Northside 2017 Preview

In 2009, L Magazine opened up Northside Festival, showcasing the music in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. It’s grown since then, including a large ‘Innovation’ portion, but there’s still music, Thursday-Sunday,...
Northside

Northside 2017 Preview

In 2009, L Magazine opened up Northside Festival, showcasing the music in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. It’s grown since then, including a large ‘Innovation’ portion, but there’s still music, Thursday-Sunday, June 8th-11th:

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 8th

Alphaville, 140 Wilson Ave.
AdHoc
9:00 PM – Stuyedeyed
10:00 PM – Surfbort
11:00 PM – Meatbodies

Baby’s All Right, 146 Broadway
9:00 PM – Purr
9:45 PM – Joy Again
10:30 PM – Hoops

Brooklyn Bazaar, 150 Greenpoint Ave.
PopGun
7:30 PM – Leapling
8:30 PM – Air Waves
9:30 PM – Sales

Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave.
12:00 AM – Jonathan Toubin

In 2011 indie DJ extraordinaire Jonathan Toubin was put in the hospital by a hit-and-run, but his musical friends (like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs – QRO album review) got together for a series of benefits (QRO photos) to pay for his medical expenses, and now Toubin – and his Soul Clap & Dance Off – is back, returning to Northside.

Cape House, 2 Knickerbocker Ave.
7:30 PM – Mezzanine Swimmers
9:00 PM – a place both wonderful and strange
9:30 PM – Ritual Humor
10:00 PM – DOOMSQUAD

Gold Sounds, 44 Wilson Ave.
Cigar City Management/Nochebuena
8:00 PM – Parrot Dream
9:00 PM – Yucky Duster
10:00 PM – Fruit & Flowers
11:00 PM – Dirty Dishes
12:00 AM – Salt Cathedral

Good Room, 98 Meserole Ave.
8:30 PM – Total Freedom
9:45 PM – Moor Mother
10:30 PM – Elysia Crampton

Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave.
9:00 PM – Eartheater
9:00 PM – Amber Arcades
10:00 PM – No Joy

Lantern Hall, 52 Harrison Pl.
8:30 PM – Dentist
9:15 PM – Best Behavior
10:00 PM – Jody Porter & The Berlin Waltz

Main Drag, 330 Wythe Ave. #1E
8:30 PM – Crosslegged
9:30 PM – Nassau
10:30 PM – Olden Yolk

Matchless, 5557 Manhattan Ave.
Supercrush Studios/Greenpointers/Paper Garden Records
8:15 PM – Milan to Minsk
9:00 PM – Debbie Downer
9:45 PM – Dead Stars
10:30 PM – Grim Streaker
11:15 PM – Spritzer

McCarren Park, Bedford Ave. & N 12th St.
Open Space Alliance
6:30 PM – Jay Som
7:30 PM – Kamasi Washington
8:45 PM – Dirty Projectors

For Northside’s Thursday outdoor McCarren Park show, the festival has recruited critical favorite artistes Dirty Projectors, Kamasi Washington, and Jay Som. David Longstreth’s Dirty Projectors return to Northside behind this year’s self-titled release.

Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N 6th St.
9:00 PM – Aerial East
9:45 PM – Cut Worms
10:30 PM – Mild High Club

National Sawdust, 80 N 6th St.
France Rocks Summerfest/POP Montreal
9:30 PM – Un Blonde
10:30 PM – Emel Mathlouthi
11:30 PM – Lætitia Sadier

France Rocks Summerfest comes to Northside Festival.

Our Wicked Lady, 153 Morgan Ave.
Noise Love/Thursdays for the Cause
8:30 PM – Harvey Lush & His Orchestra
9:15 PM – Ernie
10:00 PM – A Deer A Horse
10:45 PM – Paperhaus
11:30 PM – Dead Stars

Park Church Co-Op, 129 Russell St.
AdHoc/BrooklynVegan
8:00 PM – M. Lamar
8:45 PM – Tiny Hazard
9:30 PM – Aldous Harding

Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St.
8:30 PM – Elizabeth Devlin
9:30 PM – Medium Mystic
10:30 PM – Mappa Mundi
11:30 PM – Soul Worm

Rough Trade NYC, 64 N 8th St.
9:00 PM – Noveller
10:00 PM – Mary Timony

The kids today know Mary Timony for her band Ex Hex (QRO photos at a festival) and her work in female super-group Wild Flag (QRO live review), but for Northside she plays what first got her notice, nineties alt-Boston staple Helium.

