This weekend many a Brooklyn based music fan enjoyed the inaugural Northside Festival throughout the many venues large and small in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Over the course of four days hundreds of bands in dozens of venues were able to share their sounds with thousands of music fans looking for their new favorite band. It was a smaller, more intimate version of CMJ, SXSW, or NXNE but it was no less successful for what it was. Bands like The Dodos, Sunset Rubdown, and The Hold Steady stood up as the big acts of the fest and gave sets that were widely talked about, but the little guys also got a lot of press time, twitter alerts, and whatnot. Bands like pow wow! and Screaming Females were raved about by people tweeting by the minute and the whole fest seemed to be a living version of the Little Engine The Could. It seems that the festival was such a success that the folks over at L Magazine (the brains behind this fest) are already set to bring Northside Fest back for year 2 in 2010. I know I'm looking forward to being involved once again and I now present to you my recaps for the 2009 Northside Festival! If you missed make sure you don't make the same mistake next year!
This weekend many a Brooklyn based music fan enjoyed the inaugural Northside Festival throughout the many venues large and small in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Over the course of four days hundreds of bands in dozens of venues were able to share their sounds with thousands of music fans looking for their new favorite band. It was a smaller, more intimate version of CMJ, SXSW, or NXNE but it was no less successful for what it was. Bands like The Dodos, Sunset Rubdown, and The Hold Steady stood up as the big acts of the fest and gave sets that were widely talked about, but the little guys also got a lot of press time, twitter alerts, and whatnot. Bands like pow wow! and Screaming Females were raved about by people tweeting by the minute and the whole fest seemed to be a living version of the Little Engine The Could. It seems that the festival was such a success that the folks over at L Magazine (the brains behind this fest) are already set to bring Northside Fest back for year 2 in 2010. I know I'm looking forward to being involved once again and I now present to you my recaps for the 2009 Northside Festival! If you missed make sure you don't make the same mistake next year!
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