UPDATE 1/13/15 The official Bonnaroo lineup is here, and WHAT A LINEUP INDEED! For headliners you’re looking at the Piano Man Billy Joel, returning acts Mumford and Sons and one of rap and hip-hops finest, Kendrick Lamar. For the first time ever, it’s been said that an EDM act will also be taking a coveted […]
FREEwilliamsburg's Top 25 Albums of 2014
Photo via BK Mag 2014 will be a year bookended by loss in Williamsburg. When 285 Kent closed its doors in January, it was like a shotgun blast through the heart of the local music community. While it was true that Williamsburg had been condofying for years, and spots like Monster Island, Secret Project Robot, […]
Five best shows of the weekend
5) Iggy Azalea at Rockefeller Center While you pretty much know what you’re going to get at this one—a throng of drooling middle-aged dudes and way-too-young-to-be-dressed-like-that teeny boppers at 8am in midtown Manhattan—one thing makes this (almost) worth it: The drunken, kinda-creepy beat from song-of-the-summer hit, “Fancy”, which may well be the best thing […]
Food For Thought: Pitchfork Music Festival 2014
The trend in music festivals these days seems to be “all you can eat”. A hungry fan shopping for an experience would be pleased to see a former Beatle playing alongside a long broken-up, and now-reunited rap crew from the 90s. If your tastes are more progressive, here are 30 bands that you’ve never heard […]
St. Vincent killed it on the season finale of SNL
Sure, there was a mildly amusing bit about Solange and Jay-Z, but St. Vincent was the real star of Saturday’s season finale. If you missed her performance, watch below:
Annie Clark of St Vincent was on Portlandia
Stream the New David Byrne & St. Vincent; New Video: 'Who'
You can listen to it all here. There’s essentially no way for a collaboration between Talking Heads’ David Byrne and St. Vincent’s Annie Clark to exceed the sum of its parts. Each artist is distinctive enough, and dominant enough over the work on which he or she appears, that their sensibilities can’t be blended so […]
Fashion Night Out 2012 Concerts
NOTE – We’ve added St. Vincent, Three 6 Mafia, Questlove and more to the list below! This Thursday is Fashion’s Night Out and My Social List is happy to partner with Freewilliamsburg to bring you our list of the best live performances. 6PM: Chairlift at Prada (Soho) 6PM: La Sera, Icona Pop (DJ ) at […]
David Byrne and St. Vincent Are Bringing Their Act To The Waterfront Series
Williamsburg Park announced on Facebook today that David Byrne and St. Vincent will be joining the waterfront concerts lineup. The show is on September 29th and tickets go on sale on June 22nd. As we posted earlier today, the two musicians are working on a project together and the first track is now available. This […]
Listen: The 1st track from David Byrne and St. Vincent's new Project
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