Jovontaes just posted their new video for “Down Below” off Cavedwellers Month. It’s not my favorite side of the band to hear on record, but it’s something I love getting live. Check out their KY/IL/NC tour dates at their bandcamp

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Jovontaes have been exploring all kinds of territory lately. Their new track “B.P.” is a drum solo away from being bona fide surf rock song. It’s groovy, with a Tarantino cool to it and I can’t wait to hear this one live. If you’re in Lexington, you can catch Jovontaes playing this Saturday with MV [...]

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Jovontaes’ new cassette Cavedwellers Month is out later this month. You can grab it for just $5 from Fire Talk. MP3: Jovontaes – Down Below For fans of Jovontaes’ “hits” like “Mountain Pass,” this might be a little surprising. But if you’ve heard any of Jovontaes’ vocal-filled, lo-fi work, “Down Below” will fit in nicely [...]

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Wednesday: James Leg (of the Black Diamond Heavies) with Warren Byrom @ The Green Lantern (9:30pm, 21+) Deranged rock played in a town that’s welcoming to it. Listen to the song “Fire and Brimstone” here. Thursday: Wet Hair with Psychedelic Horseshit, and Three Legged Race @ Al’s Bar (10pm, $5, 18+) Another superb WRFL sponsored show. Drone, dirt and electronic dissonance. [...]

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2011 was (another) odd year for music. It felt like the average quality of albums was raised a bit, but nothing really stood out as a life-changing album or single of the year. Still, there was a lot of great music to be heard. Here’s fifty of my favorite tracks from the year, ranging from [...]

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This was the best set I’ve seen Jovontaes perform in their short existence. They picked the best tracks from Things are Different Here and spun them into a great set that had a great flow to it. “Mountain Pass” was especially great to hear live. I’ve probably caught that live before, but it’s the first [...]

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Things Are Different Here, the debut full-length LP from Lexington’s skategaze luminaries Jovontaes, is a sprawling yet tightly woven journey through celestial space rifts, surf-flavored stoner anthems and down tempo instrumental landscapes that, were they physical rather than aural, would likely involve dense forests or blazing deserts or midnight bonfires on some hidden beach south [...]

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Reid from Jovontaes dropped off their new record at CD Central the other day (only place selling it in the world until October 11!), which made me realize I wasn’t sure exactly what was on it. I always hear random Jovontaes songs either from WRFL, at work or looking for them online, but I wasn’t [...]

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Coleman Guyon shot this video for Jovontaes’ “Killer Pilz” and sent it over. I like it so much that I’ll let this double-local post escape the Local section and share it here. “Killer Pilz” is a lot brighter than most of Jovontaes’ songs wind up in their live show, but it’s still got the slow [...]

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