Listen: Post Animal ‘Motion Forward Godyssey’

February 14, 2020 at 9:00 am

Listen: Post Animal ‘Motion Forward Godyssey’

Floating just underneath the radar, Post Animal might just be producing some of the most experimentally-unique sounds in their peer ...

February 13, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Premiere: Cindy Cane invites you to be their bloody Valentine on new single, “Be My Nightmare”

Cindy Cane has been stalking the darker corners of Brooklyn for just over a year now and are finally poised to strike with their first ...

February 12, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Lala Lala and Grapetooth collab on Fantasy Movie

If you were at Webster Hall for the Twin Peaks show this past December, you might have gotten an early preview of the latest collab ...

February 11, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Feelings mixtape

It’s that time of year again so we made a mixtape for whatever you’re feeling — the good, the bad, the sad, the ugly. ...

February 6, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Premiere: Listen to Palomino Blond’s heady new track “Damage”

Photo by Steph Estrada BUFU Records is back, baby, with a shreddfully intoxicating new track by Miami based rockers Palomino Blond. ...

February 4, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Watch: Hinds “Good Bad Times”

Photo by Andrea Savall Hinds truly can do no wrong. Following up the daydream of “Riding Solo”, the group is back with ...

February 3, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Artists to watch in 2020

2019 was a pretty golden year for music, with tons of artists emerging and quickly becoming new favorites. Here are some up and coming ...

January 31, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Feb 8: Native Sun, Public Practice, Pure Adult, Curley (FONTAINES D.C.) DJ set @ The Dance

Brooklyn’s own Native Sun will be taking over The Dance with Public Practice and Pure Adult on February 8th to celebrate the ...

January 30, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Buzzing with Wombo’s latest single, Blossom Bear

Louisville, Kentucky’s Wombo released their debut album in 2017 and it was not written for sitting still. As twitchy as a bundle ...

January 29, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Taking shots with Miranda and the Beat: Altered States S1 E2

If you’re most likely to, take a shot… Miranda and the Beat took that prompt super-seriously, nearly wiping out the ...

January 27, 2020 at 12:00 pm

USA’s ‘Dare Me’ deconstructs the likable female archetype

Willa Fitzgerald, who plays 28-year-old cheer coach Colette French on the USA show Dare Me, says that when creating her character, she ...

January 24, 2020 at 12:00 pm

February Show Forecast

Art by Julia Fletcher, find more of her work here. January was a little dismal, but we’re moving towards SXSW slowly but ...

January 23, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Watch: Best Coast teams up with FIDLAR creative for “Everything Has Changed”

Best Coast have built an identity out of sunny, hummable tunes with broadly relatable themes. Sweet, sugary three-minute sonic morsels ...

January 22, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Modern Vices: a few of our favorite things

Nostalgia’s cycle is typically about 20 years. In the early ’90s growing up, bell-bottoms were it and everyone dressed up ...

January 21, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Overcoming pain with The Garden

“Clench To Stay Awake” is The Garden’s newest single from their upcoming release and fourth studio album Kiss My Super Bowl Ring ...

January 20, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Watch: Max Leone debuts with a delicately filthy “First Grade”

I’m a real sucker for a moody pop song that holds and releases tension so precariously, like a hammock waiting to spill gallons ...

January 17, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Craft and Commitment with Elliot Moss and Kevin Condon

Interview by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here. Photos by Kevin Condon, find more of his work here. I first met ...

January 16, 2020 at 12:00 pm

The Trash Bags’ record release subway show

Text by Obash. Photos by Allen Ying. It was a freezing December night, I heard about The Trash Bags record release show day of, ...

January 15, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Alt Citizen Presents Night 3 of Kate Clover’s LA Residency

Kate Clover’s “Funnel of Love” gives off major summertime beach vibes with that classic drum beat that woke everyone ...

January 14, 2020 at 12:00 pm

We won’t stop dropping albums until we drop dead — “Friends” and the future of Lowertown

Olivia Osby and Avshalom “Avsha” Weinberg have a once in a lifetime kind of friendship. After meeting in high school and bonding ...

January 13, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Taking shots with THICK: Altered States S1 E1

THICK is one of Brooklyn’s best party bands guaranteed to deliver a set you’ll remember for years to come – maybe ...

January 10, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Noir. Tarot card teens. Death. Listen to Bambara’s new single “Heat Lightning”

“Heat Lightning” is the 3rd single released by Brooklyn-based post-punk band Bambara in advance of their 4th LP, Stray. Formed in ...

