 “Lovewhip knows what people are thirsty for and meets
the need by quenching the soul track after track!” -Theresa Orlando, www.femalemusician.com • Boston Music Award winners and five-time nominees
• Independent Music Award winners (sponsored by the Musician’s Atlas)
• 13000+ fans on Myspace worldwide and growing everyday!
• Rated #1 electro band in Boston on Myspace • “Show Your Love” featured on the MTV show Pageant Place • “Virtual Booty Machine” heard on the hit TV show Veronica Mars Lovewhip is dance music. The Boston Globe exclaims “Lovewhip has a celebratory and upbeat feel that has kept crowds dancing everywhere they play!” Part of Boston’s underground but up-and-coming electro scene, Lovewhip creates a live show that is rooted in fun with the passionate vocals and dance moves of the “soulful electro-rock diva” (says the Boston Phoenix) Erin Harpe a.k.a. Empress Erin. Able to get any room going by shaking her infamous booty (see their myspace page), she also rips out screaming electric guitar riffs as she taunts and teases the crowd. Building on influences as diverse as Blondie, Beck, Sean Paul, Missy Elliot, the B52’s and the Cars, Lovewhip has created a sound that people go crazy for.
The project of frontwoman/guitarist/singer Erin Harpe and bassist Jim Countryman, Lovewhip has been making eclectic dance music since their first release Whip It, Baby! in 2000. Lovewhip’s multicultural influences have ranged from Jamaican reggae and dancehall to Nigerian soukous and highlife, afrobeat, and more recently retro 80’s electro. “The overall concept has always been to lift people out of their daily drudgery and get them dancing and feeling good,” says Harpe. And that’s just what they’ve done, touring regularly around the country to great reactions and dancing crowds. LOVEWHIP’s fourth CD, Virtual Booty Machine, mixes electropop with dancehall reggae, funk, and rock to create a distinctive sound that begs the listener to shake it. Virtual Booty Machine takes the listener to a bright new future, weaving the sexy soulful vocals of Empress Erin with crunchy rock guitar lines, electro-pop synth lines and a dance beat. The CD was independently produced by Lovewhip with the help of Darron Burke (Makeshift Studio). It includes remixes by Boston scenesters Jeff Czejak (Plunge into Death), MicL PTVN (Lovewhip, Cassette, Campaign for Real Time), and Reggie Burrows (Radio Dread, Trumystic, High Fidelity Dub Sessions #3) and the notorious DJ Monk One from Brooklyn (Turntable Lab Magazine). “Virtual Booty Machine” is just the tip of the iceburg for LOVEWHIP, whose sound is gives the masses exactly what they need: pure, unadulterated, high-energy dance music. Quickly becoming dance club favs, Lovewhip has already become a sensation from Boston, MA to Los Angeles, CA and from Portland, ME to Miami, FL and received radio play throughout the country. Lovewhip constantly tours around the country year-round, so look for them coming to your town soon! The band has recently released their new single "GIMME THAT," as a two song single that includes a special remix by Boston's DJ Mark E. Moon. It is also available for download. Click here to hear samples. The band recently completed filming for their first music video for "Gimme That," look for it soon here on the site and on YouTube! READ PRESS QUOTES  Our online electronic press kit has our bio, audio, press, calendar, and more, all in one, easy to access place! Sonicbids is a simple alternative to the endless clutter of physical press kits that are exchanged daily between musicians and the people who promote music. It's an easy-to-use, web-based graphic interface. Click the logo to check out our EPK!  View Lovewhip's EPK  "The inaugural spark for Lovewhip came about when Harpe, an acoustic blues woman by nature, plugged in and applied her half-picking, half finger-plucking, Afro-pop guitar techniques . . . to club-friendly electro dance methodology. Both styles were forged to inspire the assemblage to party, party, party, drink water, and repeat the process indefinitely."
-Barry Thompson, The Weekly Dig Read the Weekly Dig Article “Exciting dancehall-punk-disco collisions!” -LA Weekly “It’s an electro dance martini. Take a few shots of synth, pour on reggae and funk drums, shake, shake, shake and serve over rockin’ guitar lines.” - Kerry Purcell, Boston Herald “Lovewhip has a celebratory and upbeat feel that has kept crowds dancing everywhere they play. Lovewhip can whip up some of the most feverish dance rhythms in the city.” -Steve Morse, Boston Globe “If you remember Lovewhip as the funk/juju band from a couple years ago, it's time to take another look. After getting kidnapped and reprogrammed by the city's foremost basement-party hipsters, frontwoman Erin Harpe has been reborn as a soulful electro-rock diva . . . [w]ith Cassette's MicL Potvin and Plunge into Death's Mark E. Moon adding off-the-meathook reggaeton smash and Casio-beat dance punk and vocodered come-ons, it's Stefani-esque certified potassium.” -Carly Carioli, Boston Phoenix - On the Download "’Come with me to the dance floor now, you don't have to worry if you don't know how, all you have to do is move your feet and shake your body to the beat.’ The execution of those moves won't be a problem as you listen to the rest of this album that combines reggae, afro-pop, ska, soca and something called "world booty funk" into a celebratory, irresistible party soundtrack . . . Pure joy.” -Sarah Rodman, Boston Herald “What an interesting mix of styles and sounds. I love the synth in "Show Your Love." Singer Empress Erin has a very enjoyable voice! Honestly I do not think I have ever heard anything quite like this, mixing the caribbean styles with electro. "Virtual Booty Machine" lead vocal reminds me of MIA – but better.” -Amy L. Ketchum, Hip Gloss Productions “Finally, a digable groovin' disc is circulating [Virtual Booty Machine]. Lovewhip knows what people are thirsty for and meets the need by quenching the soul track after track!” -Theresa Orlando, www.femalemusician.com “These four original songs have a funk element to the music that makes each and every song prime dancefloor material. Overall, this is a very interesting release. Lovewhip have certainly carved out a unique niche here, combining reggae, funk, rock and electropop to make a very distinctive sound . . . Recommended!” -Jason Baker, www.synthpop.net “Melding ska/reggae rhythms and bass with techno pop is an inspired idea. This one is awfully fun. Excellent for shaking the booty.” -Jon Worley, Aiding & Abetting “Lovewhip's new release, Virtual Booty Machine, is pretty jammin'. "Show Your Love" opens the CD with a solid groove under rap-esque verses and smooth, soulful choruses . . . this song is far more about the groove and fun. There's a lot of production on "Virtual Booty Machine" with it's underlying Nintendo sounding rhythm. "Sitting and Watching" switches to a Motown-ish feel . . . a splash of class across the canvas. "Get It On Down" is a little more 60's (early 70's?) pop/soul/rock with a solid, infectious groove to it. The next seven remix cuts are all distinct, all as enjoyable as the originals. This is one I'll hold on to and revisit.” -Chris Lonsberry, www.indiemusicsite.com “Dancy, party music, easy to dance to. Erin Harpe's vocals sound great to me. Title track "Virtual Booty Machine" really makes the listener want to move. It's a fun tune and there are three more remixes of it here. My favorite one would be "Rebooty" (the Mark E. Moon mix). But I think any of these songs will make you get up and dance.” -Amy Lotsberg, Collected Sounds “Lovewhip, that danceable mélange of calypso and African beats, fell through a breach in the space/time continuum and emerged as dance club mavens. Circa 1982. Virtual Booty Machine is pulsing with beats, synths, samples, and loops. They've replaced Tiki dolls and palm trees with strobe lights and disco balls!” -Lexi Kahn, Noise Magazine |
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