My Bloody Valentine

Grizzly Bear would have liked a Grammy nod, even if Bon Iver thinks the awards are lame. That new My Bloody Valentine album is one track away from completion, bassist Debbie Googe says.

It may have taken them more than two decades, but My Bloody Valentine frontman Kevin Shields says the band is finally just about finished with the follow-up to 1991's 'Loveless' -- and that it'll be out before the end of the year.

A movie so nice, they made it twice -- and one of those was in 3-D, no less. To music lovers, the name is synonymous with gazing at shoes whilst strumming over-driven guitars and bending strings, but before My Bloody Valentine the band, there was 'My Bloody Valentine' the movie, a low-budget slasher flick released in 1981 in an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of such cult horror classics a

Few bands have fused feedback and melody as eloquently as My Bloody Valentine, and while their studio output has been minimal -- fans are still waiting for a follow-up to MBV's second album, 'Loveless,' released in 1991 -- their recordings have inspired countless bands. Take Smashing Pumpkins, for instance.

My Bloody Valentine frontman Kevin Shields says that remastering the group's old albums led him to decide to release a new album later this year.

Given that their most recent album is old enough to buy its own drinks -- and that fans have been waiting for reissues of the band's old records for as long as we can remember -- it's probably healthy to take any news of a new release from My Bloody Valentine with a boulder-sized grain of salt. But for what it's worth, MBV frontman Kevin Shields says the group working on the long, long, long-delay

Shoegaze legends My Bloody Valentine have announced plans to reissue their entire back catalog on May 8, including remastered editions of the Irish quartet's watershed 'Isn't Anything' and 'Loveless' albums, plus a two-disc set that will include EP releases, outtakes, unreleased tracks and other rarities.