background img

All posts by: Tamim Alnuweiri

December 18, 2018 at 1:44 pm

Letter from the editor: With hindsight

It’s the end of the year and it doesn’t mean anything other than I’m forced to think about the year that’s ...

December 13, 2018 at 9:00 am

Mixtape: 8 tracks from The Black Lips

The Black Lips will be back in New York City this weekend playing Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap Dance Off. They gave us this ...

December 10, 2018 at 3:16 pm

Mixtape: Alt Citizen’s 2018 trax

Illustration by Cynthia Alfonso, see more of her work here and here.  Our editors and writers have opinions on music and this is ...

November 27, 2018 at 9:00 am

Mixtape: Darker days

If I wake up early enough I might catch a glimpse of the sun for a minute. But then I head into my office and I leave once to get ...

November 19, 2018 at 9:00 am

Faded films: non-existing holiday spirit

My parents were not big on any sort of celebrations growing up, when I was younger I thought it was because they were cruel but now ...

November 14, 2018 at 11:42 am

For the love of god someone save PBR

Right now PBR is in the middle of a legal battle. It’s a little tedious but IN ESSENCE, the company that brews the sweet watery ...

November 13, 2018 at 9:00 am

Death trax: Kristin Gallegos

Death Trax is a mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own funerals. This week photographer and ...

October 13, 2018 at 12:36 pm

Watch: Daisy Glaze “Little Baby”

Photo by Georgia Mitropoulos. The retro soaked sounds of Daisy Glaze get a fitting visual companion for their latest track ...

September 26, 2018 at 9:57 am

For Kenny Shopsin

I have a lot of feelings and a lot of things to say but they’re all jumbled up in my head and won’t really string together ...

June 14, 2018 at 9:00 am

Mixtape: Summer sludge

Photo by Tamim Alnuweiri. In my youth what summer in New York meant was waking up on saturday mornings and hoofing it to Coney Island ...

May 8, 2018 at 11:00 am

Interview: Numb.er

Interview and text by Tamim Alnuweiri. Gifs by Luis Lucio. SXSW was kind of a mess and a blur and this one day it was hot as shit ...

May 2, 2018 at 8:36 am

Mixtape: ROMES’ summer essentials

A few days ago ROMES premiered the music video for their latest single “When The Night Comes” on Earmilk. The music video ...

April 30, 2018 at 8:00 am

Alt Citizen’s May show forecast

Artwork by Alberto Pazzi. I don’t know what’s going on but there are a shit ton of shows going on like every night. Most ...

April 27, 2018 at 8:00 am

Interview: A Place to Bury Strangers

Interview and text by Tamim Alnuweiri. Photos by Luis Lucio. Fifteen years on and A Place To Bury Strangers’ imprint on rock ...

April 24, 2018 at 8:48 am

Video premiere: PILL “Side Eye”

In some fever dream you wake up and it’s the 80s. You turn on your TV and scramble through public access channels until you land ...

April 21, 2018 at 8:00 am

Issue 6.5 is here!

For the few that care—at one point we were working on an issue 6. It actually featured these interviews with The Growlers, The ...

April 20, 2018 at 8:00 am

Shows we’re going to on 4/20

4/20 is mostly funny because I spend all year saying 4/20 blaze even though the honest to god thought of marijuana send me into an ...

April 13, 2018 at 8:00 am

Faded films: Back from the brink

So I guess a few weeks ago now I had a semi public meltdown which I used this increasingly bizarre ...

April 9, 2018 at 8:00 am

Mixtape: Music for the way down

I’ve been so supremely stressed out by my jobs and general life decisions for the last few months that I have not emotionally ...

March 29, 2018 at 12:44 pm

Alt Citizen’s April show forecast

Illustration by Cynthia Alfonso, see more of her work here and here. Maybe it’s the post SXSW migration back to New York or the ...

March 29, 2018 at 11:00 am

Album review: The Voidz ‘Virtue’

Tomorrow the Voidz release their second record, Virtue, and it is a behemoth. At this point many of the albums best moments have ...

March 22, 2018 at 8:00 am

Faded films: Old, withered and weird

I recently spent a weekend afternoon crying after I  made a series of bad decisions that though I knew they were going to blow up in ...

March 16, 2018 at 8:00 am

From the vault: Palma Violets

Photos by Cheryl Georgette. A few years ago we took some photos for a zine feature that never ended up getting done. From said feature ...

March 16, 2018 at 8:00 am

Interview: Sunflower Bean gets Surfborted

Sunflower Bean has a new album Twentytwo In Blue coming out March 23rd. In lieu of putting them through our usual line of questioning ...

March 13, 2018 at 8:00 am

Mar 16: Cult Citizen presents at SXSW!

It’s hard to believe but we’ve been doing Cult Citizen for long enough that our next one will be the 20th! And it seems ...