Northside Festival

It’s all happening, folks! With Northside Festival juuuuust around the corner, we’re feeling all kinds of nostalgic here at our offices. Can you believe it’s our tenth year? We took a stroll down memory lane, reveling in our cool, creative, crazy, wonky, and flat out weird show posters of yore. Take a look, relive your…

Ghiath Matar is dead. That’s the first thing Rory Ferreira wants you to know on “who told you to think??!!?!?!?!,” his most recent album under the moniker milo. Since 2011, Ferreira has had a steady output of mixtapes and albums, both as milo and as Scallops Hotel, and he has always seemed comfortable orbiting the…

A painter, a poet, and the frontman of the Brooklyn-based post-punk band, Parquet Courts, Andrew Savage is an artist any way you cut it. On “Wide Awake!” the band delves into a complex range of socio-political issues, including violence, oppression, identity, and the merits of collectivism. Although the lyrics on “Wide Awake!” evoke a dark…

It’s all come down to this…Brooklyn’s Northside Festival is next week! Damn. A moment of silence for the concept of anticipation. A hearty fuck yeah to the events to come. As this is the last of our weekly mixes, we’re giving you a jam-packed, super-sized greatest hits mix of some of our favorite artists playing…

Sam Evian’s newest album “You, Forever” is his escape from a world of music making tied to backlit screens. A cross-country road trip with his girlfriend became a journey of partnership and shared awe, taking in the magnitude of the landscape and the experience of living outside. Out of this trip comes an album that…

As a holiday weekend bears down upon us, your thoughts may move to rest and relaxation. Our eyes remain firmly on the prize, adding exciting new artists and shows for Brooklyn’s Northside Festival right up until the very last minute….which happens to be two weeks away! Since it’s a Friday in Spring, we’re back with…

The air is warm, friends, and the gradual creep of summer is already feeling like a full-on hug. With June in the air, and June on our minds, we are back again to bring you the second in our weekly series of Friday playlists in anticipation of the 10th anniversary edition of Brooklyn’s Northside Festival….

Northside Festival is right around the corner- four weeks away, to be exact. As we gear up for our best innovation lineup yet, we’ll be giving you a weekly roundup of this year’s exciting speakers. This week, we’re giving you a look at Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith, Lauren Reddy of The New York Times, and Yanna…

For many, summer in New York City is synonymous with live music. As we come out of our winter hibernation, a new blanket of music will fall over the city. With so many concerts and festivals at our fingertips, it can be hard to choose which ones to attend. If you’ve been to Brooklyn’s Northside…