Live concert photography of Absolutely Free, Anthony OKS and Bonnie Trash playing the Planetary Group showcase at 2023's The New Colossus Festival.

Live Concert Photography: The New Colossus Festival 2023: Day 3: 3/10/23: Planetary Group Showcase at Piano’s feat. Absolutely Free, Anthony OKS and Bonnie Trash

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.

The festival’s fourth edition took place between March 8, 2023 – March 12, 2023 in some of the Lower East Side’s renowned independent music venues, including Mercury Lounge, Berlin Under A, Arlene’s Grocery, The Bowery Electric, Pianos, and more.

During the 2023 edition’s third day, I stopped at Piano’s for Planetary Group‘s annual New Colossus Festival showcase, which featured Toronto‘s Absolutely Free, who played material off their excellent 2021 effort Aftertouch, Winnipeg‘s Anthony OKS and Guelph, ON-based post goths Bonnie Trash. Check out photos below.