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“a mash up of all the world's most danceable music, from electro to Afro-beat, to reggaeton and post-punk”
— The Weekly Dig
🏆  Boston Music Award Winners (and 5 time nominees)
🏆  Independent Music Award Winners
🎵  Songs featured on Showtime’s Shameless, Anthony Bourdain, MTV’s Veronica Mars, Paris Hilton’s BFF, & more
Lovewhip is a dance band that jams! Frontwoman “Empress” Erin Harpe has been called a “soulful electro-rock diva” by the Boston Phoenix, and “a freakin’ goddess guitar wizard master” by fellow bandleading diva Liz Bills. Playing a party-starting mix of dance rock, psychedelic funk, reggae, and electro-pop, the Boston Music Award-winning band whips up high-energy, groove-inducing originals and unexpected cover twists – for those who love shaking that booty on the dancefloor! The trio features “Juicy” Jim Countryman’s deep reggae/afrobeat/dub bass, and drummer Shawn “Shawny Hammersticks” Meehan’s infectious rhythms, dance beats and electronics.
“more fun than a truckload of Cyndi Laupers!”
— Portland Press Herald
“Lovewhip may be our answer to Prince, except it's a funky, electro-jam with a female guitar-slinging mastermind!”
— Cheap Thrills Boston
“Exciting dancehall-punk-disco collisions! ”
— LA Weekly
LOVEWHIP FOUNDING MEMBERS
Erin Harpe
“Empress” Erin
Guitar, lead vocals, percussion, electronics.
Jim Countryman
“Juicy”’ Jim
Bass, backing vocals.
“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