Northside Festival 2014

Details The Northside Festival is New York City’s largest and most accessible discovery festival, taking place June 12-19, 2014. Hundreds of bands, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, innovators, and over 80,000 fans will converge on Brooklyn over eight days to witness an incredible showcase of what’s next in music, film, entrepreneurship and art. Lineup Albert Hammond Jr., Beirut, Chvrches, The War on Drugs, Eleanor Friedberger, Thee Oh Sees, Drowners, Sharon Van Etten, Talib Kweli, Fuck Buttons, Titus Andronicus, Courtney Barnett, Dan Croll, Gringo Star, Eagulls, Mas Ysa, and more... Read More Beirut The outdoor event featuring Beirut at the Cabooze and opener Little Scream turned out to be as musically satisfying as deathly humid, playing a smattering of songs from the New Mexico bred band’s plethora…

This year’s Northside Festival holds some seriously impressive acts and showcases. Hosted by Northside Media Group, the Brooklyn “discovery festival” (as the group calls it) will give attendees plenty of opportunities to not only see their favorite bands play or innovators speak, but with over a hundred-fifty musicians, filmmakers, and speakers just announced last week, festival goers are bound to get into something new. And this is just what Northside Media Group intends, with its mission of bringing on what they describe is “what’s next.”

Beirut
Released as one of the first bands to be performing at Northside, Brooklyn-based band Beirut will be gracing listeners’ ears with the incredible blend of horns, strings, percussion, and electronic sounds to create their wide range of music, from Balkan folk to electronic. Since their debut album Gulag Orkestar in 2006, Beirut has grown on to international fame, garnering over 736,000 fans on Facebook, though I imagine their fan base is much larger. Lead by the amazingly delicate and soulful vocals of Zach Condon, Beirut can create an orchestrated, filling sound like in “Elephant Gun,” or a quieter, but just as powerful song like “Goshen.”

If you don’t make it to see Beirut in Brooklyn next month, hopefully you either live or will be vacationing at one of these places.

If you happen to be vacationing at one of these international towns, be sure to catch them at these upcoming summer festivals.

06/14 Northside Festival Brooklyn, NY
07/04 Toronto Urban Roots Festival Toronto, CAN
08/15 Green Man Festival Crickhowell, UK
08/16 Green Man Festival Crickhowell, UK
08/17 Kucukciflik Park Istanbul, Turkey
08/21 For Noise Festival Pully, Switzerland
08/23 Parades De Coura Porto, Portugal

Northside Festival will be held June 12-19 at several venue spaces on the northside of Brooklyn (get it?). Take a look at the line-up and suggest a band to cover!

More details on northsidefestival.com

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