January 9, 2020 at 9:00 am

With new single “Fitness”, Post Animal prove they want to go somewhere

Photo by Marie Renaud Post Animal. A band which has often been described as either “that genuinely good psychedelic band” or ...

January 8, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Get excited For cumgirl8

Photos by Allen Ying. Something is very unusual about the band name cumgirl8. It’s not that its sexually ...

January 7, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Catching up with Nation of Language

Photo by Rita Iovine It’d been a minute since I last interviewed Brooklyn’s finest neo new wave group, Nation of Language. They ...

January 6, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Do we stan Coachella now?

Photo by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here. There are plenty of reasons to drag Coachella. AEG has been tied ...

January 2, 2020 at 12:00 pm

January Show Forecast

Art by Julia Fletcher, find more of her work here. It’s a more chill month in terms of shows, but still some heavy hitters. ...

December 31, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Alt Citizen’s favorite live acts of 2019

Art by Charis Forrester It’s the last day we can do any sort of list like this for 2019 so HERE IT IS. Some (but def not all) ...

December 30, 2019 at 12:30 pm

Tour diary: Birdgangs

Portrait by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. For a band that’s just relocated to New York, Birdgangs has been ...

December 27, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Mixtape: Alt Citizen’s 2019 trax

Art by Charis Forrester Not necessarily 2019 releases, but shit in general we’ve been digging this past year. Put this baby on ...

December 26, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Alt Citizen’s favorite releases of 2019

Art by Charis Forrester Because we wouldn’t leave 2019 in the dust without giving you our two cents, here’s our ...

December 23, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Alt Citizen holiday mixtape

Happy holidaze from our internet fam to ...

December 19, 2019 at 9:00 am

Twin Peaks @ Webster Hall

Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. I remember feeling like my ribs were gonna bust in the best way possible at ...

December 18, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Premiere: Tall Juan “Vienes Y Te Vas” — A refreshing take on breakup music

Photo by Lililana Merizalde & Sebastian Rosas If you are at all familiar with Tall Juan and his usual brand of loud, messy, ...

December 16, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Devendra Banhart @ Brooklyn Steel

Live photos shot on 35mm film by E.R. Pulgar. Devendra Banhart launched into “Kantori Ongaku”, lead single off latest ...

December 12, 2019 at 12:00 pm

SUO: Dancing Spots And Dungeons

Photos by Allen Ying Saara Untracht-Oakner is just as confident and unapologetically opinionated as she seems. Or, if she ...

December 11, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Pile and the anxiety of the unknown

Early May of this year, Boston transfers and now Nashville-based band Pile, released their third album (7 releases in total), the ...

December 10, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Liza Anne: Aquarius sun, Scorpio moon, Libra rising

Liza Anne has always nudged her way to the front of the sea of other arguably equally as talented musicians for one main reason ...

December 9, 2019 at 12:00 pm

GRLwood’s moved on from sarcasm since ‘Daddy’

GRLwood are the loudest, sweetest, weirdest, most talented, and also did I say sweetest? thing to come out of Louisville. Karen and ...

December 6, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Of Poets + Punks, III: Chromesthesia

Photos and feature by E.R. Pulgar *** “I see music in colours. I love music that’s black, pink, purple or ...

December 5, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Pseudo cults and karate kicks with Divino Niño

Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. Earlier this year, I stumbled upon Divino Niño’s album, Foam, released ...

December 4, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Bambara want you to know that you’re gonna die someday, so f*ck it — listen to “Sing Me to the Street”

In a body to body-to-body packed show at St. Vitus a couple of weeks back Bambara played a very loud show, very close to the dense ...

December 3, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Hinds are back with the most Hinds video possible: watch “Riding Solo”

Photo by Andrea Savall Hinds has always been really spectacular at knowing what Hinds fans want from Hinds. Hinds is a feeling or a ...

December 2, 2019 at 12:00 pm

December 6: Twin Peaks @ Webster Hall

Photo by by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. As we’re coming to the end of the decade, there’s been a definite ...

November 27, 2019 at 12:00 pm

December Show Forecast

Art by Julia Fletcher, find more of her work here. If you’re as emotionally and mentally ready to check out for the holiday ...

November 25, 2019 at 12:00 pm

Premiere: just like “Strychnine” — Ricky Hell & The Voidboys spike classic alternative nostalgia with a dash of modern danger

Musical taste is cyclical. Sounds and styles simmer in the underground before boiling up into the mainstream for consumption by the ...

November 22, 2019 at 9:00 am

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