Tag: Radiohead

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 Australia, singer/songwriter Lucy Mason had spent her teenage years in Weybridge, Surrey UK. Although she fell in love with London’s music scene, she was initially influenced by No Doubt, Smashing Pumpkins, The Cranberries, and Radiohead – so much so that she […]

Somehow part of my professional life, whether it’s with my day job or with JOVM involves managing email – kind of poorly but managing it all the same. I recently received an email from a […]

If you’ve been frequenting this site over the past few months, you’d likely be familiar with the electro pop duo project of Rodney Connell and Brandon Duhon, better known as Night Drive. And as previously mentioned […]

Released last year through Wax Poetics Records, New York-based singer/songwriter Kendra Morris’ debut effort, Banshee was critically well-received with Morris being compared favorably to the likes of vocalists such as Adele, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse and interestingly enough, the legendary Janis Joplin. Mockingbird, her sophomore […]

Much ink has been spilled throughout the lengthy and prolific career of author, musician and filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, especially for his role as the forefather of Blaxploitation with his landmark film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song and […]

The Bucharest-based producer and DJ Victor Gunta writes and performs under the decidedly German-sounding moniker, Elektromekanik. And under that moniker, Gunta has specialized in a sound that employs elements of neo disco, deep house and […]

Reed Kackley is a Brooklyn-based producer and musician, who originally started Silent Rider as a solo production project that has eventually expanded to a full band. And with Silent Rider, Kackley and company have developed a reputation […]

Rodney Connell and Bradley Duhon’s latest project, the electro pop outfit, Night Drive has been gaining quite a bit of attention across the blogosphere for a sound inspired by the likes of Joy Division, Cut Copy, Brian Eno, the Knife, the Drums, LCD […]

The electro pop duo of Rodney Connell and Bradley Duhon formed their latest project Night Drive under some rather unusual, almost soap opera-like circumstances – they discovered that they had both been unknowingly dating the same woman […]

Recently it seems as though a great deal of my life as a blogger involves email – that’s right, checking, writing, responding and receiving email. But that’s not a terrible thing; if anything, it means […]

Night Drive, the up-and-coming electro pop duo of Rodney Connell and Bradley Duhon, started collaborating together when they the woman they had both been unwittingly and unknowingly dating simultaneously had suddenly died. Heavily inspired by […]

The Los Angeles-based vocals Evan Mellows grew up in a home in which his folks listened to the work of the legendary Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross and others; however, as he got older, […]

Now based in Birmingham, AL, producer and singer/songwriter Armand Margjeka originally grew up in communist Albania, and although his native country’s regime was brutally oppressive, a young Margjeka grew up on American music — in […]