April 29, 2015 at 6:05 pm
A Few of Our Favorite Things: the Midnight Hollow
The Midnight Hollow embrace the groove — hard. Combining synthesizers with propulsive percussion, swirling ambiance, and ...
April 28, 2015 at 4:30 pm
Give Up The Roast: Batdorf & Bronson Capitol Blend vs. ‘Such Friends Are Dangerous’ by Excuse 17
Give Up The Roast is a column that collides delicious caffeine with wild thrashing a la a bi-monthly coffee and punk album pairing ...
April 15, 2015 at 7:58 pm
Art Cures: Exploring Ethereal Japan
Art Cures, our new weekly series, offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you ...
April 14, 2015 at 4:48 pm
Indie-Lit Pop Quiz: Porchista Khakpour
A writer of impeccable talent and an impressive resumé, Porchista Khakpour is the author of Sons and Other Flammable ...
April 13, 2015 at 3:54 pm
Give Up The Roast: Stumptown Cold Brew vs. ‘Slip It In’ by Black Flag
Give Up The Roast is a column that collides delicious caffeine with wild thrashing a la a bi-monthly coffee and punk album pairing ...
April 7, 2015 at 8:00 am
Indie-Lit Pop Quiz: Sophia Katz
Sophia Katz is a writer and musician from Toronto, and her debut collection, The Title Of This Book Is An Inside Joke, was just ...
March 26, 2015 at 6:43 pm
Art Cures: Reboot For Spring
Art Cures, our new weekly series, offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you ...
March 25, 2015 at 4:52 pm
Indie-Lit Pop Quiz: Mira Gonzalez
Indie-Lit Pop Quiz, our new weekly interview series, gets the skinny on independent writers, from their creative process and views on ...
March 18, 2015 at 6:01 pm
Indie-Lit Pop Quiz: Michael J. Seidlinger
Indie-Lit Pop Quiz, our new weekly interview series, gets the skinny on independent writers, from their creative process and views on ...
March 17, 2015 at 5:47 pm
Art Cures: Revisiting High School
Art Cures, our new weekly series, offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you ...
March 10, 2015 at 6:10 pm
Review: Armory Week’s ‘Spring/Break’
Review by Sasha Maese. Follow her on Twitter @Sasha_Dove.
You’ve probably walked past the James Farley Post Office a million ...
March 10, 2015 at 5:02 pm
Indie-Lit Pop Quiz: Beach Sloth
Indie-Lit Pop Quiz, our new weekly interview series, gets the skinny on independent writers, from their creative process and views on ...
March 9, 2015 at 7:22 pm
Art Cures: Exploring Weird LA
Every week or so, we’ll be offering a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you ...
February 24, 2015 at 5:46 am
9 Books We’re Reading This Month
Reading, right? I know, it takes forever, you can’t cheat your way through it, and you have to read all by yourself. Something ...
February 18, 2015 at 6:56 pm
Throwback Review: Dinosaur Jr. ‘You’re Living All Over Me’
If I were to describe Dinosaur Jr.’s album You’re Living All Over Me anecdotally, it would sound like this:
Once upon a ...
February 4, 2015 at 6:25 pm
Good Advice From 10 Good Films
Movies are a great source of information. They teach us about science and love and drugs, and grant us access to other worlds. And by ...
February 4, 2015 at 6:11 pm
10 Shows You Need To Watch On Netflix!
Sub-zero temperatures, break-ups, cold and flu season, spending time with family, blizzards, people talking about sports: these are ...
February 3, 2015 at 4:17 am
Fuel Your Imagination With These 5 Art Exhibits
Congratulations, you have reached the dead of winter. You have survived the underwhelming “Snowpocalypse” and that calls ...
January 29, 2015 at 9:20 pm
A Few of Our Favorite Things: QUARTERBACKS
QUARTERBACKS are definitely not just some high-school jocks reliving their glory days — far from it. Hailing from New Paltz, NY ...
January 22, 2015 at 6:35 pm
Throwback Review: Nick Drake “Pink Moon”
After two albums that were financial failures, and darkness brewing from long stints of isolation, folk singer Nick Drake returned to ...
January 12, 2015 at 7:10 pm
10 Albums to Wear Out, This Winter
Oh my, winter is here — and it sucks. I mean, it really, really, sucks. I almost froze to death buying dumplings three days ...
January 6, 2015 at 6:57 pm
10 New Acts We’re Excited About
Every December and January the blogosphere bursts with the best songs, albums, artists, tracks, etc. and it’s really, sort of, ...
January 6, 2015 at 6:55 pm
Throwback Review: Gravediggaz ‘6 Feet Deep’
It’s been 20 years since one of hip hop’s greatest albums was released. It’s an album a lot of people have never ...
December 29, 2014 at 9:06 pm
Throwback Review: ‘Blue Velvet’
I’d first heard of Lynch during my freshman year of college when a friend of mine, who was really big into “cult ...
December 22, 2014 at 10:13 pm
Editor’s Letter: Why 2014 was an awesome year for us
2014 has been one hell of a year. For one, we graduated from being only a blog to throwing parties and producing a quarterly print ...
December 22, 2014 at 7:56 pm
ICYMI: Art Basel 2014
Photos by Cheryl
Art Basel, an immense, international showcase of modern and contemporary works, is the premiere pilgrimage of the art ...
