Tag: Single Review

Comprised of Lee Bozeman (vocals), Jamey Bozeman (guitar), Glenn Black (drums), Chris Foley (bass) and Matt Hinton (guitar), the quintet Luxury formed in the early 1990s in Toccoa, Georgia, the birthplace of Paul Anderson, “The World’s Strongest […]

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 […]

With the release of “Need Me,” the Danish production duo of Love Ojensa and Tim Söderström, best known as franskild quickly received international attention for a sound that Mixmag has described as “melancholic, dreamlike house music.”  Their latest single “Keep […]

As I’ve frequently mentioned here, I’ve received an increasing number of emails from a number of labels. PR firms, band managers and artists from all over the world – and it makes my endeavors to […]

Comprised of Tamara Jafar and Joe Durniak, the Brooklyn-based duo of Cultfever met in 2010, and in a fashion that both Jafar and Durniak have claimed seemed fated  as the duo had an instant musical […]

New Audio: Betty Black “Valley Low”

New York-based singer/songwriter Sylvia Black has received international attention for her time as the front woman of the electro-pop outfit K.U.D.U. and for her collaborations with The Black Eyed Peas, Moby, William Orbit, Kelis, Spank […]

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 […]

Mullti-award winning British-Japanese producer and electronic music artist Maya Jane Coles writes, records and performs under the moniker of Nocturnal Sunshine. Coles received attention across the blogosphere after the release of “Take Me There,” a […]

Formed in 2012, The Brooklyn Gypsies are a collaborative project featuring a group of NYC area musicians and producers who come from a variety of backgrounds – including Japan, Spain, Russia, Italy and the US. […]

Fronted by Ryan Trauley, the Raleigh, NC-based quintet Oulipo have been praised across the blogosphere for a lush and complex pop sound that manages to be both intimate and anthemic. Of course, that shouldn’t be […]

Los Angeles, CA-based duo Woolf and the The Wondershow received attention across the blogosphere for their breezy and upbeat New Jack swing/French Horn Rebellion inspired pop track “Cloaked,” a song that possesses dense layers of synths, […]

Comprised of Bei Yan (vocals, synth) and Tony Bertaccini (drums), the Portland, OR-based drum and synth duo Wishyunu (pronounced wish-u-new) originally began as a noise and improv project back in 2008, and over the years […]

Comprised of long-time friends, Jason Yarger, Jake Goldstein, Jacob Munk, Gregory Horne, Kevin Grimmett, and Joey Anderson, the Los Angeles, CA-based sextet Hunny’s sound draws from 1980s post-punk and an undying love of Prince. Within […]

Over the better part of the past decade, New York-based singer/songwriter, harmonium and keyboardist Shilpa Ray has developed a reputation for being one of the city’s most compelling and unsung artists, with her first band, […]

With the release of their debut single “Droplet,” last year, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK-based trio Tessera Skies were breathlessly praised by the likes of Q Magazine and The Guardian as one of Northeast England’s bands to look out […]