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New Audio: Silk Daisys Shares A Shimmering Christmastime Original
Atlanta-based dream pop/post-punk duo Silk Daisys — James Abercrombie and romantic partner Karla Jean Davis — have been making music together for some time, but their Silk Daisys and Damon Moon co-produced debut will be their first, official release. Interestingly, the Silk Daisys name has been around even further, with Abercrombie using the name on Soundcloud for about a decade to upload random covers and the occasional original song.
“We recorded our album over two weeks with Damon Moon (Bathe Alone, Sleepers Club) at this studio Standard Electric Recorders in Atlanta. Damon was awesome to work with,” the duo says. “We spent a ton of time just talking about music the three of us love and sharing songs back and forth. We’d name some obscure part of a song as a reference and he’d get it immediately, and dial in the tones perfectly. Damon also played drums and percussion on the album. The three of us produced it together, and it was all really collaborative and fun.”`
The Atlanta-based duo’s full-length debut is slated for a Friday release, and will feature the previously released Halloween-themed “Haunted House,” a track that seemingly channels Pygmalion and Souvlaki-era Slowdive, and “honeymilk,” a contented sigh of a tune that’s one-part 90s shoegaze fuzz and one-part 60s bubble gum pop.
Just before the release of their self-titled debut, the Atlanta-based duo release a Christmas season original and standalone track, “it’s just like xmas,” an effortless blend of old-timey holiday tunes and Cocteau Twins, anchored around shimmering guitar and the timeless hope for a better, more peaceful world for all of us.
“I wrote this one on Christmas Day last year. There’s always a moment of calm in our house after the initial excitement of Christmas morning, and I find myself playing guitar or piano during those moments and thinking about the year we left behind and the year ahead,” the band’s James Abercrombie says. “I thought a lot about our kids, and I thought a lot about the kids who were currently living in countries that were being torn apart by war. The song ended up being a simple wish for peace, a calm all over the world like the ones I so often take for granted on Christmas afternoon.”
New Audio: Jennifer Marley Shares Swaggering Banger “It’s Callin’ Me”
Jennifer Marley is an emerging DJ and electronic music producer, who has been remarkably prolific over the past 18 months or so. Her latest single “It’s Callin’ Me” is a swaggering tech house track anchored around the sort of driving bass line and club rocking thump reminiscent of Bubba Brothers and LutchamaK — while being simultaneously euphoria-inducing.
New Audio: Smag På Dig Selv Teams Up with Viktoria Søndergaard on Thumping “Vik’s Rawcore”
With the release of last year’s full-length debut, SDPS, Copenhagen-based jazz punks Smag På Dig Selv (SPDS) — Oliver Lauridsen (tenor sax), Thorbjørn Øllgaard (baritone sax, bass sax, vocals) and Albert Holberg (drums) — firmly cemented their reputation as one of most boundary pushing groups out on the contemporary Danish scene. With a sound that’s an explosive, party starting mixture of acoustic techno, punk energy, jazz and 90s EDM, the Danish trio have begun to make the round of the international festival and touring circuit, playing sets at Roskilde Festival, SXSW, The Great Escape, Eurosonic, Winter Jazzfest NYC and Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage.
SPDS’s highly-anticipated sophomore album is slated for a March 2026 through Stunt Records. The album will feature the previously released, TMI Tammi-produced “Let’s Go!,” a mix sneering, in-your-face punk attitude, ambient electronics, pulsing beats, thunderous Viking drumming and modal-influenced jazz that’s mind-bending, mischievously unhinged yet accessible and dance floor friendly.
The album’s third and latest single, “Vik’s Rawcore” sees the rising Danish trio collaborating with vibraphonist Viktoria Søndergaard on a track that’s a mischievous blend of jazz lyricism and the relentless, industrial-inspired club rocking thump of drum ‘n’ bass while adding a gorgeous sense of counterpoint and texture.
The composition was inspired by Oliver Lauridsen’s time in Holland, where he became immersed in the local underground scene.
