March 7, 2018 at 8:00 am
Lord of Chaos, God of Filth: Promiseland’s outtakes from Issue 6.5
Photos by Luis Lucio.
Here are outtakes from the forthcoming Issue 6.5—a preview of what’s coming in the special SXSW ...
March 6, 2018 at 8:00 am
Bleeding out with Bambara: Outtakes from Issue 6.5
Photo by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here.
Here are outtakes from the forthcoming Issue 6.5—a preview of ...
February 22, 2018 at 8:00 am
Faded films: aesthetics and ambience (part 2)
Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri.
You know I forget that people read the shit that I put on the internet but every once in a while ...
January 30, 2018 at 8:00 am
Faded films: confabulation (or becoming the least reliable narrator)
When did my memory get so bad? In college it was actually a running “””joke””” among my friends ...
January 25, 2018 at 8:00 am
As Told By: BOYTOY
As Told By is a series of tour stories straight from the mouths of our favorite bands. Interview by Tamim Alnuweiri, Illustrations ...
January 17, 2018 at 8:00 am
Jan 20: David Johansen + New York Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off Party @ Elsewhere, 7PM ($20)
You should really see David Johansen however you can—obviously with the New York Dolls if you can manage it, during his ...
January 16, 2018 at 8:00 am
Jan 31: Cult Citizen presents a PRIMA Benefit with Buscabulla, Prinze George and Bairoa @ Elsewhere, 8PM ($15)
Each one of our Cult Citizens is picked and poured over painstakingly but this one is very special given the current state of our ...
January 12, 2018 at 8:00 am
Video premiere: Lola Pistola “I’m Stupid”
Somewhere in the back of an arcade of a mall in suburbia is a girl in a photo booth and low rise jeans lip syncing her way through ...
January 4, 2018 at 10:22 am
Premiere: The Muckers “Suspended For A Long Time”
Photo by Michael Younker. Text by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Have you ever seen a band live, spoken to them and just been so enthralled by ...
December 30, 2017 at 11:00 am
Editors’ Picks: Best new bands of 2017
2017 is over! We’ve spent the last few weeks revisiting our favorite music videos, albums, and live acts. In this last ...
December 27, 2017 at 8:00 am
Photo diary: Insecure Men and Sloppy Jane @ Zone 1
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here.
Insecure Men
Sloppy ...
December 27, 2017 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: a post-holiday mix from Wooing
Wooing perform at Cult Citizen this week alongside Uni and Twin Guns. Since we’re in the in between-ish period of the holiday ...
December 22, 2017 at 8:00 am
Twin Guns on their 9 favorite music videos
Started by Andrea Sicco and Jungle Jim (of The Cramps and The Makers) and joined by Kristin Fayne-Mulroy in 2014, Twin Guns is old ...
December 18, 2017 at 8:00 am
Premiere: Moonwalks “Sequins”
If you’ve ever come across Moonwalks then it will only seem fitting and on the nose obvious that their singles carry names like ...
November 21, 2017 at 8:00 am
Faded Films: All men are trash
Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Honestly sometimes this column feels like a postcard I’m writing to an abyss in the Internet ...
November 20, 2017 at 8:00 am
Video premiere: Willie Breeding “Prague Spring”
“Prague Spring” is a story that seems like it was ripped from the adult version of a Hardy Boys novel—an Italian ...
November 17, 2017 at 8:00 am
Music Video Premiere: Exhibition “I Can But I Never Learn”
“I Can But I Never Learn” starts with a forceful jolt. It’s surprising—it comes out of the gates furious and ...
November 15, 2017 at 8:00 am
Album Premiere: Arc Waves ‘The Sound The Circle’
I feel a strong urge to write off anything described in a combination of incoherent and randomly strung together adjectives. Although ...
November 13, 2017 at 8:00 am
5 questions with Warbly Jets
I first saw Warbly Jets sometime last year (or maybe it was 2016) at the now shuttered Shea Stadium alongside The Mystery Lights. ...
November 6, 2017 at 8:00 am
Song premiere and interview: Daisy Glaze “Ray of Light”
Photo by Danielle DeFoe.
If you’ve been to Baby’s All Right upwards of five times in the last year, chances are ...
November 6, 2017 at 8:00 am
Saara Untracht-Oakner on her first solo exhibition “KITSCHIN”
Saara Untracht-Oakner is likely known to you as the Mia Farrow-esque vocalist of Brooklyn outfit BOYTOY. Like most artists however, ...
October 25, 2017 at 8:00 am
Faded Films: shit yourself this Halloween
Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Halloween aka THE PURGE is coming up. I never fully “got” Halloween (and still ...
October 20, 2017 at 8:00 am
Oct 27: La Femme @ Warsaw, Ticket Giveaway
La Femme, the French post-punk/psych rock/whatever other rock derivative band is playing in New York on October 27th . We are giving ...
October 11, 2017 at 8:00 am
Oct 12-Dec 10: Cloud of Petals, Virtual Reality Installation @ Red Bull Arts New York
I don’t want to bring everything back to the dismal state of existence we’re currently in but it’s hard not to when ...
October 5, 2017 at 8:00 am
Cool Shit: Five of the best CBGB performances
In case you missed the last edition of Cool Shit, YouTube is an endless hole of inspiration and desperation. I would not recommending ...
September 29, 2017 at 8:00 am
Oct 3: Metropolis Video, Rock from CBGB @ The Kitchen, 7PM (Free)
Walking through the East Village is rough these days, meatheads, frat dudes and dudettes on the sidewalk gurgling mimosas while ...
September 29, 2017 at 8:00 am
Song Premiere: Plume “Spine”
Within the trudges of my gmail inbox—ghastly and full of incoherent nonsense and half baked song ideas, I took a few minutes to ...
