The countdown to the Northside Festival has officially begun! In less than 30 days, more than 350 bands will descend on Williamsburg and Greenpoint for four long days and even longer nights. But here at Northside HQ, there’s no rest for the weary. We’re still adding bands to the lineup, and are pleased to announce that come June 13-16, Northside Music will host (among many others) Chance the Rapper, A Place to Bury Strangers, Bleached, Weekend, Ratking, Light Asylum, Young Magic, Wild Cub, Suuns, Alex Bleeker & the Freaks, KEN mode, Twin Peaks, Team Ghost, The Jazz Butcher, Texas Bob Juarez & Mike Stone (of Television Personalities), Body/Head (feat. Kim Gordon & Bill Nace), Young Magic and Majical Cloudz. They’ll be joining the likes of The Walkmen, Solange, the reformation of Greg Ginn’s iconic band Black Flag (featuring Jealous Again-era vocalist Ron Reyes), WHY?, Iceage, Mac DeMarco, Swans, Lambchop, Born Ruffians, Merchandise, Rhys Chatham & Oneida, The Gories, Subhumans, Peanut Butter Wolf, Widowspeak and a whole lot more. Over 350 total, to be precise.

Still haven’t gotten a badge? Click here to pick one up for a cool $80. And for a look at the Northside Music lineup so far, click here. We’ll be adding bands to the lineup until the very last minute, so follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook to keep up with all of the latest Northside Festival news. See you all so, so soon.

Back in April, we announced that Red Bull Creation, the nation’s premier innovation competition, would be coming to the Northside Festival. Since then, over 50 engineering teams from New York to Hawaii submitted their designs for a unique invention using a custom piece of hardware known as the “TurBULL Encabulator,” in hopes of being chosen to take part in the final, 72-hour build at McCarren Park. And, we have our winners! Click here to meet the final six teams. And, be sure to stop by the Red Bull Creation tent during the NExT Expo. Our final sex teams will be designing and building for three straight days, all in the hopes of winning the $10,000 prize and a spot in Red Bull Creation history.

Volunteering should NOT look like this. But we will get you a cool t-shirt.

The Northside Festival is quickly approaching (mark your calendars for June 13-20) and early bird badges are totally sold out. Bummer! But, we’ll let you in on a secret: you can score a Northside Music badge (valued at a cool $80) for literally no money at all. All that we ask is that you join the Northside Fest team as a volunteer. Intrigued? Read on.

What does a Northside Festival volunteer do?
We’re asking for a two day commitment (or 4 half-days) over the 8-day long festival. Plus, we’d like to get to know you at a training session prior to the festival’s start. Throughout the festival, we’ll need Northside volunteers to verify badges at participating festival venues and maintain an accurate count of badge holders at Northside events. Or, you could be assigned to special projects like organizing gift bags, distributing marketing materials, running last-minute errands, etc. And of course, Northside Festival volunteers should be friendly, straightforward and just generally not-jerks. Could that be you?!

So, what do I get?
For your trouble, we’ll hook you up with a Northside Music badge (value: $80) of your very own. That’ll get you first-come, first serve access to all Northside Music events (June 13-16). Plus, you’ll have guaranteed entry to The Walkmen and Solange shows on the Converse Rubber Tracks Live Stage at McCarren Park.

To sign up to be a Northside volunteer, click here. We’ll be in touch shortly, and we can’t wait to meet you.

Earlier in the month when we announced that The Walkmen are playing the Converse Rubber Tracks Live Stage at McCarren Park as part of the Northside Festival, we promised you that wasn’t all we had in store for the weekend. Never one to break a promise, dear readers, we’re happy to announce they’ll be playing with special guests Phosphorescent and openers Friend Roulette and Abadabad. And yes, while tickets sold out very, very quickly, we’re happy to release some more out into the wild. Click here to RSVP for your own general admission ticket before they disappear again. But that’s not all. On Sunday, June 16th, Solange, Petite Noir, Cable and My Midnight Heartwill also be playing the Converse Rubber Tracks Live at Northside Stage in McCarren Park! Each night’s supporting acts were handpicked by us here at The L Magazine and all have recorded at Converse Rubber Tracks here in Brooklyn, NY.

Just like The Walkmen, free general admission tickets are available with an RSVP, and everyone with a Music or Premium badge is guaranteed entry. Don’t have a badge? Just click here to RSVP or buy a badge. Gates open at 3pm and the show starts at 4pm, but if you don’t have a badge, we’d recommend getting there early; an RSVP doesn’t guarantee entry so beat the crowds! We’ll be there rain or shine at the corner of Bedford Ave and N. 12th St. (right next to the tennis courts).

