July 20, 2016 at 5:28 pm
10 Movie Soundtracks to Stream Online!
A good soundtrack can make a bad film seem great. A good soundtrack is there to clog holes in a leaky ship. I know we do not like to ...
April 5, 2016 at 4:35 am
Throwback Review: ‘Paris, Texas’
We peer through the camera lens into a vast desert. You can feel the heat as you float above it, blanketed by its loneliness as a ...
January 11, 2016 at 10:20 pm
See You When I See You, Starman.
I only saw David Bowie one time in person. Sadly, it wasn’t at one of his shows, I never saw him live. I was walking to my ...
November 24, 2015 at 7:25 pm
Throwback Review: Tricky ‘Pre-Millennium Tension’
The 90’s trip-hop scene is a strange place to revisit. A lot of people like to fetishize the 90’s; it’s culture, fashion, and ...
November 13, 2015 at 8:25 pm
Throwback Review: ‘Repo Man’
Repo Man is a weird fucking movie. This is a throwback from the 80’s about punks, repo men, and aliens. It’s not like other ...
October 19, 2015 at 9:20 pm
CMJ: Pinact @Piano’s/ Sweet Spirit, Palehound, Diet Cig @Cakeshop /babe Rainbow, Sheer Agony @The Knitting Factory
Babe Rainbow @The Knitting Factory
Do you ever wake up and just wish you were your blanket instead of a human so you could just live ...
August 19, 2015 at 6:07 pm
Throwback Review: ‘Hackers’
Editor’s Note: Nitehawk Cinema will be hosting a special anniversary screening of HACKERS. It will be a 35mm presentation, ...
July 28, 2015 at 5:40 pm
Throwback Review: The Smashing Pumpkins ‘Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’
When Billy Corgan announced the Smashing Pumpkins third album, Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, he said it would be akin to Pink ...
July 13, 2015 at 5:59 pm
Mixtape: Songs to Piss your Parents Off
I wake up, roll over, and take a sip of water to damper the dry roasting fire that built in my lungs as I slept next to my half eaten ...
June 16, 2015 at 6:54 pm
Mixtape: Songs to Die to
I recently went several weeks without a computer after my logic board committed suicide or maybe was murdered by me; idk I’m not ...
May 6, 2015 at 11:31 pm
Throwback Review: Los Saicos ‘Wild Teen-Punk From Peru 1965’
Who invented punk? The short answer is: who cares? Let’s listen to a song about blowing up a train station.
In 1964, Los Saicos ...
April 14, 2015 at 10:40 am
Album Review: John Andrews and The Yawns ‘Bit By The Fang’
“Don’t spook those horses,” John Andrews begs on the first track of his debut solo album, Bit By The Fang, under the ...
March 29, 2015 at 8:46 pm
Interview: Ho99o9
Ho99o9 (pronounced “Horror”) are a thunderous, rap/thrashcore band out of New Jersey. Known for their DIY shows, put on ...
March 26, 2015 at 6:09 pm
Throwback Review: ‘Grey Gardens’
“You know, they’ll get you in East Hampton for wearing red shoes on a Thursday,” we hear an unknown voice declare as the Maysles ...
February 24, 2015 at 5:46 am
9 Books We’re Reading This Month
Reading, right? I know, it takes forever, you can’t cheat your way through it, and you have to read all by yourself. Something ...
February 24, 2015 at 5:40 am
A Mixtape for John Waters
John Waters has been called many things: low-brow, tacky, crazy, weird, campy, and most befittingly, the “Pope of Trash.” All of ...
February 18, 2015 at 6:56 pm
Throwback Review: Dinosaur Jr. ‘You’re Living All Over Me’
If I were to describe Dinosaur Jr.’s album You’re Living All Over Me anecdotally, it would sound like this:
Once upon a ...
February 4, 2015 at 6:11 pm
10 Shows You Need To Watch On Netflix!
Sub-zero temperatures, break-ups, cold and flu season, spending time with family, blizzards, people talking about sports: these are ...
January 12, 2015 at 7:10 pm
10 Albums to Wear Out, This Winter
Oh my, winter is here — and it sucks. I mean, it really, really, sucks. I almost froze to death buying dumplings three days ...
January 6, 2015 at 6:55 pm
Throwback Review: Gravediggaz ‘6 Feet Deep’
It’s been 20 years since one of hip hop’s greatest albums was released. It’s an album a lot of people have never ...
December 22, 2014 at 5:59 pm
Top Ten Independent Films of 2014
Curated by Tim
I have watched a lot of movies this year. Probably too many. Especially for someone who is basically broke (my mother ...
December 9, 2014 at 5:21 pm
Review: The Smashing Pumpkins ‘Monuments to an Elegy’
When I was a kid, all I wanted out of life was for it to be like the video for the Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979.” ...
December 3, 2014 at 6:08 pm
Review: ‘The Babadook’
Despite the horror genre being wildly under appreciated in film, every few years we are blessed with a new classic. Well, Jennifer ...
November 24, 2014 at 8:36 pm
Watch: Bush Tetras “Too Many Creeps” #TBT (1980)
Here’s a quick dose of ’80s New York City, pst-punk nostalgia. Bush Tetras was an all girl, post-punk/no wave band that ...
November 18, 2014 at 6:28 pm
Mixtape: The Count Of Monte Cristo is 1,300 Pages Long and It Turns Out I Don’t Have ADD
So I recently read The Count Of Monte Cristo, which is 1,300 pages long. No I do not have super powers, or ADD for that matter, but I ...
October 27, 2014 at 6:56 pm
CMJ: DMA’s, Little Racer @ Pianos / PAWS @ Knitting Factory
All things must end, like the rain and cold that CMJ’s Marathon started with, and so day five meant the end of what was a very ...
