pop punk band The Descendents to tour Australia. Now they’re coming back after two years. HEAVY asks front man and punk icon Milo Auckerman what’s up.

“I feel like the last time we were there I was struggling a bit, and I wanted to come back and knock the socks off Australia. Come back and really do it right, because that other tour we did by the time I got to the last show I’d really lost my voice. And now that we’ve been doing it for a few more years I’ve tried to learn some vocal preservation techniques and hopefully that’s going to hold me in good stead for this tour.”

Milo’s plans to put his best foot forward with Australian crowds has translated into one of the strongest punk bills we’ve been privy to since NOFX and Bad Religion teamed up for a run through the country in 2009. When the Descendents, Bouncing Souls, Frenzal Rhomb and Bodyjar bill was announced Australian punk fans ubiquitously responded to by saying ‘cool. I didn’t think that was going to happen.’

But then again, that’s been The Descendents’ M.O. for the last 30 years. The band who’s Milo Goes to College and I Don’t Want to Grow Up records set the blueprint for the 90s pop punk movement, are partial to unexpected, sporadic bursts of activity that keep fans wanting more. It was a health scare for drummer Bill Stevenson back in 2009 that spurred the band on to start intermittently playing shows around the world again and has kept them going to now. Auckerman is characteristically self-deprecating when discussing the continued nature of The Descendents.

“I really feel like we’ve gotten not a second wind, but like a fourth or fifth wind. Every time we get back together and do it I think everybody gets injected with a little bit of energy, and we all look forward to doing it.”

“We’ve gone through long periods of inactivity, and looking back it doesn’t seem that strange to us now. We just had our lives to get on with, and our lives are very multi-faceted; different careers and different families, so now when I look back I’m like ‘so what, we took ten years off. Big deal. We’ll be able to pick up where we left off.’ Which is what we’re doing now.”

But is it really as easy to pick up where up left off now, with band members in their 50s and wives and lives and careers to focus on instead of music and the legendary “bonus cup”?

“As we get older now I feel like it’s more of a challenge for me, and I kind of want to rise to that challenge of maintaining that same kind of youthful perspective that we had. That’s really important to me, it’s actually why I play music; it’s about trying to stay young.”

Seeing as the four-piece has been playing shows sporadically for the last three years, I wonder if the band is starting to get questions about their plans to follow-up 2004’s Cool to be You, the last Descendents studio record?

“We do get that question. And for a while there over the last few years we’ve just been deflecting it, saying ‘well, we don’t know’ but once you get a certain critical mass of songs together it’s kind of inevitable that we would commit them to tape, and I think we’re at that point now. We’ve exchanged musical ideas and digital files, at this point we’re just waiting for the free time to do it right.”

“Personally, what I do is that I kind of tend to save up ideas during these hiatus periods, and then come forth with them when I feel like we’re kind of back as a unit and solidified for our next endeavour. So we do have some songs, and I’ve written six or seven or eight songs that I’ve given to Bill and the rest of the band obviously has there own songs. So there are plans, tentative plans, to do some more recordings.”

Though there’s no new album coming in the immediate future, Descendents fan should soon get the chance to watch Filmage, a documentary that has been in the works for some years, chronicling the rise of The Descendents and sister band All. But I ask Milo, does having a documentary made about a band that tried their damnedest to defy their age, make the band members feel old?

“It’s better to do it now than when we’re all dead. I’m happy that it’s happening now so I can be around to enjoy it. I guess it doesn’t make me feel any older than any of the other stuff that happens in The Descendents… Any time somebody tells me that we’re the godfathers of pop punk, that makes me feel pretty old. This is just part and parcel of the same thing… Bottom line is that we are kinda old.”

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Descendents is currently touring across 15 countries and has 45 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at Parque Hermanos Castro in Gijón, after that they'll be at Lisboa Ao Vivo (LaV) in Lisbon.

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Pioneer Courthouse Square

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Montreal Olympic Park / Parc Olympique de Montréal

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The Fillmore Silver Spring

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Town Ballroom - Buffalo, NY

Reverb Night Club

Agora Theatre & Ballroom

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Mercury Ballroom

GLC Live at 20 Monroe

The Pageant

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Fillmore Auditorium

Union Event Center (The Union)

Knitting Factory - Boise

Virginia Street Brewhouse

Pappy + Harriet's Pioneertown Palace

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descendents were AMAZING !!!!! I last saw them in 99 new years eve and they were awesome thus time they were older ,greyer,and more experienced and they kicked major ass less than jake was good if ska Is your thing not my flavor of music but they were entertaining with crowd participation bringing random fans on stage for random stuff and talking shit to fans for being on there phones lol opening band was pretty good actually Def worth it to get there early I liked them way better than LTJ overall the descendents was a real treat because obviously there winding down there illustrious career and it's worth seeing them because of there punk icon status alone true living legends

This show was incredible!!! The Descendents are one of my favorite bands and this was my first time seeing them, in no way did they disappoint. They played a mixed of popular songs like Im not a loser and not as popular ones like clean sheets. Their set was about two hours and well worth the trip from Boston. I couldn't of asked for a better night.

