Live concert photography of 2022 New Colossus Festival showcase at Arlene's Grocery feat. Sunglaciers, Vera DiLecce and Punchlove.

Live Concert Photography: New Colossus Festival 2022: Sunglaciers, Vera Di Lecce, and Punchlove at Arlene’s Grocery 3/10/22

Photographers often have a treasure trove of unedited and unpublished photos.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 Unsurprisingly, I have a rather deep collection of unedited and unpublished photos on several dead and malfunctioning external hard drives, going across the bulk of this site’s almost 14 year history.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.

During the 2022 edition’s second night, I also stopped at Arlene’s Grocery to catch a diverse and eclectic showcase that featured Calgary-based JOVM mainstays Sunglaciers, who played material off their boundary-pushing effort Subterranea; Italian electro pop artist Vera Di Lecce; and local indie rock outfit Punchlove. Check out photos below.