Hip-hop producer J. Dilla would have turned 42 yesterday — and two Stones Throw Records artists Karriem Riggins (on drums) and J. Rocc (on turntables) recently paid tribute to the legendary and influential producer with […]
Category: Live Footage
Live Footage: Jonathan Scales Fourchestra at Asheville Goombay Festival 9/12/15
Currently comprised of composer and bandleader Jonathan Scales (steel drum), Cody Wright (bass) and their newest member, Chaisaray Schenck (drums), the Asheville, NC-based jazz fusion trio Jonathan Scales Fourchestra have become JOVM mainstays since I serendipitously stumbled upon the band when […]
Live Footage: Land Lines’ Gorgeous and Dramatic Tiny Desk Concert Session
Currently comprised of Martina Grbac (vocals, cello), James Han (synth), and Ross Harada (percussion), the Denver, CO-based trio Land Lines Land Lines can trace their origins to the formation and gradual regrouping of a previous […]
Live Footage: Pure Phase Ensemble 4 with RIDE’s Mark Gardener Performing A Mind-Bending “Notatki” at Space Fest 2014
This weekend Gdansk, Poland hosted the fifth annual Space Fest, an annual festival of shoegaze, space-rock and alternative music featuring concerts, workshops for Polish and internationally-based musicians, meet and greets with legendary and renowned artists, a competition […]
Live Footage: Brandi Carlile’s “The Things I Regret” Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater
Ravensdale, WA-born and Seattle, WA-based singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile can trace the origins of her music career to her childhood — when she was 8 she performed Johnny Cash‘s “Tennessee Flat Top Box” with her mother […]
Live Footage: Deap Vally Performs “Royal Jelly” at Blind Blind Tiger Speakeasy
Comprised of Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards, the Los Angeles-based grunge-rock duo Deap Vally can trace their origins to when Troy and Edwards met in 2011 at a crochet class. The duo’s debut effort Sistrionix was […]
Live Footage: The Charlatans on The Late Late Show with James Corden
Although they’ve gone through a number of lineup changes since their initial formation in 1989, The Charlatans (known Stateside as The Charlatans UK) currently comprised of Tim Burgess (vocals), Mark Collins (guitar), Martin Blunt (bass), and […]
Live Footage: The Suffers on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts
Founded in 2011 by Adam Castaneda (bass) and featuring Pat Kelly (vocals, keyboard), Jon Durbin (trumpet), Michael Razo (trombone), Kevin Bernier (guitar), Jose “Chapy” Luna (percussion), Nick Zamora (vocals, drums), Cory Wilson (saxophone), Alex Zamora (vocals, […]
Live Footage: CMJ 2015/BRIC Jazz Fest: Nate Smith and Kinfolk
Over the course of its 35 years of existence, the CMJ Music Marathon has developed a long-held reputation for being one of the world’s most renowned platforms for the introduction of new, independent artists — […]
Live Footage: The Soul-Leaning Pop Sound of Judith Hill
Singer/songwriter Judith Hill comes from a very musical family — her mother is a renowned, classically trained pianist from Japan and her father is a bassist, who had stints playing with Sly Stone, Chaka Khan, […]
Live Footage: The Beguiling, Captivating Gina Chavez on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert
As the Austin, TX-based singer/songwriter Gina Chavez has explained in interviews, her sophomore effort up.rooted, which was released last year, is ““a rhythmic exploration of who I am” – “a sonic garden of stories from an ethnically mixed woman on […]
Live Footage: The Jesus and Mary Chain on Last Call with Carson Daly
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Live Footage: A Place to Bury Strangers on Last Call with Carson Daly
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Live Footage: METZ on Seattle’s KEXP
With the release of their self-titled debut effort in 2012, the Toronto-based trio Metz received both national and international attention for a sound that may remind listeners to Bleach and In Utereo-era Nirvana, A Place to Bury Strangers and Japandroids as their material is […]