Saint Vitus, 1130 Manhattan Ave.
9:15 PM – Dark Blue
10:15 PM – The Explosion

Sunnyvale, 1031 Grand St.
AdHoc/No-Tech/Impose
8:00 PM – Renata Zeiguer
9:00 PM – Larkin Grimm
10:00 PM – Cuddle Magic
11:00 PM – Shilpa Ray

Sunnyvale, 1031 Grand St.
12:00 AM – Ciarra Black
12:30 AM – Horoscope
1:30 AM – Pelada
2:15 AM – CL

TNT Backstory Studio Kinfolk 90, 90 Wythe Ave. (free)
4:30 PM – Sneaks

Tender Trap, 66 Greenpoint Ave.
Play Too Much
8:00 PM – Plastic Faction
9:00 PM – American Pinup
10:00 PM – Effie Liu
11:00 PM – Haybaby

Terra Firma, 119 Ingraham St.
7:30 PM – Amanda Fama
8:15 PM – Janani Shankar
9:00 PM – The Icebergs
9:45 PM – The Tall Pines
10:30 PM – Jackie Paladino

The Gutter, 200 N 14th St.
Gimme Tinnitus/Already Dead Tapes
8:00 PM – Cop Funeral
8:30 PM – Fat Heaven
9:15 PM – Canter
10:00 PM – Video Daughters
10:45 PM – Anybody But The Cops
11:30 PM – The Flag

The Well, 272 Meserole St.
Lonely Atom Records/TJO
7:30 PM – The New Resistants
8:15 PM – Witch Slap
9:45 PM – Love Is A Fist
10:30 PM – The Pandemics
11:15 PM – Color Tongue

Union Pool, 484 Union Ave.
AdHoc
9:00 PM – Ginla
9:45 PM – Dougie Poole
10:30 PM – She-Devils

 

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 9th

Alphaville, 140 Wilson Ave.
Monofonus Press/Astral Spirits
8:45 PM – W-2
9:15 PM – Soft Healer
10:00 PM – Lié
10:45 PM – Hidden Ritual
11:30 PM – Joe McPhee & Tashi Dorji & M. Geddas Gengras

Baby’s All Right, 146 Broadway
AdHoc
8:30 PM – Holy Holy Vine
9:15 PM – tubafresh
10:00 PM – Mirah
12:15 AM – Ancient Ocean
1:00 AM – Flock Of Dimes

Brooklyn Bazaar, 150 Greenpoint Ave.
Scenic
7:30 PM – Animal Show
8:15 PM – Baby Shakes
9:00 PM – Born Loose
9:45 PM – Giuda
12:15 AM – Foodman (aka 食品まつり)
1:00 AM – Container
2:00 AM – JLIN

Cape House, 2 Knickerbocker Ave.
Reheated Spaghetti
7:00 PM – Little Racer
7:30 PM – Grim Streaker
8:15 PM – Dead Stars
9:00 PM – Slang King
9:45 PM – Dead Leaf Echo
10:30 PM – Sharkmuffin

El Cortez (The Safari Room), 17 Ingraham St.
Scenic
7:30 PM – Autodrone
8:15 PM – TBA
9:00 PM – Scam Avenue
10:00 PM – Syvia

Gold Sounds, 44 Wilson Ave.
Tiny Engines/Golden Parachute
8:00 PM – Personal Space
8:45 PM – Wild Pink
9:30 PM – Jouska
10:15 PM – Thelma
11:00 PM – Peaer

Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave.
Move Forward Music
8:00 PM – Synead
8:50 PM – Tangina Stone
9:00 PM – Denitia
9:30 PM – Adrian Daniel

Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave.
Cypher League presents The Pull Up
11:30 PM – DJ Yung Neil
12:00 AM – I.O.D
12:30 AM – Rothstein
1:00 AM – Radamiz
1:35 AM – Boogie

