Shannon and The Clams 10/16/2015 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
If Spongebob Squarepants had a house band, Shannon and the Clams would ...
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 ...
CMJ Crush: Phony Ppl @ Arlene’s Grocery (10/14)
Watching the Brooklyn based hip-hop collective, Phony Ppl is like being ...
CMJ Crush: Perfect Pussy @ Santos Party House (10/14)
Overheard outside the Popgun & NME CMJ Showcase: “Wait, is there really a ...
Toro y Moi brought chill-wave electronic R & B to Music Hall of Williamsburg last Thursday. Chaz Bundick and his stylish band ...
Band crush more like babe crush…am I right!? The grrrls from Babes in Toyland are back on tour. Check out some snaps from their show ...
King Gizzard will always be one of our favs. Check out photos from their show at Music Hall of Williamsburg last week. Photos courtesy ...
Do yourself a favor and spend the rest of the day listening to L7’s entire discography. We got the chance to see their show at ...
Stop what you are doing! And please shred your worries away by listening to Bass Drum Of Death. 1. You are welcome.
2. Here are some ...
We were stoked to have LA punks No Parents play Cult Citizen! Can’t think of a better way to celebrate the release of Issue ...
It seems that all I’ve been hearing about lately is Day Wave. The feel good, alt-pop of Day Wave — aka Jackson Phillips ...
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending Lollapalooza in Chicago. Which means I spent the entire weekend around rude ...
Day 1:
Nursing a beer on the sidewalk on the first day of Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle, a friend and I watched death metal band ...
If you didn’t already know, this weekend was the third annual Gigawatts Fest, a Brooklyn festival that had over 50 bands perform ...
In anticipation of Alt Space‘s opening reception for Bunny Michael’s Etheric Double, her first solo ...
Vanity Project
In a criminally under-attended show at Black Bear Bar on a Sunday afternoon, I sipped on a Bloody Mary and watched ...
Last week, I set off for a punk rock show at the Meatlocker in Montclair, NJ, along with fellow photographer Walter Wlodarcyzk, video ...
Public Access TV is finally out with their latest self-titled five track EP. After spending 2014 teasing music reviewers and fans with ...
Our 35 mm film photography series covering live shows happening on the NYC circuit continues. Our staff photographers have been busy ...
As a part of the Redbull Music Academy Festival, a series of awesome musical performances and happenings in NYC throughout the end of ...
Cerebral Ballzy took over Baby’s All Right this past Monday with a frenzy of grinding distortion, concussive drum work, and ...
Hundred Waters brought their new ambient, electronic tinkerings to Music Hall of Williamsburg last week. Alongside Mitski, a grungy ...
The Growlers have taken up something of a residency at Baby’s All Right this week. Their West Coast vibes are taking over the ...
Photos and review by Sasha Maese
Tonight, Secret Project Robot is hosting Bottoms’ release of their Goodbye EP, released on ...
Review by Sasha
Outside, it’s a quiet Sunday night in Williamsburg. It’s that no-man’s-land between Christmas and ...
Last week punk / thrashcore duo HO99O9 along with Spewing Cum played The Flat for one thunderous, over-the-top debacle. Together, ...
I was having dinner at a Malaysian spot in Chinatown, wondering whether or not I should try to catch Jon Hopkins at Output. Truly, ...
Last week, Julian Casablancas + The Voids and Dev Hynes — converged at Hammerstein Ballroom. Not only were their individual ...
In the midst of all of the new music, weekday benders, and venue hopping, it’s easy to forget that CMJ provides some of the ...
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 ...
Night four of CMJ’s Marathon and it finally stopped raining. It was also suddenly t-shirt weather again, which was even cooler ...
As you know, the third night of CMJ’s Marathon was mired in controversy after that doctor who had Ebola went bowling at the ...
Dope Body blasted through a volatile set of scuzzy, thrash-inducing punk, and tore up every inch of Palisades. Much of their frenetic ...
Just as the exhaustion from the repeated trips to Brooklyn, ill-advised weekday drinking, and the cathartic ripping of wristbands was ...
CMJ Marathon: The Yum Dee Days, Le Galaxie @ Piano’s / PAWS, White Reaper, J Fernandez @ CakeShop
After the first day of ...
CMJ Marathon: Casual Sex, Dune Rats @ Glasslands Paws, Diiv @Bk Night Bazaar Mainland @Piano’s
Oh Lawd, CMJ Marathon, has begun! ...
Tei Shi @ Baby’s All Right (10/21)
At first glance, Tei Shi kind of looks like an exotic actress from the Golden Age. But when ...
I headed three hours east towards the Illinois border. Small Houses, a folk project and alias for singer-songwriter Jeremy Quentin, ...
After enticing us with a few irresistible tracks on their Soundcloud in the last couple of months, Portland duo Randa Leigh and Brian ...
Tucked away in the back room of Rough Trade, the band Bear In Heaven glowed under yellow, purple and green lights. The crowd of ...
So, this was different. We frequent all of the usual NYC haunts for music, from dive bar to stadium, but rarely do we get the chance ...
AFROPUNK — our beloved, diverse, (not to mention free) counterculture festival — returned to Brooklyn’s Commodore ...
I made a late-night stop at Baby’s All Right, a bar that is quickly becoming the hottest music venue in Brooklyn, to catch a trio of ...
Electronic producer James Hinton — aka The Range — kind of blew up out of nowhere. His first full-length ...
Review: Sharon Van Etten @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (6/12)
Last Thursday night, Northside badge holders and fans alike lined up ...
Review: Your Friend @ Baby’s All Right (6/11)
It’s Wednesday night in the back room at Baby’s All Right, and the crowd is ...
Review: Flume @ Highline Ballroom (4/14)
Trying to find the motivation to go out after work on a Monday can be rather excruciating, ...
We here at Alt Citizen are extremely jealous of those lucky enough to traverse the endless musical landscape of SXSW — ...
Review: Neighbors at Baby’s All Right (2/26)
Neighbors’ latest album, Failure, is out March 25. In advance of its release, the ...
Blood Orange at Webster Hall (2/06)
On February 6th, Dev Hynes, AKA Blood Orange, uploaded an Instagram photo outside Webster Hall. ...