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Cigarettes After Sex and Gen Z’s Passion for Dream-Pop

The buzzy band that makes woozy, sensual music is releasing its third LP and starting an arena tour. It’s part of a wave reviving the fuzzed-out aesthetic of shoegaze.

By Ben Sisario

In 2016, after a four-year-old track by a struggling Brooklyn band called Cigarettes After Sex blew up on YouTube, the group’s brand of crisp, lovesick minimalism began selling out clubs all over Europe. At a tour stop in Prague, Greg Gonzalez, its leader, saw unticketed fans weeping in the street.

“OK, this is bizarre,” Gonzalez remembered thinking. “But that showed me that this is doing what it’s supposed to do. This is music that’s meant for emotional people that are in love. That’s what music did for me. So I thought, that’s what I want my music to do for somebody else.”

Eight years later, that pattern has repeated for Cigarettes After Sex , on a far grander scale. Although largely ignored by the mainstream media, the band’s spare, crystalline ballads have again caught fire online — this time on TikTok — racking up almost 10 billion streams around the world. Its third album, “X’s,” will be released on July 12 via the indie label Partisan, and an exhaustive global tour includes sold-out stops at Madison Square Garden as well as the Kia Forum near Los Angeles, and arenas throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South Africa and Australia. By stealth, Cigarettes After Sex has become one of the biggest cult bands in the world.

Its success is also a high-water mark in rock’s latest retro revival, for shoegaze and dream-pop — appropriately nebulous terms for a range of music from the 1980s and early ’90s, when groups like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins and Lush cloaked melodies in waves of shimmering guitar or synthesizers, along a sonic scale from gauzy reverie to caustic noise. Long a recurrent strain in indie-pop, the sound has been catapulted by TikTok to a new level of popularity among Gen Z acts like Wisp, Sign Crushes Motorist and Quannnic that are posting millions of streams and dotting festival lineups.

Cigarettes After Sex represents one end of this spectrum, with a carefully calibrated, almost cinematic approach: a hushed, dark landscape punctuated by splashes of color from Gonzalez’s guitar, topped by his whisper-soft, almost feminine singing voice. But in an interview in an East Village hotel bar, Gonzalez — who in person speaks in an easy, rapid-fire baritone — said he sees Cigarettes After Sex as fitting more in a tradition of classic, moody love songs, referencing Marvin Gaye, Françoise Hardy and Al Green.

“It’s not about ‘let’s create this atmosphere,’ and that’s all,” said Gonzalez, 41, whose black Ray-Bans never left his face. “The Cocteau Twins, you could argue, is more that kind of thing,” he added, referring to the foundational Scottish dream-pop trio whose lyrics were often a jumble of fantastical verbiage. “What if you could do that and also had lyrics you could relate to more?”

Those lyrics can be strikingly raunchy, but with a verisimilitude that Gonzalez said is often straight autobiography.

The band’s origins go back to Gonzalez’s days at the University of Texas at El Paso in 2008, where, he said, his early songwriting efforts, inspired by the Smiths and the Jesus and Mary Chain, were reverb-drenched and overstuffed. Gonzalez’s approach changed when he encountered “ The Trinity Session ,” the Cowboy Junkies’ hear-a-pin-drop 1988 album that was recorded around a single microphone.

To capture that same intimacy, Gonzalez set up his band in the echoey stairwell of the college music building and recorded its performances live. It was a eureka moment: “I finally found some kind of identity that feels special.”

Gonzalez moved to New York and self-released four songs from those sessions as an EP called “I.” Its black-and-white cover photo by Man Ray, of human anatomy turned surreal landscape, established a stark yet erotic visual identity that Gonzalez has stuck with ever since. (He later moved to Los Angeles.)

But Cigarettes After Sex had little success until a cut from that EP, “ Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby ,” began garnering millions of views on YouTube after it was promoted to some of the site’s European users. Gonzalez, who had no label or manager at the time, began fielding thousands of curious emails.

Pouncing on the momentum, the group went on tour and signed with Partisan, and its self-titled debut album arrived in 2017. One weightless track from it, “ Apocalypse ,” caught the ear of a SiriusXM programmer, Chris Muckley, who put it into rotation. “It took all the best things I liked about the xx, Mazzy Star and the Jesus and Mary Chain,” Muckley recalled. “It’s an aural sedative.”

That was nothing compared to the boost Cigarettes After Sex got during the pandemic. Its songs became the soundtrack to hundreds of thousands of TikTok videos, when young users added lilting snippets of tracks like “Apocalypse,” “K.” or “Cry” to extreme close-ups of their faces, in bliss or in tears. “Apocalypse” alone has since cleared two billion streams, according to Partisan.

“X’s” tweaks the formula only a bit to achieve what might be called Cigarettes After Sex’s version of dance-floor bangers. That means slightly more elevated tempos, with grooves that were composed over drum loops. On past albums Jacob Tomsky had played a stripped-down drum kit, with a sonic wash from a single ride cymbal; on “X’s,” he plays a more danceable hi-hat instead. (The band also includes Randall Miller on bass, with Jeff Kite contributing keyboards.) But from the threesome described in the title track, the thematic continuity is clear.

