JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates John Mellencamp’s 75th birthday.
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Throwback: Happy 58th Birthday, Thom Yorke!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrate Radiohead and The Smile frontman Thom Yorke’s 58th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 59th Birthday, Toni Braxton!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Toni Braxton’s 59th birthday.
New Video: Two from JOVM Mainstays Ghost Funk Orchestra
Led by composer, multi-instrumentalist and creative mastermind Seth Applebaum, the New York-based psych soul outfit and JOVM mainstay act Ghost Funk Orchestra will be releasing their fifth album, Yours in The Ranks of Death through Karma Chief Records on December 4, 2026.
Reflective and ethereal, the JOVM mainstays’ fifth album reportedly finds Applebuam pairing down the sounds and conceptual underpinnings, providing his signature trippy grooves and cinematic arrangements a much cleaner pocket.
Yours is The Ranks of Death’s first single, last month’s “Yours” is the first studio track to feature Camellia Hartman on lead vocals on a bluesy shuffle of a track that balances old-timey high drama with kitsch. Inspired by the organ stylings of Ed Lincoln and Dick Hyman, “Yours” is a homage to the mid-century bachelor pad music that’s often overlooked in the dollar bin. But it also showcases Hartman’s yearning delivery.
The accompanying video is fittingly sho ton film and draws from 60s French Nouveau Vague and classic spy movies.
“Leave Me Alone,” the album’s second and latest single is built around fuzz and distortion pedaled guitars, some harmonic space-age Wurlitzer and a propulsive backbeat beneath Hartman’s defiant, take-no-shit/I’ve had enough of your shit delivery telling off someone who’s fucked her over.
“We’ve spent a lot of time experimenting with headier jazz, lounge, and soul sounds on our recent albums. ‘Leave Me Alone’ is sort of a back-to-the-garage track for us, leaning into the garage rock and fuzz rock sounds that were more present in early GFO releases,” Applebaum explains. “Whereas a lot of our recordings have used horns and keyboards as the centerpiece, this one is stripped back to the guitar-driven vibe that defined older tunes like “Walk Like A Motherfu*ker” and “Blood Moon.” Now in her second official GFO appearance following the single ‘Yours,’ Camellia Hartman leads the charge on vocals.”
The accompanying video features Hartman on a Dating Game-styled game show, titled “Leave Me Alone” in which Hartman, who alternates between being disgusted or bored to tears by her potential suitors, taunts them before telling them to — well, leave her alone.
Throwback: R.I.P. Freddie Jackson
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the life and music of R&B legend Freddie Jackson.
Throwback: Happy 79th Birthday, Brian Johnson!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson’s 79th birthday.
Throwback: Happy Belated 53rd Birthday, Black Thought!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms belatedly celebrates Black Thought’s 53rd birthday.
Throwback: Happy 72nd Birthday, Stevie Ray Vaughan!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 72nd anniversary of the birth of the legendary Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Throwback: Happy 85th Birthday, Chubby Checker!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates rock pioneer Chubby Checker’s 85th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 64th Birthday, Tommy Lee!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Motley Crüe co-founder and drummer Tommy Lee’s 64th birthday.
New Video: JOVM Mainstays Crá Croí Shares Punchy “Just Another Day”
County Cork-based JOVM mainstay act Crá Croí — RG (songwriting, production, mixing and mastering) and CD (vocals and visuals) — will be releasing their self-produced 12-song, full-length debut Tá brón orm on October 30, 2026. While the band have built up buzz through the release of a handful of singles that include “Radiation Romance,” “Fires At Dawn,” “Feeding The Fear,” and “Lost In The Electric Blood,” and “Flesh Machines,” the new album will feature completely new material.
Tá brón orm will include the previously released “Lord of the Wild,” and “Black Snow,” as well as its latest single “Just Another Day.” Much like its immediate predecessor, the album’s latest single features the incorporation of 80s New Wave-styled synths to the brooding, goth-inspired mix. But “Just Another Day” manages to channel blend of Freedom of Choice-era DEVO, Bauhaus and Joy Division anchored around the JOVM’s uncanny knack for punchy hooks.
Throwback: Happy 75th Birthday, Sting!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Sting’s 75th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 71st Birthday, Philip Oakey!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates The Human League vocalist and keyboardist Philip Oakey’s 71st birthday.
New Video: Odette Shares Broodingly Cinematic “Don’t”
Sydney-based singer/songwriter Odette has quickly established a reputation for writing songs that feel like whispered, close-quarters confessions: soulful, sharp and unafraid of honest reflection.
Her third album, the Kiah Gossner-produced Blink is slated for a November 6, 2026 release through Beloved Records. And throughout the album’s runtime, the rising Aussie artist sings candidly about the human experience and what it means to become aware of the world around you. Album sessions began back in 2022, which was the start of the Aussie artist’s recovery from a particularly volatile period of her life — and served as a way to turn a difficult and overwhelming period into something beautiful and healing.
Blink will include the previously released tracks “AAAH!” and “Watch Me Go,” and the album’s latest single “Don’t.” Shifting crescendoing strings, percussive and melodic keys create a broodingly cinematic bed for Odette’s haunting delivery and confessional, lived-in lyricism. “Don’t” comes from a place of shame and hurt; not from the hurt someone did to you, but from the recognition that you’ve hurt someone you care about.
“Don’t’ is for someone who used to be very close to my heart. I’ve been hesitant to write a song for them because I still feel very ashamed about that time in my life,” Odette says. “I was a very volatile, scared and controlling person for many years in this friendship. I didn’t want anyone to leave me alone with how I was feeling, and I was also experiencing intermittent psychosis and delusions, and because of that, I became someone who caused a lot of harm to people I deeply love and care about.”
Directed by Meg Siejka, the accompanying video for “Don’t” is shot in black and white full of dreamily cinematic visuals. including the artist singing and accompanying herself on piano in what appears to be a dance studio.
Throwback: Happy 81st Birthday, Donny Hathaway!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 81st anniversary of the birth of Donny Hathaway.
