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 […]
Tag: shoegazer rock
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, […]
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 […]
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 John Cep (guitar, bass, vocals, drums and production), Kim Field (bass, vocals) and rotating live drummers EJ DeCoske and Johnny Lancia, the Northeastern Pennsylvania-based duo of The Stargazer Lilies can trace their origins […]
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 […]
Shana Falana is a Kingston, NY-based, experimental, shoegaze/dream pop artist, who has been praised by several publications for a live set that combines live looping of reverb-drenched vocals, pre-recorded backing tracks, shimmering guitar and drums and […]
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 […]
Comprised of Jason Abrishami (vocals/guitar; The Twees), Paul Volpe (bass; Triple Cobra), and Jeremy Sampson (drums; Eastern Hollows), the Brooklyn-based shoegaze rock trio of Lazyeyes have received quite a bit of love across the blogosphere […]
Comprised of Shelby Gaudet (vocals, guitar), Amber Kraft (drums, percussion), Christopher Laramee (guitar), Sonia Dickin (bass, vocals), and Elsa Gebremichael (keys and vocals), the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based shoegazer rock quintet of Powder Blue gained international attention […]