As many of you who follow JOVM know, I’m extremely active on Twitter and as a result, musicians and musician friends routinely hit me up with links to their new singles. Recently, a very dear […]
Tag: The Joy of Violent Movement
Although JOVM is a (mostly) one-man operation, I receive quite a bit of emails from artists, band managers, labels and publicists from across the world and admittedly I’ll look at a band name and think […]
if you’ve been frequenting JOVM for the past few years, you may be familiar with indie dance music sensations AVAN LAVA. Initially formed by producers and multi-instrumentalists Le Chev and Ian Pai, the creative masterminds behind […]
A Q&A with Prettiest Eyes
Comprised of Pachy (drums and vocals), Marco (bass) and Paco (keyboards), the members of the Los Angeles-based trio Prettiest Eyes had all been vital parts of San Juan, Puerto Rico’s music scene for years, playing […]
If you’ve been frequently JOVM for some time, you know that I’ve frequently mentioned that I receive quite a bit of email from record labels, publicity firms and artists from all over the world, and […]
Here at JOVM, I was lucky enough to be among the first batch of bloggers and journalists to write about Alan Wilkis, best known under his musical moniker Big Data; in fact, his debut single […]
With the release of her first two albums, Plastic House and Contra, which is her sophomore and latest effort, the Swedish singer/songwriter and cellist Cajsa Siik has received quite a bit of attention both across […]
The Hornitz and Tryptophunk at Brooklyn Bowl 1/30/15
The Hornitz and Tryptopuhnk Brooklyn Bowl January 30, 2015 A couple of weeks ago, I was at the JOVM unofficial home office, Brooklyn Bowl for a night of funk that included The Hornitz, which was […]
If you’ve been following JOVM for quite some time, you may be familiar with the Miami, FL-based pop artist Brika, who has received quite a bit of attention across the blogosphere for an electro pop-based […]
So if you’re a return follower to JOVM, you might remember a post from a few weeks ago about the Cameroonian Dutch singer/songwriter Ntjam Roise. Born in Cameroon, Roise spent the formative years of her […]
There are some vocalists whose vocals haunt you for days or weeks on end; those rare vocalists have a way of expressing ache and loneliness in a way that feels like a punch in the […]
If you’ve been following JOVM over the last few months or so, you may remember coming across “Safehouse,” the first single off the New York-based vocalist DAIR’s debut EP, The Last Sign. “Safehouse” is a […]
If you’ve been following JOVM for the past year or so, you may remember that early last year, I wrote about the Gothenburg, Sweden-based punk quartet, LaDIDas. And for a punk band, their sound is […]
Despite the possibility of sounding a bit like a broken record, I have to mention this because it’s absolutely true: one of the great things about the proliferation of independent labels is their ability to […]
if you frequent JOVM, it shouldn’t be terribly surprising that over the life of an album or an EP, that you may come across a number of posts about a particular artist – and maybe […]