The Brighton, UK-based electro pop quintet Fickle Friends, which consists of of Natassja Shiner, Sam Morris, Harry Herrington, Chris Hall and Jack Wilson, have been blowing up internationally across the blogosphere, as their latest single “For You” quickly climbed […]
Tag: indie electronica
Over the last few months, I’ve written about a couple of releases from the Mojave Desert-based filmmaker, classically trained pianist and electronic music artist, Elizabeth Ann Clark, who writes, performs and records under the moniker […]
Untitled (The CMJ Edition)
If you’ve followed JOVM over its four year history, you may be familiar with an extensive photography project I conducted over the course of about a year and a half titled, The Black and White Project. It turned […]
Although it started rather humbly almost 35 years ago, the CMJ Festival here in New York has become one of the preeminent and important music festivals of the entire calendar year for independent artists and their labels, […]
Abstrakto is a unique pairing between Ozomatli’s vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Asdru Sierra and actor and producer (who knew?) Balthazar Getty, and the first single and video off the their recently released self-titled debut, “Marcando Paso.” […]
As I’ve mentioned countless times on this site, I receive an extraordinary number of emails from artists, publicity firms, record labels and band managers from all over the world, and naturally as a blogger, one […]
This site has developed a reputation for it’s eclectic curation of music, and naturally that ties back into my own extremely diverse tastes and interests. So as always, we’re going to switch gears and change […]
In his 20 year carer, Etienne de Crecy has become one of the major figures of the international EDM scene, as he’s recorded some of the genre’s most influential albums of that span Pansoul (under the […]
Born in Nottingham, and currently-based in London producer, remixer, DJ and vocalist (among several other things) Ronika won the attention of the British press with the release of her Selectadisc EP, which paid tribute to a […]
Chris Clark is a British electronic music artist and producer, who under the moniker of Clark has released critically applauded work which experiments with varying forms of degradation, decay and distortion and is based around […]
Dan Snaith’s critically acclaimed recording project Caribou has followed a rather unconventional trajectory since its humble beginnings with the theft of an unused sampler from his high school’s music department. Snaith originally began writing and […]
Producer, DJ and electronic artist Joel Ford has collaborated with the likes of Autre Ne Veut, Ducktails and Oneohtrix Point Never in a duo they dubbed Ford and Lopatin but the release of the Fugitive mini album […]
Astronomyy is a Worchester, UK-based songwriter and producer, who released his debut effort, There For U EP to critical praise over the summer, and the effort followed a series of singles he released through Soundcloud that […]
Liars have a long-held reputation for defying expectations at every single turn of their careers, and for a sound that has been at times purposely challenging. WIXIW, which landed at number 21 on this site’s Best of 2012 was an […]
Comprised of French duo Adrien Cau (clarinet, bass clarinet) and Benoit Paramentier (percussion, drums), along with Layla Kim (synths, piano), Rick Tipton (samples, electronic sounds), and Sjur Opsal (bass, double bass), Kinkajous is a London, […]