October 3, 2019 at 9:00 am
Backstage and in the Crowd at Bushwig 2019
Photos by Katya
If you don’t know what Bushwig is, firstly read my post on it last year, but the TL:DR is that 8 years ago queens ...
August 7, 2019 at 9:00 am
Zine preview: In the pit with Dreamcrusher
Photos by Allen Ying
Check out an excerpt and some outtakes from our upcoming zine feature on Dreamcrusher
We’re primed for a ...
January 24, 2019 at 12:00 pm
Album Review: Girlpool’s “What Chaos Is Imaginary”
When I agreed to review the new Girlpool album, What Choas is Imaginary, I figured I would trash it. I loved the music Harmony and ...
January 22, 2019 at 9:00 am
Jan 25: Petal, Sir Babygirl, Cave People @ Rough Trade
Hi! So this recommendation is not the normal bill you hear about in Brooklyn. It’s not a garage-rock, punk, or rock n roll ...
November 12, 2018 at 9:00 am
Deep dive: Down into Bikini Kill’s raw and winding discography
Deep Dive is a new seres where a seminal band’s discography and legacy is broken down. Art by Ava East.
Bikini Kill, if you ...
August 22, 2018 at 9:00 am
Brooke Candy makes a play at redemption with the video for “My Sex”
Photo by Alis Pelleschi.
When Brooke Candy jumped on the scene in 2012 she seemed shockingly transgressive. From her otherworldly ...
June 11, 2018 at 9:00 am
Mixtape: Pride for punks
The first pride parade was to commemorate a riot (if you don’t know what I’m talking about google Stonewall). Now it’s awash ...
May 24, 2018 at 8:48 am
Meet The People of Tanlines: a Latinx Party/Pop-Up Mall
Last summer, Tanlines was the best day party around. The queer Latinx-centered party happened in the backyard of popular Brooklyn gay ...
February 9, 2018 at 8:00 am
Live Review: QWAM @ The Knitting Factory
photos by Connor McNamara.
When I premiered QWAM’s EP, I predicted that their show would be a heck of a good time. I’m ...
January 18, 2018 at 9:18 am
EP Premiere: QWAM ‘Feed Me’
QWAM make straightforward pop-punk of the non-emo variety, the kind that reminds me of the rush you feel when you do poppers on the ...
December 15, 2017 at 8:00 am
Review: Sunflower Bean @ Elsewhere
Photo by Luis Nieto Dickens, courtesy of Elsewhere.
I’m not sure what I expected from the Sunflower Bean show, but it wasn’t a ...
December 13, 2017 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: Salty Christmas
Tis the Christmas season, and while most Christmas music is merry, there’s a lot of stressors that come out around the ...
December 5, 2017 at 8:00 am
EP Review: Operator Music Band’s “Coördination”
I’m here for any band that sounds like they could soundtrack an 80s class video about the wonders of science, so I was pumped at ...
November 29, 2017 at 8:00 am
Review: Soccer Mommy, Emily Yacina, Yohuna @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by M0.
In many ways, this show felt like a showcase of sorts. Emily Yacina, Yohuna, and Soccer Mommy are all solo projects ...
November 24, 2017 at 8:00 am
Watch: Yaeji “Raingurl”
Normally house music is super boring to me. It’s monotonous thump regularly fails to be interesting enough to get me dancing. ...
November 16, 2017 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: Heavy Comforter
Sometimes I think I don’t wanna date someone as much as just have someone to snuggle. There’s nothing more sublime then ...
November 3, 2017 at 1:06 pm
Listen: Sunflower Bean “I Was a Fool”
Wow, it feels like forever (3 years!) since Sunflower Bean put out their debut album Human Ceremony and were dubbed “The #1 ...
October 30, 2017 at 8:00 am
Album Review: Common Holly ‘Playing House’
I have to let you in on a secret: no one knows what the fuck they’re doing when it comes to love! We’re all stumbling blindly ...
October 23, 2017 at 8:00 am
Watch: SOPHIE “It’s Ok To Cry”
SOPHIE, a loose associate of the PC music crew and producer for pop stars like Charli XCX and Madonna, has been secretive since her ...
October 4, 2017 at 8:00 am
Listen: The Breeders “Wait in the Car”
Thank goddess for The Breeders. In a world full of mass shootings, earthquakes, and a president unable to respond appropriately to ...
October 3, 2017 at 8:00 am
Bushwig! 5 people of this year’s drag festival
In case you missed my post last Friday, this past weekend was Bushwig. It’s a 2-day drag festival that doubles as an inclusive ...
September 22, 2017 at 7:07 pm
Sept 23-24th: Bushwig 2017 @ The Knockdown Center, $30-$45
The first few years I spent in New York I let Bushwig, the alternative drag festival created by Horrorchatta and Babes Trust in 2012, ...
September 21, 2017 at 8:00 am
I went to the Zola Jesus “Immersive” Album Installation
When I received an email inviting me to “an immersive listening and visual experience” of the new Zola Jesus album Okovi ...
