The Owl Mag’s Guide to Northside Festival 2011
Brooklyn’s third annual Northside Festival starts tonight, with a great lineup of national and local bands. Check out our guide to the shows happening over the next four days.
BROOKLYN BEAT: Gross Relations
Kick off the long weekend with some hook-filled jams from Brooklyn garage-synth-poppers Gross Relations.
PLAYLIST: NYC Popfest 2011
NYC Popfest 2011 starts today, and we’ve got a slew of delightful indie pop mp3s for you.
BROOKLYN BEAT: Quitzow
Quitzow restores our faith in pop with the kind of songs that get everything right: booty-shaking beats, shimmying synthesizers, sassy lyrics, and hooks that will stay in your head for days.
BROOKLYN BEAT: Red Wire Black Wire
If you’re a sucker for glorious synth-rock, grab our free download of Red Wire Black Wire’s song “Breathing Fire,” and you’re sure to be hooked.
Guided by Voices to Headline Northside Festival 2011
The L Magazine’s Northside Festival returns to Brooklyn for the third time this June, and promises to be the biggest yet with headlining shows by Guided by Voices (with Wavves), Beirut, and Deervana (Deer Tick playing Nirvana covers, back by …
HIGHLIGHTS: SXSW Day 4, 3/19/11
Day 4 highlights from Little Dragon, The Hood Interent, Royal Bangs, The Seedy Seeds and more!
HIGHLIGHTS: SXSW Day 3, 3/18/11
Day 3 from Austin and we stayed busy watching sets from Hooray for Earth, Menomena, Okkervil River, Owen Pallett, Reading Rainbow, Surfer Blood, and more!