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Photo credits: Jeff Eason / WilsonModels

Josh Nova and I had such a blast at the Icedick premiere party at 66 Greenpoint! We performed the full studio version of Icedick for the first time ever, talked to the audience about how the song came together over the course of 13 years, screened the Icedick music video for the first time ever, and did an audience Q and A about how it was made.

We had tons of friends and friends of friends there, and the feedback was amazing. The audience really roared for both the performance and the music video, which made us so happy. I knew people would love the song and video, but the applause felt like so much more than that.

One person even said that when I started to sing, my voice nearly made him cry, which is hilarious since I was singing a raunchy dance pop song about dicks.

These past few years have had way fewer performances than I would have liked, so to get this kind of response from this performance was super moving and motivating for me.

We look forward to performing Icedick a lot more in the future!

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JC Cassis live at the Brooklyn Public Library on 9.8.22. Photos by Cherry Ghost Pix / Stuart Ruston

My recent show at the Brooklyn Public Library, which was my first full solo live show back in forever, was super fun and a great success. I performed all of the Four on the Floor EP plus three cover songs and a medley/mashup of some of my favorite early 90’s pop songs.

The weather was beautiful, the audience was into it, and it was a great time all around. Got these beautiful pics of the show by Stuart Ruston/Cherry Ghost.

Can’t wait to get more stage looks and choreography ready so I can get out there more regularly!

A new song and music video have also been in the works all year long and should be out soon, so keep an eye out for that!

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The official lyric video for my song, Dance Dance Dance, from my EP, Four on the Floor, is finally here!

I shot this video back in early October with Travis Stewart filming and Jessica Figueroa assisting. It was just supposed to be a test shoot, but with 7 lyric videos to film for this EP, I came to the shoot ready for business in case we could actually get anything usable done and cross a few videos off the list while we were at it. We did end up finishing filming this one and the one for Everybody’s Crazy in New York that day in just a few hours, which, along with the other 5 lyric videos, which we shot all in one day a few weeks later, will also be coming out over the next bunch of weeks.

This is my favorite song from the EP and this video was a lot of fun to shoot. We did about 5 takes, and we ended up choosing this one, which happened to have a lot of people biking through the shot in the foreground and background. It seemed like the one kid who biked in between me and the camera when we were filming was hoping to ruin the shot and annoy us, but we just kept filming, and now that moment is actually one of my favorites in the video, so thanks, kid!

Making video content is often expensive, time consuming and really complicated and work intensive, so I wanted to figure out a smart, fun and doable way to make a great piece of video content for each song in addition to the few full music videos I have in mind. Keeping these videos one-shot and improvising them and putting them in black and white and shooting them with a minimal crew really helped a lot on all those fronts. Keeping things doable and getting them done is everything for an independent artist! And though I love having a well-thought out vision and then executing it exactly, sometimes it can be really fun and fruitful to just have a general idea and see what you get!