Northside Festival came and went this past week, along Saturday’s stifling hot weather

This weekend, the annual Northside Festival will take acrossNorth Brooklyn

Just hangin’ at The Neverlands. “Because it’s Northside!” More or less, the phrase became a mantra of sorts over this past weekend, when the multi-venue Northside Festival enveloped Brooklyn for the sixth year in a row. As I, Loren, your trusty narrator, chased bands around Williamsburg, Bushwick, and everywhere in between, the sentence was repeated […]

Still burnt out from Governors Ball last weekend? Sorry, kids; it’s time to do it all again. Starting Thursday, the summer festival fun continues with Northside, a magical, musical journey that traverses all of north Brooklyn, plus the wilds of your imagination. It’s a neverending story of awesome shows, both official and unofficial, so no […]

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Northside Festival, Brooklyn’s answer to SXSW, isn’t just music

Still reeling from the craziness that was Bushwick Open Studios, our community has settled down (slightly)

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Text and photos by Maria Gotay

By Maria Gotay

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 […]

Thank, publicly accessible data!

If you’re obsessed with any reads pertaining to Bushwick, North Brooklyn and Brooklyn (as you should be), you will be excited to hear that Brooklyn Magazine has turned from quarterly to monthly publication, and maybe a little sad that printed L Magazine has waived its final goodbye

Have you walked past that closed down bar in Ridgewood on Harman St and Seneca Ave with the crazy neon signs and the blacked out windows thinking someone needs to do something with this place? You will thrilled to learn that hey, someone’s doing something with this place! Ridgewood resident, bartendress, and musician Laura Regan is fulfilling a longtime dream to finally open her own venue

Even if you’re never really trying to look your “best,” you’re most likely trying to look something if you live in Brooklyn in this day and age

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Only in New York are we lucky enough to sort through bushels of free shows each weekend

This week’s Friday First is a triple-whammy, featuring 3 brand new videos from 3 local NYC bands

After this weekend’s miraculous temporary return of the L train, the MTA’s said the L train will be out of service between Lorimer and Myrtle-Wyckoff for at least another two weekends, meaning more crowded shuttle buses for residents — and more lost business for stores, restaurants and galleries

By Maria Gotay & Ileana Little

you know you want to. It’s officially summer as we’ve all come to realize. There are pluses and minuses for concert goers when summertime rolls around. Cons: venues are even sweatier, sidewalks and rooftops are more crowded, smoke clings to the skin in heat, fresh air is no less fresh when shared. Pros: free outdoor shows, […]

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By Maria Gotay & Jenna Aranda

By Maria Gotay

This week’s Tuesday Person is abstract painter, Julie Torres.