Lantern Hall, 52 Harrison Pl.
Unit J
5:00 PM – Belle-Skinner
5:30 PM – Niall Connolly
6:00 PM – All Types of Kinds
7:00 PM – Mizuna
8:00 PM – B.R. Mackie
9:00 PM – Maria Colores
10:00 PM – Hayes Peebles
11:00 PM – Megg Farrell & Friends
12:00 AM – MAMA JUKE

Main Drag, 330 Wythe Ave. #1E
El Goodo
8:00 PM – The Regrets
8:30 PM – The Planes
9:00 PM – No Ice
9:30 PM – Thick
10:00 PM – Dead Stars

Matchless, 5557 Manhattan Ave.
In Blood
8:30 PM – Mammal
9:20 PM – Knight Terror
10:15 PM – Iconoclasm
11:15 PM – Slashers

McCarren Park, Bedford Ave. & N 12th St. (free)
7:00 PM – Olukara
7:50 PM – Sammus
8:45 PM – DJ Kool Herc

Muchmore’s, 2 Havemeyer St.
Anchorless Records/For It! Records
9:00 PM – Nervous Dater
9:30 PM – Good Looking Friends
10:00 PM – Hard Pass
10:30 PM – Early Riser
11:00 PM – Anika Pyle

Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N 6th St.
9:00 PM – ABLEBODY
10:00 PM – Beverly
11:00 PM – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

One of the many Brooklyn neo-garage acts to break out, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (QRO live review) hewed more towards the brighter, twee side of things on their self-titled debut LP (QRO review), but veered into neo-John Hughes territory with 2011’s great Belong (QRO review). A band (QRO photos) that deserved to break out of the Brooklyn garage (QRO photos outside of NYC), live & outdoors (QRO photos outdoors at a festival), they really kick it up a notch (QRO live review outdoors). They come to Northside in the run-up to next month’s release of The Echo of Pleasure, following 2014’s Days of Abandon (QRO review)

National Sawdust, 80 N 6th St.
8:00 PM – Julianna Barwick
9:00 PM – William Basinski

Our Wicked Lady, 153 Morgan Ave.
Indie Shuffle/PaperCup Music
8:00 PM – Native Sun
8:30 PM – Raccoon Fighter
9:15 PM – Wet Leather
10:00 PM – Obliques
10:45 PM – Dead Leaf Echo

Park Church Co-Op, 129 Russell St.
9:00 PM – Gabi
10:00 PM – Kristin Kontrol

Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St.
9:00 PM – Errmine
10:00 PM – Beiju
11:00 PM – Sam Himself

Pine Box Rock Shop, 12 Grattan St.
Unit J
6:30 PM – Dirty Bird
7:30 PM – The Laurel Canyon
8:30 PM – Gold Stars for Everyone
9:30 PM – Inalukt
10:30 PM – Dru Cutler & The Heart & Hand Band
11:30 PM – Tongues Unknown
12:30 AM – Echo Moth

Rough Trade NYC, 64 N 8th St.
9:00 PM – Really Big Pinecone
9:00 PM – Mega Bog
11:00 PM – BIG THIEF

Saint Vitus, 1130 Manhattan Ave.
Pitchfork
8:30 PM – Field Agent
9:30 PM – Flesh World
10:30 PM – Kelsey Lu
11:30 PM – Downtown Boys

TNT Backstory Studio Kinfolk 90, 90 Wythe Ave.
4:30 PM – Yaeji

Tender Trap, 66 Greenpoint Ave.
TJO
7:15 PM – The Falling Birds
8:00 PM – Castle Black
8:45 PM – The BandDroidz
9:30 PM – Slow Suck

Terra Firma, 119 Ingraham St.
6:30 PM – PC Worship (solo)
7:15 PM – Russian Baths
8:00 PM – Monograms
8:45 PM – Big Bliss
9:30 PM – Grooms
10:15 PM – Wildhoney
11:00 PM – Pop. 1280
11:45 PM – YVETTE

