Featuring Beth Rettig (vocals, programming), Emma Quick (bass) and Debbie Smith (guitar), best known as being the guitarist in Curve, Echobelly and Snowpony, the London-based trio Blindness formed in 2008. And since the band’s formation, […]
Tag: shoegaze
Brooklyn-based band Caviare Days initially started out as the sibling duo of Lina and Maja Westin, but the sibling duo eventually expanded to a quintet when Timmy Grim (drums), Boris Grubesic (guitar) and Marcus Arborelius […]
The members of the Olympia, WA-based quartet Seapony can trace their origins to a couple of rather ironic circumstances and perhaps one or two incidents of fate. Primary songwriter Danny Rowland is originally a drummer, […]
Currently comprised of Oliver Ackermann (guitars and vocals), Dion Lunadon (bass) and Robi Gonzalez), the Brooklyn-based trio of A Place to Bury Strangers have developed a reputation for a moody, atmospheric wall of sound-influenced sound […]
Comprised of Jeff Pupa (vocals, guitar and bass), James Hencken (drums, synths and keyboards), and long-time bandmate and collaborator Sabeel Azam (guitar) the trio of Vows have developed a reputation for a consistently evolving sound. Pupa […]
Comprised of Joakim Åhlund, Nino Keller, Frans Johansson and Martin Ehrencrona, the Stockholm, Sweden-based shoegaze quartet Les Big Byrd may arguably one of the more accomplished contemporary indie acts in their native Sweden as members of […]
Over the past decade or so, the New York-based trio A Place to Bury Strangers have developed a reputation for a moody, atmospheric wall of sound-influenced sound that possesses elements of psych rock, shoegaze and […]
Live Concert Photography: BNLX and Les Big Byrd at Baby’s All Right 5/11/15
Live Concert Photography: BNLX and Les Big Byrd Baby’s All Right May 11, 2015 If you’ve been frequenting JOVM since it’s inception about 5 years ago, you may remember reading about the Minneapolis, MN-based act, BNLX. […]
Singer/songwriter and bassist Jennie Vee grew up as “the goth girl” in a small Ontario town. And as the story goes, she Vee had pen pals, who had changed the course of her life, when they […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]