On any given day there's a ridiculous amount of music and art being made in New York City, but perhaps no more than in the four-mile radius of Williamsburg and Greenpoint. The goal of the Northside Festival isn't lofty: We want to celebrate that community of independent musicians, filmmakers and artists in the place where it thrives the most, shining a light on the sheer talent and creativity that Brooklyn cultivates.
Mirroring a city that now more than ever seems only livable when you've got a community to prop you up, Northside is, at its heart, a collaborative event. While in its inaugural year, The L Magazine was responsible for organizing a handful of anchor shows with the Hold Steady, Sunset Rubdown, the Dodos and Bill Callahan among others, we reached out to more than 30 NYC-based record labels, blogs, independent show promoters, radio stations and other industry professionals to curate showcases of their own, bringing together over 250 bands to the Williamsburg/Greenpoint neighborhoods during a four-day span. Meanwhile, the Williamsburg Gallery Association helped to highlight over 25 artist exhibitions at the most respected galleries in the area. We couldn't be happier with how things went last year and can't wait to do it again, especially with the inclusion of Northside's inaugural FilmFest this summer.
Check out last year's music lineup.
The Hold Steady / Sunset Rubdown / The Dodos / Bill Callahan / Asobi Seksu / John Vanderslice / Bishop Allen / Brightblack Morning Light / Kurt Vile / Cymbals Eat Guitars / Woods / Free Energy / Real Estate / tUnE-yArDs / The Tallest Man on Earth / Daedelus / O'Death / Crystal Stilts / Sir Richard Bishop / Ponytail / The War on Drugs / Doomriders / Javelin / Bell / Pterodactyl / Screaming Females / Class Actress / Deastro / The Van Pelt / Sean Bones / Julianna Barwick / These Are Powers / Michna / Dragons of Zynth / Ghislain Poirier / Lusine / Henry Wolfe / Death Vessel / Shellshag / Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers / Teengirl Fantasy / Ducktails / The Beets / Tanlines / Dinowalrus / Acrylics / Dan Friel / The Brunettes / Sharon Van Etten / Golden Triangle / Gary War / Olof Arnalds / Megasoid / Laura Gibson / Mariee Sioux / Silk Flowers / Grooms / Nine 11 Thesaurus / Aa / Glass Ghost / Darlings / Air Waves / Adam Arcuragi / Dinosaur Feathers / Savoir Adore / Talk Normal / Anamanaguchi / La Strada / Murder Mystery / The Bloodsugars / Motel Motel / The Art of Shooting / Your Nature / Martin Bisi / Witchies / Vandaveer / Drink Up Buttercup / and over 200 more...
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?uestlove (DJ set) / Aa / A.A. Bondy / Active Child / Adult Themes / Air Waves / Akudama / Amazing Baby / Andrew Cedermark / Andy T (ex-Deer Tick) / Anni Rossi / Annie & the Beekeepers / Anything but Animals / Apse / Arches / ARMS / The Art of Shooting / Asa Ransom / Au Revoir Simone / Autre Ne Veut / Ava Luna / Azores / The Babies / Baby Brainwaves / Baby Copperhead / Backwords / Bad Brilliance / Bad Girlfriend / Ball of Flame Shoot Fire / Bebe Fang / The Beets / Beige / Beloved Rogue / Bermuda Bonnie / Big Troubles / Bird of Youth / The Black / The Black Hollies / blair / Blood Warrior / Borrowed Eyes / Bottle Up & Go / Boy Pilot / Boy Without God / BRAHMS / The Brought Low / Bryan Miltenberg (of Unremarkable People) / Bubblyfish / CALLmeKAT / Callers / The Canon Logic / Cat Martino / Caveman / Chappo / Charles Burst / Chica Vas / Chris Mills / Class Actress / Clay Russell / Cloud Nothings / Coasting / Cream in All Moustache / Cue the Sun / Cults / Dana Jewell (solo) / Dangeroo / Dark Dark Dark / Darlings / Dead Phones / deVries / Dinosaur Bones / Dinosaur Feathers / Dinowalrus (DJ set) / The Doctors Fox / DOM / Dream Diary / Drew & the Medicinal Pen / Drink Up Buttercup / Drunken Barn Dance (Scott Sellwood of Saturday Looks Good to Me) / Ducktails / Echostream / Electric Tickle Machine / Eleanor / Elvis Perkins