October 27, 2014 at 6:44 pm
CMJ: Twin Peaks @ Rough Trade
Night four of CMJ’s Marathon and it finally stopped raining. It was also suddenly t-shirt weather again, which was even cooler ...
October 27, 2014 at 6:42 pm
CMJ: The Prettiots, Mainland @ DROM / Doug Tuttle @ CakeShop
As you know, the third night of CMJ’s Marathon was mired in controversy after that doctor who had Ebola went bowling at the ...
October 24, 2014 at 4:05 pm
CMJ: The Yum Dee Days, Le Galaxie @ Pianos / PAWS, White Reaper, J Fernandez @ CakeShop
CMJ Marathon: The Yum Dee Days, Le Galaxie @ Piano’s / PAWS, White Reaper, J Fernandez @ CakeShop
After the first day of ...
October 23, 2014 at 6:29 pm
CMJ: Casual Sex, Dune Rats @ Glasslands Paws / Diiv @ Bk Night Bazaar / Mainland @ Pianos
CMJ Marathon: Casual Sex, Dune Rats @ Glasslands Paws, Diiv @Bk Night Bazaar Mainland @Piano’s
Oh Lawd, CMJ Marathon, has begun! ...
October 20, 2014 at 6:12 pm
Review: 20,000 Days On Earth
Pardon the bluntness of my impending vulgarity but I must ask: How the fuck did I go my entire life without getting into Nick Cave and ...
October 10, 2014 at 3:20 pm
Mixtape: SpOo0Ooky
Well people, it’s almost Halloween. And we plan on celebrating all month! Now, we need to figure out what we should be listening ...
October 9, 2014 at 8:56 pm
Five Cult Classics To Watch This Weekend
What makes a movie a cult classic? Well, first, it needs to be rejected by the mainstream. Then it’s often forgotten, only to ...
October 8, 2014 at 5:06 pm
5 Horror Movie Inspired Halloween Costumes
Okay, Halloween is approaching and you have no clue what you should be. You don’t really want to be dressed like everyone else, ...
September 21, 2014 at 6:32 pm
Throwback Review: Cypress Hill ‘Black Sunday’
It’s hard to imagine, that just over 20 years ago, hip hop was still a relatively new musical genre just breaking into the ...
September 9, 2014 at 8:25 pm
Lifehacks: How to cure your heartbreak
I have been heart broken a few times in my life. The first real one really sucked: came by way of text message breakup. Looking back, ...
August 12, 2014 at 8:28 pm
A Brief Farewell, To Pure Magic: RIP Robin Williams
I never saw Mork & Mindy, and I wasn’t around to see his drug addled early days, but I did grow up wishing Robin Williams were ...
August 10, 2014 at 8:12 pm
Lifehacks: How to cure your hangover
How to cure a hangover
That’s me again. Woke up pretty hungover after this…
Oh Lawd Jesus, why do you never answer my ...
August 5, 2014 at 11:57 am
5 Podcasts To Listen To This Week
So, we figured at Alt Citizen that it was time to make a list of our favorite podcasts. Now, these are my own favorites, and I have ...
July 28, 2014 at 1:02 pm
5 Films to Watch When Things Are Getting Weird
Sometimes life is boring. Sometimes things get weird and you need a fresh new perspective. So I have compiled a list of films that ...
July 25, 2014 at 1:13 pm
July 25 & 26: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ @ Sunshine Cinema Midnight ($10)
This weekend head over to Sunshine Cinema on Houston St, in the Lower East Side and fall in love with Samuel L. Jackson, all over ...
July 23, 2014 at 1:54 pm
Watch: No Weather Productions ‘Delivery’
So, the coolest pizza delivery guy in America works in NYC, at Best Pizza in Brooklyn. He’s 52, has a beard, and rides a ...
June 18, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Review: Young Liars ‘Tidal Wave’
I don’t think I could even be mad if I were hit by a car while listening to Young Liars. Their debut, Tidal Wave, opens by ...
June 16, 2014 at 8:17 pm
Review: Death Grips ‘N***** on the Moon’
Industrial hip hop group Death Grips just released another free LP, N***** on the Moon, which is only the first half from their ...
June 13, 2014 at 10:48 am
June 13th & 14th: Scream @ Sunshine Cinema
Wes Craven’s classic, Scream, is playing this weekend for two midnight showings at Sunshine Cinema (134 E Houston st – F ...
May 19, 2014 at 1:08 pm
A Look Back at Sid Vicious, With a Doctor Who Stopped Him From Jumping Out a Window
Two years doesn’t really seem like a long time, unless you’re given two years in jail, which would probably seem like an ...
May 7, 2014 at 1:20 pm
Five Vacation Books to Read When You Can’t Afford One
Ah yes, vacation. That lovely thing people do, to get away from it all and get as close to the idea of heaven on earth, as they can. ...
May 1, 2014 at 2:05 pm
Throwback Album Review: Hasil Adkins ‘Chicken Walk/ She’s Mine’
Hasil Adkins (Pronounced ‘Hassle’ sort of like those dudes who try and sell their hip hop album to you on Broadway) is a now ...
April 29, 2014 at 2:14 pm
Harmony Korine shared his favorite films and we reviewed them
Recently, writer/director, Harmony Korine of KIDS and Spring Breakers fame, released a list of his favorite films and we decided to ...
April 16, 2014 at 1:10 pm
A Quick Dip into the Abyss: My Day Trip in the Sensory Deprivation Tank
A few days ago, I took my first “float,” in a sensory deprivation tank, and if you have ever listened to the Joe Rogan Experience ...