Newtown Radio

Newtown Radio is a Freeform (radio format) Internet radio station founded in 2009 by Mark Brinda and Colin Ilgen that broadcasts out of a former brewery in Bushwick, Brooklyn NY. The online station features around the clock programming by notable blogs, artists, and labels. Several radio programs on Newtown Radio have attracted wider media attention, including: WTBS, I Have Always Found You Extremely Attractive, Disco Juice, Cock Talk, and Level Radio. . The station remains committed to local causes and community efforts. Notable Artists who have appeared on Newtown Radio include: Laurel Halo, Real Estate, Lower Dens, Small Black, Beach Fossils, The Drums, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Dirty Beaches, Dom, Amen Dunes, PC Music, Regal Degal, Weyes Blood, Minks, Widowspeak, Connan Mockasin, Sky Ferreira, DIIV, Mac DeMarco, Craft Spells, Destruction Unit, Jacuzzi Boys, Oh Land, Chelsea Wolfe, Nardwuar, Gardens & Villa, Perfect Pussy, Wampire, Pillar Point, Mood Rings, Light Asylum, Dog Bite, TEEN, Tashaki Miyaki, The Bunker, PAN, Ron Morelli (L.I.E.S.), Traxx, Florian Kupfer, Jackson Lee, TX Connect, Adam X, Tornado Wallace, Shawn O’Sullivan, Nao Katafuchi, Legowelt, Professor Genius, Galcher Lustwerk, Alvin Aronson, & others.

In 2011 their Northside festival showcase at Shea Stadium BK in Bushwick Brooklyn with Laurel Halo, Autre Ne Veut, and Steve Summers was reviewed positively in The New York Times by Jon Caramanica. In 2015, in conjunction with PopRally, the planning committee at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Newtown Radio co-curated 4 summer concerts in the MoMA Sculpture Garden, featuring: Galcher Lustwerk and DJ Willy Burns, Lower Dens and DJ Stadiums & Shrines, Regal Degal and DJ Michael McGregor, Tei Shi and DJ Lomé.

The station has also produced video sessions of rising indie artists published through Noisey/VICE.

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