JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 61st anniversary of the birth of Jam Master Jay.
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Throwback: Happy 76th Birthday, BIlly Ocean!
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Throwback: Happy 55th Birthday, Questlove!
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Throwback: Happy 40th Birthday, Kevin Parker!
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New Video: Hot Garbage Shares Bruising and Uneasy “Wewu”
Back in 2020, the members of Toronto-based psych outfit Hot Garbage — Alex Carlevaris (lead vocals, guitar), Juliana Carlevaris (bass, vocals), Dylan Gamble (keys, synths) and Mark Henin (drums) — went into the studio with Juno-nominated producer and Holy Fuck‘s Graham Walsh to cut a selection of tracks live and off-the-floor. The result was the blazing standalone single “Easy Believer,” and their full-length debut, 2021’s RIDE.
RIDE received regular rotation on SiriusXM, CBC Radio 3 and The Verge while climbing to #3 on the Earshot Top 50 and #82 on the NACC Top 200. The album also received praise internationally from outlets like Aquarium Drunkard and Louder Than War.
The Toronto-based outfit has made their run of the international festival circuit, playing sets at LEVITATION, SXSW, Treefort Music Fest, Freakout Fest, Sled Island, Sappyfest, FME, M for Montréal, Pop Montréal. And building upon a growing international profile, they’ve opened of the likes of L.A. Witch and Frankie and The Witch Fingers, and they’ve shared stages with Osees, Ty Segall, JJUUJJUU, Mdou Moctar, Wand, Kikagaku Moyo and Dead Meadow.
2024’s sophomore album Precious Dream saw the band continuing ongoing collaboration with Graham Walsh. Written during pandemic-era isolation, the album was recorded in late 2023, their sophomore album’s sprawling material saw them retaining their signature tinge of moody psychedelia while careening into darker, searing, post-punk-inspired riffage. Thematically, the album grappled with and touched upon dread, loss, the resilience of the human spirit and the highs and lows of solitude. The result was an album that was equally introspective, cathartic and bruising.
The Toronto-based quartet begin 2026 with “Wewu,” their first bit of new material since 2024’s Precious Dream. The single, which sees them continuing their ongoing collaboration with Graham Walsh is a dissonant, uneasy scorcher featuring overdriven guitar, woozy synths are paired with a frenetic and off-kilter rhythm section. Sonically, the song kind of evokes the claustrophobia of entrapment, and the desperate urgent need to escape. And fittingly, the song’s cryptic lyrics hint at an escape plan.
The accompanying video by the band’s Alex Carlevaris is a mind-bending and uneasy visual that feels and looks like a psilocybin trip gone horrendously wrong.
New Video: Torus Shares Frenetic and Mischievous Visual for Bruising “Ruby Red”
With the release of 2024’s critically self-titled full-length debut, Milton Keynes, UK-based indie outfit Torus — currently Alfie Glass (vocals, guitar) and Jack Orr (drums) — quickly built a profile both nationally and internationally: The album was praised for its “immediately accessible tunes,” by Kerrang!, and that lead to tours with South Arcade, Skindred, Fu Manchu, The Entitled Sons, and Soap, as well as a set at Desertfest London.
Last year, the rising British outfit embarked on a new era with the departure of Harry Quinn (bass) and the decision, for now at least, to continue as a duo. Glass and Orr quickly got to work on new songs and jams as duo, and fittingly, this period of intense creativity has resulted in a batch of new material that the and will be releasing over the course of the year.
Torus begins 2026 with “Ruby Red,” a bruising, Songs for the Deaf-era Queens of the Stone Age-like ripper, anchored around fuzzy power chords, thunderous drumming, a relentless and hypnotic groove and some rousingly anthemic hooks and choruses.
“On this new single we explore themes of obsession, emotional damage and losing control when you love too hard,” Torus’ Jack Orr explains. “The lyrics are raw and direct, channelling desert rock weight with modern grungy tension. This release continues our run of singles leading into our next EP, pushing the darker, heavier side of Torus.”