September 12, 2017 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: disGO
This is a playlist of seedy glamour, for the freaks who cobbled together what scraps they had and made something bold. It’s ...
September 7, 2017 at 11:03 am
Sep 10: Queen! Brooklyn Invasion @ House of Yes, Ticket Giveaway
In recent times, Brooklyn has gotten the reputation of being the “arty” center of drag. The current reigning ...
September 6, 2017 at 8:00 am
Watch: HMLTD “Satan, Luella, and I”
HMLTD, the socially adventures band that has caused some controversy over the way they reference queerness, are back with a new ...
September 5, 2017 at 8:00 am
Album Review: The Pains of Being Pure of Heart ‘The Echo of Pleasure’
Autumn, the season of sweaters and cups of tea, approaches. Twee and Shoegaze, the genre that many accused The Pains of Being Pure of ...
August 18, 2017 at 3:15 pm
Video Premiere: HEARTSREVOLUTION “SEARCH AND DESTROY”
The video for HEARTSREVOLUTION‘s song “SEARCH AND DESTROY” begins with a sample that sounds like it’s from one ...
August 18, 2017 at 12:03 pm
Q&A: Horrorchata on Razor 5000 @ Secret Project Robot
Every now and again you come across a party with such a killer lineup you know it’s going to be wild. That was the case as soon ...
August 17, 2017 at 12:35 pm
Watch: Who Is She? “Top 8”
There’s still no word on if/when punk supergroup Childbirth will release new music, but now there’s another Seattle-based ...
August 14, 2017 at 9:00 am
Review: Priests, Future Punx, and Groupie at Brooklyn Night Bizarre
Photos by Devon Shaw. Review by Mo Wilson.
Groupie
“What is punk?” a friend texted me when I told them I’d be going to the ...
August 11, 2017 at 9:00 am
Mixtape: Intro to Twee
WTF is Twee? First emerging in the Northern UK in the mid-80s before spreading to America, Twee was simply defined as the lighter ...
July 18, 2017 at 9:51 am
Listen: Common Holly “If After All”
There (hopefully) comes a time in every 20-something’s life when they look around at the way they are living and think “this has ...
June 29, 2017 at 9:56 am
Back10: 2007 series @ Nitehawk
Ahhh 2007. The year we all had flip phones, and Kim Kardashian was still Paris Hilton’s assistant. The moving image I most ...
June 20, 2017 at 10:10 am
PRIDE Week Guide 2017
Hi y’all! It’s Mo again, aka @sadgayfriendx. It’s pride week herein NYC, and like Northside, there’s a high possibility ...
June 20, 2017 at 9:00 am
Album Review: RIPS Self-Titled
In my feminist-minded DIY rock circuit, it’s easy to make fun of the plethora of “dude bands” making generic rock-n-roll. The ...
June 7, 2017 at 12:11 pm
Northside Festival Show Guide
Hi! It’s Mo, known on Twitter as @sadgayfriendx. Festivals like Northside can be a mammoth to navigate, what with so many cool (and ...
May 30, 2017 at 9:00 am
Mixtape: Slow Desires
It can be frustrating to feel like you are going nowhere, so I made a mix inspired by this patch from Stay At Home club. It’s a ...
May 26, 2017 at 9:00 am
Listen: Downtown Boys “A Wall”
On their new single from their upcoming Sub Pop album Cost of Living, Downtown Boys continue to wave the flag for punk’s potential ...
May 8, 2017 at 9:00 am
Watch: Japanese Breakfast “Machinist”
Japanese Breakfast (AKA Michelle Zauner) is back, this time with a vocoder and some light-up shoes. Lead single “Machinist” is the ...
May 5, 2017 at 9:00 am
MAY 6: Fraidycat Release Show with Haybaby, Yucky Duster, True Dreams @ Alphaville, 8pm ($8)
Dudes. You already know that Yucky Duster bring the thunder because you saw them open for Shonen Knife right? Well in case you ...
May 3, 2017 at 10:46 am
May 4: A Grand Re-Opening @ Secret Project Robot, 7pm (free)
Finally, some good news on the DIY front! After the gutting news that Shea Stadium won’t be reopening in its original location due ...
April 28, 2017 at 9:00 am
April 29: Shonen Knife, Yucky Duster, The Prits @ Sunnyvale, 8PM ($15)
Holy crap, Shonen Knife! If you don’t know the legacy of these Kurt Cobain faves, they’ve been churning out classic indie-pop for ...
April 27, 2017 at 11:00 am
April 29: White Lung, Pop. 1280, Verdigrls @ Studio at Webster Hall, 7:30PM ($13)
White Lung took a tremendous step forward with last album Paradise, growing beyond their hardcore roots to make expansive ...
April 27, 2017 at 9:00 am
Album Review: Sylvan Esso “What Now”
When a friend first showed me Sylvan Esso, I wrote them off as a lesser continuation of the male producer/female vocalist trend ...