August 17, 2025 at 10:09 pm
AC15 THE STORY OF US
Music Discovery is Everything.
For 15 years, ALT CITIZEN, the independent music publication, live show promoter, and zine, has been a ...
August 5, 2025 at 3:57 pm
Photo Diary: The Thing x Certain Death @ Nightclub 101
Photos by Kate Cassise, Words by Marisa Whitaker
New York City-bred and globe-trottin’ rock band The Thing closed its ...
July 14, 2025 at 10:26 am
Show Review: Show Me the Body at Nightclub 101
At the climax of the Show Me the Body show on June 7 at Night Club 101, frontman Julian Cashwan Pratt ripped his sweaty t-shirt off ...
July 7, 2025 at 11:51 am
Live Show Round Up 7/07 – 7/13
Monday July 7th:
The Broadway: Rat Palace w/ Pat Faking and Browsing
Rat Palace’s album Dust Free Home is “post punk ...
June 16, 2025 at 1:18 pm
This Week: Live Music Show Roundup 6/16 – 6/22
Do you live in NYC, love music, and want to see a cool show this week? Look no further – Music journalist Maddie is bringing a live ...
May 27, 2025 at 11:04 am
Fontaines D.C Live in NYC x Offstage with bassist Deego
Photos by Jenna Murray, Words by Lulu Rodriguez
Fontaines D.C., post punk band from Dublin played another series of sold out shows in ...
March 17, 2025 at 2:01 pm
Test Subjects Experiment With Bigger Sound
Photos by Charlie Baker.
“Hey,” I said, turning to my neighbor at a concert on Wednesday night, “doesn’t he ...
October 28, 2024 at 10:07 pm
Photo Diary: Fontaines D.C. x Been Stellar at Brooklyn Paramount
Fontaines D.C. and New York City’s own, Been Stellar, graced us with two incredible back to back shows at the Brooklyn ...
July 31, 2024 at 6:08 pm
Michael Younker embraces curated chaos on brilliantly bratty ‘Sweet Things’
As neatly curated and captivatingly esoteric as his accomplished production design work for some of New York’s most fashionable ...
May 20, 2024 at 12:39 pm
Royel Otis LIVE at Racket NYC
Royel Otis took on NYC’s Racket with back-to-back sold out shows. Their magnetic presence left an incredible mark on the ...
April 11, 2024 at 12:00 am
A Midnight Pool Party with Fcukers
Article by Urvija Banerji photos by Angelina Hazzouri
There’s nothing quite like the moment before a major turning point: the ...
April 10, 2024 at 2:40 pm
We Take Manhattan’s 1-Year Anniversary Show: Shallowhalo, Promiseland, and Jack Powers
Article and photos by Angelina Hazzouri
If you’re familiar with New York City’s downtown music scene, odds are you’ve heard of ...
February 19, 2024 at 12:09 am
Feb 25: Party Girls Never Die, A Punk Show hosted by Alt Citizen @ Rabioso (Mexico City) 6PM-LATE
We’re hosting Party Girls Never Die, a Punk Show. Party Girls Never Die is a touring party series which specializes in satellite ...
February 18, 2024 at 11:36 pm
Feb 23: Treasure Club International Official After Party hosted by Alt Citizen & Cynosure @ Foro Indie Rocks (Mexico City) 10PM-Late
Our friends from Treasure Club International are throwing a 2-Day Music Festival in Mexico City Feb 23 and 24 featuring live ...
November 27, 2023 at 10:00 am
The Hazy World of bar italia: Live at Glasgow’s Room 2
On a November Saturday, Glasgow’s indie kids flocked to Room 2 to see bar italia, the UK’s favorite up and coming post-punk ...
October 23, 2023 at 10:00 am
Photo diary: Crack Cloud in the round @ LPR
Photos by Nicole Miller
Crack Cloud’s “in-the-round” show was everything you would want from an intimate experience. They had ...
December 12, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Shows we went to: Sorry, Pretty Sick, The 1975, Disq, CELINE
Sorry @ Barboza (Seattle)
I don’t love going to shows in Seattle. I do because the alternative is worse, but New York has pretty ...
November 21, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Photo diary: The Murlocs, Paul Jacobs @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Photos by Nicole Miller
Paul Jacobs
The ...
November 4, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Shows we went to: Starcrawler, The Bobby Lees
Bringing back an old classic with a new twist. Shows We Went To started its online incarnation as a 35mm photo series back in 2015. ...
November 1, 2022 at 12:00 pm
November show forecast
The hangover from Halloween remains, but the show must go on. These are the gigs we’re hitting this month in a very particular ...
October 28, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Photo diary: King Gizzard and Black Midi @ Forest Hills
Photos by Nicole Miller
King Gizzard & The Lizard ...
October 25, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Coast to coast with Wolf Alice
New York photos by Lucy Blumenfield. Seattle photos by Lauren Khalfayan.
Not that playing several hundred to 1000 cap venues ...
