Guide to Cheap, Free, and Awesome Music at Northside Festival

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Turbo Fruits performing at Northside in 2012. Photo by Maria Gotay.

Attention North Brooklynites: Northside Festival is finally here! Tomorrow is the beginning of the multi-day music, film, and presentation/panel discussion extravaganza. Williamsburg Walks, will also close traffic down from N. 12th to Metropolitan on Bedford Avenue so that you can enjoy pop up parks, public art,  people watching and more fun!

Sounds a little overwhelming, but as promised, we’ve organized a guide for the 4-day music part of the festival! There will be over 350 artists performing at a range of venues, indoors and out! We’ve selected local favorites as well as some big timers and up and comers! No badge? Don’t sweat it! A lot of the shows are selling tickets at the door, or they are just plain free. Just make sure to get their early. Take a look at what we’ve got for you with our Bushwick Daily Northside Music Festival Guide!

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6/13 (THURSDAY)

1) Mac DeMarco, White Fence, Walter TV @ Brooklyn Bowl (6pm, $12)

2) Bleached, Butter the Children, Pop Zeus @ Knitting Factory (7:30pm, $13)

3) Iceage, A Place to Bury Strangers, Lower, Bennio Qwerty, Bamabara @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (8pm, $15)

4) Swans, Chelsea Wolfe @ Warsaw (7pm, $35)

5) YVETTE, Alan Watts, Courtship Ritual, The Flag, Breeding Program @ Muchmores (8pm, $5)

6) Twin Sister, Ava Luna, The Luyas, Lushlife, Julian Lynch @ 285 Kent (8pm, $12)

7) Body/Head (Kim Gordon & Bill Nace), Majical Cloudz, Foreplay & Special Guests @ Saint Vitus (8pm, $15)

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6/14 (FRIDAY)

1) Rocky Road Touring presents: Har Mar Superstar, The Boxing Lesson, Purple, Spires, Supercute!, NVUS @ The Grand Victory (6pm, $12)

2) Scenic presents: Black Flag, The Men, Good for You, The Netherlands @ Warsaw (7pm BADGES ONLY)

3) 1.21 Gigwatts presents: The So So Glos, SHAPES, Le Rug, Sham-poo @ Public Assembly (8pm, $10)

4) Heart Bleeds Radio presents: The Planes, Quiet Loudly, The Beets, pow wow!, Crazy Pills, Mount Sharp @ Bar Matchless (8pm, $5)

5) PopGun presents: Suuns, Amen Dunes, Tempers @ Glasslands Gallery (8pm, $12)

6) Whatever Blog presents: Lazyeyes, Butchers & Bakers, Shilpa Ray, Meaning of Life & Libel @ The Gutter Spare Room (8pm, $5)

7) White Fence, Las Rosas, HONEY @ Knitting Factory (11pm, $10)

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6/15 (SATURDAY)

1) The Veda Rays, Happy Lives, The End Men, Life Sized Maps, School ov Thought, Tough Luck, The Harmonica Lewinskies Radical 2, Jerry Paper & Jake Falby @ Muchmore’s (12pm, $7)

3) Converse Rubber Tracks Live at Northside presents: The Walkmen, Phosphorescent, Friend Roulette, Abadabad @ McCarren Park (3pm, FREE W/ RSVP)

4) BRAIDS, Yellow Ostrich, Widowspeak, Belle Mare @ Cameo Gallery (6:30pm, $15)

5) Quilt, Twin Peaks, Outside World, Turnip King, The Teen Age @ Public Assembly (7pm, $10)

6) Weekend, YVETTE, Cities Aviv @ Knitting Factory (7pm, $10)

7) Cara Bella & Campers’ Rule Records presents: Friend Roulette, Nature Boy, Gunfight!, Spirit Plate, The Suzan, Lost Boy?, Ancient Sky, Double King @ Brooklyn Fire Proof East (8pm, $10)

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6/16 (SUNDAY)

1) Stereoactive NYC & Hillytown Present: Cultfever, Weird Children, Shark?, MiniBone, The Coalsack in Crux, Leda, Lisa/Liza @ Spike Hill (12pm, FREE)

2) Converse Rubber Tracks Live at Northside presents: Solange, Petite Noir, Cable, My Midnight Heart @ McCarren Park (3pm, FREE w/ RSVP)

3) Young Magic, Psychic Twin, O Paradiso, Adventure @ Cameo Gallery (6:30pm, $15)

4) Modern Rivals, The Living Kills, PEP, Hippy @ The Gutter Spare (7pm, $5)

5) IMPOSE & My Social List present: Nu Sensae, Destruction Unit, Big Ups, Psychic Blood @ Shea Stadium (8pm, $10)

6) Ratking, Hot Sugar, Normally Important @ Knitting Factory (8pm, $10)

7) The Soft Moon, Pop. 1280, Grooms @ 285 Kent (8pm, $15)

Have a Northside event you want to list? Put it in our events calendar and get some exposure, or comment with it below. Enjoy Northside, everybody!

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