September 3, 2025 at 5:38 pm
Listen: Torture and The Desert Spiders “Working On Myself”
New York City and Liverpool-bred post-punk-rock trio Torture and The Desert Spiders have released a new single, “Working On ...
August 28, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Listen: Tchotchke “Playin’ Dumb”
The Shangri-Las are back in 2025 and have taken over the bodies and 60s-dream-girl souls of Tchotchke! The New York-based trio has ...
August 12, 2025 at 9:56 am
Watch: Pisha “Who You Really Are”
Words by Marisa Whitaker, Photo by Nico Daniels and photo edited by Hamish McCallion
Oklahoma-bred and Brooklyn-based electro-pop ...
July 23, 2025 at 3:31 pm
Written in the basement of Jean’s, 7/23/25.
You came to me with a handful of coins
Still wet from the well
And asked to buy
The only part of me I couldn’t sell.
I ...
July 15, 2025 at 11:33 am
CDMX x NYC: An Interview with Americo of The Americojones Experience
Photo by Matt Weinberger, Words by Marisa Whitaker
Mexico City-bred singer-songwriter Americo of rock ‘n’ roll band The ...
June 25, 2025 at 1:36 pm
June 26: Play “Mud” Presented by Utopia for Losers
New York-based theatre company Utopia for Losers will debut its newest production by María Irene Fornés, “MUD,” on June ...
June 25, 2025 at 12:57 pm
June 26: Strata Group Show Exhibition featuring Connie Harrison, Gregory Hodge, Lucienne O’Mara, Alexandria Tarver, and Ana Villagomez
The Nino Mier Gallery in Soho is slated to host the Strata group collection opening, which will be held from 6-8 p.m. on June 26.
The ...
May 12, 2025 at 5:54 pm
May 13: Party Girls Never Die w/ Special Guests Night #2 @ Jean’s
Nasa, ALT CITIZEN founder and editor in chief has a new party series called Party Girls Never Die w/ Special Guests centered around ...
May 8, 2025 at 2:00 pm
From Prompt to Page: Pete Voelker Debuts PIX 040
The latest installment of PIX, the global photography project by New York City-based visual artist Pete Voelker, has arrived. ...
February 6, 2025 at 12:07 pm
Feb. 6: Alex Hall “Drown” Opening Reception + Interview
Alex Hall is always in motion, jetting off to Los Angeles, Berlin, and beyond at a moment’s notice. For the New York-based portrait ...
August 7, 2024 at 2:27 pm
“Sometimes” Premiere + A Few of My Favorite Things with Shari Page
photo by Justin Buschardt
Shari Page, the charming former drummer of Thick who we know and love, is currently working on new solo ...
August 5, 2024 at 7:21 am
The Summer Of Love Series- “Lewis OfMan, and the night a frenchman made San Francisco feel cool again.”
In 2024 all we have are shows in San Francisco. It really does feel like the last saving grace of culture and art left in city ...
July 22, 2024 at 3:48 pm
July 24-28: “Expensive Imagination” a one-act play presented by Heart Wrench Collective @ Studio 8
Mark your calendars, get your tickets. Heart Wrench Collective’s summer residency at Studio 8 continues with EXPENSIVE ...
February 6, 2024 at 1:17 pm
How the leather jacket was stitched into the fabric of modern culture
In an ever-changing, fast-paced world, styles, fads and trends ascend and plummet so quickly that before the general public has a ...
November 29, 2023 at 10:00 am
nostalgic, romantic, vengeful: a fall playlist
As we enter a period of incessant Christmas music, lest we not forget the fall playlist.
This is what I’ve been listening to for ...
November 9, 2023 at 12:47 pm
Actors Cut The Scene
Actors Cut The Scene
By Tom Meglio
It is increasingly apparent to all who are drawn to the art of theatre-making in New York City that ...
August 28, 2023 at 10:00 am
The art of sex and sleaze: or, what ‘The Idol’ got wrong
In one of the early interviews with Lily Rose Depp, of The Idol, she says that at the beginning it seems that her character Jocelyn is ...
August 8, 2023 at 9:00 am
Yellowjackets: In Defense of the Cannibal
*Spoilers below*
The most romantic, tragic, and bone-chilling moment in Showtime’s Yellowjackets, occurs in the second ...
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 ...
December 1, 2022 at 12:00 pm
A few of my favorite things: Scout Gillett
Album art provided by artist. Polaroids by Nicole Miller
There are not very many people who can name Sharon Van Etten as a mentor. ...
October 12, 2022 at 2:30 pm
Plugged in and burnt out: the state of live music
Art by Joaquin Ramirez. Find more of their work here.
The landscape of the music industry has changed significantly in the last ...
April 29, 2022 at 10:30 am
A few of our favorite things: cumgirl8
There is nothing subtle about cumgirl8 — and that is where their beauty lies. From their costumed and choreographed performances to ...
March 2, 2022 at 9:00 am
Euphoria season 2 backtracks on a beautiful message — and that’s a shame
A year ago, around the time of Zendaya‘s Emmy win, I wrote an article largely praising the (even at the time) controversial HBO ...
