With the release of I’ve Got a Friend Called Emily Farris EP, How to Carve a Carrot Into a Rose EP and the double EP The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas (which, from my understanding is a […]
Category: indie rock
New Video: The Hazy, Neon Colored, New Video for Dirty Ghosts’ “Cataract”
If you’ve been following JOVM over the last couple of years, you may be familiar with Dirty Ghosts, the solo recording project of its Toronto-born, San Francisco-based singer/songwriter/guitarist and creative mastermind, Allyson Baker. Baker has […]
New Audio: The Sweetly, Anxious Earnestness of Diet Cig’s New Single, “Dinner Date”
Comprised of Alex Luciano (guitar, vocals) and Noah Bowman (drums), the New Paltz, NY-based duo Diet Cig caught the attention of the blogosphere earlier this year with the release of their Over Easy EP — and building […]
New Audio: Menace Beach’s Latest Single “Ghoul Power” Channels 90s Grunge Rock
With the release of their debut full-length effort, Ratworld earlier this year, the Leeds, UK-based quintet Menace Beach, comprised of Ryan Needham, Liza Violet, Matt Spalding, Nestor Matthews and Nick Chantler received international attention for what has been described as channelling grunge/alternative’s […]
New Audio: Surf Rock Is Dead’s Summery, New Single “Anymore”
Kevin Pariso, who originally hails from Chicago and Joel Witenberg, who hails from Melbourne, Australia, met here in NYC, and after a jam session, the duo of Pariso and Witenberg decided that they should collaborate […]
Live Concert Photography: High Waisted and Dirty Dishes at Alphaville 6/27/15
Live Concert Photography: High Waisted and Dirty Dishes Alphaville June 27, 2015 If you’ve been following JOVM over the course of this summer, you’d know that it’s been a rather busy summer for me, and […]
New Audio: Los Angeles Duo, The Bulls’ Latest Single, “Rumors” Channels 120 Minutes-era Alternative Rock
Comprised of Anna Bulbrook, a multi-instrumentalist, best known as a member of The Airborne Toxic Event, and guitarist, Marc Sallis, best known as a member of The Duke Spirit, the Los Angeles-based duo The Bulls can trace […]
New Audio: Spires’ Jangling, Hook-Based, Single “Parallel Lines” Reveals a New Sound
Brooklyn-based band Spires initially began as founding member, Matt Stevenson’s solo home recording project, but the project quickly grew into an actual band when Jack Collins (bass), Samuel Shea (guitar, synth) and Ethan Snyder (drums) were enlisted to […]
New Video: The Darkly Comic Video for White Reaper’s “Pills”
Certainly, if you’ve been frequenting JOVM over the course of the past 18-19 months or so, you may be familiar with the Louisville, KY-based quartet White Reaper, who in the same period of time have […]
New Video: The Swooning Romanticism of Lady Low’s Hello Sweet Goodbye
Comprised of founding member Jimmy Sweet (guitar, vocals), who was a member of the San Francisco, CA-based punk band Richmond Sluts and a touring member of Hot Hot Heat; Rachel Maxann (vocals, synth, bass), Eden Lee (vocals, drums), Kaitlin […]
New Audio: The 60s Inspired Psychedelia of Perth, Australia’s The High Learys
If you’ve been following JOVM over the better part of the past year or so, you may be familiar with the Perth, Australia-based band, The High Learys. The quartet formed in 2011 when cousins Jamie Turner (vocals, bass) and Matt […]
New Audio: Dirty Ghosts’ Post-Punk Leaning, New Single “Quicksand Castle”
If you’ve been following JOVM over the last couple of years, you may be somewhat familiar with Dirty Ghosts, the solo recording project of its Toronto-born, San Francisco-based singer/songwriter/guitarist and creative mastermind, Allyson Baker. Baker has had […]
New Audio: The Subtly Mystical Sound of Daniel Pearson’s New Single “Rivers”
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 […]
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 […]