Rare among indie rockers, Gonzalez is also unapologetic about commercial ambitions. “When you write, you want to aspire to be among the greatest, and you want to stand on the shoulders of the giants that got you there,” he said. “So you want to be the biggest because you respect those artists that were the biggest as well, right?”

WHILE CIGARETTES AFTER SEX was building a fan base, a noisier brand of neo-shoegaze music was taking hold on TikTok, abetted by YouTube tutorials offering step-by-step instructions for mimicking the fuzzy guitar effects that gave the original stuff its distinctive sound.

Last year, an 18-year-old computer science student at San Francisco State University named Natalie Lu began tinkering with a ready-made backing track she found on YouTube, recording her voice through her AirPods. The result, “ Your Face ,” was a vortex of serrated guitars and ethereal vocals about unrequited love set to a lunging, wave-tossed beat.

Lu posted the track to TikTok under the name Wisp, and by the next morning it had gotten over 100,000 views. Within a few days it crossed half a million, and soon Lu was fielding calls from trend-chasing record companies. Before Wisp had played a single concert, Lu signed with Interscope Records, the major label behind stars like Billie Eilish and Lana Del Rey. Next month Wisp — now a full band — is playing Lollapalooza in Chicago.

“It was a complete shock to me,” Lu, now 19, said in a video interview from her new home in Los Angeles, where she sported a pink-purple dye job recalling vintage Lush. “But I’m happy that people on that platform enjoy it, and I think TikTok is a really good app to use, to just market your music and make connections.”

What gets called shoegaze now is a shaggy agglomeration of indie-rock that may feature bits of shimmering feedback or any number of ’90s influences. Quannnic , another solo project, can conjure Radiohead’s infatuation with dehumanized electronics. Wednesday could be heirs of Sonic Youth or Dinosaur Jr. The Boston band Horse Jumper of Love , with slow, ragged grooves, are more lo-fi rock than anything.

“Shoegaze used to mean one thing, which was a giant pedal board,” said Will Anderson, whose bands Hotline TNT and Weed also get the tag, though they could just as accurately be described as grunge descendants. “It inches a little wider every year. That’s like anything else — pop or indie or punk.”

Phil Pirrone, co-founder of the Desert Daze festival in Lake Perris, Calif., which has hosted reunion performances by OG shoegazers like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Ride, said the revival built gradually but now seems to be everywhere. Desert Daze’s next event, in October, will feature Wisp and what he said were an array of other neo-shoegaze groups.

“We are living in a maximalist future in which every era is being romanticized by some demographic of people,” Pirrone said. Shoegaze, he said, “as dreamy as it is, it’s also dangerous, fatalistic. There’s something romantic about that in this day and age.”

It also represents a shift in the effects of streaming media. Half a generation ago, the playlist economy was pushing producers in a pop direction, rewarding tracks that front-loaded their hooks. Shoegaze and dream-pop, on the other hand, take time to cast their spell — though in the era of TikTok, even the most cinematic expanse still gets compressed into a few bars of sonic wallpaper.

When the term shoegaze was first used in the British music press in the late 1980s, it was a lightly mocking insult aimed at a clutch of bands that appeared diffident onstage because their members tended to hang their heads downward — as they stared at their guitar effects pedals.

“We were consciously wanting to get away from the Simple Minds, U2, big-star-onstage thing,” Andy Bell of the band Ride said in an interview. “I think a lot of shoegaze came from the fact that we were trying to be humble, to let the music speak, create a really huge wall of noise and let that be the sound.” Since the band reunited in 2014, Bell said, he has noticed its live crowds getting younger and younger.

Miki Berenyi, of Lush, recalled that by 1991, when her band toured with Ride, the winking humor of the term had evaporated once American journalists began applying it wholesale. “It’s interesting,” Berenyi said, “how the irony or the sarcasm was lost in this shift over to America.”

In Britain, the original shoegaze wave died with the rise of Britpop in the mid-90s; in the United States, if it took hold at all, it was blasted away by grunge. But the sound never completely vanished, and it got new attention after My Bloody Valentine reunited in 2008. Groups like Diiv and Beach House — whose hypnotic 2015 track “ Space Song ” has crossed a billion streams on Spotify — absorbed the influence of shoegaze and dream-pop, setting up the next generation.

Despite Cigarettes After Sex’s popularity on TikTok, the key to its success may be old-fashioned touring. The band has crisscrossed the globe multiple times, building up loyal — and notably young — fan bases in Poland, India, Indonesia, South America; the United States has only recently caught up as to the rest of the world as one of its top live markets. For some tours in Asia and the Middle East, where public standards may be less liberal, the band is advertised only under the name CAS.

And while the band’s slow-motion soundscapes can recall classic dream-pop or the soundtrack to “Twin Peaks,” to Gonzalez, the only thing old-fashioned about Cigarettes After Sex is its insistence on romantic songwriting.

“I just thought it’d be nice to have someone who pretty much only does love songs,” he said. “You’re not really going to go wrong in that department.”

Ben Sisario, a reporter covering music and the music industry, has been writing for The Times for more than 20 years. More about Ben Sisario

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