With the release of his first two albums, Satellites and Mercury State, singer/songwriter Daniel Pearson received national and international attention as both efforts revealed Pearson to be a versatile and inventive songwriter as Satellites possessed a hook-laden, almost pop-orientated Americana […]
Category: indie rock
New Audio: Caviare Days Stoner Rock Tinged New Single “Great Minds”
If you’ve been following JOVM for the last couple of months you may be familiar with the Stockholm, Sweden-based indie rock/indie pop act Caviare Days. The band initially started out as the recording project of founding […]
New Audio: Autobahn’s New Single “Society” Channels Joy Division, Viet Cong, and Interpol
I’m often multitasking while working on posts and today wasn’t any different, as I was going through Soundcloud files while watching an awful New York Yankee loss against their division rival Toronto Blue Jays when […]
New Audio: The Dreamy, 60s Inspired Sound of Younghusband’s “Better Times”
Comprised of Euan Hinshelwood (vocals/guitars/keys), Adam Beach (guitars/keys), Joe Chilton (bass/guitars) and Pete Baker (drums/percussion/keys), the London-based, indie rock quartet Younghusband can trace their origins to when Hinshelwood started the band as a solo lo-fi, recording […]
New Audio: The Dreamy, 60s-Inspired Sound of Totally Mild’s “When I’m Tired”
Originally started as a solo recording project of its founding member and frontwoman Elizabeth Mitchell, the Melbourne, Australia-based band Totally Mild expanded to a quartet when Mitchell recruited Zachary Schneider, who was a member of Full […]
New Audio: The Lush and Brooding New Single from Lexington, KY’s Ancient Warfare
If you’ve been following JOVM for the past couple of months, you might be familiar with the Lexington, KY-based band Ancient Warfare and “Gunsmoke,” the first single off the newly-minted quartet’s forthcoming effort, The Pale Horse, slated for an […]
New Video: Check Out a Strutting, Badass Elvis Impersonator in The Atom Age’s “Wasteoid”
Currently comprised of Ryan Perras (vocals, guitar), Peter Niven (vocals, guitar). John Murgueitio (drums), Brendan Frye (saxophone), Fred Brott (organ) and Kevin Mohn (bass), the Oakland, CA-based sextet The Atom Age originally formed in 2009, and […]
New Audio: Starlight Girls Newest Single “Intrigue” Channels Siouxsie and the Banshees
Comprised of founder, keyboardist and vocalist, Christina B, Shaw Walters (guitar),Sara Mundy (backing vocals, keyboards), Tysen Arveson (bass) Josh Davis (drums) and Isabel Alvarez (backing vocals, keyboards), the Brooklyn-based sextet of Starlight Girls have developed a reputation for […]
New Audio: London Punk Trio Feature’s “Wisdom Teeth” and “Tourism Fiction”
Originally starting as a duo comprised of Liv Willars (guitar) and Jen Calleja (drums), best known as a member of Sauna Youth and Monotony, London-based band Feature started receiving attention nationally for a drone pop/power […]
New Video: The Swooning Romanticism and 80s Post-Punk Revivalism of Communions’ “Forget It’s A Dream”
Comprised of brothers Martin and Mads Rehof, along with Jacob van Deurs Formann and Frederik Lind Köppen, the Danish quartet Communions have received both national and international attention across the blogosphere for shimmering and plaintive pop songs that sound […]
New Audio: The Moody, Atmospheric Track from Minneapolis’ Carroll, “Alligator”
Although they’ve received attention both in their native Minneapolis, MN and nationally over the past year, the quartet Carroll, can trace their origins to when Brian Harlow (vocals) began writing melancholy, shoegaze-based pop songs that caught the […]
New Video: Sun Drug’s Sleek, Electronic-based “Wildman”
If you’ve been frequenting JOVM over the past couple of months, you may be familiar with the Los Angeles, CA-based quartet Sun Drug. Originally the band started off as a quintet under the name of Vanaprasta. […]
New Audio: The Darkly Seductive Sound of Los Manglers “Before the Mirror”
Formed after the breakup of its founding members Laira Diaz’s (vocals) and Enrique Olivares’ previous band, Dandy and the Walkers, the duo’s latest project, Los Manglers draws heavily from Diaz and Olivares’ fascination with Victorian […]
New Video: The Coathangers Hilarious Video for Ass-Kicking Album Single “Follow Me”
The Coathangers have one of the funniest and prototypically punk rock formation stories I’ve heard in recent memory. As the story goes, the Atlanta-based band formed when the then-quartet of guitarist and vocalist Julia Kugel […]