Northside Festival

The Northside Festival is an annual eight-day summer showcase celebrating emerging "music, film, food, ideas and entrepreneurship" in Brooklyn.^[1] The festival is held at venues across the neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Greenpoint and is organized by Northside Media Group, the publishers of The L Magazine Brooklyn Magazine, and BAMbill. In 2011, over 250 indie rock, hip-hop and electronica performers were billed.^[2] Headliners included Guided By Voices, Beirut, Woods, Iceage, Theophilus London and Deertick (performing as Deervana). ^[3]

History

Northside was started in 2009 by Brooklyn's Northside Media Group, which publishes the L Magazine and Brooklyn Magazine out of DUMBO, - New York Times^[4]

The festival is a showcase of Brooklyn's recent cultural renaissance. ^{[5] [6]}

Beginning with about 50 acts in 2009,^[7] the festival has expanded exponentially in three years.^[8][9]

2011 Lineup

A Lull, Agitator, Air Waves, Alela Diane & Wild Divine, Allo Darlin', Ambassadors, Anasazi, Ancient Sky, Andromorphus Rexalia, Anni Rossi, Appomattox, Arches, The Archive, ARP, Asobi Seksu, Atlas Sound, Autre Ne Veut, Ava Luna, The Aviation Orange, The Babies, Ball of Flame Shoot Fire, Bangladeafy!, Beat Radio, Beau Jennings, Beige, Beirut, Bel Air, BELL, Bermuda Bonnie, Big Spider's Back, Big Tree, The Black Swans, Blair, Blondes, Boy Without God, Bridges and Powerlines, Bright Moments, Brilliant Colors, The Brooklyn What, Brown Wing Overdrive, The Canon Logic, Carlos Giffoni, Celestial Shore, Cesspool, Christopher Paul Stelling, Clinical Trials, Clouder, Colin L. Orchestra, Colleen Green, Com Truise, Computer Magic, Conveyor, Cookies (ex-Mobius Band), Country Mice, Courtesy Tier, Crinkles, Cult of Youth, D. Charles Speer and the Helix, Darlings, Dead Leaf, Echo, Death First, Decades, Deer Tick (performing as Deervana), Deleted Scenes, Delicate Steve, Deluka, Designer Imposter, Diamond Rings, Dirty Dishes, Dom, The Doorbells, Doris Cellar (of Freelance Whales), Dream, Diary, Drunken Sufis, Dry the River, Dysentery, Eamon Hamilton (The Brakes, solo), Easter Vomit, Ed Askew, Eight Bit Tiger, El Jezel, Eleanor Friedberger (of The Fiery Furnaces), Emanuel & the Fear, Emil & Friends, Endless Boogie, Eternal Summers, Ex-Cops, EXITMUSIC, Expensive Looks, Fairy Vision, Fan-Tan, Fergus & Geronimo, Fish Doctor, Food Stamps, The Forest Gump Mile High Marathon, Forma, Frankie Rose, Friend Factory Gabriel & the Hounds, Gabriel Phillips Miller, Gatekeeper, Gavin Russom (DJ), Geffika, German Measles, GHE20 GOTH1K (DJ), Golden Animals, Gordon Voidwell, Grand Rapids, Grandfather, Grass Is Green, Grooms, Gross Relations, Grouplove, Guided by Voices, GunFight!, The Gypsy West, The Hairs, Hard Nips, Harry Belafonte Live at Carnegie Hall, Headless Horseman, Highway Gimps, HolidayHoliday, Holiday Shores, Holy Spirits, Hooray for, Goodbye, Hopewell, Hospitality, Hotter than a Crotch, Household, Iceage (U.S. debut), Ida, I'm Turning Into, Indian Rebound, Infernal Devices, Innergaze, ITSREALLRIGHT, James Ausfahrt (from Love Is All), Jack & the Jaywalkers, James Friedman (DJ), Janka Nabay, Javelin, Jm Airis, Jo Schornikow (of The Shivers), Joe Fox & the Fourth Floor Band, K-Holes, Kindest Lines, Konnichiwa, Kooley High, La Loop, Lacrymosa, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Laurel Halo, Lichens, Light Asylum, Like Diamonds, Little Wolf, The Loom, Lost Tribe, The Louisiana Sun Kings, Lucius, Lucky Dragons, Luke Rathborne, Madam Trashy, Magik Markers, Mainland, Making Friendz Mammal of Paradise, Marie Stella, Marky Monnone (of The Lucksmiths), Me You Us Them, Mean Creek, Memberz Only, The Men, Merrickans (ex-Paul & the Patients), Midnight Magic, Milk Music, Minerva Lions, MINKS The Miracles Club, Monogold, Mount Eerie, Mr. Dream, Mussels, My Teenage Stride, Neighbors, New Moods, Nicholas Krgovich (No Kids), The Nico Blues, Night Manager, Noisycrane, noon:30, Northern Bells (ex-In Cadeo), Not Blood Paint, Oh Land, Onward Chariots, Origin of M (Japan), Outlaw City, The Parson Red Heads, Penguin Prison, Pepper Rabbit, Phaseone, Phonetag, Phoebe Jean & the Air Force, Phony Ppl, Physical Therapy, PIKA (ex-Afrirampo), Pop. 1280, Populette (DJ), Porcelain Raft, pow wow!, Progress, Project Jenny Project Jan, Prurient, Pursesnatchers, Quiet Lights, Quiet Loudly, Quilty, Quinn Marston & Band, Raccoon Fighter, Radical Dads, Reading Rainbow, Rebecca Gates (of The Spinanes), Regal Degal, Rene Hell, Reports, Rewards, Right on Dynamite, Rocky Business, The Ruby Spirit, RYAT, Rye Rye, ScienZe, Sean Bones, Seapony, The Secret History, Secret Mountains, Selebrities, The Señors of Marseille, Sensual Harassment, Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned, Shad[]wB[]x, Shana Falana, Shawn Walsh & the National Reserve, SHAPES, Shark?, Sharon Van Etten, Shawn, NoEQ, Sheahan Drive (feat. Gus Franklin from Architecture in Helsinki), Sherlock's Daughter, Silent Servant, Slam Donahue, Slashedo (DJ), Sleepies, Slowdance, SLZRD WZRD, Small Mountain Path, Smokey Robotics, SNOWMINE, Soft Circle, Soft Spot, SpaceCamp, Spectre Folk, Starscream, Steve Summers, The Strange Boys, The Stuyvesants, Sun Airway, Surfer Blood, The Suzan, Sweet Wood Soul, The Tablets, Teengirl Fantasy, The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!, Thee Oh Sees, Theophilus London, Tiny Victories, Tony Ferrante & the Animal Kingdom, tooth ache, Torturous Inception, Toys & Tiny Instruments, Twi the Humble Feather, Twin Sister, U SAY USA Unsolved Mysteries, Vacation, The Viennagram, Walk the Moon, Walrus Ghost, WATERS (U.S. debut), Wavves, We Can’t Enjoy Ourselves, Weekends, Whale Belly, White Fence, White Rainbow, White Suns, The Wicked Tomorrow, Wires Under Tension, Wise Blood, Without Remorse, WOJCIK, Wolf Ram Heart, Woods, Wounded Buffalo Theory, Woven Bones, Wyrd Visions, Xeno and Oaklander, Xray Eyeballs, YACHT, The Yellow Dogs, Yellow Ostrich, Yellow Tears, The Yes Way, You Won't, Your Sister's Canary, Your Youth, Yvette, Zambri, ZAZA, Zuzuka Poderosa, ?uestlove (DJ)

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