Born and raised in Tehran, Iran, Masha Zargarin grew up playing Chopin and Rachmaninoff. And as a teenager, Zargarin and her family relocated to Los Angeles, CA where she got into electronic music after being […]
Tag: Los Angeles
If you’ve been following JOVM for some time, you may remember coming across a couple of posts on the Los Angeles-based band Cobalt Cranes, a band that had quickly developed a reputation across Southern California for a sound that […]
Comprised of Bret Bender and Madeleine Miller, the Los Angeles, CA-based electro pop duo Bogan Via’s sophomore effort full-length effort, Madly reportedly has the band further developing the synth-pop sound that has won them quite a bit of attention. […]
Led by singer/songwriter Trevor Beld Jiminez, the Los Angeles,CA-based band Tall Tales and the Silver Lining, is heavily influenced by the sounds of 70s AM radio – i.e., Jackson Browne, Harvest-era Neil Young, The Byrds, Court […]
Lily Elise is a Bay Area-based vocalist who has been making a name for herself over the last couple of years as she’s been writing and collaborating with a number of artists including the Los […]
If you’ve followed this site over the last few months, you would know that I’ve written about the Los Angeles, CA-based quartet Dorothy, named after their founder and lead vocalist. And with the release of their first […]
The Minneapolis, MN-based quartet of Carroll was formed towards the end of 2011 when songwriter and vocalist Brian Hurlow started writing melancholic, shoegazer-based pop songs that caught the attention (and ear, of course) of his […]
Although based in Los Angeles, the quintet of Line and Circle can trace their origins to when founding members Brian J. Cohen (vocals and guitar) and Brian Egan (keyboards) met in the Midwest and bounded […]
Musically, i’ve almost always been open to anything but there are a few genres that I’ve had long-term love affairs with and I find myself perpetually drawn to them. And if you’ve followed this site […]
With the release of his previous four albums, 1983 (2006), Los Angeles (2008), Cosmogramma (2010), and Until the Quiet Comes (2012), the Los Angeles-based producer, electronic music artist, and emcee Flying Lotus has won critical acclaim for his genre-defying work. And his forthcoming […]
As the story goes, two years ago, Selana Garcia quit her day job, sold her belongings, left Los Angeles and hit the road. Over a period of nine months, Garcia drove across the country and […]
As many of you know, The Joy of Violent Movement is a mostly one man operation run out of my apartment while I have a full-time job in midtown Manhattan. And as I’ve mentioned on […]
Thurmon Green is a Los Angeles, CA-born and New York-based singer, who has quickly developed reputation for a sound that has been described as owing a debt to D’Angelo, and Laurie Anderson. His latest single […]
The Los Angeles, CA-based producer and musician Chris Pope writes, performs and records under the moniker SOLAI – and as SOLAI, Pope has crafted a sound that that seems inspired by perpetual sunshine and palm […]
In comparison to the archetypical hip-hop producer, Ringgo Ancheta has quite an unusual biography. Ancheta’s parents were once members of the Philippine arm of the Aum Supreme Truth Cult, and as a result he was raised […]