Live Concert Photography: Shark Week, Christines and Crocodiles Union Pool April 29, 2015 Last week I was at Williamsburg’s Union Pool to catch the Washington, DC-based Shark Week, the New York-based Christines and the San Diego, […]
Tag: garage rock
Produced by The Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wanger, Crocodiles’ fourth album, Crimes of Passion meshed sleazy, reckless hedonism and furiously, noisy psychedelia with catchy hooks and an uncanny sense of melody underneath the scuzzy, hedonist surface. […]
Led by John Dwyer, the San Francisco-based quartet Thee Oh Sees have been insanely prolific, as they’ve released over a dozen albums since 2004 with each of those albums have managing to sound decidedly different, […]
Crocodiles’ fourth album, Crimes of Passion, was one of my favorite releases of 2013. Produced by The Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wagner, the material on the album meshed sleazy, reckless hedonism and furiously, noisy psychedelia with […]
The Grand Rapids, MI-based trio of HEATERS can trace their origins to when high school friends Andrew Tamlyn and Nolan Krebs relocated to Grand Rapids to start working on a music project together. And in […]
Easy Sound Recording Company and the Pickathon Music Festival have started a limited pressed, vinyl-only Live at Pickathon series. The second release is a split album featuring songs by blogosphere darling Ty Segall and King […]
If you’ve been following JOVM for the past few months, you might remember coming across a post or two on the Allentown, PA-based quartet, The Yetis. Formed by a childhood friends, the band’s early days […]
Produced by The Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wagner, Crocodiles fourth effort, Crimes of Passion was one of my favorite releases of 2013 as the album meshed sleazy, reckless hedonism and furiously, noisy psychedelia. After touring to […]
San Francisco has long been known as the spiritual and physical home of a collective of hippies, weirdos, freaks and a particular brand of grungy psych rock; however, similar to New York, the Bay Area […]
Comprised of Andrew Tamlyn, Nolan Krebs and Joshua Korf, the Grand Rapids, MI-based psych rock trio of HEATERS can trace their origins to when high school buddies Tamlyn and Krebs relocated to Grand Rapids to […]
Comprised of Carlos Valle (guitar, vocals), Stefan Mersch (bass) and Kyle Beach (drums), the New York-based trio of Sun Voyager have released two EPs of psychedelic garage rock, Cosmic Tides and Mecca since their formation in […]
A Q&A with Prettiest Eyes
Comprised of Pachy (drums and vocals), Marco (bass) and Paco (keyboards), the members of the Los Angeles-based trio Prettiest Eyes had all been vital parts of San Juan, Puerto Rico’s music scene for years, playing […]
If you’ve been frequently JOVM for some time, you know that I’ve frequently mentioned that I receive quite a bit of email from record labels, publicity firms and artists from all over the world, and […]
Fronted by brothers Jim and Mike Blaha with their friend Dave Roper on drums, the Minneapolis, MN-based trio of The Blind Shake has long been a vital part of the Midwest’s underground punk scene, as […]
Raccoon Fighter, Rocket and The Ghost and The Pumps at the Living Room 12/31/14
Raccoon Fighter, Rocket and The Ghost and The Pumps Living Room December 31, 2014 As I previously mentioned, I had a rather bitter falling out with a dear friend and it meant that my initial […]