And of course, we’re still hard at work to fill those four days with as much music as we possibly can, and we’re thrilled to say we’ve added even more bands to the lineup, including Phosphorescent, The Gories, Ivan & Alyosha, Born Ruffians, Sinkane, BRAIDS, The Spinto Band, Peanut Butter Wolf, Yellow Ostrich, The So So Glos, Weekend, Widowspeak, Chad Valley, Julian Lynch, The Beets and Foreplay, to name just a few. They’ll join the likes of The Walkmen, the reformation of Greg Ginn’s iconic band Black Flag (featuring Jealous Again-era vocalist Ron Reyes), Lambchop, Swans, Iceage, Son Volt, Subhumans, Rhys Chatham and Oneida (in a special collaborative performance), WHY?, Kylesa, Mac DeMarco, The Toasters, Merchandise, The Men, White Fence, Torche, Chelsea Wolfe, The Soft Moon, Sonny & the Sunsets, Lust for Youth,Twin Sister, Milk Music, Pharmakon, Nü Sensae and tons more (phew!). Click here to take a look at a full list of confirmed artists thus far. And, should you want to get a jumpstart on your Northside weekend, click here to check out the Northside schedule. We’ll be adding many, many (many!) more shows between now and June, so be sure to keep in touch, won’t you? You can do that by following us on Twitter and liking us on Facebook for updates, because there’s plenty more coming your way between now and June.

Start your summer planning now; the NExT Conference (June 13-14) schedule is officially live! Get a head start on June by browsing the NExT Conference lineup, making your own personal schedule, and seeing where your friends are going to be. Let’s take a look at some of the discussions and panels we have in store for June, shall we?

Uber and the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission on Paving the Road to Disruption
Speakers: David Yassky, Commissioner/Chairman of NYC Taxi & Limo Commission; Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber

Fireside Chat with Warby Parker
Speakers: Neil Blumenthal, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Warby Parker

The Trends of Love: OkCupid Data Science
Speakers: Christian Rudder, Co-Founder of OkCupid

What I Would Do, If I Could Do it Again- Lessons Learned from Building Behance
Speakers: Scott Belsky, Vice-President of Community Adobe, Head of Behance

The Ultimate Balance Between Tech and Design
Speakers: Anthony Casalena, Founder/CEO Squarespace; Shane Snow, Chief Creative Officer of Contently; Georg Petschnigg, Co-Founder/CEO of FiftyThree; John Jacobsen, Head of Engineering of Quirky

And many more!

For a comprehensive look at this year’s NExT schedule, click here. To meet this year’s NExT Conference speakers, click here. NExT badges are on sale now; click here to get one of your very own. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for all of the latest NExT and Northside news.

Northside Film (June 17-20) is quickly approaching, and with it, the Northside DIY Film Competition. Yes, our annual cinematic thunder dome is back, in which filmmakers go toe-to-toe to compete for over $10,000 in cash and prizes, including a special screening at Nitehawk Cinema. If you’re new to the Northside Film DIY Competition (or just need a refresher), here’s how it works. From Monday, June 17 until Thursday, June 20, we’ll screen four semi-final features and ten semi-final shorts. The grand prize for the best feature will be determined by our illustrious jury and the grand prize for best short will be determined by you, the audience members. Let’s take a look at our semi-finalists, shall we?

Semi-final features: Wisdom Teeth, Be Good, FUREVER and Follow the Leader.

Semi-final shorts: Spoils, Extraordinary Harvest,Flyer Boy, Downtown, I Hear You, Skin and Bones, Epilogue, Campers, Flo, The Hunting Trip, and Tremblor.

And of course, Northside Film is still your source for New York Premieres, repertory picks documentaries and more. Let’s take a look at some of what our curatorial partners have put together.

We’re pleased to announce the New York Premiere of Swim Little Fish Swim. Directed by Ruben Amar and Lola Bessis, Swim Little Fish Swim stars Dustin Guy Defa, the director of 2011 Northside DIY Competition entry, Bad Fever. Defa plays an irresponsible husband living in a tiny Chinatown apartment with his wife; the precarious balance of their lives is nearly overturned when Lilas, a 19 year old French artist moves in with the couple.

indieWIRE proudly presents the Brooklyn Premiere of Byzantium. From Neil Jordan, director of Interview With a Vampire, Byzantium tells the tale of a young woman’s entrance into the world of vampiric legends.

Women Make Movies presents a sneak peek screening of Forbidden Voices, the story of Yoani Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi, female bloggers from Cuba, China and Iran, respectively. Forbidden Voices accompanies these three cyberfeminists as they work to build international awareness for women’s rights and risk punishment from their dictatorial regimes.

Northside Film is taking place from June 17-20 at Nitehawk Cinema, UnionDocs, Williamsburg Cinemas, Videology and the Wythe Hotel. Badges are on sale now for the absurdly low price of $35; click here to get your very own! For a full list of our curatorial partners, click here. For a sneak peek at the 2013 films, click here. For Northside Film updates, follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook. See you in June!

Are you an artist living in Brooklyn? Want to be a part of this year’s Northside Festival? Here’s your chance.

This year, Northside Art, a platform for art, interaction and community, will take over a block of Bedford Ave in conjunction with Williamsburg Walks. Temporary wall units, interactive installations and sculptures will be staggered along the block for live painting performances, graffiti and other participation oriented works.

Northside Art is seeking proposals for:

1. live painting/graffiti/collage
2. interactive installations/workshops
3. sculpture/stand alone installations

Please send all submissions and questions to varneyvictoria@gmail.com. See you in June!

