Lovewhip

Genre: Rock
Secondary Genre: Pop Boston, Massachusetts USA Contact

Dancing. Sex. Whips. It’s all fair game for Lovewhip, the Jamaica Plain, MA based electro/rock group fronted by afro-space-funk guitarist, vocalist and electronic music producer Erin Harpe.

Artist Information

Biography

• Boston Music Award winners and five-time nominees
• Independent Music Award winners (sponsored by the Musician’s Atlas)
• “Show Your Love” featured on the MTV show Paris Hilton's BFF
• “Virtual Booty Machine” heard on the hit TV show Veronica Mars

"Somewhere between a disco inferno, New Wave exuberance and Blondie... the group evokes the likes of Missing Persons or the B-52s. At other times it offers pure synth-fueled booty-shaking... The album is an electrified and energetic party!"
—James Heflin, Valley Advocate

“Lovewhip may be our answer to Prince, except it's a funky, electro-jam with a female guitar-slinging mastermind” says Cheap Thrills Boston.

Dancing. Sex. Whips. It’s all fair game for Lovewhip, the Jamaica Plain, MA based electro group who whip up furiously infectious dance songs for those who love shaking that ass on the dancefloor. Playing a party-starting mix of disco, rock, dance-pop, reggae and Afrobeat, the energy and presence of Lovewhip’s live shows is infectious. Lead by the soulful electro-rock diva and singer/guitarist and electronics producer Erin Harpe, and her longtime partner in crime Jim Countryman (aka Juicy Jim) on bass. Drummer Bob Nisi brings the sexy beats and backup vocals!

Lovewhip’s most ambitious album to date, Love Electric, is a futuristic dance party complete with unicorns, icebots, intrigue, and rock'n'roll! Each song on the album is chock full of catchy hooks, mixing dancehall reggae with disco, pop and rock. The album was produced by Jake Zavracky (producer/composer, of the bands Cyanide Valentine and Quick Fix), and recorded in Boston and Brooklyn.

"It all comes together like a Kraftwerk cover band hanging out with Fischerspooner on a DEVO appreciation night at the hottest dance club in town." Look for more Lovewhip action in 2011.

Instrumentation

Erin Harpe - Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, electronics
Jim Countryman - Bass
Bob Nisi - Drums & Background Vocals

Discography

Love Electric - LP (2010)
Gimme That (2-song single) (2007)
Virtual Booty Machine - LP (2005)
Live Booty Pop - Live release (2004)
Bouncehall - LP (2003)
Whip it Baby! - LP (2000)

Official Website

http://www.lovewhip.net

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Audio

Lyrics

Video

Gimme That

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Press

  • A modern take of what the 80's were musically [+ Show ]

    Love Electric offers a first class seat on a technological voyage to a modern take of what the 80's ...

  • X-Ray Spex attitude and a pulse worthy of the Talking Heads [+ Show ]

    “Hit it, but don’t you ever quit. Love Electric is a ride on dance cloud 9 that will keep you up unt...

  • An ode to hedonistic pleasure [+ Show ]

    Lovewhip has their finger on the pulse of what makes people want to move their feet and shake their ...

  • A mash up of all the world's most danceable music [+ Show ]

    What is Lovewhip about? Love. Whips. Dancing. And we'll throw sex in there, too, just in case it was...

  • Lovewhip's goal is to seize control of your core (and all associated body parts) [+ Show ]

    Lovewhip's goal is to seize control of your core (and all associated body parts) and work it until t...

  • Party, party, party, drink water, and repeat the process indefinitely [+ Show ]

    The inaugural spark for Lovewhip came about when Harpe, an acoustic blues woman by nature, plugged i...

  • Exciting dancehall-punk-disco collisions!

    Exciting dancehall-punk-disco collisions!

  • An electro dance martini [+ Show ]

    It’s an electro dance martini. Take a few shots of synth, pour on reggae and funk drums, shake, shak...

  • Off-the-meathook reggaeton smash and Casio-beat dance punk [+ Show ]

    If you remember Lovewhip as the funk/juju band from a couple years ago, it's time to take another lo...

  • Lovewhip can whip up some of the most feverish dance rhythms in the city [+ Show ]

    Lovewhip has a celebratory and upbeat feel that has kept crowds dancing everywhere they play. Lovewh...

  • Pure joy [+ Show ]

    Come with me to the dance floor now, you don't have to worry if you don't know how, all you have to ...

  • Lead vocal reminds me of MIA -- but better [+ Show ]

    What an interesting mix of styles and sounds. I love the synth in "Show Your Love." Singer Empress E...

  • Lovewhip have certainly carved out a unique niche here, combining reggae, funk, rock and electropop to make a very distinctive sound [+ Show ]

    These four original songs have a funk element to the music that makes each and every song prime danc...

Setlist

Lovewhip's repertoire includes over 25 originals and select covers. The sets can be divided into two 60 minute sets or three 45 minute sets.

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