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Top 5 shows of the weekend

June 29, 2017 By Chris Quartly

Top 5 shows of the weekend

Greetings! It’s kinda July 4th weekend, I guess, even if that falls on a Tuesday. Maybe some of you are lucky enough to have Monday off as well. We aren’t just celebrating America in the coming days, either, our neighbours to the North have a fairly significant milestone. Regardless of what you even care about, […]

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: Adult Mom, Baby's All Right, brooklyn bowl, Canada, Diarrhea Planet, Free Cake for Every Creature, knitting factory, Lila Downs, Orkesta Mendoza, Prospect Park, Rips, The Well, white lung

Top 5 shows of the weekend

October 6, 2016 By Chris Quartly

Top 5 shows of the weekend

You don’t need me wasting your time with chit-chat, there are weekend plans to be made, this time we bring you some site favourites and something out of left field. Enjoy!

Filed Under: Events, Music, News Tagged With: bowery ballroom, Diarrhea Planet, Glenn Branca, Kings Theatre, Nots, Pill, Roulette, Sigur Ros, silent barn, warpaint, Warsaw

2016 Northside Music Festival Review

June 15, 2016 By Chris Quartly

Summer was well and truly ushered in this last weekend as the Northside Festival concluded its 8th year. With a 400+ roster of bands among dozens of venues, there was no shortage of entertainment; Free Williamsburg staff made a credible stab at doing as much as possible, and our thoughts are below – the best […]

Filed Under: Bushwick, Greenpoint, Mccarren Park, Music, News, Williamsburg Tagged With: Brian Wilson, Diarrhea Planet, Eagulls, house of vans, Into It Over It, northside, Northside Festival, Slonk Donkerson

2016 Northside Music Festival guide

June 6, 2016 By Chris Quartly

We’ve had several failed attempts at summer kicking off this year, but the Northside festival always seems to usher in the season semi-officially for us here at Free Williamsburg. With a music lineup that breaks a whopping 400 in number, there is plenty to cram in over the course of 4 days, it’s not too […]

Filed Under: Bushwick, Events, Greenpoint, Mccarren Park, Music, News, Williamsburg Tagged With: B-Boys, Big Quiet, Brian Wilson, brooklyn bowl, Collen Green, Couch Slut, Dälek, Diarrhea Planet, Ed Schrader's Music Beat, highlights, Honey, Into It Over It, Knig Khan and the Shrines, knitting factory, northside, Northside Festival, Northside Festival Guide, Northside Festival highlights, Peanut Butter Wolf, Priests, Psychic Ills, saint vitus, Savak, The Gotobeds, The Numerators, Tombs, Two Inch Astronaut, Wolf Parade, Yellow Eyes

Top 5 shows of the weekend

November 19, 2015 By Chris Quartly

You’ve still got a few days to figure out Thanksgiving plans, which you’ll need because there are plenty of spectacular shows to catch this weekend. Be thankful for all the great music you can see, family plans can wait!

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Baby's All Right, bowery ballroom, cake shop, City Winery, Diarrhea Planet, Flamin' Groovies, LA Witch, Miriam, Music Hall Williamsburg, Nude Beach, Okkervil River, Robyn Hitchcock, Soda Bomb, Surfbort

April Showers Us in Beats: This Month's Must See Shows

April 4, 2015 By Megan Venzin

I write to you from a coffee shop in Singapore where April showers are alive and well. No seriously, it’s fucking pouring here. I thought it was the dry season? And dammit, why aren’t we in a bar? I’ve spent the last two weeks in Southeast Asia, and I’ve learned quite a lot: 1.) Thailand […]

Filed Under: Events, Videos, Williamsburg Tagged With: Anthony Parasole, Baby's All Right, Com Truise, Diarrhea Planet, Gesaffelstein, GRiZ, Moon Boots, Output, terminal 5, The Geek x VRV

Top 5 shows of the weekend

April 2, 2015 By Chris Quartly

I have to go to Boston for work this weekend, but that doesn’t mean I won’t treat you right. I will however, get right to it. Here are my weekend tips! 5) Alvvays, Kiwi at Bowery Ballroom Having seen Alvvays play numerous free shows in New York in the last couple of years, it took me […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Alvvays, Axis:Sova, bowery ballroom, cake shop, Connections, Diarrhea Planet, Elvis Guesthouse, EZTV, Lushes, Meat Wave, Palisades, PC Worship, Slonk Donkerson, St Lenox, Xander Duell

Forecastle Festival 2015

February 3, 2015 By Megan Venzin

UPDATE 4/8/2015 Forecastle has announced their 2nd tier of artists, and I have to say this is truly Christmas in July for me! Check it out: The War on Drugs Robert DeLong (YES YES YES YES YES YES) ZZ Ward Mariachi El Bronx Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds Chris Stapleton Lower Dens Gabriel Garzon-Montano […]

Filed Under: Events, Music, News Tagged With: Big K.R.I.T, Cherub, Diarrhea Planet, Forecastle, Keisza, Louisville, Milo Greene, Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Sam Smith, Shovels and Rope, Speedy Ortiz, Sturgill Simpson, Tweedy, Widespread Panic

Top five Halloween shows

October 30, 2014 By Coleman Bentley

I want to play a game. Your Halloween social life has been rigged to an industrial grade acetylene torch and suspended above a churning cement mixer in an abandoned warehouse somewhere in deep Brooklyn. There’s still time to save it, but first you have to choose: Do you attend a banging party or a heavy […]

Filed Under: Bushwick, Events, Greenpoint, Music, Williamsburg Tagged With: Bang On! NYC, Diarrhea Planet, Purling Hiss, Samhain, Toxik

Live Review: Jeff the Brotherhood and Diarrhea Planet played Death By Audio

October 14, 2014 By Chris Quartly

Jeff the Brotherhood and Diarrhea Planet very nearly brought the ceiling down at Death By Audio on Sunday night with what must be one of the most potent pairings that have graced the venue.

Filed Under: Music, Williamsburg Tagged With: death by audio, Diarrhea Planet, JEFF the Brotherhood, Punani Hunter, Scully

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