October 20, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Photo diary: Viagra Boys, Shame, Kills Birds @ Brooklyn Steel
Photos by Nicole Miller
Kills ...
October 10, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Desert Daze 2022 in review
Photos by Aaron Moreno
Here we are, a few days into October already and Desert Daze has came and went once again. I finally got ...
October 3, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Shows we went to: Iceage, Skating Polly, Osees
Bringing back an old classic with a new twist. Shows We Went To started its online incarnation as a 35mm photo series back in 2015. ...
September 27, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Photo diary: Porridge Radio, Sean Henry @ Bowery Ballroom
Photos by Lucy Blumenfield
Sean Henry
Porridge ...
September 20, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Desert Daze 2022 preview
Photos by Aaron Moreno
What if I told you there was a festival that happened in the desert every year that wasn’t Coachella, with ...
September 19, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Photo diary: IDLES @ Kings Theater
Photos by Nicole Miller
I’ve never been to King’s Theatre, and so i was so elated to shoot one of the favorites at a stunning ...
September 2, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Photo diary: Shame and They Hate Change @ The Crocodile (Seattle)
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Shame
Unless you’ve been living under a rock since 2016, you know ...
August 8, 2022 at 11:30 am
The chaotic good of The Dare’s “Girls”
My Saturday started innocently enough until a friend posed the question: are you going to the Open Tab show tonight?
A black and white ...
June 27, 2022 at 1:00 pm
Photo diary: Bright Eyes @ The Paramount Theater – Seattle, WA
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her ...
June 21, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Photo diary: A Place to Bury Strangers with Glove, Native Sun, and Gift @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Photos by Allen Ying
Gift
Native ...
June 16, 2022 at 12:30 pm
The Kills joined by L.A. Witch for a triumphant return at Los Angeles’ Mayan Theater
Photos by Lucy Blumenfield
In 2016 The Kills were touring in support of their recently released fifth studio album, Ash & Ice, ...
April 18, 2022 at 12:00 pm
THICK headlines opening night of Coachella with a ripping set at The Echo
The stage lights of Coachella may have been 135 miles away but they didn’t shine nearly as brightly as those at The Echo in Los ...
April 13, 2022 at 9:00 am
Boy Harsher’s Lonely Hedonism
Writing and photos by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here.
I discovered Boy Harsher through an old Tinder date. She enjoyed ...
March 28, 2022 at 9:00 am
Photo diary: Wet Leg, Momma @ The Crocodile
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Momma
Wet ...
November 9, 2021 at 9:00 am
Photo Diary: TOPS @ Market Hotel
Photos by Aaron Moreno
...
November 3, 2021 at 9:00 am
November show forecast
Here’s where the Alt staff and your friends will be this month in case you were interested
Wednesday, November 3rd
Whitney, ...
October 27, 2021 at 9:00 am
Photo diary: IDLES @ House of Blues, Boston
Photos by Erin ...
October 22, 2021 at 9:00 am
We finally saw Dehd at Brooklyn Made
With Dehd’s Flower of Devotion coming out mid-pandemic, we had to wait a waaay-too-long time to see them live. But it finally ...
October 19, 2021 at 9:00 am
Photo diary: Nation of Language with Public Practice @ Washington Hall
photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Nation of ...
October 13, 2021 at 9:00 am
Photo diary: Indigo De Souza at The Vera Project (Seattle)
photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Not to be dramatic, but Indigo De Souza reminded me why I love live music ...
September 21, 2021 at 9:00 am
Photo diary: Divino Niño @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by Aaron ...
September 7, 2021 at 9:00 am
Day In Day Out beats expectations in the midst of chaos
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Seattle’s latest festival, Day In Day Out, serves as a replacement ...
August 26, 2021 at 12:00 pm
September show forecast
Thursday, September 2
Bodega, S.C.A.B., Austin Brown (DJ) (21+) – Baby’s All Right ($15)
BLK ODYSSY, Kevin Holiday, Toy ...
August 19, 2021 at 12:00 pm
PVRIS return home and remind me of what I love about live music
Photos by Erin Christie
Synth-heavy alt rock outfit PVRIS recently migrated over to the West Coast, a sign that they’d ascended the ...
August 12, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Photo Diary: Shilpa Ray, Beechwood, and Sage Sparks
Photos by Lola Pistola
Sage ...
June 29, 2021 at 9:00 am
July show forecast
Live shows are back finally and we’re a little (a lot) emo about it. Obviously we want to hit them all up, but here are our ...
June 28, 2021 at 9:00 am
Heaven’s just a gig away: Caroline Kingsbury’s confident new album and triumphant return to the stage
live photos by Steph Port
“Look to your left, look to your right. We’re all friends.”
As the sun set the stage at ...
June 21, 2021 at 9:30 am
Beechwood is back, live and in person
Photos by Lauren Massie
One of our favorite New York bands pre-pandemic is reemerging into the post-vaxxed live music landscape ...