June 22, 2021 at 9:00 am
Watch: Serena Isioma “HUH?”
Photo by Daniel Delgato
Chicago-based artist Serena Isioma is back with a technicolored funk track, “HUH?”. Switching ...
June 21, 2021 at 9:30 am
Beechwood is back, live and in person
Photos by Lauren Massie
One of our favorite New York bands pre-pandemic is reemerging into the post-vaxxed live music landscape ...
June 18, 2021 at 9:00 am
Watch: Pretty Sick “Physical”
Pretty Sick’s latest music video replicates the buzzed wandering and self-contemplation after a night out — complete with ...
June 15, 2021 at 9:00 am
Watch: Wet Leg “Chaise Longue”
Ok on the real, though, this is the most excited I’ve been for a band in a minute.
Domino’s latest signees, Wet ...
June 14, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Steele F.C. “Que Sera”
Photo by Hans Neumann
Steele F.C. (fka Steele and (Brooklyn) Steele) has been steadily defining his sound with each release. ...
June 11, 2021 at 9:00 am
Lorde is the summertime messiah on “Solar Power”
Lorde is not the same girl who sang, “she thinks you love the beach, you’re such a damn liar” on “Green ...
June 9, 2021 at 9:00 am
Pom Pom Squad luxuriates in their own wallowing on “Crying”
Photo by Sammy Ray Nelson
Sometimes it’s really delicious to just feel a lot of feelings. Mixing punk with classic Motown, Pom ...
June 8, 2021 at 9:00 am
Watch: Tkay Maidza “Cashmere”
Photo by Dana Trippe
Coming off the bad bitch anthem “Syrup”, Tkay Maidza switches lanes and shares her softer side on ...
June 7, 2021 at 9:00 am
The anxious euphoria of Nation of Language’s “Across that Fine Line”
Photo by Kevin Condon
It is so rare that a song specifically, accurately, and fully replicates a uniquely delicious human experience, ...
June 4, 2021 at 9:00 am
What’s old is new again: the great cover resurgence
The pandemic was filled with a bunch of not so great stuff for music and for artists. Albums were put on hold. Tours were cancelled. ...
May 26, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Maple Glider “Baby Tiger”
Photo by Bridgette Winten
Maple Glider, aka Tori Zietsch, shares “Baby Tiger”, the latest offering off of her ...
May 25, 2021 at 9:00 am
Watch: Touchy’s “Secret Melody”
Photo by Rebecca Noble
As we get ready to be buzzed in a club under multicolored lights and (ideally) a disco ball, Touchy gets us ...
May 24, 2021 at 9:00 am
Listen: FUR “The Fine Line of a Quiet Life”
Photo by Julia Nala
Brighton band FUR melds 60s inspiration with early 2000s guitar-rock-resurgence nostalgia on their latest track ...
May 19, 2021 at 9:00 am
Squid’s “Pamphlets” is eerily stunning
Following the release of their debut full length Bright Green Field, Squid has released a music video for the climactic track of the ...
May 18, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Olivia Rodrigo sheds her Disney skin on “good 4 u”
Disney has finally seemed to take the hint and let their stars act their own age. Following in the steps of predecessors like Britney ...
May 17, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Monsterwatch “Somewhere”
Monsterwatch’s “Somewhere” is an electric trek towards your own demise. Repetitive and pulsating, the single hammers ...
May 13, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Mixtape: anti-hibernation
Scene: Summer 2021. You are a fully vaxxed individual. Tours are being announced for the fall. You have hope for the first time in you ...
May 12, 2021 at 9:00 am
Dayglow’s “Balcony” is missed connections romanticism
photo by Pooneh Ghana
As we start to re-emerge into some form of social life with vaccinations, decent weather, and the promise of ...
May 10, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Little Simz is elegance and opulence on “Woman”
In her directorial debut, Little Simz creates a luxurious world dripping in diamonds and clothed in silks for her latest music video ...
May 5, 2021 at 9:00 am
Brooklyn, there’s a new band in town. Meet Catcher.
Photo by Grace Watts
Coming in like a cool breeze, stylish new post-punk outfit Catcher have made their entry into the Brooklyn ...
May 3, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Alt Citizen social hour @ The Sultan Room
Thanks so much to everyone who came out last week! Was a blast to listen to great tunes from DJs Lola Pistola and Justin Krim and see ...
April 27, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Pen Pals with Subtext
One of the things I miss most about live music is all the amazing people you would meet at the gigs. Depending on the show or the band ...
April 26, 2021 at 12:00 pm
ICYMI: Iceage, Pretty Sick, Uwade, FEET
ICYMI is a series featuring new and notable releases you (and we) may have missed
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their ...
April 22, 2021 at 12:00 pm
April 29: Alt Citizen social hour @ The Sultan Room
You’re invited to socialize with us IRL! It’s been a minute, but we’re having a social hour next Thursday, April ...
