Tag: The Joy of Violent Movement

Afropunk Festival Day 1: 8/23/14

Afropunk Festival Commodore Barry Park, Fort Greene, Brooklyn August 23, 2014 As I mentioned in a previous post, throughout the bulk of JOVM’s history, I essentially ran the site full-time and as a side project, […]

If you’ve been following JOVM for the past few months, you may remember that I wrote about an up-and-coming electronic music artist and producer, Slaptop. And his debut single “Sunrise,” evoked a wild, youthful sensibility while […]

If you’ve been following JOVM for the past year or so, you may have come across a couple of posts on the duo of Baby Alpaca. Comprised of singer/songwriter Chris Kittrell and guitarist Zach McMillan, the […]

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 soul vocalists; in fact, his Impressions: The Covers EP, which featured the singer/songwriter covering some sadly underrated […]

In the four plus years that I’ve run JOVM, i’ve increasingly received a number of emails from folks located in some rather far-flung locales – and I think it suggests that my own mission of covering […]

Even after running JOVM for the past four years, i’m still amazed and flattered when I receive fan mail, especially from folks located in rather far-flung locales across our tiny blue ball. Not too long […]

Mighty Mouse is a producer, composer, DJ and half of the Du Tonc production team, and he’s built a reputation for disco edits and remixes, especially his disco-based remixes of singles by Gorillaz and Gil […]

It seems that an inordinate amount of time as a blogger is spent receiving, reading and responding to emails from publicity firms, labels and artists from all over the world – and honestly, although daunting, […]

Frequently, as i’m going through the enormous amounts of email and tracks I receive from record labels of various sizes, publicity firms and artists from all over the world, I often wonder how the experience […]