Live Concert Photography: New Colossus Festival 2022: Kanine Records Party at Berlin Under A 3/10/22: Blushing

Live Concert Photography: New Colossus Festival 2022: Kanine Records Party at Berlin Under A 3/10/22: Blushing

Photographers often have a treasure trove of unedited and unpublished photos. I’m not an exception. Unsurprisingly, I have a rather deep collection of unedited and unpublished photos on several dead and malfunctioning external hard drives, going across the bulk of this site’s almost 14 year history. Once or twice, I’ve been lucky to have my valuable files restored and placed on an entirely new external hard drive, and during slower periods, it has allowed me to go through my archives and files. 

Back in March 2022, I covered the New Colossus Festival. Co-founded back in 2018 by three New York music industry vets and longtime friends, former Lorimer Beacon founder and head Mike Bell, Kanine Records‘ founder and label head Lio Kanine and Kepler Events‘ and Dedstrange Records co-founder Steven Matrick, The New Colossus Festival over the course of the past couple of years has featured several hundred handpicked, emerging indie bands and artists from Canada, the UK, the European Union, Singapore, Hong Kong and of course, the US. 

Since its founding, the festival has quickly established itself as the first stop in New York and in the US for a growing number of emerging and buzz worthy for a growing number of emerging and buzz worthy international artists. Notable festival alumni include a number of JOVM mainstays including GIFT, Penelope Isles, The Orielles, Thus Love, as well as Pom Poko, Pom Pom Squad, Sid Simons, Sobs, Water From Your Eyes, Peel Dream Magazine, Kiwi Jr., and a growing list of others.

For the 2022 edition’s second day, I caught Austin-based JOVM mainstays Blushing play the Kanine Records party at Berlin Under A. The Austin-based shoegazers played a set primarily featuring material off their excellent sophomore album, Posessions. Photos are below.