Japanther’s Ian Vanek has long maintained a side-project with a rotating cast of musician friends by the name of Howardian. Although Vanek has been actively creating music in Howardian for some time, tomorrow marks the […]
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Canadian singer/songwriter Spencer Burton has had quite a journey as a musician – he began his career in hardcore punk but his country-folk solo efforts have gained quite a bit of attention. As he’s mentioned […]
Born and raised in Paris and currently located in Austin, TX, Hugo de Saint Quentin, the founding member of blues rock act Hooka Hey grew up listening to American rock ‘n’ roll; in fact, rock […]
Although JOVM is a (mostly) one-man operation, I receive a lot of emails from a variety of artists, labels and publicists located all over the world. Naturally, it’s overwhelming and flattering but at the same time, it […]
I’ve mentioned this earlier but, one of the great things about the proliferation of independent labels is their ability to reintroduce sadly forgotten yet influential artists or sadly forgotten artists that maybe we all should have […]
Born in the small town of Pine Plains, NY, Jesse Cafiero, the creative mastermind behind indie psych band Split Screens relocated to San Francisco where he started working as freelance bassist playing in a number of musical projects; but […]
As a freelance journalist and blogger, I’ve written about and covered countless bands and as you can imagine, it was a pleasant surprise to come across an email about an act that I had written […]
Ibeyi (pronounced ee-bey-ee) take their name from the Yoruba word for twins — ibeji and are comprised of 19 year French-Cuban twin sisters, Lisa-Kainde and Naomi Diaz. The Diaz sisters are the daughters of the late and renowned Cuban […]
The Pacific Northwest, in particular Washington State has developed a reputation for bruising, forceful, power chord-based rock – think of Soundgarden, The Melvins, Nirvana and others. Sandrider, an up-and-coming Washington-based band, comprised of Jon Weisnewski […]
Born in Coventry, UK and currently based in London, Obaro Ejimiwe is best known across the blogosphere under the moniker of Ghostpoet. His first two releases, Peanut Butter and Melancholy Jam (2011) and Some Say I So I Say Light (2013) were released […]
Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Jesse Harris had his first major breakthrough in 2003 when he had penned Norah Jones’ first and biggest hit, “Don’t Know Why.” And as a result, Harris has had quite the solo career, as he’s written […]
https://scache.vevo.com/m/html/embed.html?video=GBE651446208&playerType=embedded If you’ve been following JOVM for the past few months, you may have come across a couple of posts on the Irish-born and London-based sisters Hannah and Colette Thurlow, who perform as the electro pop […]
Archive is a South London-based collection of multi-displinary artists who have developed a reputation across their native UK for writing and recording albums that reveal continued artistic growth and evolution. And interestingly enough, the collective’s […]
Lese Majesty, Shabazz Palaces’s much anticipated follow up to their critically acclaimed Black Up! continues to cement the group’s reputation for being relentlessly experimental and for their focus on crafting rather intricately nuanced psychedelic soundscapes. However, […]
Jack Name is a bit of a mysterious presence, who has played guitar alongside Tim Presley in White Fence, has released several other solo efforts through a variety of monikers including Fictional Boys and Muzz. […]