JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Pebbles’ 60th birthday.
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Throwback: Happy 64th birthday, Branford Marsalis!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Branford Marsalis’ 64th birthday.
Throwback: Happy Belated 66th Birthday, Belinda Carlisle!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms belatedly celebrates Belinda Carlisle’s 66th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 66th Birthday, Madonna!
August is a very busy month in music history: The legendary and iconic Madonna celebrates her 66th birthday today. Jesus, we’re all getting old, eh? Madonna’s impact on pop music has been towering. Besides being a feminist […]
Throwback: Happy 61st Birthday, Whitney Houston!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 61st anniversary of Whitney Huoston’s birth.
Throwback: Happy 71st Birthday, Cyndi Lauper!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Cyndi Lauper’s 71st birthday.
Throwback: Happy 63rd Birthday, Boy George!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Boy George’s 63rd birthday.
New Video: London’s Remember Summer Share Dream Pop-like Cover of “Wrecking Ball”
Remember Summer — Northern Irish-born, London-based Paddy Conn, a member of Swimming Tapes and English-born vocalist Angelina Dove — can trace their origins back to 2016 when the duo worked at a Forest Gate, London-based cafe. The duo started making up songs to pass the days toiling in a hot kitchen. “Summer of ‘16 became the year of collaboration for Paddy and I. We started swapping ideas at work,” Dove recalls. “It all started as a bit of fun really, sort of a distraction to stem boredom but when the cafe went bust the following year and we both got fired we realised that we’d started something we missed more than frying eggs. Since we live 5 minutes away from each other we’ve kept it up.”
Bonding over a mutual indulgence for worlds gone by, the London-based duo pair dusty synths and wistful poetry to create nostalgia-drenched take on dream pop.
The London-based duo’s latest single sees them tackling Miley Cyrus‘ 2013 hit “Wrecking Ball.” Dove and Conn pairing the original’s cathartic and rousingly anthemic hooks and choruses with a brooding and dusty soundscape of strummed, reverb-soaked guitar, glistening and atmospheric synths serving as lush bed for Dove’s pop star wailing (whci is also doused in a bit of reverb). The end result is a Still Corners-meets-Stevie Nicks-like take on a familiar song, creating a vintage hue to a modern pop anthem.
“Metaphorically spot on; I think I’m an ‘exploding doormat’ personality type. A really long fuse, but once it’s lit…Wrecking Ball resonated with me, I feel like I’ve been there,” Remember Summer’s Angelina Dove says of the cover. “The explosions, the disappointment, indifference even.”
Edited by Baby Dove, the accompanying video for Remember Summer’s “Wrecking Ball” features clips from 1967’s Bonnie & Clyde superimposed over some gorgeously shot footage of Dove in a gorgeous white dress in the desert.
Throwback: Happy 66th Birthday, Prince!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Prince’s 66th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 50th Birthday, Alanis Morissette!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Alanis Morissette’s 50th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 80th Birthday, Gladys Knight!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Gladys Knight’s 80th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 53rd Birthday, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 53rd anniversary of the birth of TLC’s Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes.
Throwback: Happy Belated 103rd Birthday, Hal David!
JOVM’s WIlliam Ruben Helms belatedly celebrates the 103rd anniversary of Hal David’s birth.
Throwback: Happy 80th Birthday, Patti LaBelle!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Patti LaBelle’s 80th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 58th Birthday, Janet Jackson!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Janet Jackson’s 58th birthday.
