With members based in London UK and Brighton UK, the British indie rock trio Native Sons first caught my attention with the release of their first single “Humanise,” which was a breezy bit of Brit pop reminiscent of The Invisible Band-era Travis and […]
Tag: British indie rock
New Audio: Menace Beach’s Latest Single “Ghoul Power” Channels 90s Grunge Rock
With the release of their debut full-length effort, Ratworld earlier this year, the Leeds, UK-based quintet Menace Beach, comprised of Ryan Needham, Liza Violet, Matt Spalding, Nestor Matthews and Nick Chantler received international attention for what has been described as channelling grunge/alternative’s […]
New Video: The Nostalgic, Old-Timey Video for 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 project. When founding […]
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: Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats Murderous New Single “Waiting for Blood”
As a cult-band, the British-based Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats have developed a reputation for material that bears a sonic and thematic resemblance to The Black Angels — heavy, psyche rock that talks about madness, […]
New Audio: Yuck’s Hold Me Closer Channels Dinosaur, Jr., Pavement, Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins and 90s Alt Rock
With the release of their first two albums, 2011′s self-titled debut and 2013′s Glow and Behold, the London-based quartet Yuck quickly became international blogosphere sensations, thanks in part to a sound that many of my […]
Comprised of Matt, Anna, and Phil, the British shoegaze trio Presents for Sally has been deeply influenced by late 80s and early 90s shoegaze rock and alt rock, as well as dance music and hip-hop, […]
Featuring Beth Rettig (vocals, programming), Emma Quick (bass) and Debbie Smith (guitar), best known as being the guitarist in Curve, Echobelly and Snowpony, the London-based trio Blindness formed in 2008. And since the band’s formation, […]
Describing their sound as being “like the trashing and squawking of a buzzard with its leg in a mantrap,” the Bristol, UK-based band Falling Stacks have released three critically applauded EPs of music that’s boisterous, noisy, […]
Inspired by Nine Inch Nails. Garbage, PJ Harvey, Goldfrapp, Brody Dalle, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Prodigy and The Beastie Boys, the British industrial rock band, Plastique formed in 2010. Comprised of vocalist Anelise Kunz, multi-instrumentalist […]
With the release of their debut single “Droplet,” last year, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK-based trio Tessera Skies were breathlessly praised by the likes of Q Magazine and The Guardian as one of Northeast England’s bands to look out […]
If you’ve been following JOVM recently, you might remember coming across a post on the London-based quartet of Life in Film. Comprised of Dominic Sennett, Edward Ibbotson, Micky Osment, and Samuel Fry, the quartet has […]
British multi-instrumentalist and multi-disciplinary Fictonian is one of a long stretch of contemporary artists who deliberately cloak themselves in mysterious – both to evade definition and to purposely place the emphasis not on the artist […]
Comprised of Dominic Sennett, Edward Ibbotson, Micky Osment, and Samuel Fry, the London-based quartet of Life In Film have built up quite a profile in their native UK and across the rest of the world […]