OkayPlayer Presents: Dragons of Zynth and Bilal Brooklyn Bowl December 11, 2014 Unfortunately, the OkayPlayer Holiday Jam featuring The Roots and tons of special guests was on hiatus this year, which made their show featuring […]
Tag: Williamsburg Brooklyn
Wax Witches and The Blind Shake at Baby’s All Right 11/26/14
Wax Witches and The Blind Shake Baby’s All Right November 26, 2014 Back on Thanksgiving Eve, I was at Baby’s All Right for an early evening of music from the Brooklyn-based trio of Wax Witches, whose melodic punk […]
Bonsai at Pete’s Candy Store 11/25/14
Bonsai Pete’s Candy Shop November 25, 2014 As I’ve mentioned a number of times, running JOVM while having a full-time job often led to competing demands for my attention and time, and typically it’s lead […]
Dub Champions Festival at Brooklyn Bowl 9/24/14 feat. Subatomic Sound System, Lee “Scratch” Perry and Special Guests
Dub Champions Festival feat. Subatomic Soundsystem, Lee “Scratch” Perry and Special Guests Brooklyn Bowl September 24, 2014 As I’ve mentioned countless times, running a blog full-time while having a full-time job often results in having […]
Brown Sabbath: Brownout’s Latin Funk Interpretations of Black Sabbath at Brooklyn Bowl 9/5/14
Brown Sabbath: Brownout’s Latin Funk Interpretations of Black Sabbath Brooklyn Bowl September 5, 2014 As I’ve mentioned countless times, often having two completely different jobs often creates competing and sometimes contradictory demands for my time […]
Sonny Knight and the Lakers at The Knitting Factory 10/16/14
Sonny Knight and the Lakers The Knitting Factory October 16, 2014 Soul music has seen quite a resurgence in popularity over the past decade or so, as a number of contemporary acts have revived and […]
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 […]
Voodoo Boogaloo and Axons at The Trash Bar 9/2/14
Voodoo Boogaloo and Axons The Trash Bar 9/2/14 As you know, the last few months have been extremely busy and difficult as I’ve been balancing a life that’s frequently comprised of the competing demands for […]
Kendo The Almost Famous, P.E. 2.0, and Public Enemy at Brooklyn Bowl 9/16/14
Kendo The Almost Famous, P.E. 2.0 and Public Enemy Brooklyn Bowl 9/16/14 As a child of the 80s, there were a number of artists I loved immensely and hadn’t had a chance to see back […]
Untitled
If you’ve been following this site over the years, a big aspect of the site has been photography, both of live music and other events across town. In fact, over the better part of about […]
Madison King and Old 97s at Brooklyn Bowl 8/6/14
Madison King and Old 97s Brooklyn Bowl August 6, 2014 Formed back in 1993 in Dallas, TX by lead vocalist and primary songwriter Rhett Miller, Old 97s are considered by countless journalists, critics, industry folks and others as pioneers […]
Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens at Rough Trade 7/29/14
Naomi Shelton an the Gospel Queens Rough Trade July 29, 2014 Soul music as we know it (and love it) shares a rather intimate relationship with the church and gospel music; after all, some of […]
John Brown’s Body and Easy Star All-Stars at Brooklyn Bowl 4/19/14
John Brown’s Body and Easy Star All-Stars Brooklyn Bowl April 19, 2014 As i’ve mentioned way too many times, having the responsibilities of essentially two-full time jobs can create conflicting and complicated demands for my […]