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  • Boston Music Award winners and five-time nominees
  • Independent Music Award winners (sponsored by the Musician’s Atlas)
  • Songs featured on Showtime’s Shameless, MTV’s Veronica Mars, Paris Hilton’s BFF, Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, & 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.

“Exciting dancehall-punk-disco collisions!”

- LA Weekly

“a mash-up of all the world's most danceable music, from electro to Afro-beat, to reggaeton and post-punk. It's a hell of an experience to see them live.”

- Boston's Weekly Dig

“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 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

Led by award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, and acclaimed guitarist Erin Harpe and her musical collaborator/husband, bassist Jim Countryman, Lovewhip Lovewhip has played over 1700 shows, from rock clubs to festivals, and opened for such national acts as the B-52’s, the Scissor Sisters, the Tom Tom Club, and Third World.

The band has released four critically acclaimed studio albums (Whip It Baby!, Bouncehall, Virtual Booty Machine, and Love Electric) and one live album (Live Booty Pop), on the couple’s own indie label, Juicy Juju Records. The busy pair also founded award-winning boogie blues band Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers, and recently released an acoustic duo album, “MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE”, which won “Album of the Year” at the 2021 New England Music Awards. “The overall concept of Lovewhip has always been to lift people up and get them dancing and feeling good,” says Harpe. And that’s just what they’ve done, touring extensively around the country, getting great reactions from dancing crowds.

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