Tag: The Joy of Violent Movement

If you’ve been regularly following JOVM for the last couple of years, you may have remembered that back in 2013, I wrote quite a bit on 7 Days of Funk, a unique collaboration between Stones Throw Records‘s Dam […]

Born in Ann Arbor, Mi, the Brooklyn-based producer, DJ and electronic music artist Robert Lester, best known to the EDM world as Robert Lux has spun at some of the New York area’s premiere clubs […]

If you’ve been following JOVM for quite some time, you might remember coming across The New York-based quartet, The Dough Rollers. Founding members Jack Byrne and Malcolm Ford formed the band in 2008, after bonding […]

June 2015 will mark JOVM‘s fifth anniversary and during that extremely hardworking period, I’ve received an enormous amount of emails from a variety of artists, labels publicists and others from all over the world. And as I’ve […]

In the almost five years that I’ve run JOVM, i’ve received an enormous amount of emails from a variety of artists, labels publicists and others from all over the world. And As I’ve mentioned numerous […]

If you’ve been following JOVM for the past few months, you’d come across a post or two about the California-based duo OYLS. Formed a little over a year ago, electronic music duo OYLS can trace their formative moment to […]

If you’ve been following JOVM over the past few years, you might remember that several years ago, I wrote about a Minneapolis, MN-based band BNLX. The trio which consists of husband and wife team (and […]

If you’ve been following JOVM for the past few weeks, you may remember a lengthy post on the legendary Malian griot Kassé Mady Diabaté, who has been recognized during his 50 year career as one of […]

As I’ve mentioned countless times through this site, I receive an incredible number of emails from a variety of folks across the world, which, of course makes JOVM’s mission of presenting and covering music from […]

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 […]

If you’ve been following JOVM for some time, you may remember coming across a couple of posts on the Los Angeles-based band Cobalt Cranes, a band that had quickly developed a reputation across Southern California for a sound that […]

Admittedly when I stared JOVM a little over four years ago, I never intended the site or its content to be overtly political; however, political and social issues frequently influences the artists and art that […]