If you’ve been following JOVM since the beginning, you may remember that I’ve written about Mayer Hawthorne, one of this era’s best soul vocalists; in fact, his Impressions: The Covers EP, which featured the singer/songwriter covering some sadly underrated […]
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Elephant Stone, led by Rishi Dihr, a renowned sitar player, released their self-titled, sophomore effort through Hidden Pony Records last year, and the material on the album used elements of traditional Eastern instrumentation with Western songwriting and instrumentation […]
Co-founded by guitarists Alex Tebeleff and Eduardo Rivera, the Washington, DC-based band Paperhaus have become one of the more prominent bands of DC’s music scene, after the release of two EPs and several national tours with the likes of […]
Originally the founding members and front people of the Dallas, TX/Fort Worth, TX-based noise pop band Buck Jones, Burette and Gabrielle Douglas decided it was time for a major change; so they relocated to Burlington, […]
The Chicago-based duo of Greta Rochelle and Jack Armando formed My Gold Mask around their mutual love of Italian Giallo cinema, a genre of cinema closely related to American pulp crime and mystery movies, and […]
Abstrakto is a unique pairing between Ozomatli’s vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Asdru Sierra and actor and producer (who knew?) Balthazar Getty, and the first single and video off the their recently released self-titled debut, “Marcando Paso.” […]
Born in Nottingham, and currently-based in London producer, remixer, DJ and vocalist (among several other things) Ronika won the attention of the British press with the release of her Selectadisc EP, which paid tribute to a […]
Chris Clark is a British electronic music artist and producer, who under the moniker of Clark has released critically applauded work which experiments with varying forms of degradation, decay and distortion and is based around […]
The Minneapolis, MN-based quartet of Carroll was formed towards the end of 2011 when songwriter and vocalist Brian Hurlow started writing melancholic, shoegazer-based pop songs that caught the attention (and ear, of course) of his […]
The Wilful Boys are a bit of a mysterious Brooklyn based quartet, who recently released their first single “Anybody There,” Interestingly, the single bears a resemblance to The Stooges – in particular, their self-titled album […]
WISH is the creative brain child and solo side project of the 23 year-old Kyle Connolly, who may be best known for his work in Toronto-based bands Milk Lines, Breeze and Beliefs. Connolly recruited several of his bandmates and local musicians […]
Taking their name from Vesta, the largest and brightest asteroid in our solar system and nodding to Spacemen 3, The Asteroid No. 4 originally formed as a quartet in Philadelphia, PA; however, by the time the […]
The last few days have been exceptionally busy as I had the opportunity to catch the legendary reggae artist and producer, Lee “Scratch” Perry and Subatomic Sound System at Brooklyn Bowl last night, and I’ve […]
As a music blogger, I’ve talked to several dozen musicians and no matter what genre they play, the common theme is that being a musician is tough, but being a musician in New York seems […]
Although the Birmingham, AL-based trio of David Brown, Blake Wimberly and David Swatzell’s latest project, Wray is a relatively new project, each of the members of the band have been mainstays in Birmingham’s music scene, […]