Northside Festival
Northside Festival
  • Looking Back: The Best of Northside

     
    The Northside Festival has come and gone, but it seems like only yesterday that we were running through Williamsburg at full speed, totally determined to make it to the VÅR show before Glasslands filled up. So imagine our delight when we came across this piece …

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  • Thanks for Coming to Northside!

    Well, we did it guys.

    We’d like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for coming to the 2012 Northside Festival. This year was truly our biggest yet, and we couldn’t have done it without you. So whether you sat in on a panel on …

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  • Your Northside DIY Competition Winners Are…

    Winning Short: Corks Cattlebaron
    Winning Feature: Lefty Loosey Righty Tighty
    After all of last week’s film festivities we’re happy to announce that the dust has settled and we have this year’s DIY film competition winners: Corks Cattlebron and Lefty Loosey Righty Tighty. Runners-up are I Dont Want …

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  • Your Northside Film Update, Day 4

    Northside Film comes to an end today, and we intend on going out with a bang. After your screening head to the Nitehawk Cinema for our closing night party from 9pm to 1am. Dima Dubson, director of How To Act Bad will be curating the music upstairs, and Finger on …

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  • You’re Invited to the Northside Film Closing Party!

    Just when you thought everything Northside was over, we’re treating you to one of the biggest parties this side of the East River. Northside Film Festival wraps up tomorrow night, Thursday, June 21 after four nights of screenings, and to celebrate we’re inviting you to …

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Your Northside Film Update, Day 3

Brooklynites, escape the heat and get to Nitehawk Cinema, UnionDocs, or indieScreen. If you’re feeling ambitious, try all three. This is the third day of Northside Film, and there’s plenty to see tonight. Tickets are


Your Northside Film Update, Day 2

  Northside Film is in full swing! Tonight, we’re happy to present another night of local, independent and international film right in your backyard at three Williamsburg theaters: Nitehawk Cinema, indieScreen and UnionDocs. Tickets are still


Announcing Free Show in McCarren: Dean & Britta, Red Baraat and More

  Northside has even more awesome surprises in store for you! After our mammoth of Montreal and Jens Lekman show on Friday, we are returning to the Heineken Stage at McCarren Park for a FREE


Don’t Miss Northside’s Heineken Samplings

As part of our collaboration with Heineken, we’ve let loose teams of Heineken promoters to visit our Northside venues and conduct samplings of Heineken products. Just for our Northside faithful, we’ve put together a



Artist Spotlight: Widowspeak

With Washington state roots predating their Brooklyn address, Widowspeak’s guitar rock is slightly slower, slightly eerier than the standard local issue. The languid pace of singer/songwriter Molly Hamilton’s vocals makes it easy to misjudge


Our Ten Favorite Northside Memories: #2 The Hold Steady, 2009

Our runner-up comes from our inaugural Northside Fest. The Hold Steady played to a packed house at Music Hall of Williamsburg, a house that knew every word to every song. But that didn’t make


Artist Spotlight: Zebra Katz

Zebra Katz, the performance art alter ego of Ojay Morgan, is one of the prominent personalities in New York City’s recent, refreshing queer-rap boomlet. Katz’ signature song, the hypnotically minimal “Ima Read,” has made


Artist Spotlight: Black Dice

One of the earliest, most experimental outfits in Brooklyn’s 00s musical renaissance, Black Dice has forever existed within the overlapping portions of a Venn diagram that includes dance music, psychedelia, ambient drone, shattering industrial


Artist Spotlight: Suckers

Suckers are one of Brooklyn’s best psychedelic pop bands. Lead by singer/songwriter Quinn Walker, the still-young but now-veteran  group complicate pretty ballads and anthemic rock songs with florid textures and tribal beats. Their latest