Tears Run Rings is an American shoegaze band consisting of singer/bassist Laura Watling, singer/guitarist Matthew Bice, guitarist Ed Mazzucco, guitarist Tim Morris, and drummer Dwayne Palasek.
[2] Ed Mazzucco, Laura Watling, Tim Morris, and Dwayne Palasek have been collaborating various incarnations since the mid-90s.
[4] They later teamed up with Matthew Bice of Shelflife Records[5] to produce a full-length album entitled Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never,[6] which was released on Florida's Clairecords in April 2008.
[7] The album was well-reviewed (4/5 stars) and drew strong comparisons to shoegaze bands of 20 years earlier: "may be a dead ringer for Slowdive, right down to their torrents of cascading, distorted, and delayed guitars and ubiquitous male-female cooing, with slight seasonings of Moose, Chapterhouse, and Kitchens of Distinction".
[11] In 2018, Tears Run Rings contributed an exclusive song to the Somewherecold Records Various Artists compilation Resistance: In Support of the Southern Poverty Law Center.