With the release of their debut effort, The World Is Well Lost, the Tel Aviv, Israel-based trio Vaadat Charigim received both national and international attention for a sound that’s heavily indebted to 80s and 90s alternative rock and to […]
Tag: RIDE
New Video: The Hallucinogenic, New Video for MAFF’s “Act 1”
Childhood friends and co-founders Richi Gómez (vocals, bass and guitar) and Nicolás “Nek” Colombres (drums) have played together in a number of Santiago, Chile-based punk bands when they formed MAFF back in 2012. Martín Colombres (guitar) and […]
New Audio: Spires’ Jangling, Hook-Based, Single “Parallel Lines” Reveals a New Sound
Brooklyn-based band Spires initially began as founding member, Matt Stevenson’s solo home recording project, but the project quickly grew into an actual band when Jack Collins (bass), Samuel Shea (guitar, synth) and Ethan Snyder (drums) were enlisted to […]
New Video: Jennie Vee’s Swooningly Romantic Shoegaze on “Spying”
Certainly, after having stints in both Courtney Love‘s and Lana Del Rey’s backing bands, the Canadian-born, New York-based singer/songwriter and bassist Jennie Vee has received quite a bit of attention, making the recent release of […]
If you’ve been frequenting JOVM since the early days, 5 years ago, you might remember coming across several posts about the Minneapolis, MN-based trio BNLX. The trio which consists of husband and wife team (and […]
With the release of their debut effort, The World Is Well Lost, the Tel Aviv, Israel-based trio Vaadat Charigim (which translates roughly into Exceptions Committee in English) received international attention for a sound that’s heavily […]
Live Footage: RIDE on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Electric
Comprised of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence “Loz” Colbert and Steve Queralt, the Oxford, UK-based quartet RIDE are considered by critics and fans to be among the originators of the shoegaze sound – despite the fact […]
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 […]
a Q&A with the Valery Trails’ Andrew Bower
So I recently spoke with the Valery Trails’ lead vocalist and songwriter Andrew Bower. In this Q&A we talk about how the band writes and records material with two members of the band being in […]