If you’ve been following JOVM over the last couple of months, you may have heard me mention the Brooklyn-based electronica act, bottoms. Compressed of programmer and Bushwick drag festival co-creator and performance artist and vocalist Jake […]
Tag: CMJ Festival
Comprised of programmer and Bushwick drag festival co-creator, Simon Leahy; drummer, Michael Prommasit; and performance artist and vocalist, Jake Dielber, the trio of bottoms offered one of the most unique, most memorable “what the fuck?” […]
Comprised of Nick Williams (vocals), Sarik Kumar (guitar), Maxx Berkowitz (guitar), Andrew Ockenden (bass) and Vishnu Anatha (drums), the Brooklyn-based quintet of Twin Wave formed last year. And with a sound that possesses elements of […]
MadHouse Management CMJ Showcase at Arlene’s Grocery 10/25/14 feat. Ugly Kids Club, Penicillin Baby and Tesla Rossa
The week of the CMJ Festival is one of the busiest weeks of the year for just about anyone who works and covers music but it’s also one of the most exhausting and fun weeks […]
Untitled (The CMJ Edition)
If you’ve followed JOVM over its four year history, you may be familiar with an extensive photography project I conducted over the course of about a year and a half titled, The Black and White Project. It turned […]
Kate Spalla’s CMJ 2014 Highlights
As I’ve mentioned in a couple of previous posts, the CMJ Festival here in New York has become one of the preeminent and important music festivals of the entire calendar year for independent artists and their labels, music […]
As I mentioned in a previous post, the week of the CMJ Festival is quite the experience if you truly love music and you’re involved in music in some way. Countless venues are hosting both […]
A Q&A with Rene Lopez
“This shit is in my blood,” Rene Lopez says with a cool self-assuredness on his phenomenal E.L.S. and although it may seem like a throwaway line to the uninitiated but it’s actually quite revelatory as Lopez has […]
The Minneapolis, MN-based quartet of Carroll was formed towards the end of 2011 when songwriter and vocalist Brian Hurlow started writing melancholic, shoegazer-based pop songs that caught the attention (and ear, of course) of his […]
Alexz Johnson is a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter and actress, who played roles in several TV shows and films including Instant Star, So Weird, and Final Destination 3, which naturally helped her build a strong enough following to raise key […]
A Q&A with Sleepers Work a.k.a. William Flynn
Back in October, I was in Frankfurt am Main, Germany for the Frankfurt Book Fair. And practically as soon as i got of the plane at JFK, I was covering several showcases at CMJ and […]
http://www.baeblemusic.com/player.swf Performing under the moniker of CALLmeKAT, Katrine Ottosen, is a renowned keyboardist, composer and singer/songwriter in her native Denmark. Through old-fashioned word-of-mouth, Ottosen has impressed audiences in Germany, Austria, France and Switzerland, all before an […]
Performing under the moniker of CALLmeKAT, Katrine Ottosen, is a renowned keyboardist, composer and singer/songwriter in her native Denmark. Through old-fashioned word-of-mouth, Ottosen has impressed audiences in Germany, Austria, France and Switzerland, all before an official […]
Fucked Up Gives 285 Kent a Raucous Salute, by Kate Spalla
Despite the almost 20,000,000 people who reside in the New York Metropolitan area, the music scene is incredibly small. A few weeks ago, a friend, who I had met at a show invited me to […]
I caught the Cardiff, Wales, UK-based quintet of Joanna Gruesome at a CMJ Showcase at Death by Audio and although I eventually wound up in the Elmhurst General Hospital Emergency Room later that night, their […]