Comprised of Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce, the New York-based queer punk duo PWR BTTM can trace their origins to when Hopkins and Bruce were students at Bard College. While as students, Hopkins and Bruce […]
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New Audio: Dirty Ghosts’ “Cataract” Channels 80s New Wave
The creative mastermind behind Dirty Ghosts, Allyson Baker has had a lengthy musical career, as she first started out as a guitarist in several Toronto-based punk and hardcore bands. By 2000, she had relocated to […]
Fronted by brothers Jim Blaha (baritone guitar and vocals) and Mike Blaha (guitar and vocals) with their buddy Dave Roper (drums), the Minneapolis, MN-based trio The Blind Shake have been a vital part of Minneapolis’ […]
Comprised of Flynn Cock (drums), Kerley Cock (bass) and Murphy Cock (guitar), the Brisbane, Australia-based trio Bottlecock describe their sound on their Facebook Fan Page as “Big, loud, noisy, thrusty rock.” And as a result of […]
I’ve long admired The Onion AV Club as they’ve consistently offered some of the smartest, most incisive and funniest criticism of movies, music and pop culture around. Some time ago, The Onion AV Club created […]
Although the Athens, GA-based quartet Pinecones are a relatively new band, the band has actually been more than a decade in the works as each of the band’s members, Bo Orr (vocals, guitar), Ben Salle […]
Comprised of Kerry Alexander (vocals, guitar), Chris Hoge (drums) and Noah Boswell (bass), the Minneapolis, MN-based trio Bad Bad Hats’ debut full-length effort, Psychic Reader was produced by Brett Bullion, best known for his work […]
Comprised of Lee Bozeman (vocals), Jamey Bozeman (guitar), Glenn Black (drums), Chris Foley (bass) and Matt Hinton (guitar), the quintet Luxury formed in the early 1990s in Toccoa, Georgia, the birthplace of Paul Anderson, “The World’s Strongest […]
After spending over a decade playing in various bands in NYC’s underground punk scene, the Queens-based Panopoulos brothers, Teddy (vocals and bass) and Nick (guitar and backing vocals) recruited Fabien Stret (drums) to form Dead […]
Comprised of siblings (and twins) Kier (vocals, guitar) and Brittany Griffiths (bass, vocals), Evan Van Reekum (guitar) and Ryan Grieve (drums), the Alberta-based quartet of Fist City initially formed in 2009 and developed a reputation […]
Comprised of TaSziin Muerte (electro drums and vocals), Javelin Hortsmann (bass, synths and vocals) and Lil K Big Q (guitar and vocals), the Austin, TX-based trio of BLXPLTN (pronounced Blaxploitation) have quickly won attention across the […]
If you’ve been following JOVM over the last six or seven months or so, you might recall coming across a couple of posts on the Brooklyn-based quartet, The Wilful Boys. Comprised of Mikey (bass), Fisher […]
Show Review: Big Muff Radio, Stolen Jars, Honduras and Lazyeyes at Baby’s All Right 1/11/15
Show Review: Big Muff Radio, Stolen Jars, Honduras and Lazyeyes Baby’s All Right January 11, 2015 With JOVM being a (mostly) one-man operation, it often means that i’m spending a great deal of attempting to […]
Comprised of Rachel Gagliardi and Nicole Synder, the duo of Slutever recently located from Philadelphia to Los Angeles and much like countless others, they moved out west with the hopes of being famous. “Smother,” the […]
Comprised of Jessica Boudreaux, Marc Swart, Devon Shirley and Jenny Logan, the Portland, OR-based quartet of Summer Cannibals released their debut effort to critical praise – and a ringing endorsement from their heroes, The Thermals. […]