Thank you to all those involved this year in After the Jump Fest and to all those whom came out to enjoy a day of amazing music, fun, sun and ice cream. After the Jump 2008 was a phenomenal event, but you don’t have to take our word for it…

Spin Magazine 
“After the Jump Fest Invades Brooklyn: Pela, the Forms, Ponytail and many more hit the streets on summer’s boiling solstice and stir a welcomed commotion.” 

Brooklyn Radio
“At the end of the night, I felt like I had seen 16 different shows in one day, but somehow they all possessed a certain cohesion that I can’t explain. Variety, as they say, is the spice of life, and After The Jump Fest was the proverbial spice cabinent.”  

Baeble Music
“All in all the festival was a fantastic success; a multitude of bands got exposure, and tons of fans came out to enjoy music on the streets and inside MHOW”  

Metromix
Check out their ATJ photo gallery of bands and fans mingling in the crowd. 

Couldn’t make it to After the Jump Fest this year? Check out all the action on our Flickr page! 

Thanks to Bob Sanderson for providing the above photo of Pela mid Jump

UncensoredInterview.com has been hard at work chasing down all the amazing bands playing After the Jump Fest 2008. Here are a few of the clips they captured of groups telling it like it is all, you know, uncensored like…

papercranes talking about being an indie rock band in a punk rock kinda town:

“Uncensored Interview: Chasing After the Jump” continued after the jump

Are you coming to ATJF? Let us know! Metromix.com is helping us make sure we keep an eye open for your gorgeous selves on June 21st by keeping an RSVP list for us. So shoot an email here ny@metromix.com and also enter for your chance to win an Ipod Shuffle courtesy of Metromix, your online guide for arts and entertainment in NY.

The brilliant and talented Rob Corradetti of the equally amazing band Mixel Pixel (playing the evening ATJF show) created this flyer for us and we’re in love with it. Thanks Rob!

Our friends over at The Music Slut recently wrote a very cool article about the state of indie bands and mentioned our contest partner Stereofame.com. Check it out below!

It seems like every month (if not once a week) there crops up a new music website for bands to sign up for. With the old model of record label now becoming as antiquated as those bicycles with the comically large front wheel, some of these sites are actually helping bands take control of their recording by allowing them to build an undercurrent of a fan base. I mean hey, Tila Tequila did it on MySpace and now she’s got that show… it’s on VH1 or something… Actually I’m unclear on what she does but what I do know is she became famous by creating a movement of a million fans on a site nearly all of us web geeks use.
“The Music Slut Tells it Like it is” continued after the jump

After the Jump has teamed up with Stereofame.com to present a contest for one unsigned band to win a spot on the main stage for After the Jump Fest 2008 and $2,000 in cash. Yes, you read that right. $2,000. $2,000 for gas, pbr, tacos, whatever, we won’t judge. Maybe even a little recording.
Entry period for artists is 05/12/2008 - 06/03/2008
Voting period for fans is 06/04/2008 - 06/10/2008

So bands, sign up for Stereofame now and enter! And fans, get over there and make your voice heard! The more points you accumulate by voting, the more free loot you can score in the Stereofame.com store.

2008 Noise Stage Lineup@ Galapagos June 21st, 2008 Noon

Featuring: Ponytail, Power Douglas, Fiasco, The Shackeltons, Extra Life, The Austerity Program, Cursillistas, Monotract, Dinowalrus, Autodrone, Alex and the Horribles, Noveller, Brilliant Sweater, and more!!!

After the Jump is the joint effort of 20 New York City music bloggers whose sites attract over one million readers a week. Founded last year in support of underfunded city school music programs, After the Jump has planned and staged concerts in association with the massive South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas and the CMJ Music Marathon in New York City as well as our own all day and night festival last summer in Brooklyn. This summer, on June 21st, After the Jump will be partnering with Make Music NY to throw our second annual festival, taking over the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Galapagos Art Space, and the North 6th Street itself with four stages and over 40 bands.

After the Jump Fest 2008 is brought to you by our awesome sponsors:

Metromix.com

Stereofame.com

Snoozer Loser

Gen Art Pulse

Announcing Evening Benefit Portion of After the Jump Fest 2008
The Music Hall of Williamsburg
June 21st, 7:30pm ft:

HEALTH

Titus Andronicus
Pattern is Movement
Project Jenny, Project Jan
DJ XXXchange (Spank Rock)
and more!

Tickets onsale TODAY!

Click here for ticket information

After the Jump is the joint effort of 20 New York City music bloggers whose sites attract over one million readers a week. Founded last year in support of underfunded city school music programs, After the Jump has planned and staged concerts in association with the massive South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas and the CMJ Music Marathon in New York City as well as our own all day and night festival last summer in Brooklyn. This summer, on June 21st, After the Jump will be partnering with Make Music NY to throw our second annual festival, taking over the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Galapagos Art Space, and the North 6th Street itself with four stages and over 40 bands.

After the Jump Fest 2008 is brought to you by our awesome sponsors:
Metromix.com
Stereofame.com
Snoozer Loser

AFTER THE JUMP IS ORGANIZED BY:
themusicslut . batteringroom . disconap . earfarm . ryspace . irockiroll . merryswankster . softcommunication . musicisart . sitdownstandup . watercoolergossip . bumpershine . themodernage . productshopnyc . subinev . punkphoto . poptartssucktoasted . stereoactivenyc . jinners


For press opportunities such as interviews with the organizers or bands, please contact publicity@afterthejumpfest.com
For sponsorship and all other requests, contact producer Jennifer Kellas: jkellas@afterthejumpfest.com

A great event thrown by a great organization.

From Education Through Music:
“Join ETM and alldaybuffet for the most exciting event of the year! We have recruited celebrity artists to coach bands of ETM music students who will perform their songs at an all-star “Battle of the Bands” to be judged by YOU!
Featuring: Weekend Top 30 and WKTU’s “Hollywood” Hamilton as our MC; Twisted Sister’s JJ French; The Mooney Suzuki’s Sammy James, Jr.; Rachel Platten; Goldspot’s Siddhartha Khosla; a special message from The Wu Tang Clan’s RZA; and many, many more!”

RZA + The Mooney Suzuki + Twisted Sister = Awesome. Go support a good cause May 15th at the Canal Room, buy tickets here.