New Audio: I WANT POETRY Shares Ethereal “Mirrors Of The Sky”
German indie electro pop duo I WANT POETRY — Tine von Bergen (vocals) and Till Moritz Moll (keys) — have received attention for crafting music that simultaneously feels cinematic and deeply human, blending emotional depth with luminous pop soundscapes.
Developing a reputation for an immersive live show and striking visuals, the German duo have earned critical acclaim and a nomination at the European Songwriting Awards. The duo have played over 100 shows across their native Germany, Poland, Sweden and elsewhere, while making the run of the European showcase festival circuit. And adding to a growing national and international profile, the duo’s single “Light” landed on iTunes charts in several countries, amassing over 500,000 streams globally — and was selected for the soundtrack for the Canadian film, La mécanique des frontières.
2026 looks to be a breakthrough year for the German indie electro pop duo: Their highly anticipated third album, Future Selves is slated for an early 2026 release. The album is reportedly hopeful and transformative, inspired by a brief period of time when the future still felt like a promise, channeling the spirit of past utopias and dreams of progress. And as a result, it offers a forward-looking visions shaped by memory, imagination and the will to create what comes next. Sonically, the album’s material marks an evolution from the reflective tones of Solace + Light, featuring layers of shimming synths and soaring melodies.
The German duo will be touring to support the tour will include an appearance at The New Colossus Festival‘s seventh edition next March. But in the meantime, Future Selves‘ first single “Mirrors Of The Sky” is a slow-burning and broodingly autumnal track, featuring skittering beats and swirling, atmospheric synths. The song’s ethereal production serves as a lush, dream-like bed for von Bergen’s expressive, Kate Bush-like vocal. The result is a song that feels cinematic in scope, yet as intimate as a lover whispering in your ear.
Throwback: Happy 86th Birthday, Tina Turner!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 86th anniversary of the birth of Tina Turner.
New Audio: RXRXBBIT Shares Sultry “Sunk Cost”
RXRXBBIT is a mysterious and emerging singer/songwriter, producer and pop artist, who has been rather prolific over the past 18 month or so, releasing a handful of attention grabbing singles.
The emerging artist’s latest single “Sunk Cost” is a swaggering and sultry, dance floor bop anchored around a thumping, hyper pop-meets-alt pop production while featuring an unabashedly unhinged, unafraid and brutally honest narrator, who overshares yet makes it flirty and feminist.
Throwback: Happy 75th Birthday, Tina Weymouth!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Tina Weymouth’s 75th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 47th Birthday, Karen O.!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontperson Karen O’s 47th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 60th Birthday, Björk!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Björk’s 60th birthday.
Live Concert Photography: Bonnie Trash with Clone and The Acute at The Wood Shop 11/13/25
Live concert photography of Bonnie Trash with Clone and The Acute at The Wood Shop earlier this month.
New Video: Lucid Express Shares Woozy “Something Blue”
Hong Kong-based shoegazers and JOVM mainstays Lucid Express will be releasing their long-awaited and highly-anticipated sophomore album Instant Comfort on February 20, 2026 through Kanine Records.
Mixed by Kurt Feldman during marathon overnight, transpacific sessions on Discord, Instant Comfort reportedly captures the unsettling stillness of the nighttime hours. The album’s material sonically sees the Hong Kong-based outfit pairing ethereal melodies with towering walls of jangling guitars and hazy, swirling feedback while being more clear-eyed, complex and layered than anything they’ve released to date.
Instant Comfort‘s first single “Something Blue” is anchored around a classic grunge and shoegaze song structure — shimmering and dreamily meditative soundscape-driven verses and stormy walls of churning and fuzzy power chords for the song’s enormous hooks and choruses. The song’s woozy and uneasy nature, helps to further emphasize the band’s Kim Ho’s ethereal delivery exploring the sense of creeping dead and melancholy that comes from uncertain relationships/situationships.
The accompanying video for “Something Blue” features the band in front of projections of footage submitted by fans and friends from across the globe.
Now, as you may know, since the release of 2021’s self-titled full-length debut, the band has amassed praise from fans and critics across the globe, toured internationally and made a run of the international festival circuit with stops at Slide Away and LEVITATION. They will return to North America next year for a sting of Stateside dates, including a return to play New Colossus Festival in March. More details on that to come.