You guys have all figured out that I may have a bit of a girl crush on Williamsburg-by-Copenhagen’s Oh Land by now. This little love affair started when we booked her to play our Northside Festival showcase, after which we played NYC Taper’s recordings over and over. But now, with an EP floating around, props […]
Big Ugly Yellow Couch Sessions Return With Oh Land
I was fortunate enough to sit in on this session, and feel really lucky to have seen the process Oh land uses to layer her sound. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Kudos to the Big Ugly Yellow kids to surviving the fire that burned down their old space, almost ruined […]
Ticket Giveaway: Oh Land at Littlefield
Remember back in June when we told you about Oh Land? Shortly after she played an amazing swell of songs at our Northside Festival showcase at Brooklyn Bowl to an unsuspecting crowd. Well, since then the Danish native has received rave reviews from pretty much everybody– from Nylon to Vogue, even becoming the face of […]
FREEWilliamsburg Hosts Northside Showcase with Keepaway and Hooray for Earth and more!
Last night FREEWilliamsburg hosted its Northside Showcase at Brooklyn Bowl featuring Keepaway, Hooray for Earth, Oh Land, Glass Ghost and The Babies! Thanks so much to everyone who came out to celebrate Northside with FREEWilliamsburg and hope you had as much fun as we all did! Woods and Vivian Girls side project The Babies kicked […]
Meet Oh Land: The Most Adorable Danish Musician This Side of the Gowanus
It all started in 2009, when a relatively unknown former ballerina from Denmark took the stage at SXSW, enchanting audience members with her dreamy electro-pop. She had just one self-produced album and little more than a year’s worth of experience making music under her belt. She’d never before performed in the U.S. Now Nanna Øland […]
FREEwilliamsburg's Northside Festival Showcase
We couldn’t be more excited about this year’s Northside Festival showcase at Brooklyn Bowl. Last year, we hosted Real Estate, These Are Powers, Air Waves, Javelin and Organs, to much acclaim. This year, we’ve booked an equally stellar line-up that includes Pitchfork Best New Music recipients Keepaway. Full line-up below: Keepaway 2009 saw a few […]