Comprised of founding members Marlon Magnée (keyboards), Sacha Got (guitar), Sam Lefevre (bass), Noé Delmas (drums) and Lucas Nunez, along with a rotating cast of vocalists including current lead vocalist Clémence Quélennec, lara Luciani, Jane Peynot and Marilou […]
Tag: The Joy of Violent Movement: Best of 2011 List
Now, 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 and sadly unheralded soul vocalists; in fact, his Impressions: The Covers EP, […]
Le Podium #1, La Femme’s debut EP landed landed on this site’s Honorary Mentions portion of the Best of 2011 List for their unique and breezily French take on surfer rock – after all, surfer rock is something that’s both […]
The Los Angeles-based quartet, The Lonely Wild’s debut EP, Dead End landed at number 19 on this site’s Best of 2011 list and managed to win quite a bit of attention across the blogosphere, which made their full-length debut, The Sun As […]
We Have Sound, Tom Vek’s well-received debut album was released just as the internet and social media was beginning to become increasingly pervasive, back in 2005. And after a guest appearance on Fox’s The O.C., Vek suddenly seemed […]
The most important and most interesting music of your life is often discovered in a serendipitous fashion – as in the case of the Asheville, NC-based Jonathan Scales Fourchestra, who I first caught when they […]
La Femme’s debut EP, Le Podium #1 landed on the Honorary Mentions portion of the Best of 2011 List for their unique take on surfer rock – after all, for most people, surfer rock is something that’s […]
A Q&A with Rene Lopez
Rene Lopez is the son of Rene Lopez Sr, the salsa trumpeter who had played with the Ray Barretto Orchestra and Tipica 73, arguably two of the most highly regarded and beloved salsa acts of […]
Album Review: Washed Out’s Paracosm
Washed Out Paracosm Sub Pop Records Release Date: August 13, 2013 Track Listing Entrance It Feels Alright Don’t Give Up Weightless All I Know Great Escape Paracosm Falling Back All Over Now Washed Out’s 2011 […]
Washed Out‘s Within Without landed at number 24 on this site’s Best of 2011 List thanks to Ernest Greene’s cooed vocals over icy synths played through gently, swirling reverb and delay pedals. Sonically, the tracks on that album struck me as […]
Washed Out’s Within Without landed at number 24 on this site’s Best of 2011 List thanks in part to Ernest Greene’s cooed vocals backed by sleek, icy snyth lines played through gentle layers of reverb and delay pedals and backed […]
The Jonathan Scales Fourchestra were recently invited by Hype Mag to do a live session of “Jam We Did,” off their fantastic 2011 release, Character Farm and Other Stories, an album which was on this blog’s […]