The Gutter, 200 N 14th St.
King Pizza Records
8:30 PM – Plaid Dracula
9:15 PM – Glass Slipper
10:00 PM – Secret Nudist Friends
10:45 PM – The Rizzos
11:30 PM – Sun Voyager

The Hall at MP, 470 Driggs Ave.
LPR present Downtown Trip
8:00 PM – Lydia Lunch
8:30 PM – Bush Tetras
10:15 PM – Ikue Mori
11:00 PM – Craig Leon & Martin Rev

The Safari Room at El Cortez, 17 Ingraham St.
8:00 PM – Autodrone
9:00 PM – Scam Avenue
10:00 PM – Syvia

The Well, 272 Meserole St.
The Wild Honey Pie presents The Beehive
6:30 PM – Adam Schatz
7:00 PM – Blaire Alise & The Bombshells
7:30 PM – Wilsen
8:00 PM – Pavo Pavo
8:30 PM – Salt Cathedral
9:00 PM – The Dig
9:45 PM – Uni Ika Ai
9:45 PM – Frances Cone
11:45 PM – Monogold

Early on at The Well, catch QRO favorite Brooklynite Adam Schatz (QRO interview), who’s currently known for his band Ladyland (QRO album review), but we’ll always think of him as one-half of the Lost tribute act, Previously On Lost (QRO live review).

Union Pool, 484 Union Ave.
9:00 PM – Oracles
10:00 PM – Kate NV
11:00 PM – Ricky Eat Acid

Warsaw, 261 Driggs Ave.
AdHoc
9:00 PM – Lexie
9:45 PM – Ian Sweet
10:30 PM – Girlpool

Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad form guitar-and-bass duo Girlpool (QRO photos at a festival), who come to Northside just after the release of their sophomore record, Powerplant.

 

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 10th

Alphaville, 140 Wilson Ave.
Firetalk
3:15 PM – The Spookfish
4:00 PM – Gold Dime
4:45 PM – Media Jeweler
5:30 PM – Weeping Icon

Baby’s All Right, 146 Broadway
Terrorbird Media
12:20 PM – PONY
1:20 PM – Partner
2:20 PM – Casper Skulls
3:20 PM – Active Bird Community
4:20 PM – Slaughter Beach, Dog

Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave.
Audiofemme/Glamglare
12:15 PM – Blonde Maze
1:00 PM – Gold Child
1:45 PM – Letters To Nepal
2:30 PM – Kinder Than Wolves
3:15 PM – Girl Skin
4:00 PM – Josh Jacobsen

Matchless, 5557 Manhattan Ave.
Rocker Stalker/Behind the Curtains Media
1:15 PM – The Cringe
2:00 PM – The Flux Machine
2:45 PM – Onesie
3:30 PM – Wild Sun
4:15 PM – The Falling Bird
5:00 PM – Fair Panic
5:45 PM – Pussywolf

Muchmore’s, 2 Havemeyer St.
Paper Scissors Media
1:30 PM – Darkwing
2:10 PM – Rvby My Dear
3:30 PM – Blushed
4:00 PM – Secret Nudist Friends
4:40 PM – Thick
5:20 PM – Samantha

Our Wicked Lady, 153 Morgan Ave.
PopGun Booking
3:00 PM – Colatura
4:00 PM – Grim Streaker
5:00 PM – Fern Mayo
6:00 PM – Jacky Winter

Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St.
4:00 PM – Animah

Saint Vitus, 1130 Manhattan Ave.
Aqualamb Records
12:00 PM – Nathaniel Shannon & the Vanishing Twin
1:30 PM – Hiram-Maxim
2:15 PM – Descender
3:00 PM – The Space Merchants
3:45 PM – Black Black Black
4:30 PM – Godmaker
5:00 PM – Lo-Pan

Sine Metu Stage @ Bedford Ave
2:00 PM – Combo Chimbita
3:00 PM – Julia Haltigan
4:00 PM – HONEYHONEY
5:00 PM – J-Council

Sunnyvale, 1031 Grand St.
Exploding in Sound/Golden Parachute
3:00 PM – Stove
3:45 PM – Tall Friend
4:30 PM – Thelma
5:15 PM – Peaer
6:00 PM – Fond Han
6:45 PM – Kal Marks

