As I’ve frequented mentioned on JOVM, I frequently multitask while playing many of the countless SoundCloud links and videos I receive, and sometimes I get so caught up that I wind up going through an […]
Tag: indie punk
New Video: The Coathangers Hilarious Video for Ass-Kicking Album Single “Follow Me”
The Coathangers have one of the funniest and prototypically punk rock formation stories I’ve heard in recent memory. As the story goes, the Atlanta-based band formed when the then-quartet of guitarist and vocalist Julia Kugel […]
Comprised of Dustin Aaron Scharlach, Jheremy Arthur Grigsby and Wiley “ms. dr. child” Hickson, the Portland, OR-based quartet Landlines have developed a reputation for specializing and crafting an old-school inspired basement, guitar rock that should […]
Comprised of Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce, the New York-based queer punk duo PWR BTTM can trace their origins to when Hopkins and Bruce were students at Bard College. While as students, Hopkins and Bruce […]
New Audio: Dirty Ghosts’ “Cataract” Channels 80s New Wave
The creative mastermind behind Dirty Ghosts, Allyson Baker has had a lengthy musical career, as she first started out as a guitarist in several Toronto-based punk and hardcore bands. By 2000, she had relocated to […]
Fronted by brothers Jim Blaha (baritone guitar and vocals) and Mike Blaha (guitar and vocals) with their buddy Dave Roper (drums), the Minneapolis, MN-based trio The Blind Shake have been a vital part of Minneapolis’ […]
Comprised of Flynn Cock (drums), Kerley Cock (bass) and Murphy Cock (guitar), the Brisbane, Australia-based trio Bottlecock describe their sound on their Facebook Fan Page as “Big, loud, noisy, thrusty rock.” And as a result of […]
I’ve long admired The Onion AV Club as they’ve consistently offered some of the smartest, most incisive and funniest criticism of movies, music and pop culture around. Some time ago, The Onion AV Club created […]
Although the Athens, GA-based quartet Pinecones are a relatively new band, the band has actually been more than a decade in the works as each of the band’s members, Bo Orr (vocals, guitar), Ben Salle […]
Comprised of Lee Bozeman (vocals), Jamey Bozeman (guitar), Glenn Black (drums), Chris Foley (bass) and Matt Hinton (guitar), the quintet Luxury formed in the early 1990s in Toccoa, Georgia, the birthplace of Paul Anderson, “The World’s Strongest […]
The Appleton, WI-based trio Tenement have been beloved in the D.I.Y. punk scene, releasing a number of albums and split singles with the likes of Screaming Females, Used Kids and several others. And over the […]
After spending over a decade playing in various bands in NYC’s underground punk scene, the Queens-based Panopoulos brothers, Teddy (vocals and bass) and Nick (guitar and backing vocals) recruited Fabien Stret (drums) to form Dead […]
Comprised of siblings (and twins) Kier (vocals, guitar) and Brittany Griffiths (bass, vocals), Evan Van Reekum (guitar) and Ryan Grieve (drums), the Alberta-based quartet of Fist City initially formed in 2009 and developed a reputation […]
Comprised of TaSziin Muerte (electro drums and vocals), Javelin Hortsmann (bass, synths and vocals) and Lil K Big Q (guitar and vocals), the Austin, TX-based trio of BLXPLTN (pronounced Blaxploitation) have quickly won attention across the […]
Comprised of Taigen Kawabe (bass/ vocals), Yuki Tsujii (guitar), Kohhei Matsuda (guitar) and Monchan Monna (drums), Bo Ningen is a Japanese-born, London-based quartet that has gained an international following for a psychedelic sound that’s decidedly […]