January 27, 2022 at 7:30 am
Premiere: Catcher “Behind A Bleeding Heart”
Photo by Julia Austin
Brooklyn post punk outfit Catcher have released their latest, and maybe strongest, single yet. “Behind a ...
December 6, 2021 at 10:00 am
Alt Citizen’s 2021 gift guide
As the holidays are fast approaching, if you don’t know what to get that special someone in your life who has looked at this ...
November 17, 2021 at 12:00 pm
A few of my favorite things: CLIP
I don’t know if CLIP is a Scorpio, but she gives off big Scorpio energy. The New York rapper’s new single “Calvin ...
November 15, 2021 at 12:00 pm
M.I.A.’s “Babylon”: a testament of the changing consumption and accessibility of modern art
Photo by Dan Marker-Moore
In the age of the internet, we’ve become accustomed to instant gratification. We need click through ...
November 2, 2021 at 9:00 am
Horror villain of the week: Dr. Hannibal Lecter
This past month I have explored our love affair with horror movie villains ranging from ancient vampires, to ghostly urban legends, to ...
November 1, 2021 at 9:00 am
Final Girl of the week: Clarice Starling
A lot of my Final Girls the past few weeks have been defined by their roles as narrative foil to the villains who they defeat. I ...
October 29, 2021 at 9:00 am
Final Girl of the Week: Brigitte Fitzgerald
There aren’t enough female werewolves. This is a disappointment because the werewolf myth works so perfectly as a female coming ...
October 25, 2021 at 9:00 am
Horror villain of the week: Carrie White
To make Carrie White this week’s horror villain was a difficult decision because truthfully she is not really a villain. ...
October 21, 2021 at 9:00 am
Final Girl of the week: Brianna Cartwright
Content warning: police violence
I should preface this article by mentioning that Helen Lyle, of the original Candyman, was a ...
October 18, 2021 at 9:00 am
Horror villain of the week: Candyman
We had an urban legend in our town when I was a kid. I don’t know where or how it got started but that’s often the case ...
October 15, 2021 at 9:00 am
Final Girl of the week: Mina Murray Harker
Though the archetype of the final girl has existed for as long as the horror genre, the term was only coined relatively recently. In ...
October 12, 2021 at 9:00 am
Horror villain of the week: why Count Dracula (and vampires in general) are still so iconic
How to choose the most iconic horror movie villains, and who exactly am I to do the choosing?
I’m a horror fan, clearly. I write ...
October 7, 2021 at 9:00 am
Let there be light: ‘Midnight Mass’ shows the horror genre at its absolute best
*the following contains spoilers for Midnight Mass*
What the fuck happens next? That question asked by Kate Seigel‘s ...
September 17, 2021 at 9:00 am
A few of my favorite things: Carwash
Photo by Athena Merry
I will never, NEVER be sick of emo music. Not side bangs, skinny jeans, eyeliner emo, but Elliot Smith, Bright ...
July 20, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Fear Street: true evil is born from white male entitlement
Trigger warning: Police brutality, assault, violence
A handsome, white police officer has a queer black teenager facedown in the mud. ...
May 6, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Shadow & Bone isn’t the next Game of Thrones, it’s better
Three years and counting and we still can’t quite escape the shadow of Game of Thrones. Every fantasy series and film inevitably ...
May 3, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Alt Citizen social hour @ The Sultan Room
Thanks so much to everyone who came out last week! Was a blast to listen to great tunes from DJs Lola Pistola and Justin Krim and see ...
April 28, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Les Rallizes Dénudés: the most mysterious band in Japan
Please find both Spanish and English translations of the article below
Desde secuestrar un avión hasta bootlegs, esta es la historia ...
April 27, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Pen Pals with Subtext
One of the things I miss most about live music is all the amazing people you would meet at the gigs. Depending on the show or the band ...
April 9, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Psychodelia in Latam
Please find both Spanish and English translations of the article below
Mientras el Summer of Love, Woodstock y Vietnam creaban una ...
March 30, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Mixtape: it’s called regression, sweaty
You’re either lying or living in a very different reality if you haven’t experienced even a *momentary* moment of ...
February 19, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Offscreen III: Beach, Body & Water
Offscreen is a column by writer, actress, producer, Virginia Rand. Art by Sarah Schmitt.
The Pacific can be unforgiving in its ...
February 17, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Artist x Artist: Tolliver x Blimes and Gab
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here
I don’t think you could walk into a gig from New York to L.A., or ...
February 9, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Michaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You” delivers on its promise
Trigger warning: sexual assault.
**Spoilers below**
“I May Destroy You”, does exactly what the title implies. To say that ...
January 27, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Welcome to Aquarius season: keep it weird
We’re about a week or so into Aqua season, and to all the aquarian aliens out there, I just wanna say I love y’all. ...
January 19, 2021 at 3:00 pm
Offscreen: disease
Offscreen is a column by writer, actress, producer, Virginia Rand
It’s the same day lived again and again: isolation, disruption to ...
January 12, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Sex and sexuality are not monstrous, but the way our media portrays it certainly is: a rant
It’s no secret that the television zeitgeist has become substantially more violent in recent years. Violence in film has become ...