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.
2018 Artist Lineup
- A Deer A Horse
- Active Bird Community
- Bambara
- Barrie
- BEARCAT
- Bell Curve
- Ben Pagano & The Space Machine
- Big Bliss
- Billy Moon
- Blushed
- Bodega Satellite
- Buck Gooter
- Buck Meek
- Bush Tetras
- Busy Bee Project
- Candy Ambulance
- CARE
- Carla dal Forno
- Caspian
- Cerce
- Cereal Banter
- CHURCHBURN
- Chynna
- Clams Casino
- Clebs
- Cloud Becomes Your Hand
- Common Holly
- David Vassalotti
- Dead Stars
- Dear Nora
- Deerhoof
- Def.GRLS
- Dehd
- Dirty Fences
- Disposable
- DJ Delish
- Dreamcrusher
- Dru Cutler
- Dumb Wolves
- Eaters
- Elle Barbara’s Black Space
- EM
- Emily Madge
- Empath
- Erica Eso
- ESSi
- Eyes of Love
- Fat Heaven
- Feral Squad
- Flasher
- Future Punx
- Garcia Peoples
- Gemma
- Gift Wrap
- Glass Slipper
- Gleemer
- Grim Streaker
- G
- Gunks
- Gustaf
- GYMSHORTS
- Half Waif
- Have Mercy
- Heaters
- HNRY FLWR
- Holy Tunics
- Holy Wave
- Honey
- Human Host
- H
- Hyphorics
- I Kill Giants
- Irreversible Entanglements
- Jake Meginsky
- Jana Rush
- Jeff Parker & The New Breed
- JB
- Jordyn Blakely
- Kalbells
- Kate Mohanty
- Katie Gately
- Katie Solo
- Katie von Schleicher
- Kenny Truhn
- Kevin Hairs
- Kiani Del Valle
- Kississippi
- Kolb
- La Luz
- Lea Bertucci
- Lily and Horn Horse
- Lionlimb
- Liz Phair
- Lola Pistola
- Lou Barlow
- Lou Tides
- Low Anxiety
- Madam West
- Madison McFerrin
- Makaya McCraven
- MANEKA
- Marilu Donovan
- Megg Farrell
- Men I Trust
- Mezzanine Swimmers
- MIKAL
- milo
- MISTERVACATION
- Mndsgn
- Monograms
- Mouton
- Mr. Twin Sister
- Native Sun
- Neck
- Nighttime
- Nihiloceros
- Nnamdi Ogbonnaya
- No Honeymoon
- NO ICE
- No Swoon
- Old Gray
- Orville Peck
- OSHUN
- Ought
- Outer Heaven
- Painted Faces
- Parlor Walls
- Parrot Dream
- Peaer
- Pill
- Pissed Jeans
- Potted Plant
- Primal Rite
- Protomartyr
- Public Practice
- Qasim Naqvi
- Ratas En Zelo
- Remote Control
- Ringworm
- Rubber Band Gun
- Russian Baths
- Ryan Power
- Sam Evian
- Sammus
- Sateen
- Secret Nudist Friends
- Services
- Shadow Monster
- Shamir
- Shana Falana
- Shelter Dogs
- Shy Layers
- Sic Tic
- SIGNAL
- Sixes
- Sixteen Jackies
- Skinless
- Sleepies
- Sloppy Jane
- Snail Mail
- Soccer Mommy
- Spelling
- Standing on the Corner
- Straw Pipes
- Super American
- Teen Body
- Telefon Tel Aviv
- TE
- Terry Edelman
- Tess Roby
- The Black Black
- The Coax
- The Ferdy Mayne
- The Glitch
- The Goon Sax
- The Next Great American Novelist
- The Night Screams
- The Regrets
- The Rizzos
- The Sediment Club
- THICK
- Time Wharp
- TK The Architect
- Tmboy
- Tony Seltzer
- Too Many Zooz
- Tredici Bacci
- Tripp Jones
- Veda Rays
- War Violet (solo)
- Weaves
- W
- Westernware
- Wisdom
- Yaasss
- Yaman Palak
- YVETTE
- ¡Vamanos!