Brooklyn-based electro shoegaze act Elika initially began as a duo featuring founding members and multimedia artists Evagelia Maravelias and Brian Wenckebach in 2006. Over the last few years, Maravelias and Wenckebach have been prolific, writing and […]
Tag: indie shoegaze
Comprised of Matt, Anna, and Phil, the British shoegaze trio Presents for Sally has been deeply influenced by late 80s and early 90s shoegaze rock and alt rock, as well as dance music and hip-hop, […]
Initially known as a producer, who has worked with countless artists, the Welsh guitarist Marc Joy began to turn his attention towards his own creative endeavors and started his own musical project, a dream pop/shoegaze […]
Comprised of John Lally (vocals, guitar), York Henderson (guitar), Luke Bareis (bass), Tom Bruno (drums), the Atlanta, GA-based quartet, Sleep Therapy have developed a reputation for a sound that bridges late 80s and early 90s […]
Brooklyn-based band Caviare Days initially started out as the sibling duo of Lina and Maja Westin, but the sibling duo eventually expanded to a quintet when Timmy Grim (drums), Boris Grubesic (guitar) and Marcus Arborelius […]
The members of the Olympia, WA-based quartet Seapony can trace their origins to a couple of rather ironic circumstances and perhaps one or two incidents of fate. Primary songwriter Danny Rowland is originally a drummer, […]
Inspired by Dungen, The Doors, Fela Kuti and Deerhunter, Swedish quartet Tussilago can trace their origins to 2011 when friends Pierre Riddez, Rickard Renström, Samuel Lundin and Zacharias Zachrisson (Lykke Li’s younger brother), decided to […]
Comprised of Jeff Pupa (vocals, guitar and bass), James Hencken (drums, synths and keyboards), and long-time bandmate and collaborator Sabeel Azam (guitar) the trio of Vows have developed a reputation for a consistently evolving sound. Pupa […]
Comprised of Joakim Åhlund, Nino Keller, Frans Johansson and Martin Ehrencrona, the Stockholm, Sweden-based shoegaze quartet Les Big Byrd may arguably one of the more accomplished contemporary indie acts in their native Sweden as members of […]
Over the past decade or so, the New York-based trio A Place to Bury Strangers have developed a reputation for a moody, atmospheric wall of sound-influenced sound that possesses elements of psych rock, shoegaze and […]
Live Concert Photography: BNLX and Les Big Byrd at Baby’s All Right 5/11/15
Live Concert Photography: BNLX and Les Big Byrd Baby’s All Right May 11, 2015 If you’ve been frequenting JOVM since it’s inception about 5 years ago, you may remember reading about the Minneapolis, MN-based act, BNLX. […]
Singer/songwriter and bassist Jennie Vee grew up as “the goth girl” in a small Ontario town. And as the story goes, she Vee had pen pals, who had changed the course of her life, when they […]
If you’ve been frequenting JOVM since the early days, 5 years ago, you might remember coming across several posts about the Minneapolis, MN-based trio BNLX. The trio which consists of husband and wife team (and […]
Comprised of Spencer White, Jackson White, Steve Kempnich, and Lewis Stephenson, the Brisbane, Australia-based quartet Morning Harvey have developed a reputation in Brisbane for a breezy, psych pop/shoegaze sound based around shimmering reverb-y guitar lines, […]
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. […]