I’ve been lucky enough to have seen quite a number of incredible things live and among the things I’ll likely remember for the rest of my life is this: the incredible New Orleans-based brass band, […]
Tag: Williamsburg
Show Review: Big Muff Radio, Stolen Jars, Honduras and Lazyeyes at Baby’s All Right 1/11/15
Show Review: Big Muff Radio, Stolen Jars, Honduras and Lazyeyes Baby’s All Right January 11, 2015 With JOVM being a (mostly) one-man operation, it often means that i’m spending a great deal of attempting to […]
Live Music Photography: Take Me to the River Live at Brooklyn Bowl 2/11/15 feat. William Bell, Bobby Rush, Otis Clay, Frayser Boy, Al Kapone, Jerry Harrison, The Staxx Records Band and The Staxx Music Academy All-Star Broomfield Band
Live Music Photography: Take Me to the River Live at Brooklyn Bowl featuring William Bell, Bobby Rush, Otis Clay, Frayser Boy, Al Kapone, Jerry Harrison, The Staxx Records Band and The Staxx Music Academy All-Star […]
The Hornitz and Tryptophunk at Brooklyn Bowl 1/30/15
The Hornitz and Tryptopuhnk Brooklyn Bowl January 30, 2015 A couple of weeks ago, I was at the JOVM unofficial home office, Brooklyn Bowl for a night of funk that included The Hornitz, which was […]
Black Sheep/Etivan and Das EFX with Jairobi, Sadat X and Other Special Guests at Brooklyn Bowl 1/15/15
Black Sheep and Das EFX with Jairobi, Sadat X and Other Special Guests Brooklyn Bowl January 15, 2015 As a child of the 80s and teenager of the 90s, the very beginnings of hip-hop’s golden […]
Young Rapids, Reindeer and Gosh Pith at Baby’s All Right 1/24/15
Young Rapids, Reindeer and Gosh Pith Baby’s All Right January 24, 2015 The other day, I was at Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s Baby’s All Right for a late afternoon and early evening of a variety of electronic-based […]
Raccoon Fighter, Rocket and The Ghost and The Pumps at the Living Room 12/31/14
Raccoon Fighter, Rocket and The Ghost and The Pumps Living Room December 31, 2014 As I previously mentioned, I had a rather bitter falling out with a dear friend and it meant that my initial […]
OkayPlayer presents Dragons of Zynth and Bilal at Brooklyn Bowl 12/11/14
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 […]
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 […]