TNT Backstory Studio Kinfolk 90, 90 Wythe Ave.
4:30 PM – OSHUN

 

 

Alphaville, 140 Wilson Ave.
Dull Tools
8:30 PM – PC Worship (solo)
9:00 PM – A. Savage
9:45 PM – Bodega
10:30 PM – Heaven’s Gate
11:15 PM – Eaters

Baby’s All Right, 146 Broadway
Panache
8:15 PM – Cones
9:30 PM – Happyness
10:40 PM – Aldous Harding

Baby’s All Right, 146 Broadway
AdHoc
Psymon Spine
Dave Harrington’s Merry Pranksters
House of Feelings

Brooklyn Bazaar, 150 Greenpoint Ave.
Sacred Bones 10th Anniversary
8:00 PM – Institute
9:00 PM – The Hunt
9:45 PM – Pop. 1280
10:45 PM – Pharmakon
11:30 PM – Gary War

Cape House, 2 Knickerbocker Ave.
Orange Milk Records
8:00 PM – G.S. Sultan
8:30 PM – Seth Graham
9:00 PM – Giant Claw
9:45 PM – Foodman (aka 食品まつり)
10:30 PM – Kate NV
11:15 PM – Honnda

Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave.
8:00 PM – Horse Jumper of Love
9:30 PM – Elvis Depressedly
12:00 AM – Frances Rose
1:00 AM – Oracles
2:00 AM – Mobley

Little Skips, 941 Willoughby Ave.
GP Stripes/NYCDIY XYZ
8:30 PM – The Mells
9:00 PM – Fraidycat
9:30 PM – Dumb Wolves
10:00 PM – Kate Mohanty
10:30 PM – Def.GRLS
11:00 PM – Holy Tunics
11:30 PM – Sic Tic

Main Drag, 330 Wythe Ave. #1E
8:30 PM – Ursula Kennedy
9:15 PM – Sean Henry
10:00 PM – Yatta

Matchless, 5557 Manhattan Ave.
Iron Pier
9:00 PM – Other Houses
9:45 PM – Neaux
10:30 PM – Wildhoney

McCarren Park, Bedford Ave. & N 12th St.
Open Space Alliance
6:30 PM – Saro
7:30 PM – BJ the Chicago Kid
8:45 PM – Miguel

Northside brings R&B to McCarren Park with Miguel, BJ the Chicago Kid, and Saro.

Muchmore’s, 2 Havemeyer St.
Invertebrate
9:00 PM – Saint Marx
9:40 PM – The Misters
10:20 PM – Goodman
11:50 PM – Lady Pills

Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N 6th St.
9:00 PM – Ohtis
10:00 PM – Timber Timbre

Brooklin, Ontario’s Taylor Kirk goes the stripped, alt-folk sound that they seem to know better how to do in Canada than anywhere else (QRO photos at a Canadian festival), as Timber Timbre (QRO photos at a Canadian festival). While sophomore release Creep On Creepin’ On (QRO review) came a little late in 2011, it was nonetheless instantly long-listed for the prestigious Polaris Prize. He comes to Northside behind this year’s Sincerely, Future Pollution – this might be the perfect time to indulge in a little sinister charm (QRO photos).

National Sawdust, 80 N 6th St.
The Creative Independent
9:00 PM – Georgia
10:00 PM – Julia Holter (solo)

Our Wicked Lady, 153 Morgan Ave.
PopGun Booking
7:00 PM – Den-Mate
8:00 PM – Peaer
9:00 PM – Suburban Living
10:00 PM – Psychic Twin

Park Church Co-Op, 129 Russell St.
7:30 PM – The Relatives
8:15 PM – Brother Brothers
9:00 PM – Twain
9:45 PM – Big Thief

Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St.
7:00 PM – Bets
8:00 PM – Quicksilver Daydream
9:00 PM – Dream Eaters
10:00 PM – Juley Maisey
11:00 PM – Ana Becker

Rough Trade NYC, 64 N 8th St.
Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 Series
9:00 PM – Tredici Bacci String Quartet
10:00 PM – Tony Molina
11:00 PM – Lower Dens

Take a trip back to the seventies as Lower Dens performs songs from ABBA’s Gold: Greatest Hits, and Tredici Bacci String Quartet does pieces off of Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in MemphisTony Molina, on the other hand, is doing tracks from Dinosaur Jr.’s great You’re Living All Over Me.

