Thursday night marks the beginning of the music portion of this year’s Northside Music Festival, and as I mentioned in my Northside Festival Preview, the music portion of the festival features 400 bands and artists […]
Tag: world music
Carnival Caravan is a unique collaborative touring and recording project between the Brazilian-American band Nation Beat and the New Orleans-based band Cha Wa, and interestingly enough, the project began when Nation Beat’s Scott Kettner and […]
Comprised of Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern, the New York-baesd duo Sofi Tukker met at an art galley while they were both attending Brown University and quickly began writing music, based around their desire of […]
Formed in 2012, The Brooklyn Gypsies are a collaborative project featuring a group of NYC area musicians and producers who come from a variety of backgrounds – including Japan, Spain, Russia, Italy and the US. […]
Richard Mthetwa, who writes and performs under the moniker Nozinja, is an electronic music producer and artist from the Limpopo province of South Africa, and the forefather of a sound that effortlessly meshes the traditional […]
Formed by musical director, Andy Williamson, The Bombay Royale has prided themselves on paying homage to 60s and 70s Bollywood, long considered by critics and fans the genre’s golden era, as it was a riotous […]
Live Concert Photography: eKush, Benyoro and Los Hacheros at Brooklyn Bowl 3/30/15
Live Concert Photography: eKush, Benyoro and Los Hacheros Brooklyn Bowl March 30, 2015 As I’ve mentioned a few times on this site, things have been busy in the JOVM world with a lot of live […]
Live Concert Photography: Congo Sanchez, People’s Champs and M.A.K.U. Soundsystem at Brooklyn Bowl 3/9/15
Live Concert Photography: Congo Sanchez, People’s Champs and M.A.K.U, Soundsystem Brooklyn Bowl March 9, 2015 Last week, i was at Brooklyn Bowl to catch the Washington, DC-based Congo Sanchez and the New York-based People’s Champs […]
Last night, I was at the JOVM unofficial home office of Brooklyn Bowl to catch the Washington, DC-based Congo Sanchez and the New York-based People’s Champs and M.A.K.U. Soundsytem, who I’ve heard about for some […]
Live Concert Photography: Brooklyn Raga Massive, Rupa and the April Fishes and Red Baraat at Brooklyn Bowl 3/9/15
Live Concert Photography: Brooklyn Rage Massive, Rupa and the April Fishes and the Red Baraat Brooklyn Bowl March 9, 2015 As I mentioned in a previous post, last night, I was at Brooklyn Bowl, the […]
Last night, I was at Brooklyn Bowl, the JOVM unofficial home office to catch Brooklyn Raga Massive, Rupa and the April Fishes and Red Baraat for a show that turned out to be both a […]
As the co-founder of Monotonix, guitarist and composer Yonatan Gat was part of a band that was once hailed as being one of most intense rock bands in the world. But after five years of […]
Comprised of Monica da Silva and Chad Alger, the duo of Complicated Animals can trace their collaboration to the first album they recorded together, Brasilissima which was released in 2011 and credited under da Silva’s name. Produced […]
Although JOVM is a (mostly) one-man operation, I receive a lot of emails from a variety of artists, labels and publicists located all over the world. Naturally, it’s overwhelming and flattering but at the same time, it […]
Born in Cameroon, Ntjam Roise spent the formative years of her life in a small village – until her family relocated to The Netherlands when she was nine. Currently based in Rotterdam, the Cameroonian-Dutch singer/songwriter has […]