A new art-focused event space called WORA has opened in northeast Greenpoint. Founded by Java Studios and Dakota Sica, who is the director of The Java Project gallery located at Java Studios, WORA (short […]
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Wil Farr’s Electrifying Hurrah! A Bolt of Light! playing Friday night
Anyone who has seen indie-rock band Hurrah! A Bolt of Light! knows their capacity to rouse a crowd. Their performance last month at the Living Room was no exception. Frontman and multi-instrumentalist […]
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Sachal’s Slow Motion Miracles at the Living Room, 9pm on June 23
Richly layered with afro-beats, jazz rhythms, pop hooks, and Sachal Vasandani’s opalescent vocal timbre, the ten anfractuous and soulful tracks of sophisti-pop on Slow Motion Miracles flow like one body of water into another. […]
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Run the Jewels, Sleigh Bells, Vince Staple close out Northside ’15
Last weekend, the Northside Festival at 50 Kent finished off with an all-star show featuring Run the Jewels, Sleigh Bells, and Vince Staples. Right as the doors opened, the crowd found its way […]
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Weekend Music Picks: Live Premieres
Earthquake Lights, Your Sister’s Canary, P. Everett Friday June 19th 8:00 pm at Cameo Gallery Earthquake Lights (EQL) share a bill at Cameo Gallery (93 N 6th St.) with friends Your Sister’s Canary and […]
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Neko Case, Live from Northside
A mural of swords, axes, and eels pointed towards the words, “The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.” It was the […]
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Calling all Volunteers! N. Brooklyn’s PRIDE Festival Needs Our Help!
Hey hey Greenpointers! Have you got your bells on yet? If not, you better do it soon because Williamsburg’s first ever Gay Pride Festival is popping this Saturday, June 20th, […]
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Reunited, Luna Enraptures the Crowd at McCarren Park
After a ten-year break, Luna commanded a double encore at McCarren Park last Thursday night as part of the first day of the Northside Music Festival. The enthusiasm from the […]
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Dakota Kim Debuts ‘Poseidon’s Children’ at Brooklyn AirSpace
From the outside, it looked like just another two-story brick building, hunkered between a hardware store and a deli on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. People were drinking at Allswell or […]
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Northside Music Picks: Day Four
Some of you may be old enough to remember the Reagan-era “this is your brain on drugs” TV ad, the one that shows an egg frying in a pan. I […]