Saint Vitus, 1130 Manhattan Ave.
8:00 PM – Suicide Pact
9:00 PM – Manalive
9:45 PM – Samiam

Sunnyvale, 1031 Grand St.
Exploding In Sound/Golden Parachute
7:30 PM – Gobbinjr
8:15 PM – Baked
9:00 PM – Washer
9:45 PM – Two Inch Astronaut
10:30 PM – Big Ups

Tender Trap, 66 Greenpoint Ave.
Cara Bella/Campers Rule
7:30 PM – FingerFingerrr
8:15 PM – Debbie Downer
9:45 PM – Spirit Plate
10:30 PM – Grim Streaker

Terra Firma, 119 Ingraham St.
11:15 PM – Honeychrome

The Gutter, 200 N 14th St.
El Goodo/Reheated Spaghetti
9:00 PM – Toyzanne
9:30 PM – Del Caesar
10:00 PM – Secret Nudist Friends
10:30 PM – Holly Overton and Midnight People
11:00 PM – No Ice
11:30 PM – Crazy Pills

Union Pool, 484 Union Ave.
Wharf Cat Records
8:00 PM – Old Maybe
8:45 PM – Macula Dog
9:30 PM – Pat Keen
10:15 PM – Snakehole
11:00 PM – Buck Gooter
11:45 PM – The Sediment Club

Vital Joint, 109 Meserole St.
8:30 PM – Cop Funeral
9:15 PM – Hnry Flwr
10:00 PM – nightspace
10:45 PM – Ziemba

 

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 11th

McCarren Park, Bedford Ave. & N 12th St.
3:30 PM – Tony Molina
4:05 PM – Jeff Rosenstock
5:05 PM – The Hotelier
6:00 PM – Pup
7:00 PM – Thursday

Post-hardcore comes to McCarren Park on Sunday thanks to Northside, with Thursday, Pup, The Hotelier, Jeff Rosenstock, and Tony Molina.

Paper Box (Outdoor Stage), 17 Meadow St. (free)
Rock n’ Shop/Behind the Curtains Media
1:45 PM – The Working Mothers
2:30 PM – Courtesy Tier
3:15 PM – Johnny Modelo da Moda
4:00 PM – The Falling Birds
4:45 PM – Castle Black*
5:30 PM – FoxFires
6:15 PM – Mandala (band)
7:00 PM – FYIpsalms*
7:45 PM – Ninjasonik

It’s not Northside without QRO favorite Courtesy Tier (QRO album review).

Paper Box (Stage 1), 17 Meadow St. (free)
Rock n’ Shop/Behind the Curtains Media
2:00 PM – Graveyard Lovers
3:30 PM – Soraia
4:15 PM – Slow Suck
5:00 PM – Of Clocks And Clouds
5:45 PM – Chaser Eight
6:30 PM – The Pony Girls
7:15 PM – The Giraffes
8:15 PM – The Bushwick Hotel

Paper Box (Stage 2), 17 Meadow St. (free)
Rock n’ Shop/Behind the Curtains Media
1:30 PM – Christopher Beggars
2:15 PM – Bad Galaxy
3:00 PM – Wheel & Frame
3:45 PM – TBA
4:30 PM – B.R.Mackie
5:15 PM – Amanda Fama
6:00 PM – The Dream Eaters
6:45 PM – George Morris
7:30 PM – China Gate
8:15 PM – Hayride Casualties

Sine Metu Stage @ Bedford Ave
2:00 PM – TBA
3:00 PM – Kristin Diable
4:00 PM – Eve & The Exiles
5:00 PM – Cha Wa

TNT Backstory Studio Kinfolk 90, 90 Wythe Ave.
4:30 PM – TBA

 

 

Here’s a map of all participating venues:

 

 

For festival website, go here: http://northsidefestival.com/

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