September 29, 2017 at 8:00 am
Oct 5-6: Chicano Batman @ Irving Plaza and Warsaw, Ticket Giveaway!
I want to compare Chicano Batman to The Growlers but it’s not entirely accurate—it’s not that they share sonic ...
September 28, 2017 at 8:00 am
Night Helix takes us through ‘Plural’ EP track by track
Photo by Spyros Rennt. Album art by Zak Keene.
Night Helix has a new four track EP out—complex, moving and fundamentality escapist, ...
September 25, 2017 at 8:00 am
Interview: The Growlers
Photos by Zooey Jolivet. Interview by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Almost a year ago The Growler’s latest record City Club was officially ...
September 25, 2017 at 8:00 am
Song Premiere: The Entire Universe “Can They Hear?”
Photo by Renee Carey.
The fatigue and loneliness brought on by the endless cycle of screen-staring and technology infatuation is not ...
September 22, 2017 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: Fiona Silver’s tour playlist
Photo by Cortney Armitage.
There’s a lot of down time in the van on tour, enough that I’ve come up with this ...
September 21, 2017 at 8:00 am
Video Premiere: Dances “R U With It?”
There is a certain morose euphoria that comes with a professional diagnosis, the thing hiding in the shadows is less frightening when ...
September 20, 2017 at 8:00 am
Interview: Shilpa Ray
Photos and interview by Stasia de Tilly.
Shilpa Ray is an introvert expressing her inner weirdo through her theatrical performance. ...
September 19, 2017 at 8:00 am
Faded Films: I don’t know what I did this summer
Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Most summers I can trace with some certainty—I spent a lot of time at Double Down Saloon or I ...
September 18, 2017 at 8:00 am
Video Premiere: Minus Light ‘Fame’ + Interview
Interview by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Minus Light never got to the 21st century, at least not our version of it. The music is too unaffected ...
September 15, 2017 at 8:00 am
Sep 21: PopGun Presents Liars, YVETTE, Idgy Dean @ Warsaw, Ticket Giveaway
Liars are back! This summer Angus Andrew (as the only remaining member of Liars) released TCFC and is now on tour (with members of ...
September 14, 2017 at 8:00 am
Cult Citizen Guestbook: Puzzle, Junk Boys and Yaasss
Photos taken by Tamim Alnuweiri and Cheryl Georgette using a Lomography Instant Wide, which is some space age 2001: A Space Odyssey ...
September 13, 2017 at 8:00 am
Sep 13: Insecure Men, Roya, R. Jakob Bovden (Night Beats) @ Baby’s All Right, 10pm ($10)
Insecure Men is in New York and playing the late-ish show at Baby’s alongside Roya and R. Jakov Bovden of Night Beats. As far as ...
September 11, 2017 at 8:00 am
Sep 14: “In Between Dreams” Brandon Sines Solo Exhibition and Book Release @ Contra Galleries, 6PM (Free)
You’ve seen Frank Ape—a sticker on a lamppost, on the corner of a wall on the Lower East Side, or at an art gallery. The ...
September 8, 2017 at 7:30 am
Sep 13: Triathalon, Cutouts, Pueblo and Rose Hotel @ Sunnyvale, 8PM ($10)
Triathalon have not put anything out since 2016’s Cold Shower EP but they will be here at Sunnyvale powering through their ...
September 5, 2017 at 8:45 pm
Sep 7: FWF Zine Release Party @ Idio Gallery, 8PM (Free)
What does it look like to be on the road with one of the most notoriously intense bands of our time? Sacha Lecca (Deputy Photo Editor ...
September 1, 2017 at 12:35 pm
Sep 2: Dougie Poole, Teen Body, Johnny Aries, Cutouts, DÆVA @ Hank’s Saloon, 8PM ($10)
Apparently, it’s Brooklyn Music Week? Yeah, I didn’t know either. Anyways a number of up and coming bands that have ...
August 28, 2017 at 8:00 am
Sep 1: Dead Stars (record release), Grim Streaker, Big Bliss and Fraidycat @ Sunnyvale, 8PM ($10)
This Friday Dead Stars are releasing their new album Perfect Patterns. And since the most high energy shows tend to be the very joyful ...
August 25, 2017 at 1:14 pm
Watch: King Krule “Czech One”
Not Archy Marshall, not Return of the Pimp Shrimp or any of his other aliases but King Krule is officially back. After a week or two ...
August 25, 2017 at 8:00 am
Aug 26: AdHoc presents Surf Curse, Lala Lala, Navy Gangs @ Trans-Pecos, 8PM ($12)
I was going to go to Long Island this weekend for a barbecue until I realized how far it is—three hours roundtrip guys, that’s ...
August 22, 2017 at 8:27 am
Cool Shit: The Cramps Live at Napa State Mental Hospital
In the summer of 1978 one of the most bizarre yet most vehemently “punk” shows happened at the Napa State Mental Hospital. ...
August 16, 2017 at 9:00 am
Interview: The Garden
Photos by Cheryl Georgette.
Greil Marcus once wrote that the more Lester Bangs loved and respected a band, the worse he was at ...
August 8, 2017 at 8:00 am
Photo Diary: Buster Poindexter at City Winery
Photos by Thomas Sarvello.
Buster’s back! Catch the man, the myth, the legend for the last time this summer at City Winery on ...
August 2, 2017 at 8:17 am
Cult Citizen Guestbook: Weeknight, Blond Ambition and Kyle Avallone
Photos taken by Tamim Alnuweiri using a Lomography Instant Wide, which is some space age 2001: A Space Odyssey type of business. ...