Tom Gallo [email protected] Tom Gallo is the host of Look at My Records on Radio Free Brooklyn Radio Free Brooklyn and Bushwick Daily are proud to announce a new weekly local-music column that will focus on artists that call Bushwick home. Each week, a Radio Free Brooklyn personality will pen a record or performance review of a different Bushwick based artist, with […]

A spectacular fan routine. Two hot days and nights of heavy drinking, nipples, genitals, a wedding, drugs, sweaty wigs, lip syncing, heavy beats, hardcore rifts and exuberant dancing. It was two nights of Bushwig this year and anything less would have taken the joy out of life. On Saturday the 6th, right in the middle of […]

By Katarina Hybenova

  We know what you are thinking. It’s SXSW week and Brooklyn is going to be dead because all the good bands will be gone. FALSE. Some bands are coming here! And others are staying here because Brooklyn is also awesome! Don’t get down and out about it, there are plenty of DIY venues to […]

There’s a basement in Bushwick where they’re singing Fleetwood Mac

Our readers have voted! Here are the winners for the best pizza, tacos, happy hour, coffee shop, sandwich, music venue, brunch, bar, bakery and wings in and around the neighborhood.

Bushwick’s pizza eaters have spoken!

Check out these great shows happening at The Sultan Room, Trans-Pecos, and Our Wicked Lady!

Plus, the best shows in Bushwick this week.

The Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival celebrated 21 years this past weekend in Brooklyn.

It’s about that time again! Drop everything and get down to one of our favorite hangouts around the Montrose L stop.

I got drunk in a closet in the name of grassroots journalism.

Whether you love it or hate it, the Hallmark holiday is indeed this Sunday: Valentine’s Day, The day of bodega flowers, Fine and Raw Chocolate, and those couples blowing up your Facebook feed professing their love for each other (“#blessed!!”)

Do you remember when the diviest of all Bushwick dive bars, Wreck Room, announced its demise back in June 2014? An unfortunate side casualty was the closure of Arancini Bros next door, a popular purveyor of deep fried risotto balls that tasted especially good after a long night of partying and drinking in Bushwick

Wipe out your tears cried over the loss of delish bunwiches from UMi Bushwick, late night bar owls

Between Lay’s Sriracha chips (what), these adorable Sriracha2Go key chains and even Sriracha, the documentary – it’s safe to say this beloved hot sauce is here to stay

This article originally appeared in Bushwick Notebook #2

The Rookery turns two on Saturday, while kickass DJ Emily O’Brien spins until midnight

CMJ only seems like a drag if a) you’re in a band that’s playing 3+ shows; b) you don’t know how to navigate the madness

If you’re like us and you loooooove music festivals, you may be quietly shedding tears over the (impending) arrival of fall and the end of festival season