Live Concert Review: New Music Seminar, New Music Nights Festival 2015 Misfires in its Attempt to Showcase New Music New Music Seminar can trace its origins back to 1980 when over 200 people gathered at […]
Tag: Summer Festivals
Northside Festival 2015 Preview
Founded by sibling duo Scott and Danny Stedman, the Northside Festival started under rather humble beginnings as an offshoot of The L Magazine from their one-bedroom apartment. But over the last few years, the festival […]
Afropunk Festival Day 2: 8/24/14
Afropunk Festival Commodore Barry Park, Fort Greene Brooklyn August 24, 2014 If you’ve been following JOVM for a while, you’d know that throughout the bulk of the site’s history, I’ve essentially ran the site full-time and as […]
Junior Reid, Razhel and Chronixx and the Zincfence Redemption at Summerstage, Central Park 7/27/14
Junior Reid, Razhel and Chronixx Summerstage, Central Park July 27, 2014 As I’ve mentioned a number of times on this site, The Joy of Violent Movement has been a mostly one-man operation run out of […]
4 Knots Festival featuring Re-tros, Juan Wauters, Viet Cong, Nude Beach, Those Darlins and Dinosaur, Jr. 7/12/14
4 Knots Festival featuring Re-tros, Juan Wauters, Viet Cong, Nude Beach, Those Darlins and Dinosaur, Jr. South Street Seaport July 12, 2014 As promised, I was recently covering the 4 Knots Festival with my dear […]
Afro-Punk Festival Day 1: 8/25/12 featuring Ninjasonik, Sinkane, Oxymorrons, Cerebral Ballzy, DJ Roofeo, Supersonics, Das Racist, and Erykah Badu
It took forever to edit these photos. The actual shooting and capturing the event at hand is the fun part. However, when you’ve somehow managed to take over 900 photos over the course of a weekend […]
Catalpa Festival Day 2: 7/29/12 featuring City and Colour, the Dirty Heads, Matisyahu, Girl Talk, A$AP Rocky, and Snoop Dogg
During the past summer, I’ve had the unique opportunity to cover several major festivals in the NYC area including the Northside Festival, the New Music Seminar NYC Festival, the Afro-Punk Festival and of course, the […]
The Catalpa Festival: Day 1: 7/28/12 featuring the Aviation Orange, the Demos, the Sheepdogs, Hercules and Love Affair, Umphrey’s McGee, TV on the Radio, the Black Keys and More
Back in July, I had the unique opportunity to cover the Catalpa Festival out on Randall’s Island Park, and as you may have guessed if you manage to take 500 photos of the events and […]