Live concert photography of Boy with Apple and FRANKIIE performing at the Planetary Group showcase at last year's New Colossus Festival.

Live Concert Photography: The New Colossus Festival 2024: Day 3: Planetary Group Presents Boy with Apple and FRANKIIE at Piano’s 3/8/24

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 fifth — er fourth? — edition took place last March in some of the Lower East Side’s best and renowned independent venues including Mercury Lounge, Berlin Under A, Arlene’s Grocery, The Bowery Electric, Heaven Can Wait, Pianos, and more.

Much like the previous day, last year’s third day was busy and featured several stops, including an afternoon stop at Piano’s for the Planetary Group showcase, which featured Vancouver-based dream pop outfit FRANKIIE and Gothenburg-based shoegazers Boy with Apple.

Check out photos below.