Williamsburg

There's a new Arcade Fire mural in Williamsburg, with Funeral's 10-years-ago release date on it

In case you forgot that ‘Funeral’ is turning 10 this month, Merge Records posted a reminder on a Brooklyn wall at N. 10th and Driggs in Williamsburg…

'Williamsburg: The Movie' now shooting in...Williamsburg?

When you walk around Williamsburg you see a lot of these orange signs for movie shoots, they’re practically omnipresent. But I did a double-take when I saw this one on N…

"50 Kent Festival" to include concerts, Sunday night movies, a Brooklyn Flea market, craft fair & more

As we mentioned, Northside Media Group, the people behind the Northside Fest and The L Magazine, will be booking the concerts at 50 Kent (fka Williamsburg Park) this year, but concerts is not the only thing OSA is putting there as part of the “2014 50 Kent Festival”:OSA is pleased to announce the 2014 50 Kent Festival at the North Brooklyn waterfront – the ninth consecutive season of OSA’s outdoor summer programming series…

Spike Lee talks gentrification, 'motherfucking hipsters' (listen)

“People want live in Fort Greene. People wanna live in Clinton Hill. The Lower East Side, they move to Williamsburg, they can’t even afford fuckin’, motherfuckin’ Williamsburg now because of motherfuckin’ hipsters…

What's going on Friday? (Disclosure, Warpaint, Dan Deacon, Bleeding Rainbow, Aretha Franklin, Drenge, MNDR & more)

Disclosure at Central Park in August (more by Robert Altman) Warpaint @ MHOW, Oct. 2013 (more by Adela LaConte) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows…

Bowery Presents opening 2000 capacity venue 'Brooklyn Classic' in East Williamsburg?

The Daily News seems to think so:One of the partners behind the Bowery Ballroom, Terminal 5 and a string of popular music venues plans to open a massive 2,000-capacity venue in Brooklyn’s hipster haven…

Brooklyn killer was in Free Keys, 'sister band' of Yellow Dogs; Police suspect money was motive ++ more details

Yellow Dogs at MHOW in 2012 (more by Greg Cristman) In the statement from Yellow Dogs‘ manager (who was previously identified as a publicist) on the murder-suicide that killed “two” of the band’s members, it was revealed that the shooter, allegedly Raefe Ahkbar, was not a member of Yellow Dogs, contrary to initial reports…

members of Yellow Dogs killed in Brooklyn murder-suicide

)A musician furious over being thrown out of a rock band extracted bloody revenge in an early morning attack in Brooklyn Monday — using a military-style rifle to fatally shoot three people believed to be bandmates, wound another person and then take his own life, law enforcement sources said…

Gawker commenters debating "What's the Williamsburg of Your City?" (and "what's its Bushwick?")

Gawker has posed the question we’ve all (or nobody has) been wondering: “What’s the Williamsburg of Your City? Responses so far include:”Isn’t Williamsburg just full of non-arty assholes now though…

Dunkin Donuts opens on Bedford in Williamsburg

Also pictured: music venue Spike Hill, who by the way have a full CMJ schedule.
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