Brooklyn’s Keepaway make a video for “Cake,” featuring so much man love.

Keepaway “Cake” from Max Goldblatt on Vimeo.

Our beloved headliners from Sunday night’s Northside showcase at Brooklyn Bowl, Keepaway, are the first full set recording to be released by NYC Taper, who happened to be in attendance. As the trio took the stage, they gave shout outs to Kobe Bryant, Lil’ B, as well as the man responsible for Intro to Based 101 before diving head first into a set filled with rhythmic keys reminiscent of the Rugrats theme song. Basically, really fucking rad.

So if you have fond memories of the show, or you couldn’t make it because you’re lame, relive the whole thing right here. We’ll keep you posted on recordings from the rest of Sunday’s artists.

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 off jam packed night with their retro-pop and lo-fi sound. Duo Glass Ghost played an engrossing and mildly ambient set and even poked of their sound juxtaposed with the bowling alley setting.

The gorgeous Oh Land danced around on stage in a Christopher Kane for Topshop crocodile printed crop top and a wolf hat (worn especially for the occasion) and enchanted the audience with her catchy electronic drum hooks.

Hooray for Earth (who were recently touring with Indie sweethearts The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and lo-fi Surfer Blood) launched into a killer set that rocked plain and simple. To close the night, Keepaway fresh from opening for Yeasayer at the Gone to Governor’s showcase played an upbeat set of dance fusion music and teased the crowd with the opening beats of their single, “Yellow Wings”– smirking, “Not yeetttt!”

To learn more about the bands that played last night, read their respective FREEWilliamsburg interviews here: Keepaway, Hooray for Earth, Oh Land, Glass Ghost and The Babies. Also, be sure to check out pictures from the night in the gallery below!

We couldn’t be more excited to have buzz band Keepaway headlining our Northside Festival showcase this year. Raves by tastemakers including Prefix, Pitchfork, and well, us, are quickly establishing this Williamsburg -based trio as a band to watch.

We spoke briefly with Frank Lyon (drums) and Nicholas Nauman (guitar) about their EP, the Animal Collective comparisons, and of course, Christina Ricci.

Keepaway will be playing the FREEwilliamsburg Northside Festival showcase at Brooklyn Bowl this Sunday, June 27th along with The Babies, Oh Land, Glass Ghost, and Hooray for Earth.

What are you trying to Keepaway from?

Frank: The money, the cars, the hoes. I suppose…

Nick: It’s one word, buddy. Ballsports, secret cubbies, our band. A vibe.

(Keepaway were formerly known as the unGooglable IN)

Where are you all from and where do you live now?

Frank: I am from a few places, but I will go to Minneapolis to die. I currently live on Lorimer St.

Nick: Mike and I spent many formative years together outside of Boston. I got Kentucky and Ohio in me. Some California. I live fairly close to Frank.

Do you have a favorite Williamsburg hangout?

Frank: My bed.

Nick: Frank’s bed.

Do you tire of the Animal Collective comparisons or are they apt?

Nick: I don’t get it. We were trying so hard to sound like Wavves.

Frank: It’s cool.

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The Northside Festival: The FREEwilliamsburg Showcase at Brooklyn Bowl

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 fresh-faced youngsters (USF, Blind Man’s Colour) attempting their best Animal Collective impression– and if the continued appeal of Merriweather Post Pavilion is any indication, their sound is sure to become more prevalent. There’s a hint of A.C.’s wooly weirdness in “Yellow Wings”, from relatively unknown Brooklyn trio Keepaway‘s just-released debut EP, Baby Style. The clipped vocal samples and woozy synths that open the song have some parallels with MPP‘s blasted-beat utopia, while rubbery guitar lines add Feels-era reference points to the mix. But on the evidence here, Keepaway also have an inclination toward indie-rock accessibility, allowing them to sidestep the formlessness that can suffocate more strict A.C.-devotees. [via]

Hooray for Earth

One of the most intriguing debut EPs released in recent memory… Hooray for Earth’s Momo both embraces the advanced, nuanced pop rhythmic and musical quality that’s come out of New York City lately. [via]

Oh Land

This will be her 2nd ever U.S. show! Welcome to the neighborhood Nanna Øland Fabricius.

Glass Ghost

Glass Ghost’s simple but sublime “Like A Diamond” was the first track to garner attention some months back, and deservedly so. It’s an affecting, gently aspirated bedtime piece coupling GG main mind Eliot Kimsky’s introspective ruminations with understated rimclicks and rolling Rhodes keys. In tune and percussion it struck me as the nocturnal cousin to Merriweather Post Pavilion’s “Guys Eyes,” and in feel and tone it seemed to capture Kimsky’s Glass Ghost moniker perfectly: nearly translucent and delicate vocals set to a melody that lingered long after you pressed stop. [via]

The Babies

a new Brooklyn lo-fi sorta-supergroup featuring lead Vivian Girl Cassie Ramone, Woods bassist Kevin Morby, and Justin Sullivan, drummer for Brooklyn band Bossy. Now we’ve got a new song, “Meet Me in the City”, that occupies an appealing middle ground between the Vivians’ slapdash garage pop and Woods’ scorched-earth stoner-folk [via]

With a late night set from DFA’s Justin Miller and FREEwilly faves, Rude Dudes, spinning between sets.

More information to come — including the 411 about drink specials — but mark you calendars, and RSVP here. The festival begins next Thursday, so check out the full line-up at The L Magazine.

Flyer c/o beholdthedestroyer

That other Williamsburg board has been down forever. Are they coming back? We’re not sure. But we do know that we have a shiny new board of our own now that needs some love. Head over and post away. We’ll be giving away a pair of free tickets to see Keepaway at Brooklyn Bowl on Sunday June 27th. (More information to come about this amazing show!) Sign up for our board and we’ll be picking a winner at random next week.

MP3:

Keepaway – “Yellow Wings”