The Scene
The Northside Festival, Brooklyn’s answer to South By Southwest, takes place over seven days in the trendy Williamsburg neighborhood. Music dominates the weekend with a slate of 350 artists performing over 20 venues. While most events required a festival badge or individual ticket, the first Saturday of Northside offers plentiful options for fans of free tunes.
Festival Poster
2016 Artist Lineup
- AA
- And The Kids
- Ava Luna playing songs from Histoire de Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg
- Aye Nako
- Bad History Month
- Beech Creeps
- Beth Israel
- Bichkraft
- Big Bitch
- Big Quiet
- Bing & Ruth
- Blank Range
- BOYTOY
- BREADWOMAN: ANNA HOMLER & STEVEN WARWICK
- Brian Wilson
- Bueno
- Celestial Trax
- Chaos Chaos
- Cheena
- Childbirth
- Cloud Becomes Your Hand
- Colleen Green
- Conor Oberst
- Couch Slut
- Courtesy Tier
- Crazy Pills
- Cut Worms
- D∆WN
- Dan Melchior
- David Vassalotti
- Diarrhea Planet
- Diet Cig
- DJ Spinn
- Dreamcrusher
- Dust From 1000 Yrs
- Ed Schrader’s Music Beat
- Fable Cry
- Fake Palms
- Flannel Mouth
- Frankie Cosmos playing songs from Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair
- Free Advice
- Future Punx
- Gang of Youths
- Giorgio Murderer
- Gland
- Good English
- Grouper
- Gull
- Heaven’s Gate
- Hinds
- Honey
- Honey Radar
- Horse-Eyed Men
- Institute
- J.Rocc
- Jocelyn Mackenzie
- Juliana Huxtable
- Kacey Musgraves
- Kid Millions & Jim Sauter
- Kidaudra
- King Khan & The Shrines
- Kingdom
- Ladada
- Las Rosas
- Little Racer
- Long Beard
- Lotic
- Lushlife + CSLSX
- Machinedrum
- Margo Valiante
- Marshstepper
- Mary Lattimore
- Matchess
- MikeQ
- Mndsgn
- Morgan O’Kane
- MORI
- MPHO
- Murals
- Oddisee & Good Compny
- Old Soul
- Origami Sun
- Ovlov
- Parlor Walls
- Parrot Dream
- PC Worship
- Peanut Butter Wolf
- Posse
- Power Animal System
- Priests
- Psychiatric Metaphors
- Psychic Ills
- Pussywolf
- Questlove (DJ set)
- Rabit
- Raccoon Fighter
- Rationale
- ROSTAM
- Running
- Sales
- Samiyam
- SAVAK
- Scully
- Sharkmuffin
- South of France
- Spray Paint
- Steep Leans
- Steve Gunn
- Stove
- Subhumans
- Sun Flights
- Sunwatchers
- Surf Rock Is Dead
- Sweet Crude
- The Cave Singers
- The Felice Brothers
- The Flux Machine
- The Giraffes
- The Gotobeds
- The Judy Blooms
- The Numerators
- The Royal They
- The Skulx
- The Teen Age
- The Zings
- Turnip King
- Twist
- Two Inch Astronaut
- Tygapaw
- Viceroy
- Vundabar
- WALL
- Washer
- Weekender
- Weyes Blood
- Wolf Parade
- Woodsman
- WUME
- Yellow Eyes