Category: rock

Throwback: Happy 79th Birthday, John Paul Jones!

JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates John Paul Jones’ 79th birthday.

New Video: The Velveteers Share Defiant and Roaring “On And On”

Rising Colorado-based rock trio, The Velveteers — Demi Demitro (vocals, guitar), Baby Pottersmith (drums) and Jonny Fig (drums) — will be releasing their highly-anticipated sophomore album A Million Knives through Easy Eye Sound on February 14, 2025. Produced by acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning producer, musician and Easy Eye Sound founder Dan Auerbach, the 13-song A Million Knives reportedly spotlights the band’s “buzzing pile-driver” live sound, as Spin described it. A Million Knives is the follow-up to their full-length debut, 2021’s Nightmare Daydream, which they supported with opening slots with Smashing Pumpkins and Guns ‘N’ Roses — and their first headlining shows this past fall.

The forthcoming album, which features previously released singles “Go Fly Away” and “Suck The Cherry” was written after a particularly grueling stretch of the life on the road and explores the typically unspoken tolls of an industry that can be more often than not, a relentlessly cruel vipers pit of bullshit, thievery and power plays — especially a non-binary, queer and woman-fronted band.

A Million Knives‘ third and latest single “On and On” is one-part old-school garage rock ripper, one-part defiant roar, anchored around thunderous drumming, Demitro’s powerhouse vocal and scorching guitar work paired with a shout-along worthy choruses. But underneath the songcraft, is a song informed by the sort of embittering, humiliating experience that shouldn’t happen — and its narrator is fed up by.

“I always wonder if there will be a day when I won’t feel the need to write about this subject,” the band’s Demi Demitro says. “But unfortunately misogyny is far too rampant in the music industry and I refuse to put up with it.” 

Directed by Demi Demitro and Baby Pottersmith, the accompanying video features the band playing the song in a room full of knives, while the band’s drummers drum with knives. Throughout, these young badasses play with a world dominating swagger.

New Audio: Iggy Pop Shares Live Version of “The Passenger” Recorded at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023

Last July, the legendary Iggy Pop returned to Montreux Jazz Festival backed by a seven-piece band and thrilled an at-capacity Stravinski Auditorium crowd with a career-spanning set that featured material from his time with The Stooges, solo albums like The Idiot, Lust for Life and New Values, leading up to the release of his most recent album, last year’s Every Loser.

The Montreux Jazz Festival set marked the legend’s third appearance at the festival and it was recorded and filmed by the festival team. The resulting live album Iggy Pop Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023 is an essential Iggy Pop live album that celebrates a legendary career and catalog that remains as vital, forceful and inventive as ever while featuring beloved classics like “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” “T.V. Eye,” “Lust for Life,” and “Nightclubbing,” as well as newer songs like “Modern Day Ripoff” and “Frenzy.” “Stravinsky Hall is special, like Carnegie or the Garden or Sydney Opera. I’ve dived in them all,”
says Iggy Pop.

Iggy Pop Live at Montreux Jazz Festival‘s second and latest single, is swaggering and roaring, live rendition of one of Iggy Pop’s most iconic and most streamed songs, “The Passenger.” The addition of a horn arrangement manages to add a muscular, ska-like coloring to the proceedings while retaining the familiar, chugging lurch of the recoded version.

The concert will be available as a Blu-ray + CD Digipak, 2LP gatefold and digital download on January 24, 2025 globally through earMusic.