Take a gander at The L Magazine’s Northside Festival schedule here.

“Northside Festival aims to celebrate the community of independent musicians, filmmakers and artists in the place where it thrives the most, shining a light on the sheer talent and creativity that Brooklyn cultivates.”

The impressive line-up includes:

?uestlove (DJ set) / Aa / A.A. Bondy / Air Waves / Albino Ghost Monkey / Annie & the Beekeepers / Apse / Arches / The Art of Shooting / Au Revoir Simone / Ava Luna / The Babies / Baby Copperhead / Bad Girlfriend / Ball of Flame Shoot Fire / Bebe Fang / The Beets / Bermuda Bonnie / Big Troubles / The Black Atlantic / The Black Hollies / Blood Warrior / Bottle Up & Go / Boy Without God / CALLmeKAT / Callers / The Canon Logic / Cat Martino / Charles Burst / Chica Vas / Class Actress / Cloud Nothings / Coasting / Cream in All Moustache / Cults / Dana Jewell (solo) / Dark Dark Dark / Darlings / Dinosaur Bones / Dinosaur Feathers / Dinowalrus (DJ set) / The Doctors Fox / DOM / Dream Diary / Drink Up Buttercup / Ducktails / Echostream / Elvis Perkins in Dearland / Eternal Summers / EULA / Family Portrait / Fan-Tan / Fang Island / The Fiery Furnaces / Fifth Nation / FLOOR / Fluffy Lumbers / Forest Fire / Frankie & the Outs / The Fresh & Onlys / Fucked Up / Gaucho / Gold Lake / Gold Streets / The Golden Filter / Golden Girls / Grails / Grandchildren / The Grates / Gray Young / The Great Unwashed / Grooms / The Gypsy West / Harper Blynn / Hidden Fees / High Places / Holiday Holiday / The Hollows / Hooray for Earth / Hot Graves / The Hundred in the Hands / I Love Monsters / Islands / Jason Loughlin / Javelina / JDDJ3J / Jody Porter (of Fountains of Wayne) / Jucifer / Keepaway / Knife City (Luke Silas of Anamanaguchi) / La Strada / LE-LI / Led Er Est / Les Savy Fav / Les Vinyl / Liars / Linfinity / The London Souls / The Loom / Love in October / Lower Dens / Madison Square Gardeners / Male Bonding / Marie Stella / Matteah Baim / Max Gabriel / Me & Mars / Memory Tapes / MEN (feat. JD Samson of Le Tigre) / Midnight Masses / Milagres (ex-The Secret Life of Sofia) / MiniBoone / Moon Duo / Netherfriends / The New Deal / No Demons Here (Luka Usmiani of Fluffy Lumbers) / North Highlands / Nouvellas / Oberhofer / Parenthetical Girls / The Pass / Paul & the Patients / PC Worship / Phil & the Osophers / The Pillow Theory / Polvo / Posi / The Press / PS I Love You / Psychobuildings / The Rabbits / Radical Dads / Reading Rainbow / Real Estate / Red Rooster / Ribbons / Runaway (DJ set) / Schooner / Sean Bones / The Senors of Marseille / Serpenti / She Keeps Bees / Shark? / The Shivers / Shoney Lamar / Shy Town / Sic Alps / Skeletonbreath / Sondre Lerche / Slow Club / The Smoking Popes / Starring / Steel Phantoms/ The Sundelles / Takka Takka / Tame Impala / Thao and Mirah with the Most of All / These United States / Titus Andronicus / Total Slacker / Trans (Jemina Pearl & John Eatherly of Be Your Own Pet; DJ set) / True Womanhood / Twin Shadow / Twin Sister / Union / Vandaveer / Viernes / Violens / The Wave Pictures / Wavves / We Are Country Mice / The Wicked Tomorrow / Wild Yaks / Wizardry / Woods / WOOM (ex-Flying) / World Atlas / Wounded Buffalo Theory / YellowFever / ZAZA / Zakee (DJ set) / Zapa Venu /

Holy crapola! That’s some bang for your buck. Get your tickets here.

TMAPS not to be missed list: Class Actress, Drink Up Buttercup, The Fiery Furnaces, The Golden Filter, Islands, Les Savy Fav, Liars, Male Bonding, Memory Tapes, Twins Sister, Twin Shadow, Wavves. See you there!

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ISLANDS played a great show at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom this past Thursday replete with rhinestone-studded wardrobe and the cheeky showmanship that we have come to expect from Nick Thorburn. The former Unicorns front man strutted around stage in a make-shift striptease of sorts disrobing systematically from an outfit that looked like the bastard love child of Elvis and Ziggy Stardust. Evan and Geordie Gordon, both very capable musicians, filled out the band’s sound alternating between synth, bass, lead guitar, and back-up vocals. Jamie Thompson, the band’s original drummer, was back in action after his two year hiatus from the group keeping all the afro-beats lined up and tight.

Thorburn kept the mood light by lifting items from audience members like 3/4 full beer (Canadians apparently think they’re immune to H1N1), a pair of specs, and a diary of sorts. The foursome blew through Vapours, which is essentially a pop record done with aplomb, which draws many parallels to Contra, Vampire Weekend’s new album that is slowing being revealed song by song. Both boast these funky afro-latino beats that make you want to calypso or bachata around your room and winsome deliveries from their lead singers. But more on this when Contra is officially released. Needless to say, Islands was first to market with this sound combo; credit where credit is due. The crowd at the show was decidedly young… like do-you-have-pubes young making my 25 years look hoary. But I must say, them kids got taste. Enjoy my pretty pics. 

Vapours is only $5 on Amazon.com!

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