Brooklyn-based producer, vocalist and electro pop artist Lorely Rodriguez is an up-and-coming artist, who writes, performs and records under the moniker Empress Of. Rodriguez first caught the attention of the blogosphere with the release of […]
Tag: indie pop
Comprised of Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern, the New York-baesd duo Sofi Tukker met at an art galley while they were both attending Brown University and quickly began writing music, based around their desire of […]
Deriving their name from a theory about Earth possibly having a twin moon, and comprised of Bryce Boudreau (vocals) and Chris Murphy (multi-instrumentalist, producer), the duo of Lunar Twin can trace their origins to when […]
Up-and-coming London-based vocalist and producer Rationale has quickly captured the attention of the blogosphere, as his debut track “Fast Lane” which was released last month received 450,000 plays and quickly climbed to the top of the […]
Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Steven A. Clark and a lengthy list of others represent a progressive movement in both Black music (if such a thing truly exists) and in pop/R&B as these artists and their […]
Over the last few years, Montreal has developed a reputation for a rather vital, intriguing and diverse electronic music scene as acts such as Grimes, BRAIDS, Majical Cloudz, Jef Barbara and others. Seoul, comprised of […]
The members of the New York-based quartet Whitewash met while they were all studying at jazz at NYU (my alma mater) – founding members Jon Ben-Menachem (bass) and Sam Thornton (guitar) had met and bean […]
Comprised of Holland Belle, a classically trained opera singer (on vocals, obviously), Jordan Wiggins (guitar), Steve Lucarelli (bass), Diego Guerrero (drums) and Louie Schultz (guitar), formerly of the indie-pop band Army Navy, the Los Angeles, CA-based […]
If you’ve been following JOVM for the better part of the past year or so. you’ve likely noticed that I’ve mentioned on a number of occasions that I frequently receive emails from a variety of artists, labels, […]
Comprised of Louie Bash (synthesizers, samplers), David Mikkelson (vocals), Nathan Hope (drums) and Tom Racine (guitar), the Boise, ID-based electro pop quartet Shades derived their band’s name from the concept of synesthesia, the neurological condition […]
Other than the fact that the Gothenburg, Sweden-based duo Heart/Dancer is comprised Linnéa Atieno and Joakim Buddee, little is know about them; in fact, Googling them only brings their Facebook fan page, which doesn’t reveal much if […]
If you’ve been frequenting JOVM over the past few months, you’d know the first five months of the year have been particular big for women pop artists – as artists like Phoebe Ryan, Chelsea Lankes […]
Earlier this week, you may have come across a post on the Brooklyn-based experimental pop quintet Pavo Pavo. The band can trace their origins to when they started writing music together while studying music at […]
With the release of Innerpspeaker and his critically applauded sophomore effort Lonerism, which was a sonic and thematic departure from anything else he had worked on up until that point, Kevin Parker’s solo side project […]
If you’ve been frequenting JOVM for the past couple of years, you may remember hearing about Paris-based French/Argentine producer, songwriter and vocalist Claude Violante. Over the past few years, Violante has developed a reputation for […]