Mill Avenue jangle pop wasn't the only guitar music coming out of the Phoenix metro area in the 1990s. Bubbling in the Tempe underground was the "Beautiful Noise" scene, encompassing bands like Halfstring and Alison's Halo which were more akin to guitar-pedal-obsessed British psychedelic groups like the Jesus and Mary Chain, Cocteau Twins, the Boo Radleys, and Spacemen 3, all of whom are featured, alongside Alison's Halo, on Still in a Dream: Story of Shoegaze 1988-1995. In recent years, bands like Deerhunter and M83 have adopted shoegaze styles and become huge smashes, so it's exciting to see one of Tempe's finest represented alongside genre titans, a concrete representation of the desert's contribution to the woozy, distortion-drenched genre.