By Loren Diblasi, Samantha Smerconish, and Maria Gotay

This week’s Friday First features the full-length album Meet Me In Cognito from co-presenters of our own The Holy Smokes Festival, the Bushwick-based bluesy rockers The Bottom Dollars

A little birdy (our art editor, 

Didn’t win a Grammy this week? Yeah, neither did we– unfortunately, we can’t all be Macklemore

Jacqueline Mary is an artist

See art: 6 HOT Art Shows For a COLD Weekend

On a beautiful, late fall day, at a bench in a Lower East Side park, the sun gently fell on her face as she explained to the Bushwick Daily video crew how she came about to becoming a world class rock’n’roll photographer

I’m sorry to bring it up but

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Are you a striving photographer, photojournalist or DP? Maybe you’re hoping for The New York Times to hire you next. But how does one do it? How can a super-talented Bushwick individual (that is you) move from the reality of today to a reality of world-class clients and fabulous opportunities? Well, it never hurts to […]

The most magical and atmospheric of the months is October

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It may seem like quite a while ago at this point but the world’s best indie festival, South By Southwest, was just a few weeks past, March 12-16, and everyone in the music industry will continue to feel its repercussions all year, especially those from Brooklyn! From the bands that made it big to those that seemed to crash and burn, everyone who attended took away some great musical memories, including Bushwick Daily! We had three writers (Danielle Thompson, Ileana Little, and yours truly) hanging out in Austin, snapping instagrams, taking notes, and absorbing everything we heard

In case you’re out of the loop, we at Bushwick Daily are huge fans of SXSW and cannot wait to get down to Austin, Texas to check out what’s going on in the tech scene and who’s going to be making headlines in the music portion of the festival

Ben Godward’s madness of an art studio is the exact antithesis of Jason Andrew’s spotless apartment gallery, Norte Maar

If you’re one of the 200,000 people to descend upon Austin’s city limits to partake in SXSW (and you know how to do it right now), and you want to see some of your favorite Brooklyn/Bushwick bands, you can do so at one of two places – at an official showcase (where festival badges/wristbands ARE required) or at one of the many free shows they will be playing next week

37Bushwick Music It’s March already – has the madness begun to sink in yet? We’re not talking basketball, we’re talking pre-SXSW jitters. We already wrote an exciting article about how to do SXSW like a pro for free, but if you still can’t foot the bill (or stomach the atmosphere) there are tons of bands […]

As reported last week, DIY venue XPO 929 (on Broadway) closed at the end of February after three turbulent years of shows, parties and legal battles

Oftentimes, we call in a smokescreen cornucopia of occurrences because we have not yet gotten “right,” as I call it, with what we desire

“What is it about Bushwick?” I keep hearing this question from out-of-towners

2012 was awesome, as we mentioned earlier today

It has been a week since Hurricane Sandy hit New York City

Today’s snow storm 

Unless you’ve been asleep for a week, you know the major damage Hurricane Sandy has done

Although Bushwick may have survived (and even surged) through devastating Hurricane Sandy, the rest of New York City has not fared so well- Breezy Point, Rockaway in Queens and lower Manhattan suffered among the worst damage

One of my favorite holiday memories as a child was putting up the Halloween decorations