Tag: Los Angeles CA

New Video: Sun Drug’s Sleek, Electronic-based “Wildman”

If you’ve been frequenting JOVM over the past couple of months, you may be familiar with the Los Angeles, CA-based quartet Sun Drug. Originally the band started off as a quintet under the name of Vanaprasta. […]

Comprised of Lauren Pardini (vocals, keys) and Danny Sternbaum, the Los Angeles-based duo Pr0files can trace their origins to when Pardini and Sternbaum collaborated together in The Boy Traveller, a band which also featured Sonny […]

Originally starting her career in Miami, where she attempted to forge an identity which captured “the essence of melancholy and yearning, while finding beauty in the sadness and pain that all of us carry inside,” up-and-coming […]

If you’ve been frequenting JOVM over the past few months, you might be familiar with the up-and-coming, Spanish-born, Berlin-based singer/songwriter Sofi de la Torre. de la Torre began writing songs when she was 14 and […]

When The Jesus and Mary Chain released their seminal album, Psychocandy, 30 years ago, the members of the band had intended it to be a proverbial kick in the teeth to everyone who they felt stood […]

With the release of their self-titled full-length debut, the Copenhagen, Denmark-based duo Reptile Youth, comprised of Mads Damsgaard Kristiansen and Esben Valloe, received critical praise international from the likes of Spin Magazine and Nylon for a sound […]

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 […]

Comprised of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, the British electronic music production and artist duo, Basement Jaxx have had a remarkably successful career since their formation back in 1994. The duo have had several singles […]

If you’ve been following JOVM for the past few months, you might recall a post or two about the Los Angeles-based band Lady Low. The band is comprised of several long-time, grizzled vets, including founding member […]

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 […]

Comprised of Adam Schlett (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Bobby Weir (lead guitar, vocals), Tommy Scerbo (bass guitar, vocals), Jack “Shirtless Savage” Biamonte (drums), the Glen Rock, NJ-based quartet Deaf Rhino formed in 2011 and originally went […]

Los Angeles, CA-based duo Woolf and the The Wondershow received attention across the blogosphere for their breezy and upbeat New Jack swing/French Horn Rebellion inspired pop track “Cloaked,” a song that possesses dense layers of synths, […]

Comprised of long-time friends, Jason Yarger, Jake Goldstein, Jacob Munk, Gregory Horne, Kevin Grimmett, and Joey Anderson, the Los Angeles, CA-based sextet Hunny’s sound draws from 1980s post-punk and an undying love of Prince. Within […]