April 20, 2021 at 12:00 pm
4/20 mixtape
*wooooo*
Whether you’re “celebrating” or not today, here’s a mixtape to pair with the day. Even though ...
April 19, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Spellling’s fantastic and theatric “Little Deer”
Spellling has always appeared to be a mystical, magical sort of human with a magnetic and mysterious aura, but she dives even deeper ...
April 14, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Live music is back at The Sultan Room *cries*
Photo by Allen Ying
It feels almost surreal to say, but live music is coming back. It might not be in the same sweaty, beer soaked ...
April 12, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Essential Forever ‘There’s A Lot Still To Say About’
Al Heaney of Chicago’s Jungle Green has ventured out on a new solo project, Essential Forever, playing the character of a ...
April 8, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Tkay Maidza “Syrup”
Our Issue 9 cover star, Zimbabwe-born Australian Rapper Tkay Maidza is back, following up her 2020 release Last Year Was Weird Vol. ...
March 31, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Dry Cleaning doesn’t care about your socialized ideals
Photo by Steve Gullick
On their latest video, “Unsmart Lady”, Dry Cleaning shares amongst skittering guitars and Florence ...
March 30, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Mixtape: it’s called regression, sweaty
You’re either lying or living in a very different reality if you haven’t experienced even a *momentary* moment of ...
March 23, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Mia Joy “Freak”
photo by Sydney Haliburton
With distant, reverberating chords and percussion reminiscent of water droplets plopping heavy down to ...
March 19, 2021 at 12:00 pm
David Lynch takes a trip on the good ship lollipop on Glume’s “What is a feeling”
In a rich, red brocade room, complete with a heart shaped headboard and sparkling chandelier, we find the always enchanting Glume for ...
March 17, 2021 at 12:00 pm
N0V3L search for balance on “Group Disease”
With an 80s tinged, post punk darkness, offset by inescapably catchy, tinkling keys, N0V3L is back with the first single off their ...
March 16, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Mixtape: what we’re listening to
Art by Mikayla Lewis
Writing and reading about music is always a little ironic instead of just listening to the thing, so we’re ...
March 12, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Red Ribbon drives us into the surreal southwest on “Renegade”
If you’re looking to fill the Lana Del Rey shaped hole in your heart with someone earthy, less problematic, but equally as ...
February 24, 2021 at 12:00 pm
ICYMI: Iceage, MAY-A, Eades, Dry Cleaning
ICYMI is a series featuring new and notable releases you (and we) may have missed
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their ...
February 17, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Artist x Artist: Tolliver x Blimes and Gab
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here
I don’t think you could walk into a gig from New York to L.A., or ...
February 3, 2021 at 12:00 pm
A few of my favorite things: Creams
Creams’ pulsating dark pop is completely hypnotic. From the first electronic whispers on her latest track, “Sleep On ...
February 2, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Zine preview: Native Sun tour diary
My last moments pre-quarantine were spent on tour with Native Sun in California. After an amazing week out west, we headed back to the ...
January 29, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Squid “Narrator”
Looking like they’re in a computerized, post-apocalyptic landscape, Squid brings us their first single, “Narrator”, ...
January 22, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: The Muckers – “That’s All I Want”
I’m always a fan of some sort of creative restriction or framework — self-inflicted or otherwise — and how it inspires an ...
January 11, 2021 at 12:00 pm
ICYMI: Claud, Shame, Adam Melchor
ICYMI is a series featuring new and notable releases you (and we) may have missed
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their ...
December 31, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Mixtape: Alt Citizen’s 2020 trax
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here.
Not necessarily 2020 releases, but the music that got us through this ...
December 18, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Holiday mixtape
Tis the szn! Here’s a mix of holiday songs, old and new, to help get you in whatever the mood may be given the current ...
December 1, 2020 at 12:00 pm
It’s Is My Life with Juulsexual
Juulsexual is our favorite meme account hands down, no questions asked, you cannot change our minds, this is fact. The guys from The ...
November 30, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Photographer Daniel Topete takes us behind the scenes of self-recorded music with ‘Mirror Sound’
Photos by Daniel Topete
If you keep up with the New York music scene or any of the best established or up-and-coming rock and punk ...
November 25, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Record collection tour with Chris Maestro of BierWax
If you’re a vinyl and craft beer lover who needs to escape their apartment (or their holiday plans, or…reality?) this ...
November 24, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Issue 9: Tkay Maidza, Dehd, Sloppy Jane, Show Me The Body, and more
Thrilled to finally be sharing what we’ve been working on for a minute now — Issue 9 is finally here!
We started this ...
November 19, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Dry Cleaning “Scratchcard Lanyard”
Thank god that as the world (and humanity) is spiraling further into the abyss Dry Cleaning remains a monotone, cheeky voice of dark ...