Oy! Stop procrastinating. Buy a badge, already!

Early bird prices are only available until April 30th, which means you only have a few more days to take advantage of these sweet, sweet deals.

Just how sweet? Let’s take a look.

Northside Music Badge : $65 (regular price $80)
Northside NExT Badge : $190 (regular price $250)
Northside Film Badge : $25 (regular price $35)
Northside Premium Badge : $235 (regular price $260)

For a look at the initial Northside lineup–which includes The Walkmen, Black Flag (feat. Jealous Again-era singer Greg Ginn), Lambchop, Swans, WHY?, Rhys Chatham, Iceage, Son Volt and more–click here. For Northside updates and announcements, follow us on Twitter and “like” us on Facebook.

See you in June!

So, we promised you that this year NExT would grow into the biggest innovation and entrepreneurship showcase around, right? Well, we didn’t tell you was that we’d be tenting Mccarren Park, making the Expo free to attend with an RSVP (just click here), and we certainly didn’t promise that in addition to 150+ booths showcasing the most innovative, and disruptive companies coming out of New York City, we’d have the folks at Red Bull host their transformation Red Bull Creation competition right smack in the middle of NExT.

That’s right, Red Bull is flying six top engineering teams to McCarren Park to engage in a 72-hour competitive build; they’ll be competing for a $10,000 prize and, you know, infamy. If you think you’ve got the chops to apply, check out more information here. For the rest of us, Red Bull will build a state of the art tool shop right in the middle of the NExT Expo, and we’ll watch as the laser saws buzz and the blowtorches blow.

But, of course, there’s more than just laser saws at NExT. If you’re interested in startup companies or would like to be a part of the most exciting innovation community around, then you’ll love everything else going on in Mccarren. We’ll be announcing more NExT Expo exhibitors over the next few weeks, but for now meet some of our favorite companies that will be showcasing at NExT. You’ll find the sneak peek after the jump.

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Brooklyn-based cinephiles, start the countdown: Northside Film (June 17-20) is a mere two months away! Now in it’s fourth year, Northside Film is returning and bringing with it over 40 films, repertory picks and Brooklyn Premieres to your favorite neighborhood theaters. We’ve teamed up with some of the most talented people working in the film industry and beyond to handpick a lineup chock-full of documentaries, narratives, shorts and everything in between that will keep you pretty busy during the week of June 17. Let’s take a look at what our illustrious curatorial partners have lined up for June, shall we?

BAMcinemaFest is proud to present the New York Premiere of All the Light in the Sky (2012), from the master of the microbudget and the godfather of mumblecore himself, director Joe Swanberg (dir. Hannah Takes the Stairs, LOL, Kissing on the Mouth). Starring Jane Adams (aka the best part of Todd Solondz’s Happiness) and Sophia Takal (Green), All the Light in the Sky is classic Swanberg, capturing the chatty but intimate moments between an aging actress and her niece during a weekend spent at a Malibu beach house.

Other highlights include Kopfstand (Headstand) (dir. Ernst Josef Lauscher), presented by The L Magazine (hey, that’s us!). Kopfstand features a pre-Django, pre-Oscar Christoph Waltz in his first starring role; it hasn’t been screened in the United States since 1982, (which is before some of us were born) and who knows when it will be back, so we highly recommend picking up a ticket and picking it up early (information on purchasing individual screening tickets to come!).

Oscilloscope will present the New York Premiere of A Teacher, the directorial debut of Hannah Fidell, curated by Filmwax. The Sundance favorite stars Lindsay Burdge as a Texas high school teacher involved in an affair with one of her male students.

Oscilloscope proudly presents Who Took the Bomp (dir. Kerthy Fix), the 2010 documentary following Le Tigre on their 2004-2005 international tour. Who Took the Bomp features live performances, archived interviews, and intimate backstage footage of Le Tigre. Plus, director Kerthy Fix and Kathleen Hanna will be at the screening to answer your questions after the credits roll. You’ll find the rest of the initial Northside Film lineup after the jump, and on the lineup page on the Northside website.

But that’s not all! Please welcome Terence Nance, director of An Oversimplification of Her Beauty and Ramin Bahrani, director of Chop Shop and Goodbye Solo) to the 2013 Northside Film DIY Competition Jury. They’re joining fellow jurors Scott Macaulay (Jury Chair; editor, Filmmaker Magazine), Alex Karpovsky (actor, Girls; director, Rubberneck and Red Flag), Miriam Bale (founder, La Di Da Film Festival). Over the next few months, they will be reviewing our Northside Film DIY Competition submissions and deciding which lucky filmmakers will receive over $10,000 in cash and prizes, plus a special screening at Nitehawk Cinema.

Northside Film is taking place from June 17-20 at Nitehawk Cinema, UnionDocs, Williamsburg Cinema, Videology and the Wythe Hotel. Badges are on sale now for the absurdly low price of $25. That’s 40 films over four days for the cost of two tickets at your local megaplex. But those prices won’t last for long. Early bird deals end on Tuesday, April 30. So yeah, we’ll see you at Northside Film. You can find a complete list of our curatorial partners after the jump.

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