Northside Festival

As mentioned, Brooklyn music festival Northside and McCarren Park film series SummerScreen seem unlikely to happen in 2019; both were productions of Northside Media, which also owned Brooklyn Magazine.

Northside's future didn't look promising when last year's edition didn't include outdoor shows at McCarren Park, where previously the festivals "headliners" would've performed.

Northside Media, the company behind Northside Festival, SummerScreen, Brooklyn Magazine and other properties founded by Daniel Stedman, allegedly owes "tens of thousands of dollars" in unpaid wages to former staff members and freelancers.

BrooklynVegan hosted an eight-band lineup at Brooklyn's Elsewhere on Saturday (6/9) as part of Northside Festival 2018.

Pitchfork have added more acts to their music and beer festival, OctFest. Some of the OctFest acts also recently played Pitchfork's Northside showcase, and pictures of that show are in this post...

Flasher celebrated the release of their debut album as part of this year's Northside fest.

Small Black, Delicate Steve and Dave Harrington of Darkside will be DJing up on Elsewhere's new roof while eight bands play on two stages downstairs inside. RSVP for the roof. Win a ticket for the rest.

"Unbleached Skulls" is from Bambara's swaggering new album, ’Shadow on Everything’.

Renata Zeiguer and Tess Roby also join the lineup, which includes previously announced acts Deerhoof and Protomartyr as well.

Oakland singer-songwriter Nic Russo records "existential cowboy music" as Dick Stusso -- a bit of a tongue-in-cheek character, bluesy old soul, and barroom dreamer in the body of a late 20-something...