January 7, 2014 at 4:59 pm
A Few of Our Favorite Things: Carbon Tigers
Chicago’s Carbon Tigers recently released The Wars at Home, which starts out with the sound of blowing wind as the backdrop for ...
January 7, 2014 at 1:39 pm
Interview: Dope Body
My introduction to Dope Body was seeing them open for the equally cleverly named Fucked Up at Le Poisson Rouge. I was intrigued from ...
December 18, 2013 at 9:50 am
The 30 Music Releases That Captured (And Kept) Our Attention In 2013
Last year, I carried the lone task of rounding up 50 of my favorite albums for Alt Citizen. This year, we’ve narrowed it down to ...
December 16, 2013 at 3:00 pm
Listen: +/- “Young Once”
“Young Once” is the moody return by +/- (Plus/Minus), a band we haven’t heard anything new from in more than five ...
December 6, 2013 at 2:48 pm
Watch: Awkwafina “Queef”
We’ve been loving Awkwafina ever since we saw her “NYC Bitche$” video. Now, she’s back with an even more ...
December 3, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Interview: Speedy Ortiz
There have been innumerable comparisons of Speedy Ortiz to Pavement. Sure, there are musical and vocal similarities, as singer and ...
December 2, 2013 at 10:56 am
Band Crush: Grooms @ Knitting Factory
Band Crush: Grooms @ Knitting Factory (11/23)
Last week, Grooms played a short set at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn. It was the ...
November 25, 2013 at 3:31 pm
Watch: Seth Rogen & James Franco in “Bound 3”
Up until today, I had successfully avoided watching Kanye West’s “Bound 2”. It’s not that I dislike Kanye (or ...
November 22, 2013 at 8:00 am
Nov 22: “Flame Tempered” Opening @ The Living Gallery 6pm (FREE!)
“Flame Tempered” Opening @ The Living Gallery 6pm (FREE!)
From The Living Gallery: “[‘Flame ...
November 15, 2013 at 1:38 pm
Mixtape: Weekend Warriors
Look, there’s a reason why R. Kelly saying “It’s the freakin’ weekend baby, I’m about to have me some ...
November 12, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Watch: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks “Lariat”
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks will release the follow up to 2011’s Mirror Traffic with Wig Out at Jagbags, out January 7 on ...
November 8, 2013 at 8:29 am
Nov 9: Yael Kraus, Krystal Math + more @ PIANOS, 7PM ($10)
Yael Kraus, Krystal Math + more @ PIANOS, 7PM
The pun-titled Krystal Math and the ultra-talented alt composer Ian Fiedorek share the ...
November 7, 2013 at 12:13 pm
Mixtape: Real Talk
These songs transcend all the multiple meanings and definitions of #realtalk. You can drop the hashtag if you want, I don’t ...
November 6, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Interview: Rocket & The Ghost
The week of CMJ is crazy — not just for us fans, struggling with earplugs and lack of sleep night after night. Those who have ...
October 30, 2013 at 2:51 pm
Listen: Ing “Dogs Are Aliens”
If there ever was a case for keeping it simple, it’s Ing’s “Dogs Are Aliens.” Formerly known as Plaid Dragon, ...
October 29, 2013 at 1:54 pm
Mixtape: Halloween
Happy ...
October 28, 2013 at 12:19 pm
R.I.P. Lou Reed
I am pretty sure the first full Velvet Underground album I heard was Loaded. But I had definitely seen the image synonymous with the ...
October 24, 2013 at 1:11 pm
Strange Powers: An Interview with Xenia Rubinos
“She’s doing some R&B sounding vocals with weird keyboard stuff,” is the not too far from accurate description an onlooker ...
October 21, 2013 at 4:16 pm
Review: From a Fountain ‘Milky Mile Two’
From a Fountain, AKA Douglas Kirby isn’t satisfied with just releasing one album in a year. Milky Mile premiered back in August, ...
October 14, 2013 at 1:44 pm
Watch: CON VOS “Central Park”
CON VOS, a new group from NYC have shared their video for the equal parts dreamy and catchy “Central Park” from their ...
October 10, 2013 at 1:05 pm
Listen: Drowners “Luv, Hold Me Down”
Drowners have been keeping busy opening up for a little band called the Arctic Monkeys. Now they’ve shared the spelling ...
October 1, 2013 at 8:43 pm
Watch: Migos “Versace”
So Migos of “Versace” fame finally released a video for that song and watching it gives you the same vibes you get after ...
September 6, 2013 at 11:16 am
Interview: Radical Dads
Radical Dads, who are basically Alt Citizen BFFs at this point (they played our summer jam back in June) were gracious enough to grant ...
September 5, 2013 at 11:56 am
Watch: Pixies – “Indie Cindy”
This week, the super influential Pixies released a 4-song EP called simply EP-1. It contains probably the best Pixies song in recent ...
August 26, 2013 at 2:51 pm
Watch: !!! Sing “Californiyeah” In An Elevator
For the second video from their excellent Thr!!!er, !!! (chk-chk-chk) made a very DIY-style video in an elevator in Japan (and got ...
