Currently comprised of composer and bandleader Jonathan Scales (steel drum), Cody Wright (bass) and their newest member, Chaisaray Schenck (drums), the Asheville, NC-based jazz fusion trio Jonathan Scales Fourchestra have become JOVM mainstays since I serendipitously stumbled upon the band when […]
If you’ve been frequenting JOVM over the past couple of years, you may recall that I’ve written quite a bit about Morgan Christopher Geer, who performs both solo and with a band as Drunken Prayer. […]
Over the past 100 years, there have been a handful of people that every musician and every music fan should hold revered, as they’ve managed to change how the music we love sounds, how its […]
Each of the members of the Asheville, NC-based quartet of River Whyless – Ryan O’Keefe (guitars, vocals), Halli Anderson (violin, vocals), Alex McWalters (drums, percussion and Daniel Shearin (bass, vocals, harmonium, cello, harp) – have […]
Because of the economics of being a musician, it’s not uncommon for bands to have several members, who have side projects. Adding to a lengthy list, Trans Am’s drummer, Sebastian Thomson has a solo side […]
Escort is a New York-based 17 member collective, founded by producers Eugene Cho and Daniel Balls, and fronted by the incredible vocalist Adeline Michele – and the band has received quite a lot of attention across […]
If you know even the slightest bit about music over the last 100 years, you’d know that the development of sound amplification through the electric guitar in the early 1930s and the the development of […]
The most important and most interesting music of your life is often discovered in a serendipitous fashion – as in the case of the Asheville, NC-based Jonathan Scales Fourchestra, who I first caught when they […]
Glow and Behold, the London-based Yuck’s sophomore album was critically well-received. And while playing sold out venues across the US and in their native London, the band stopped in the studio to record an EP […]
Psych rock band, the Black Angels stopped at the Moog Sound Lab in Asheville, NC. While there, the band was able to pick from hundreds of analog and electric instruments including synthesizers, looping and delay […]
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings are not only at the forefront of the soul revivalist movement, and the act that put Daptone Records on the international stage as the primary purveyor of all things contemporary soul and […]
Just before Elephant Stone was to embark on their Eastern US tour to support their sophomore self-titled effort, they enlisted the Horrors’ Tom Furse to remix album single, “A Silent Moment.” Interestingly, this remix and […]
Elephant Stone have been preparing for the Eastern leg of their Stateside tour, a tour which will include stops in Burlington, VT; Philadelphia, PA; the Mercury Lounge on August 10th; Washington, DC; Asheville, NC; and […]
Led by the Montreal, QC-based Rishi Dihr, Elephant Stone released their self-titeld, sophomore effort through Hidden Pony Records earlier this year. “Heavy Moon,” one of the singles off the latest album and the song, much […]
