October 30, 2017 at 8:00 am
Album Review: Common Holly ‘Playing House’
I have to let you in on a secret: no one knows what the fuck they’re doing when it comes to love! We’re all stumbling blindly ...
October 27, 2017 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: HalloWIN
LISTEN AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Halloween is the best holiday ’round these parts and if you get that, than you’re a winner, my ...
October 27, 2017 at 8:00 am
Premiere: Jaguarundis’ Self Titled LP
Photo by Leen Dweik, album artwork by Natasha Fortson.
While living in a windowless NYU dorm in Chinatown, NYC-native Alex Carr ...
October 27, 2017 at 8:00 am
Beyond Earshot: the forgotten gender politics of Lil’ Kim
Beyond Earshot is a new series by Jacob Seferian examining the cultural impact of music, past and present. Follow him ...
October 24, 2017 at 8:00 am
Watch: Yaeji “Drink I’m Sippin’ On”
Queens/Seoul based producer and DJ, Kathy Lee aka Yaeji has gifted us with NYC inspired visuals for her underground house meets Korean ...
October 23, 2017 at 8:00 am
Interview: Black Kids
After almost a ten year hiatus, Black Kids are back on the scene! Having received huge success surrounding their debut album Partie ...
October 23, 2017 at 8:00 am
Watch: SOPHIE “It’s Ok To Cry”
SOPHIE, a loose associate of the PC music crew and producer for pop stars like Charli XCX and Madonna, has been secretive since her ...
October 20, 2017 at 8:00 am
Interview: Cowgirl Clue
Images courtesy of Cowgirl Clue.
Listening to Cowgirl Clue often feels as though you have ripped open a Barbie car, and out of which ...
October 19, 2017 at 8:00 am
Video Premiere: Tempesst “Waiheke”
For London based Tempesst, their home based rainy climate doesn’t seem to bring their music down. The four piece rockers have ...
October 19, 2017 at 8:00 am
Five British bands you should be listening to
Editor’s Note: Lallie Doyle is Alt Citizen’s new European Features Editor! We asked her to compile a list of British ...
October 18, 2017 at 8:00 am
Nightcrawler: Insecure Men, Roya, Triathalon and Cutouts
Editor’s Note: After first coming across Luis Lucio‘s work on the people’s platform, Instagram, we got in touch ...
October 17, 2017 at 8:00 am
Beyond Earshot: the invalidation of Lauryn Hill
Beyond Earshot is a new series by Jacob Seferian examining the cultural impact of music, past and present. Follow him ...
October 16, 2017 at 8:15 am
Interview: Arrows of Love
Arrows of Love have been described as chaotic and musically ferocious. They are certainly a band who are as fearless with their ...
October 13, 2017 at 8:00 am
Review: LVL UP at Baby’s All Right
The first time I saw LVL UP was in 2013 at a basement show in New Paltz, New York as one of the openers for Lemuria. I remember them ...
October 12, 2017 at 8:00 am
Throwback Review: Iggy Pop ‘The Idiot’
Review and illustration by Alberto Pazzi.
Good Rock’n’Roll is like comedy. When I see old videos of Iggy Pop bouncing around the ...
October 11, 2017 at 8:00 am
Watch: King Krule “Half Man Half Shark”
King Krule debuts his third single “Half Man Half Shark” in a compilation of lo-fi footage taken from recent shows in New ...
October 10, 2017 at 11:00 am
Watch: Jay Som “The Bus Song”
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In times like these tenderness is hard to come by, but Jay Som’s “The Bus Song” offers ...
October 10, 2017 at 8:00 am
Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ 10 years on
Review by Michael Morgan.
When a band you admire goes on a four-years-plus-long break in between releasing albums, there’s one ...
October 10, 2017 at 8:00 am
Interview: Reduction Plan
Album cover by Alan Huck, photo by Dalton Patton.
Reduction Plan is the passion project of Daniel Manning. Born out of a love affair ...
October 9, 2017 at 8:00 am
Week two and a half with Ice Balloons: more trash from tour
Ice Balloons is on tour and phoning in their tour diaries! Check back for further installments, and stop by one of their last ...
October 8, 2017 at 8:00 am
Interview: Kyle Duke and the Brown Bag Boys
Kyle Duke and the Brown Bag Boys exists on a continuum between aquatic metaphors set to 60s inspired rock love songs and a cover of ...
October 6, 2017 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: Don’t text him
Tunes to accompany crappy drip coffee or nighttime bike-rides over the wind tunnels of the Williamsburg Bridge. Here’s your ...
October 6, 2017 at 8:00 am
Nightcrawler: Portraits from South Street Seaport
Editor’s Note: After first coming across Luis Lucio‘s work on the people’s platform, Instagram, we got in touch ...
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
Interview: MAGS
Photo credit: Ben Lieber (of Head North)
What’s the first thing you think about when you hear the word, Buffalo? Wings, unbearably ...
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 ...
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 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 27, 2017 at 8:00 am
Song Premiere and Interview: The North Country “Island”
Photo by Mikhail Bezruchko.
Washington, D.C. is a bit of a mess, to be frank. It mostly reminiscent of a cheeto-powered man and a ...
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 25, 2017 at 8:00 am
Song Premiere: The Entire Universe “Can They Hear?”
Photo by Renee Carey.
The fatigue and loneliness brought on by the endless cycle of screen-staring and technology infatuation is not ...
September 23, 2017 at 8:00 am
Interview: The Modern Savage
In the midst of Alaksa’s “music hungry” indie scene lies post-punk group, The Modern Savage. Based in Anchorage, the quartet ...
September 22, 2017 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: Fiona Silver’s tour playlist
Photo by Cortney Armitage.
There’s a lot of down time in the van on tour, enough that I’ve come up with this ...
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 21, 2017 at 8:00 am
Video Premiere: Dances “R U With It?”
There is a certain morose euphoria that comes with a professional diagnosis, the thing hiding in the shadows is less frightening when ...
September 21, 2017 at 8:00 am
I went to the Zola Jesus “Immersive” Album Installation
When I received an email inviting me to “an immersive listening and visual experience” of the new Zola Jesus album Okovi ...
September 20, 2017 at 8:00 am
Interview: Shilpa Ray
Photos and interview by Stasia de Tilly.
Shilpa Ray is an introvert expressing her inner weirdo through her theatrical performance. ...
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 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 14, 2017 at 8:00 am
Song Premiere: Hearken “Sure Shock”
Hearken is sure to shock you with their new remastered track “Sure Shock.” The Pittsburgh-based punk rock duo is dark yet ...
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 11, 2017 at 8:00 am
Video Premiere: Triathalon “I want It”
Set against a leafy rural backdrop, Triathalon musically deconstruct the feelings of lust and unrequited love in their new music video ...
September 8, 2017 at 8:09 am
Getting Melted at Meltasia: A Look Back at 2017
Words by Jackie Green and Photos by Devon Bristol Shaw.
Very rarely does an event fully live up to its projected hype. We get all ...
September 8, 2017 at 8:00 am
Review: Alex Cameron @ The Lexington, London
Review by Lallie Doyle.
Alex Cameron has carved out a real niche for himself in the music industry– an addition I don’t think we ...
September 7, 2017 at 8:00 am
Video Premiere: HNRY FLWR “As Above, So Below”
Things get mystical in HNRY FLWR’s new music video for “As Above, So Below.”
Like a Miyazaki film, this video ...
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 8:00 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 31, 2017 at 8:00 am
Mixtape: end of summer daze
Grab your buds, a beer, and grill some burgers. Savor the summer while it lasts—we’ll be hit with full on foliage before we ...