August 22, 2013 at 9:28 am
Listen: Earl Sweatshirt – ‘Doris’
Some people still think of Earl from the “FREE EARL” rallying cries from his OFWGKTA cohorts when his mom sent him off to ...
August 21, 2013 at 11:34 am
Listen: M.I.A. – “Unbreak My Mixtape”
Now that Matangi finally has a release date(11/5), M.I.A. has shared a glitchy and subdued track from it. “Unbreak My ...
August 19, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Butter The Children On True Crime
Butter The Children gets a lot of shit for its name. Even me, a self-described stan for the band was apprehensive to listen. But when ...
August 19, 2013 at 10:00 am
Listen: Parquet Courts Share New Song, New EP In October
Things have been quiet on the Parquet Courts front, as they’re probably still riding margarita waves of bliss from their ...
August 19, 2013 at 8:00 am
Read: Tumblr Pairs Smiths Lyrics with Peanuts Comics
This is a match made in heaven (knows I’m miserable now). I’m surprised no one had thought of it sooner. The tumblr page ...
August 14, 2013 at 8:00 am
Watch: Beach House Scores New Rodarte Short Film
Beach House are definitely not lacking in the strange-yet-engrossing video department. I remember stealing my college radio ...
August 7, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Another Yo La Tengo Video
The ever romantic Yo La Tengo, have returned with a music nerd’s idea of a romantic video for a romantic song. I promise I ...
August 5, 2013 at 1:33 pm
Talking About Panic Attacks, Mercury Retrograde and More with Psych Rockers TEEN
TEEN started as a solo project for Teeny Lieberson has gone through plenty of evolutions, both in line up and in sound. In its most ...
August 2, 2013 at 10:00 am
Angel Haze Covers Kanye
Rapper Angel Haze, who has previously done interesting cover renditions, dropped another gem this week. It comes in the form of a ...
July 24, 2013 at 10:30 am
Band Crush: Blue & Gold @ Piano’s
Photo by Jackie Lee
Blue & Gold, a band made up of a trio of young New Yorkers, celebrated the release of their self-titled debut ...
July 15, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Shervin Lainez Is With The Band: Music’s Hustling Photographer
Shervin Lainez
Even the most humid weather won’t stop Shervin Lainez from getting business done. The man is a machine! Since he ...
July 13, 2013 at 11:00 am
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
Alex Chilton, Jody Stephens, Chris Bell and Andy Hummel in BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy ...
June 26, 2013 at 1:27 pm
My Lost Weekend with The So So Glos
backstage at the kniting factory
I may or may not be a fortune teller and not know it. This also depends on your definition of a ...
June 20, 2013 at 3:00 pm
America’s Native Son Returns: Yeezus Reviewed
“Y’all fuck with the new shit?” is the question posed by Kanye West to the crowd at Governors Ball. I was somewhere in that ...
June 19, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Finding the Sweet Spot with Hilly Eye
“Amy should be here around 8:15, she’s coming straight from work,” Hilly Eye’s Catherine Tung tells me as we sit on couches ...
June 3, 2013 at 10:46 am
Soundtracked: Music, News, and More Week of May 28
Before writing this week’s round-up I was wondering if I may have made too bold of a statement last week when I said that Radical ...
May 28, 2013 at 12:13 pm
Soundtracked: Music, News, and More Week of May 21
There were a lot of Big Name releases this week from Daft Punk to The National to … French Montana. Here’s the stuff that I ...
May 22, 2013 at 11:10 am
Soundtracked: Music, News, and More Week of May 14
It’s either some sort of miracle or some sort of massive music journalist irresponsibility that’s kept me from listening to Modern ...
May 16, 2013 at 1:23 pm
Soundtracked: Music, News, and More Week of May 7
Mikal Cronin’s MCII was a pleasant surprise in ways that are not usual in the internet era of oversaturation and maximum hype ...
May 14, 2013 at 2:42 pm
The Looking, Alyson Greenfield @ Bowery Electric
The Looking is opera singer Todd Carter’s project revolving around taking traditional Americana songs and making them into folk ...
May 7, 2013 at 3:24 pm
Soundtracked: Music, News, and More Week of April 30
There are only two albums that I can recommend this week, and that is mostly my fault for not being able to listen to more of the ...
May 6, 2013 at 1:45 pm
Review: English Little League by Guided By Voices
“Have you heard Guided By Voices? They’re a band. I have, I’ve heard everything they’ve ever done. They’re good. I’m a ...
May 1, 2013 at 12:42 pm
RiFF RAFF’s Top 10 Vines
Look, a lot of people are gonna say that the best thing to come out of Houston is Beyoncé. I disagree, the greatest thing to come ...
April 30, 2013 at 12:47 pm
Never Be Cool: Golden Grrrls
“We’re not cool, we’ll never be cool” is the first thing Golden Grrrls’ guitarist Ruari tells me in his deep baritone made ...
April 29, 2013 at 11:43 am
Soundtracked: Music, News, and More Week of April 23
MALT LIQUOR MALT ICE CREAM. Try to figure out what my favorite release this week, won’t be too hard to figure out with that all caps ...