Tag: soul

Live Concert Photography: The Heard and The Funky Meters at Brooklyn Bowl 4/18/15

Live Concert Photography: The Heard and The Funky Meters Brooklyn Bowl April 18, 2015 Last month, I was at Brooklyn Bowl to catch The Funky Meters during their two night run in town, and on […]

Mixtape Stream: Mothership Collective “All Nigga Radio”

Influenced by Parliament Funkadelic, Too Short, Roni Size, Bootsy Collins and others, the Los Angeles-based act Mothership Collective’s latest mixtape All Nigga Radio, released by Bonding Tapes was written and conceived as a continuous late […]

Over the past couple of years, I’ve written about the great soul singer Charles Bradley, whose work and live shows I’ve written about extensively. Simply put, i love the man’s work and his live performances […]

Chicago-based. singer-songwriter The ELLE can trace the origins of her music career to when she started using various forms of writing as an emotional and creative outlet when she was 8; however, despite the fact […]

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, […]

Gil Scott-Heron is best known for his work in the 70s and 80s as a spoken word artists, whose work was a fusion of jazz, blues, soul with lyrical content, which focused on the sociopolitical […]

Comprised of Daniel Stoyanov (vocals) and Michael Vajna (producer, pianist), the Leipzig, Germany-based duo of MALKY have a backstory that feels profoundly familiar to me – Daniel Stoyanov and his parents emigrated with his parents […]

The South London-based vocalist Ego Ella May has developed a reputation for an effortlessly and easy-going vocal style that uncannily channels Erykah Badu. Her latest single, “How Far” produced by Wu-Lu and Reiss G features a […]

As I mentioned in a previous post, Soulive opened their sixth annual Bowlive residency at Brooklyn Bowl with the Screaming Eagle of Soul himself, Charles Bradley. And they opened Charles Bradley’s portion of the night […]

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 […]

Now, if you’ve been following JOVM since the beginning, you may remember that I’ve written about Mayer Hawthorne, one of this era’s best and sadly unheralded soul vocalists; in fact, his Impressions: The Covers EP, […]

//player.theplatform.com/p/NnzsPC/widget/select/media/3aNSpuy_7d2L?carouselID=144391 With the release of her self-titled debut earlier this year, the Nashville, TN-based (by way of Cleveland, OH and Virginia Beach, VA) Natalie Prass has quickly become a blogosphere darling. “Why Don’t You Believe […]

The Los Angeles-based quartet of Dorothy, named after their founder and lead vocalist have become blogosphere sensations for a sound that employs elements of riff-heavy 60s and 70s rock, the blues, glam rock, hip hop […]