https://screen.yahoo.com/stay-130000291.html?format=embed With the release of the Make Some Room EP, Houston, TX-based dectet The Suffers have exploded on to the national scene this year as the band has played festival sets at Hangout Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Neon Desert Music Festival, their […]
Tag: Charles Bradley
New Video: Charles Bradley’s Soulful Cover of Black Sabbath’s “Changes”
Over the past couple of years, Brooklyn-based soul singer, Charles Bradley has not only become a JOVM mainstay, the “Screaming Eagle of Soul” has become a national and international sensation with the release of a […]
Live Footage: The Suffers on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts
Founded in 2011 by Adam Castaneda (bass) and featuring Pat Kelly (vocals, keyboard), Jon Durbin (trumpet), Michael Razo (trombone), Kevin Bernier (guitar), Jose “Chapy” Luna (percussion), Nick Zamora (vocals, drums), Cory Wilson (saxophone), Alex Zamora (vocals, […]
Live Footage: The Soul-Leaning Pop Sound of Judith Hill
Singer/songwriter Judith Hill comes from a very musical family — her mother is a renowned, classically trained pianist from Japan and her father is a bassist, who had stints playing with Sly Stone, Chaka Khan, […]
New Video: Nicole Willis and The Soul Investigators Joyful, New Single “One In A Million”
Now. if you’ve been frequenting JOVM over the past week or so, you may have come across a post on Brooklyn-born, Helsinki-based singer/songwriter Nicole Willis and her backing band, The Soul Investigators. Willis has had a lengthy and storied career […]
Interview: The Joy of Music Blogging: William Ruben Helms and His Devotion to a Lifestyle
In the five years that I’ve run The Joy of Violent Movement, I’ve conducted about 100 interviews, and as a result I’ve wound up growing quite used to the role of being an interviewer. But […]
Live Concert Photography: Celebrate Brooklyn Dance Party: Sonny Knight and the Lakers at Brooklyn Bridge Park 5/14/15
Live Concert Photography: Celebrate Brooklyn Dance Party: Sonny Knight and the Lakers Brooklyn Bridge Park May 14, 2015 Thanks in part to the proliferation of independent record labels across the country and the world, soul […]
Live Concert Photography: Bowlive 6: Erik Deutsch and the Jazz Outlaws, The Shady Horns, Soulive, and George Porter, Jr. at Brooklyn Bowl 3/20/15
Live Concert Photography: Bowllive 6: Erik Deutsch and the Jazz Messengers, The Shady Horns, Soulive, and George Porter, Jr. Brooklyn Bowl March 20, 2015 It’s been a very busy few weeks in the JOVM world […]
Live Concert Photography: Bowlive 6: Soule Monde, Soulive, The Shady Horns, Chris Robinson and Special Guests at Brooklyn Bowl 3/17/15
Live Concert Photography: Bowlive 6: Soule Monde, Soulive, The Shady Horns, Chris Robinson and Special Guests Brooklyn Bowl March 17, 2015 As I’ve mentioned in a previous photo post, if you’ve been following JOVM over the […]
Live Concert Photography: Bowlive 6: Wolf! feat. Scott Metzger, Soulive, Soulive with Charles Bradley, The Shady Horns and Special Guests at Brooklyn Bowl 3/12/15
Live Concert Photography: Bowlive 6: Wolf! feat. Scott Metzger, Soulive, Soulive with Charles Bradley, The Shady Horns and Special Guests Brooklyn Bowl March 12, 2015 As many of you who follow JOVM will know by […]
Last night, Soulive returned to the unofficial home office at Brooklyn Bowl to start off their sixth annual Bowlive residency and they opened their 8 night run with the Screaming Eagle of Soul himself, Charles […]
Kat Wright and the Indomitable Soul Band and Superhuman Happiness at Drom 1/17/15
Kat Wright and the indomitable Soul Band and Superhuman Happiness Drom January 17, 2015 A little over two weeks ago, i was at Drom to catch a night of funk and soul featuring the Burlington, […]
If you’ve been following this site since the beginning, you would have come across several posts about the Brooklyn-based ensemble, Superhuman Happiness. Led by the boyishly mischievous Stuart Bogie, the band was originally comprised of a septet […]
Founded by Eric Foss, the Minneapolis, MN-based label Secret Stash Records has focused on compiling and reissuing obscure 60s and 70s soul, African and Latin music. As Foss has explained “It’s really about putting a […]
Sonny Knight and the Lakers at The Knitting Factory 10/16/14
Sonny Knight and the Lakers The Knitting Factory October 16, 2014 Soul music has seen quite a resurgence in popularity over the past decade or so, as a number of contemporary acts have revived and […]