Live @ Dromfest – Moviola

By tedSeptember 2, 2025live, records

Photo: Renée Velkoff
Return Brewing, Catskill, NY 08/30/2025
Dromfest ’25

Photo: Al Crisafulli

Constant Listener: Jim Testa - "Moviola move at their own speed — unhurried, deliberate, content to let a song take its shape organically."

Rosy Overdrive - "Earthbound is a record that invites repeated listening, with the make-up of an album with surprising depth..."

Mundane: Moviola’s Long Game: 30 Years In, Columbus’ Most Democratic Band Comes Back to Earth

Zillions Magazine: Moviola delivers timeless energy with "Long Gone"

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Moviola’s "Slage Wave"

SONG PREMIERE: Moviola Deliver Twangy Indie Rock Rooted With Authentic DIY Ethos On "Long Gone"

Todd-o-phonic Todd: Playlist from May 29, 2021. WFMU (Expat, Moviola)

Daily Distraction: Become an 'Expat' with Moviola, Columbus Alive

PREMIERE: Moviola’s physically transcendent rock tune ‘Expat’, Happy Mag

Moviola returns to the unwashed fringes with ‘Scrape and Cuss’, Columbus Alive

Review of the Week: Moviola - Broken Horses, Columbus Alive

Dead Knowledge Review, Scene Magazine

Moviola: Recording All Over The Place, Tape Op

East of Eager Review, Donewaiting

Rumors of the Faithful, PopMatters

Moviola’s “Dead Knowledge” is Lucky #7, Obscure Sound

...(Moviola's) unadorned melodies, gliding riffs and prose coalesce song and story into multi-dimensioned scenes starring characters you can almost touch. Moviola offer a place to shake off your shoes and bleed into the woodwork. --LA Weekly

...Mostly, however, Moviola taps the spirit of NRBQ, another open-ended combo that swings to its own trends. The album plays like a murmur from the old world, tracing a fading movement in pop music that never really was. --TimeOut NY

...It's the ability to be quirky, individualist and knowing, include ironic asides, and at the same time communicate real feeling, or to empathize so strongly with another, that you're actually there with them. That's the quality that Moviola have. They avoid the alt- country and even Americana ghetto altogether, their range is too wide. --SF Weekly