Comprised of Spencer White, Jackson White, Steve Kempnich, and Lewis Stephenson, the Brisbane, Australia-based quartet Morning Harvey have developed a reputation in Brisbane for a breezy, psych pop/shoegaze sound based around shimmering reverb-y guitar lines, […]
Tag: shoegaze
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 […]
Produced by The Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wanger, Crocodiles’ fourth album, Crimes of Passion meshed sleazy, reckless hedonism and furiously, noisy psychedelia with catchy hooks and an uncanny sense of melody underneath the scuzzy, hedonist surface. […]
Live Concert Photography: Spires and The Budos Band at Brooklyn Bowl 3/27/15
Live Concert Photography: Spires and Budos Band Brooklyn Bowl March 27, 2015 March was a particularly busy month of live music and it ended with two shows at Brooklyn Bowl around my 36th birthday – […]
The Kingston NY-based experimental, shoegaze/dream pop artist Shana Falana has received praise from several publications throughout her musical career for a live set that’s comprised of live looped vocals drenched in layers of reverb, pre-recorded […]
Comprised of Aimee Nash (vocals, guitar keyboards and percussion) and Scott Von Ryper (vocals, guitar, keyboards and percussion), the now Los Angeles– based (by way of Australia) duo of The Black Ryder gained national attention […]
Comprised of Daniel Paxton (vocals, guitars), Paxton’s brother, Conor (bass, pedal steel guitar), Patrick McHugh (backing vocals, guitar), Jimmy Cullen (backing vocals, keys) and Donagh O’Brien (drums), the Irish quintet of Buffalo Sunn can trace […]
Austin, TX-based psych rock quartet, The Bright Light Social Hour can trace their formation to when the members were students at the University of Texas. And they quickly developed a reputation for an oft-described incendiary […]
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 […]
Comprised of Adrian Acosta (guitar, programming, vocals), Jessica Huang (guitar, keys, vocals), Adrian De La Cruz (guitar). Carlos Michel (bass, sampler) and Danny Rossi (drums), the Los Angeles, CA-based shoegaze quintet of Draag began under […]
Comprised of Jared Petrich, Dana Rogge, Adam Halferty and a number of musician friends and collaborators, the Los Angeles,CA-based band of The Tulips have developed a reputation for crating dreamy melodies paired with ethereal harmonies […]
If you’ve been following JOVM for some time, you may remember coming across a couple of posts on the Los Angeles-based band Cobalt Cranes, a band that had quickly developed a reputation across Southern California for a sound that […]
If you’ve been following for the past few months, you may recall that I had written about a new band, The Bulls which is comprised of The Airborne Toxic Event’s multi-instrumentalist, Anna Bulbrook and The Duke Spirit’s guitarist, Marc […]
Musically, i’ve almost always been open to anything but there are a few genres that I’ve had long-term love affairs with and I find myself perpetually drawn to them. And if you’ve followed this site […]
The Airborne Toxic Event’s multi-instrumentalist, Anna Bulbrook and The Duke Spirit’s guitarist, Marc Sallis found themselves repeatedly crossing paths between New York, Paris and London during tours, and over time they bonded over their mutual […]