News/Announcements: JOVM Can Still Use Your Help Y’all.

I’ve run this site for the past 16-years with a stubbornly defiant DIY ethos. But I must admit the past two years have been extraordinarily difficult. At the end of the day, even miracles need money to be achieved.

As always The Joy of Violent Movement is a completely independent and completely D.I.Y. media outlet. Over the course of this site’s 16+ year history, I’ve used my fiercely independent stance to cover music with an eclectic and global perspective that a lot of other publications just don’t have — and will likely never have. 

To that end, I could use your support to continue to keep bringing you my unique global perspective on music. There are a number of ways that you can support this work. 

I’ve been told that some people would prefer to make a one-time donation because it’s easy and less of an obligation. So, if you’re able to make a one-time donation, there’s a donation box below.

Anything you can give is very much appreciated. It can and does make a real difference, y’all. 

You can follow me on the following social platforms:

X/Twitter: @yankee32879 and @joyofviolent 

Instagram: @william_ruben_helms

Threads: @william_ruben_helms

Bluesky: @williamrubenhelms.bsky.social

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheJoyofViolentMovement

As always, if there are posts that you dig, share them with your friends. The more eyeballs on my work, the better. 

Another announcement for y’all: I’m having email issues yet again — because money. So until I can sort that out, if you’ve been trying to reach out to me about editorial issues, please email me at the following;

joyofviolentmovement@gmail.com

Before I close out, I have a big (and recurring) ask of y’all: I’ve been actively looking for work — for some time now. If you’ve been out there looking for work or if you know someone who is, you’re very aware of how dehumanizing the entire process can be. But over the past 6-12 months or so, it has been especially annoying and frustrating.

Over the course of the past two-plus decades, my writing and photography has been published in a lengthy list of publications including Downbeat, Sound Collector Audio Review, Playbill (photography), The Advocate (photography), Out Magazine (photography), Premier Guitar (photography), Consequence, Earmilk (photography), The Inventory, Glide Magazine.com (writing and photography), Publisher’s Weekly, Sheckys.com, Shecky’s Bar and Nightlife Guide, New York Press, Ins&Outs Magazine (photography and writing), Dish Du Jour Magazine, Queens Ledger (writing and photography) Aussie music publication Musicology.xyz (photography) and countless others.

Concurrently with all of that, I spent about 15 years — okay, like 14.5 total — in book publishing working in the editorial departments of three different New York-based publishing houses across both trade and academic publishing as an Editorial Assistant and as an Acquisitions Editor. The bulk of my publishing career has been in trade publishing with the last 2.5 or so years in academic publishing.

If anyone has any leads on editorial, communications, writing and/or photography jobs — including full-time, part-time, contract and freelance opportunities, please feel free to contact me.

Music industry folks, if you need someone to write bios for your artists and/or bands — or to take press photos, BTS photos, live concert photos or you’d like to have a tour photographer, please feel free to contact me.