JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates R.E.M. co-founder Mike Mills’ 67th birthday.
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Throwback: Happy 76th Birthday, Billy Gibbons!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates ZZ Top co-founder and frontman Billy Gibbons’ 76th birthday.
Throwback: Happy Belated 52nd Birthday, Yasiin Bey!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms belatedly celebrates Yasiin Bey’s 52nd birthday.
Throwback: Happy 70th Birthday, Paul Simonon!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Paul Simonon’s 70th birthday.
New Video: Crá Croí Returns with Broodingly Eerie “Fires at Dawn”
Deriving their name from the Gaelic word for “heartache,” “vexation of spirit,” County Cork-based duo Crá Croí — RG (songwriting, production, mixing and mastering) and CD (vocals and visuals) — have employed a fiercely DIY ethos while establishing a sound that meshes elements of 1980s New Wave, post-punk and goth, featuring melancholic synths, dark melodies, angular guitars and sharp, hook-driven vocals.
The Irish duo’s work explores themes of nihilism, love and destruction, dystopian collapsed and nuclear annihilation, often wrapped in irony and paired with post-apocalyptic metaphors.
The Cork-based duo’s self-produced, 12-song, full-length debut, Tá brón orm is slated for release during the second half of 2026. Deriving its title from the Irish phrase for “sadness” or “sorrow is on me,” the duo’s debut effort will feature the previously released “Radiation Romance,” a track that seemingly channeled She Wants Revenge and Interpol, and “Fires At Dawn,” the album’s second and latest single.
Continuing a run of broodingly cinematic tunes, “Fires At Dawn” features CD’s Paul Banks–like vocal paired with eerily atmospheric synths, a relentless motor groove, bursts of squiggling and shimmering reverb-soaked guitars and a punchy yet anthemic hook and chorus. Sonically nodding at Joy Division and Antics-era Interpol, “Fires At Dawn” “captures the moment between ruin and renewal,” the duo explain. It’s “a hymn for the haunted and anthem for survival.” They add that the lyrics trace a world where “‘the poets of the chaos’ rise from the ashes, chasing embers just to feel the fire thrive.”
The accompanying video was created by the band’s RG using stock footage and iMovie, and features visuals of the sun in space, with its fires endlessly churning, the Aurora Borealis and flames, emphasizing the song’s themes of destruction, purity and renewal.
Throwback: Happy 68th Birthday, Morris Day!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Morris Day and The Time’s frontman Morris Day’s 68th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 82nd Birthday, Grover Washington, Jr.!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 82nd anniversary of Grover Washington, Jr.’s birth.
Throwback: Happy 68th Birthday, Cy Curnin!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates The Fixx frontman Cy Curnin’s 68th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 68th Birthday, Sheila E!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Sheila E’s 68th birthday.
Throwback: Happy Belated 51st Birthday, Nick Zinner!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms belatedly celebrates Yeah Yean Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner’s 51st birthday.
Throwback: Happy 67th Birthday, Nikki Sixx!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Nikki Sixx’s 67th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 87th Birthday, McCoy Tyner!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 87th anniversary of the birth of McCoy Tyner.
Throwback: Happy 99th Birthday, Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 99th anniversary of the birth of Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton.
New Video: La Femme Co-Founder, Marlon Magnée Shares Breakneck and Punchy “Plus Fort Que Toi”
Marlon Magnée, the co-founder of the acclaimed, French psych outfit and JOVM mainstay act La Femme is stepping out in the spotlight as a solo artist with his debut solo album, the Renaud Letang co-produced Dark Star, which is slated for a March 6, 2026 release through Disque Pointu.
As a member of La Femme, Magnée has earned numerous accolades including Album Révélation of the Year at the Victories de la Musique Awards and multiple RIAA Certified Gold records. He has played sets on some of the world’s biggest and most important stages, including Accor Hotel Arena, Zénith, Glastonbury, Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza and Osheaga.
After 15 years recording, releasing music and touring the world as a member of La Femme, Magnée’s solo debut reportedly sees the La Femme co-founder reconnecting to his earliest passions. The album reflects his long-held taste for unusual blends and singular styles — with lyrics sung in both French and English.
The result is a breakneck, restless, sometimes radical music, conceived “for those with blood in their hearts and the urge to fight back.”
Recorded at Paris‘ legendary Ferber Studios, Dark Star is an oddball, frenzied collision of shadow and light with songs that wrestle with one’s darkest impulses, bad mushroom trips, ayahuasca-fueled revelations, limerence, overwhelming romantic love, family love and self-sabotage. Sonically, the album draws from 60s guitars, an “orgy of synths” from the 80s, pounding drum machines, analog delays and a deliberately raw energy, that sees the La Femme co-founder blending punk rockabilly, punk and coldwave.
Dark Matter‘s latest single “Plus Fort Que Toi” is a perfect example of what to expect from the new album: It’s a seamless and breakneck blend of rockabilly, krautrock and coldwave pulse and punchy punk rock choruses with lyrics delivered in French. Channeling his mind-bending, genre blurring work with La Femme, “Plus Fort Que Toi,” as the La Femme co-founder explains is “about familial love, affirming that when you love, you protect.”
Directed by J.F. Julian, the accompanying video for “Plus Fort Que Toi,” playfully draws from 50s rockabilly and rock tropes, and fittingly is shot in sunny California — while also proudly featuring synths.
Throwback: Happy 60th Birthday, J. Mascis!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates J. Mascis’ 60th birthday.