Williamsburg Waterfront

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…

Williamsburg Waterfront (more by Toby Tenenbaum) Williamsburg Waterfront aka East River State Park, was a hoppin’ but short-lived outdoor Brooklyn venue back in 2011 that was replaced by Williamsburg Park right down the street in 2012, but Williamsburg Waterfront may be making a musical comeback…

Mad Decent Block Party (more by Brook Bobbins) Tickets to the 13-city Mad Decent Block Party tour are on early bird, $20 presale now if you can get the website to load…

Soaked from head to toe, I walked out of Refused/Off! last night at Europa (7/18, brought to you played their set to a mostly cross-armed crowd with a few newbie-mosh-types attempting to start a pit…

Goodbye state park Williamsburg Waterfront. Welcome city park Williamsburg Park. Located less than a block away from last summer’s venue, between North 11th and North 12th at 50 Kent (I hope they book 50 Cent), Williamsburg Park is the new outdoor Brooklyn venue that will host OSA-presented concerts this summer in Williamsburg…

Girls @ Cake Shop (more by Tim Griffin) today in NYC * Evillive (metal shows) * Blondie Chaplin @ The Rock Shop * Dr. Lonnie Smith @ Jazz Standard * Monster Magnet @ Starland Ballroom * Daniel Kitson @ St…

The night began with a great opening set from The Walkmen at Williamsburg Waterfront on Saturday (9/24). The set was made up largely of the band’s calmer songs and hit an interesting point during the galloping “Blue As Your Blood,” when lead singer Hamilton Leithauser crooned, “The sky above is blue as your blood…

“Post-concert drug orgy mob nightmare erupts on North 7th Street in Williamsburg thanks to the Open Space Alliance.” the calm before the storm @ Williamsburg Waterfront (photo by Schoetz) As you may have heard/noticed (if you weren’t at the Hold Steady at Beekman Beer Garden that night), jam banders (who weren’t at the rescheduled Dave Matthews Band Caravan on Randall’s Island) invaded Williamsburg Saturday night because Widespread Panic headlined the Williamsburg Waterfront…

The strong double bill that can be abbreviated as TVOTR/BSS hit WW in Brooklyn last night (9/8). More pictures from the show and both setlists, below…

“How the hell in the world did i end up at a dr dog/bright eyes show?” – Big Troubles “Martin’s band Real Estate is playing at the Williamsburg Waterfront with Dr…