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TVD Live Shots:
The Joy Formidable
with Twen at the Rock and Roll Hotel, 11/29

The Joy Formidable made a stop at Washington, DC’s Rock and Roll Hotel on Black Friday, giving fans respite from the Thanksgiving holiday and oncoming Christmas onslaught. Celebrating ten years together, they treated VIPs to a short acoustic set prior to doors opening before filling the RnR Hotel with tight indie rock. The Joy Formidable […]

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TVD Radar: The Joy Formidable, A Balloon Called Moaning 2-LP 10th anniversary edition in stores 10/25

VIA PRESS RELEASE | The Joy Formidable have announced the release of a special commemorative 10-year double album edition of their acclaimed debut release A Balloon Called Moaning. The double album, due October 25 via Hassle Records, will include their 2009 EP “A Balloon Called Moaning” plus a newly recorded acoustic Welsh language version, “Y […]

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The Joy Formidable’s
Ritzy Bryan, The Best of the 2014 TVD Interviews

One of the worst things you can do to a band on the rise is call them the “second coming” of anything, or to compare them to what’s come before. The offense is especially egregious when it’s an ambitious band that does everything in their power to exceed expectations—a band like The Joy Formidable.  We have […]

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The Joy Formidable’s
Ritzy Bryan,
The TVD Interview

One of the worst things you can do to a band on the rise is call them the “second coming” of anything, or to compare them to what’s come before. The offense is especially egregious when it’s an ambitious band that does everything in their power to exceed expectations—a band like The Joy Formidable.  We have […]

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TVD Live: Passion Pit and The Joy Formidable at Echostage, 10/31

When Michael Angelakos took the stage for last Thursday night’s performance, the only thing to be seen on the dimly lit stage was the warm glow of the neon letters behind him. The band’s name lit across the backdrop was enough for the costumed crowd of ghouls and goblins to give him and his band, […]

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TVD Live Shots:
The Joy Formidable
at the 9:30 Club, 4/21

It became abundantly clear from the large number of 16-somethings in the crowd at the sold out 9:30 Club Sunday night who knew every word to every song, that The Joy Formidable is at the pinnacle of their slow but steady climb to top-tier touring act. I wasn’t quite sure if kids were ready for a […]

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The Joy Formidable:
In-store with TVD at DC’s Som Records

There’s a compelling counter balance at work with The Joy Formidable. On stage, the trio’s ferocious sonic assault is literally thunderous, explosive, and transformative—yet in person, Ritzy, Rhydian, and Matt are disarmingly warm, funny and approachable, and none too shy with the shared enthusiasm for a rummage through a record store when the opportunity presents […]

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TVD Live Shots:
The Joy Formidable
at St. Stephen, 11/10

The Joy Formidable played a benefit for Positive Force to benefit St. Stephen’s Church on Saturday night. Although they didn’t play a lot of new songs, their energy was as explosive as ever. I had assumed that once this band moved on to bigger stages, I’d never see them play a small stage again. I […]

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TVD Live: The Joy Formidable with A
Place to Bury Strangers at the 9:30 Club, 3/26

A love letter to Oliver Ackermann. Dear Oliver, Remember when you played that amazing show to a packed 9:30 Club in DC last Monday? I remember it as if it were yesterday. It was actually the day before yesterday. Wouldn’t you agree that The Joy Formidable played an amazing set worthy of awe and admiration? I […]

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TVD Ticket Giveaway: The Joy Formidable at the 9:30 Club, 3/26

I have been looking forward to the The Joy Formidable and A Place to Bury Strangers show at 9:30 Club next Monday for months. North Wales’ Joy Formidable are unbelievable live, and I have missed the last two times A Place to Bury Strangers have come through DC. Why the show hasn’t sold out beats me—what a sensational […]

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TVD’s 10 Weeks of Record Store Day Vinyl Giveaways: The Joy Formidable The Big Roar

In a bit of karmic congruity, Record Store Day reaches a 5 year milestone this year as does TVD—this lil site you’re presently perusing. Without the raw data in front of me to confirm any suspicions, I have to think both endeavors are somewhat responsible for the renewed interest in vinyl and the uptick in […]

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The Joy Formidable:
The TVD Interview

As far as career trajectories go, you’d be hard pressed to top the steady ascent of The Joy Formidable. From the tiny band with the full sound we latched onto at the outset, to the band that roared its way down the throats of North America’s largest venues last fall as openers for the Foo […]

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TVD Ticket Giveaway: Foo Fighters w/ Social Distortion and The Joy Formidable at Verizon Center, 11/11/11

WIN before you can BUY. Things are good right now for the Foo Fighters, with a tour underway, a new album Wasting Light released earlier this year, and the award-winning Foo Fighters film Back and Forth, showing the world that Justin Bieber isn’t the only rockstar that gets to be on the big screen. Their tour will […]

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TVD Live: The Joy Formidable, 3/25 at Black Cat

Photos: Haley Plotkin It pleases me to no end to see blogs yakking tirelessly lately about The Joy Formidable, a band we’ve been championing for close to three years now. But I mean, it’s no big feat at all to be first. With the plethora of marginally serviceable bands whose sole claim to any significance […]

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TVD Fresh Track | New from The Joy Formidable

The Joy Formidable play the Black Cat on November, 11.

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