The Rebel Light are a Los Angeles-based trio, who specialize in an old-school bubblegum pop/psych rock sound that draws heavily from both 60s mod-era rock and Southern Californian psych rock that’s hazy and retro sounding […]
Tag: indie psych rock
New Video: The Hallucinogenic, New Video for MAFF’s “Act 1”
Childhood friends and co-founders Richi Gómez (vocals, bass and guitar) and Nicolás “Nek” Colombres (drums) have played together in a number of Santiago, Chile-based punk bands when they formed MAFF back in 2012. Martín Colombres (guitar) and […]
New Audio: Spires’ Jangling, Hook-Based, Single “Parallel Lines” Reveals a New Sound
Brooklyn-based band Spires initially began as founding member, Matt Stevenson’s solo home recording project, but the project quickly grew into an actual band when Jack Collins (bass), Samuel Shea (guitar, synth) and Ethan Snyder (drums) were enlisted to […]
New Audio: The Dreamy, Summery Pop of New Zealand’s Glass Vaults’ New Single, “West Coast”
Featuring primary members and co-founders Richard Larsen and Rowan Pierce, Wellington, New Zealand-based indie band Glass Vaults are a sextet of close friends, who formed the band in 2010. And over the first few years […]
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: The Warmly 60s Sounding Psychedelic, Garage Rock Sound of Cool Ghouls’ Latest Single “The Creature That I Am”
With the release of A Swirling Fire Burning Through The Rye, earlier this year, the San Francisco-based quartet Cool Ghouls have received attention and praise for a sound that channels the classic 60s rock sound of acts like […]
New Audio: The Moody, Atmospheric Track from Minneapolis’ Carroll, “Alligator”
Although they’ve received attention both in their native Minneapolis, MN and nationally over the past year, the quartet Carroll, can trace their origins to when Brian Harlow (vocals) began writing melancholy, shoegaze-based pop songs that caught the […]
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, […]
Featuring members of the San Francisco-based psych rock band, Sleepy Sun, Fine Points is a side project that specializes in a very dreamy psych rock that also sounds as though it were were recorded in […]
https://scache.vevo.com/m/html/embed.html?video=USH5V1522424&playerType=embedded Los Angeles-based quartet Talk in Tongues have developed a reputation both across their hometown and Southern California for a shoegaze/psych rock sound that reportedly draws from Pink Floyd and the Creation Records roster, and […]
Comprised of Lavinia Blackwell (vocals, organ piano, electric guitar and glockenspiel), Mike Hastings (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and vocals), Alasdair C. Mitchell (electric guitar, organ, glockenspiel, and vocals), Alex Neilson (drums, percussion, whistle, and vocals) […]
Live Concert Photography: Vivid Dreams at Rockwood Music Hall 5/17/15
Live Concert Photography: Vivid Dreams at Rockwood Music Hall May 17, 2015 As you can imagine, since starting JOVM five years ago, I receive an overwhelming number of invites to shows in the NYC area […]
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 […]
As I’ve often mentioned on this page, I receive quite a bit of email from a variety of publicity firms, labels, band managers. bands and artists from all over the world, and although it can […]
New Audio: Old Baby “Someday”
Although they’re comprised of a number of Louisville, KY-based music scene veterans, who have reportedly played in a number of known bands, the psych rock band Old Baby has preferred to operate in a cloak […]