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 ...
October 5, 2017 at 8:00 am
Album Review: Torres ‘Three Futures’
Torres’ Three Futures, her third studio album, feels like the full-realization of an artist trying to chip away at her own sound and ...
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 ...
October 2, 2017 at 8:00 am
Week two with Ice Balloons: Desert Implosion
Ice Balloons is on tour and phoning in their tour diaries! Check back for further installments, and stop by a show, see tour dates ...
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 26, 2017 at 8:00 am
Naked Ice Balloons: The dingy truth of life on the road with America’s most dangerous synth band
Ice Balloons is on tour and phoning in their tour diaries! Check back for further installments, and stop by a show, see tour dates ...
September 26, 2017 at 8:00 am
Listen: Native Sun “Sister”
Review by Alberto Pazzi.
I went to the first ever Native Sun show a few months ago at Berlin NYC. I got there a little late and the ...
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 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
Ice Balloons on the road: First day of Tour! Cleveland
Ice Balloons is on tour and phoning in their tour diaries! Check back for further installments, and stop by a show, see tour dates ...
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
Listen: Promiseland “Take Down The House”
Photo and review by Luis Lucio.
Entering an afterparty in the deepest pit of the underground, you first notice everyone dancing ...
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 14, 2017 at 8:00 am
Watch: King Krule “Dum Surfer”
Everyone has that one music video that struck them in such a shocking, horrific way– for me, it was Interpol’s “Evil.” ...
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 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 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 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 7, 2017 at 8:00 am
Watch: Poppies “Devin”
Like something out of a melancholic Arthur episode, New York based Poppies are back with their music video for the quaint, cheeky ...
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 8:45 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 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 30, 2017 at 8:00 am
Throwback Review: Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive is a movie that I’m glad I waited to watch in theaters. It always loomed there on Netflix, temptingly accessible ...
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
Sep 9: Thee Oh Sees @ Warsaw, Ticket Giveaway
There’s something about Each Month’s Day: yep, that’s what I’m going to call it— aka, 6/6, 7/7, 8/8… if you have a better ...
August 23, 2017 at 8:25 am
Mixtape: Summer Nights
For those hot summer nights where the atmosphere feels almost tangible, the air a warm blanket around you, thick enough to feel like ...
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 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 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 15, 2017 at 12:19 pm
The Shush Series: Dougie Poole and Casey Hopkins Trio
Photos by Devon Bristol Shaw.
Hey party people. Wait, wrong crowd? Well, anyways, I’m going to assume regardless that ...
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 14, 2017 at 9:00 am
Watch: Sløtface “Pitted”
You hear a lot of valid stories from musicians about how touring is incredibly hard. But it is so refreshing to see a band still have ...
August 12, 2017 at 9:00 am
Wanna Meet The Wants?
Photos by Devon Bristol Shaw.
Yeaaaaah, you do.
In the words of Cheap Trick, “I want you to want me. I need you to need ...
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 ...
August 4, 2017 at 12:14 pm
Watch: Annie Hart “Hard to Be Still”
“I never dreamed the video I made on my phone in my basement would premiere on VOGUE!!!”, Annie Hart, of Au Revoir Simone, ...
August 4, 2017 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: MELT
The last days of summer are upon us. But with countless more festivals, tours, and releases on the horizon, now is not the time for ...
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. ...
July 29, 2017 at 9:00 am
Video Premiere: Surfbort “HIPPIE VOMIT INHALER”
Photo by Cheryl Georgette.
Surfbort is gearing up to release a new 7″ BORT TO DEATH this September via HOZAC Records. ...
July 28, 2017 at 9:00 am
Album Review: Katie Von Schleicher “Shitty Hits”
Before even getting into Katie Von Schleifher’s Shitty Hits you’ve understood a level of self deprecating humor that ...
July 28, 2017 at 9:00 am
Listen: Kyle Avallone “Borrowed Spell”
Last week we we spoke to Kyle Avallone about his new project and upcoming Cult Citizen show. If you caught him in the flesh this ...
July 23, 2017 at 10:11 am
Album Review: Lana Del Rey “Lust for Life”
There are essentially two camps in the Lana Del Rey fandom: those who believe that the slow burn of 2014’s Ultraviolence was her ...
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 ...
July 17, 2017 at 12:25 pm
Watch: The Velvet Underground & Nico in “A Symphony of Sound”
I got sucked into a whole on YouTube trying to find a video of a complete Richard Hell & the Voidoids performance at CBGB. ...
July 13, 2017 at 9:40 am
Cool Shit: Proto-Punk
It’s completely cliche to be obsessed with punk and the 70’s but!!!!! That is who I am — cliche and uninteresting. Anyways ...