Co-directed by their former bandmate Harry Quinn and the band, and shot and edited by Quinn, the accompanying video is a much more light-hearted juxtaposition to the song’s brooding, much more heartfelt vibe, while matching the song’s frantic pace. “After throwing ideas around with our ex bassist Harry Quinn who filmed the video, we decided to lean into the wacky old Beatles short film vibe and do something fun that would show off our personalities a bit more, with the ridiculous quest of trying to find the magic milk from the sacred cow that would heal us from all of our wrongdoings mixed with a brutally honest relationship driven song that had to be made in that moment heading towards a slightly darker side,” the band’s Alfie Glass explains.
“Ruby Red” was recently released through the duo’s own label, Headcharge Records. The band also founded Headcharge Club to support and uplift the music scene in Milton Keynes, Northampton and the surrounding area. Since its formation, it has b been driving a grassroots movement locally by putting on DIY events and festivals, helping to build and strengthen the local music community.
Throwback: Happy 77th Birthday, Robert Palmer!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 77th anniversary of the birth of Robert Palmer.
Throwback: Happy 83rd Birthday, Janis Joplin!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 83rd anniversary of the birth of Janis Joplin.
New Video: Errol Eats Everything Teams Up With Statik Selektah and Rome Streetz on a Swaggering and Soulful Remix of “Round and Round”
Errol Eats Everything is an emcee and Black entrepreneur, who’s actively trying to reshape the music landscape while enacting positive change in the community.
Last year’s self-titled album is a bold manifesto, which saw him addressing systemic injustices, personal struggle and the continuing fight for freedom and equality with the album’s material voicing the bitter frustrations of a society that routinely fails its marginalized and struggling. His work demands that listeners confront the harsh realities of their lives, and then asks them to find the strength and resilience to rise about them, proudly reaffirming hip-hop’s enduring power to educate, challenge, uplift and eventually transform.
Errol Eats Everything closed out last year with the Beyond Yonder Remixes EP. Beyond Yonder Remixes EP saw the emcee and entrepreneur collaboration with Blu, Don Von Jovi, Rome Streetz, Planet Asia, Brother Ali and a lengthy list of others on a series of remixes of Errol Eats Everything LP track “Beyond Yonder.”
The emcee and entrepreneur begins 2026 with a remix of Beyond Yonder track “Round and Round” that sees him collaborating with Rome Streez and Statik Selektah. The album version of the track features Errol Eats Everything spit bruising Kool G. Rap-like bars over a woozy, old-timey jazz sample paired with DJ Premier-like boom bap. The remix flips the song on its head while retaining its spirit: Errol Eats Everything’s bruising Kool G. Rap-like bars are placed on a cinematic, soulful production that reminds of Statik Selektah’s mind-bending work on Strong Arm Steady‘s 2012 effort Stereotype. Rome Streetz delivers a swaggering street shit verse that in my opinion helps to boldly push the song into a new stratosphere.
Directed by Coach Bombay 3000, the accompanying video for “Round and Round (Statik Selektah Remix)” features the pair driving around New York while movie-styled violence erupts around them while illustrating the essential themes and imagery at the heart of the song.
Throwback: Happy 85th Birthday, David Ruffin!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 85th anniversary of the birth of David Ruffin.
Throwback: Happy 81st Birthday, William Hart!
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Throwback: Happy 67th Birthday, Susanna Hoffs!
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Throwback: Happy 60th Birthday, Shabba Ranks!
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Throwback: Happy 62nd Birthday, Andy Rourke!
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New Video: clubdrugs Return with Yearning, Club Friendly “Heart 2 Break”
clubdrugs are a Chicago-based, self-described goth pop duo that has developed a reputation and profile both locally and regionally for a genre-defying sound and for captivating live shows.
The duo begin 2026 with their latest single “Heart 2 Break,” an electro goth bop anchored around buzzing and wobbling bass synths, angular bursts of feedback-fueled guitars and thumping, industrial-like beats paired with the duo’s uncanny knack for catchy hooks. Maria dreamily yearning coos ethereally float over the brooding, club friendly production. Much like the previously released “Waiting,” “Heart 2 Break” is a dance song for the lovelorn, the heartbroken and the perpetually unrequited to dance to, in between their tears.
Directed by the Chicago-based duo, the accompanying video for “Heart 2 Break” is a hallucinogen-fueled dream that features the pair performing the song in a studio in front of trippy projections that manages to capture the yearning at the core of the song.