Northside

New Zealand’s Aldous Harding released her great 4AD debut Party last month, and we were thrilled to have her headline the BrooklynVegan x AdHoc Northside showcase last night (6/8) at Greenpoint’s Park Church Co-Op, a truly gorgeous setting to see her in…

Dirty Projectors played every song on their new album, and David Longstreth’s lineup included Tyondai Braxton, Nat Baldwin, Olga Bell, and more…

Sacred Bones 10th Anniversary show for Red Bull Music Academy featured performances from Zola Jesus, Blanck Mass, Jenny Hval, The Men, Moon Duo with Jim Jarmusch, Psychic Ills, Marissa Nadler, Uniform, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Edley O’Dowd. The label is putting on another 10th anniversary showcase as part of Northside Fest.

Northside 2016 is in the can. We take a look back.

After Wolf Parade and before Brian Wilson, Brooklyn’s McCarren Park hosted a Northside Festival show with Kacey Musgraves, Conor Oberst and The Felice Brothers. The Felice Brothers kicked things off, and then immediately took the stage again as Conor’s backing band…

Northside is working on moving shows though.

Maybe a little less bratty, the Pittsburgh band are still mad as hell on their first album for Sub Pop.

A cool, varied bill has been announced for the Noisey Northside showcase in June. Saint Vitus will play host to recently re-formed hip-hop experimenters Dalek, local black metal innovators Tombs, hardcore rippers Couch Slut, and black metal crew Yellow Eyes…

Ireland’s brash, loud Girl Band, who visited in March around SXSW, will be heading back to North America for a tour in June. They’ll spend part of that opening for Viet Cong, including both Northside Fest shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg, both of which are sold out…

Brooklyn’s Jerry Paper (aka Lucas Nathan) could almost have come straight of the Tim & Eric screen: defiantly weird, part hotel lounge act/Harry Nilsson/Brian Wilson with a little laptop R&B, and yet oddly appealing…