The members of the Beaverton, OR-based duo The Helio Sequence met when Brandon Summers (vocals, guitar, production) and Benjamin Weikel (keyboards, drums) were both employees at a local record store. Over the last 15 years, […]
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If you’ve been frequenting JOVM for some time, you may recall that I interviewed the Pittsburgh-born, Brooklyn-based producer maticulous, and as he told me in that interview the Steel City has a rather vibrant and burgeoning […]
https://scache.vevo.com/m/html/embed.html?video=USH5V1522424&playerType=embedded Los Angeles-based quartet Talk in Tongues have developed a reputation both across their hometown and Southern California for a shoegaze/psych rock sound that reportedly draws from Pink Floyd and the Creation Records roster, and […]
With the release of several singles off their forthcoming full-length album, White Reaper Does It Again, the Louisville, KY-based quartet White Reaper have forcefully taken over the blogosphere with an urgent, no bullshit, primal, old-fashioned […]
As a native New Yorker, salsa holds a very special place in my heart, as it reminds me specifically of summer on the streets of Corona, Spanish Harlem, Bushwick and the South Bronx. And certainly, […]
Seattle, WA has long been the home of a number of beloved indie rock acts but over the last couple of years, Seattle has become the home of arguably one of the most unique and […]
Brooklyn-based producer, vocalist and electro pop artist Lorely Rodriguez is an up-and-coming artist, who writes, performs and records under the moniker Empress Of. Rodriguez first caught the attention of the blogosphere with the release of […]
Originally starting off as a Los Angeles, CA-based quintet Vanaprasta, the four members of Sun Drug recognized that a name change was necessary after a change of sonic direction under the tutelage and guidance of […]
If you’ve been following JOVM for the past few months, you might recall a post or two about the Los Angeles-based band Lady Low. The band is comprised of several long-time, grizzled vets, including founding member […]
The members of the New York-based quartet Whitewash met while they were all studying at jazz at NYU (my alma mater) – founding members Jon Ben-Menachem (bass) and Sam Thornton (guitar) had met and bean […]
Featuring Beth Rettig (vocals, programming), Emma Quick (bass) and Debbie Smith (guitar), best known as being the guitarist in Curve, Echobelly and Snowpony, the London-based trio Blindness formed in 2008. And since the band’s formation, […]
SURVIVE is a rather mysterious electronic act, whose work manages to possesses an extremely cinematic quality; in fact, their latest single “Hourglass” appeared in Adam Winguard’s The Guest – and as a result, Group Film One […]
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 […]
Copious amounts of ink has been spilled over the last few years on how New York’s importance and influence and contemporary hip-hop has dwindled, and of how East Coast hip-hop has dwindled in importance. These […]
With quite a bit of excess free time while on the road, Yukon Blonde’s frontman Jeffrey Innes started a solo side project, High Ends, which caught the attention of the blogosphere as it was a […]