by MariaS 
My goal for Northside Festival was to catch many small Brooklyn-based bands with the hope of discovering some promising new ones and to get those being buzzed about some added exposure. I saw a lot of frankly terrible bands, but I saw a number of good ones as well. Here are the good ones:
BAMBARA at Music Hall of Williamsburg: Because it was raining way too hard on Thursday to walk to Warsaw…
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Why would you wanna create a “best” of the “new” bands. That’s some elitist bullshit. You give Brooklyn a bad name. So annoying. Now do a best of new small businesses so the other small businesses that didn’t make the list can fail. Kudos.
I think you’re getting too hung up on semantics. Either that, or you’re in a band that’s not getting any press.
The author was referring to the best bands she saw, what is wrong with that? This isn’t elementary school when everyone wins. Some bands are great. Some are not. It would be worse if we were specifically bashing certain bands…
And we do BEST of lists all the time, of cafes, pizzerias, etc. Readers want to know what to seek out and what to not waste their time on.