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 […]
Category: Single Review
New Audio: Method Man’s New, J57 Produced Single “The Purple Tape”
Long Island-born, Brooklyn-based DJ/producer/emcee J57 is probably best known among hip-hop heads as a member of the Brown Bag All-Stars, one of the more prolific and underrated crews in contemporary hip-hop. And over the last couple of […]
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 Uncompromising Homeboy Sandman’s Eerie New Single “Arrows”
As I’ve said a number of times on this site, Homeboy Sandman is arguably one of contemporary hip-hop’s most prolific, inventive and uncompromisingly challenging artists. As an emcee, there are few like him, who tackle complicated subjects […]
New Audio: Guilty Simpson’s Politically Charged New Single “Animal” Evokes the National Conversation on Policing Policies and Race
Detroit‘s Guilty Simpson is not only one of my favorite emcees, he is arguably one of contemporary hip-hop’s sadly unheralded and under-appreciated artists; in fact, 2013’s Highway Robbery, a collaborative effort featuring the production work of […]
New Audio: Introducing Belgian Quintet STUFF. and Their Funky, Hip-Hop Take on Jazz Fusion
STUFF. is a Belgian-based quintet who have received attention across their native Belgium and the European Union for a sound that possesses elements of hip-hop, jazz, jazz fusion and funk. And as a result of […]
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: Introducing Sb and His Uniquely, Off-Kilter and Trippy Take on R&B With New Single “Woman”
Inspired by D’angelo, Deftones, Travis Scott, TLC and others, up-and-coming Lancashire, UK-based R&B artist and producer Sb has received attention across the European Union with the release of his debut single “Woman” And once you […]
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 Warmly 60s Sounding Psychedelic, Garage Rock Sound of Cool Ghouls’ Latest Single “The Creature That I Am”
With the release of A Swirling Fire Burning Through The Rye, earlier this year, the San Francisco-based quartet Cool Ghouls have received attention and praise for a sound that channels the classic 60s rock sound of acts like […]
New Audio: The Sleek, 80s-Sounding Synth-Based Funk of Neon Indian’s New Single “Annie”
Neon Indian is the solo recording project of the Mexican-born, Denton, TX-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and electronic music artist Alan Palomo. With the 2009 release of Neon Indian’s debut album, Psychic Chasms, Palomo came to national […]
New Audio: Introducing Up-and-Coming Sydney-based Singer/Songwriter Wallace’s Charming and Effortlessly Soul on New Single “Beauty” feat. Sampa The Great
Wallace Gollan, who performs under the mononym Wallace, is a Sydney, Australia-based singer/songwriter, whose expressive and soulful vocals are paired with a sound that draws heavily from blues, soul, jazz and pop, and as a result […]