in Dearland / Eternal Summers / EULA / Facsimiles / Family Portrait / Family Trees / Fan-Tan / Fang Island / Federale / Fenech-Soler / The Fiery Furnaces / Fifth Nation / Filthy Savage / FLOOR / Fluffy Lumbers / Forest Fire / The Forms / Frankie Rose & the Outs / The Fresh & Onlys / Fucked Up / Gaucho / German Measles / Glass Ghost / The Gloominous Doom / Gold Lake / Gold Streets / The Golden Filter / Golden Girls / Gordon Voidwell / Gracious Calamity / Grails / Grandchildren / The Grates / Gray Goods / Gray Young / The Great Unwashed / Grooms / GunFight! / The Gypsy West / Harper Blynn / Heavenly Beat (feat. members of Beach Fossils) / Hellfire Machina / High Places / Himalaya / HolidayHoliday / The Hollows / Honeychild Coleman / Hooray for Earth / Hot Graves / Human Resources / The Hundred in the Hands / Hussle Club / I'm Turning Into / Islands / Jason Loughlin / Javelina / JDDJ3J / J.M. Airis / Jody Porter (of Fountains of Wayne) / John Mulaney / Jucifer / Keepaway / Kelley McRae / Knife City (Luke Silas of Anamanaguchi) / Kordan / Kris Keyser / La Defense / La Strada / LE-LI / Les Savy Fav / Les Vinyl / Liars / Life Size Maps / Linfinity / Little, Big / The Live Ones / The London Souls / The Long Eye / The Loom / Lost Coves / Love in October / Lower Dens / The Luyas / Lucky Tubb & the Modern Day Troubadours / Lugosi / Luke Folger / Mad Ave Boys / Madison Square Gardeners / Magic Bulb / Male Bonding / Manhate (DJ set) / Marie Stella / Marijuana Deathsquads / Matteah Baim / Max Gabriel / Memory Tapes / MEN (feat. JD Samson of Le Tigre) / Menya / The Menzingers / Midnight Masses / The Midnight Sounds / Milagres (ex-The Secret Life of Sofia) / MillionYoung / MiniBoone / MINKS / Moon Duo / Mr. A*OK / Mr. Dream / My Other Friend / My Teenage Stride / Nebulla / Neighbors / Netherfriends / The New Deal / The New Heaven & the New Earth / No Demons Here (Luka Usmiani of Fluffy Lumbers) / No Fun Acid / North Highlands / Nouvellas / Nueman / The Numerators / Oberhofer / Oh Land / Oneohtrix Point Never / Pacific Theater / Palmyra / Parenthetical Girls / The Pass / Paul & the Patients / PC Worship / Phil & the Osophers / The Pillow Theory / Planet Rump (DJ set) / Polvo / P.O.S. / Posi / The Press / PS I Love You / Psychic / Psychobuildings / The Rabbits / Rad Out / Reading Rainbow / Real Estate / Red Dawn 2 / Red Wire Black Wire / Regal Degal / Ribbons / Rocky Business / Runaway (DJ set) / Say No! to Architecture / Sam Barron / Sam Mickens Sings the Dead Science / Sarah Johnson / Savoir Adore / Schooner / Sean Bones / The Senors of Marseille / Serpenti / She Keeps Bees / Shark? / Shilpa Ray (solo set) / The Shivers / Shoney Lamar / Shy Town / Sic Alps / Silvia Chavez / Sissy Bounce (with Big Freedia, Rusty Lazer & New Orleans Bounce Dancers) / Sisters / Sister Sundown (DJ set) / Skeletonbreath / Skinner Myers / Skotch Davis / Slow Animal / Slow Club / The Smoking Popes / Snakes Say Hisss / The So So Glos / Sondre Lerche / Sore Eros / Soroba / Starlight (DJ) / Starring / Steel Phantoms/ Steve Moore / The Suede Brothers / The Sundelles / The Sutton Street Massacre / Takka Takka / Tame Impala / Thao and Mirah with the Most of All / Tayisha Busay / These United States / Thieving Irons / Tikka Masala (DJ set) / Titus Andronicus / The Tony Castles / Total Slacker / Tough Knuckles / Toys & Tiny Instruments Band / Trans (Jemina Pearl & John Eatherly of Be Your Own Pet; DJ set) / True Womanhood / TV Carnage / Twin Shadow / Twin Sister / Um / Umbrella Men / Union / U.S. Royalty / Vandaveer / VHS or Beta (DJ set) / Viernes / Violens / Wachs Lyrical / The Wave Pictures / Wavves / We Are Country Mice / White Hills / The Wicked Tomorrow / Wizardry / Whopping Crane / Woods / WOOM (ex-Flying) / World Atlas / Wounded Buffalo Theory / YellowFever / Yes Giantess / Young Mammals / ZAZA / Zakee (DJ set) / Zapa Venu / Zombectro / The Zookeepers / and more tba...
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