December 22, 2014 at 5:59 pm
Top Ten Independent Films of 2014
Curated by Tim
I have watched a lot of movies this year. Probably too many. Especially for someone who is basically broke (my mother ...
December 21, 2014 at 8:16 pm
Listen: Deep Purple “Highway Star” #TBT (1972)
Deep Purple’s “Highway Star” is the opening track of the band’s sixth studio album Machine Head, and ...
December 19, 2014 at 6:27 pm
Best Film Scores of 2014
Curated by Nicole
2014 has been an interesting year for film music. All the usual suspects — Hans Zimmer (Interstellar and The ...
December 18, 2014 at 8:17 am
Overlooked Films of 2014
Curated by Eva
2014 was an exciting year for film. I’ve recently been brought into a Sunday afternoon tradition of taking a ...
December 16, 2014 at 7:23 pm
Listen: The Slits “FM” #TBT (1978)
The Slits were a gritty, British punk from the ’70s, now recognized as one of the foremother’s of the riot grrl movement. ...
December 16, 2014 at 4:16 pm
Top 36 Albums of 2014
Curated by Nasa, Justin, and Shea.
With the new year on the horizon, looking back on the past year is inevitable — everyone ...
December 13, 2014 at 4:12 pm
Best Hip Hop Albums of 2014
Curated by Danielle
Everyone had their eyes on Hip Hop in 2014: how the world would react to the “Anaconda“ cover (and ...
December 12, 2014 at 5:58 pm
Samantha Urbani for Issue #2
Photographed by Cheryl Georgette Arent | MUA Robert Reyes | Hair Gloria Espinoza | Samantha wears jewelry by Rittuals
Samantha Urbani, ...
December 11, 2014 at 8:53 pm
Watch: Babes In Toyland “Sweet ’69” #TBT (1995)
In an obvious ode / parody of Beatles mania, Babes in Toyland open their video for their grungy, bottom-heavy single “Sweet ...
December 9, 2014 at 10:27 pm
A Few of Our Favorite Things: Princess
Princess is a drums-and-guitar duo hailing from Dublin, comprised of Aoife Frances and Liam Mesbur, two teenage friends who only began ...
December 9, 2014 at 6:11 pm
A Few of Our Favorite Things: Bebe Panthere
Effie Liu, AKA Bebe Panthere, writes dance-inducing electro pop tunes that capitalize on bubblegum sweet vocal melodies, hip-hop ...
December 1, 2014 at 6:05 pm
8 Movies That Will Make You Appreciate Your Family
Going home for the holidays is cool because you get to spend time with your family and the friends you may not see on a regular basis. ...
November 24, 2014 at 8:36 pm
Watch: Bush Tetras “Too Many Creeps” #TBT (1980)
Here’s a quick dose of ’80s New York City, pst-punk nostalgia. Bush Tetras was an all girl, post-punk/no wave band that ...
November 19, 2014 at 7:26 pm
Listen: Rosa Yemen “Rosa Vertov” #TBT (1980)
We’re digging into the past — in search of inspiration and ideas, highlighting both songs that have stood the test of ...
November 12, 2014 at 6:47 pm
A Few of Our Favorite Things: Low Fat Getting High
Low Fat Getting High are a noisy, post-punk trio driven by grungy bass lines, frenzied drum work, and scratchy scream-sing vocals. ...
November 1, 2014 at 8:16 am
A Few of Our Favorite Things: Thick Red Wine
Mike Wojciechowski goes by the moniker Thick Red Wine, which is apt, seeing as his noisy, sing along style of punk is at once honest, ...
October 22, 2014 at 7:19 pm
Song Premiere: Lowbanks “Street Rat”
In the fall, I experience two separate but equal sensations. Sometimes, I feel like Kathleen Kelly (You’ve Got Mail), a woman ...
October 16, 2014 at 5:40 pm
11 Acts You Shouldn’t Miss at CMJ 2014
CMJ is around the corner and in order to get the full experience, you’re going to need a couple things: the official schedule, ...
October 13, 2014 at 5:01 pm
8 Of The Best Scary Movies Set In New York City
Is there anything creepier than leaving a movie theater or a friend’s apartment after watching a scary movie? The sky always ...
October 10, 2014 at 8:00 am
Oct. 10: Stevie Nicks Selfies Exhibit @ Morrison Hotel Gallery (FREE!!)
Stevie Nicks is an OG, but little did we know, the Fleetwood Mac singer and all around badass dabbled in taking selfies well before it ...
October 9, 2014 at 8:56 pm
Five Cult Classics To Watch This Weekend
What makes a movie a cult classic? Well, first, it needs to be rejected by the mainstream. Then it’s often forgotten, only to ...
October 9, 2014 at 5:04 pm
A Few of Our Favorite Things: The Shivas
Blend together fuzzy surf rock with an old fashioned psychedelic freakout and you’ve got the beginnings of the Shivas’ ...
October 8, 2014 at 5:06 pm
5 Horror Movie Inspired Halloween Costumes
Okay, Halloween is approaching and you have no clue what you should be. You don’t really want to be dressed like everyone else, ...
October 2, 2014 at 3:50 pm
A Few of Our Favorite Things: Fleetmac Wood
No, that’s not a typo — Fleetmac Wood is the very intentional moniker of a traveling DJ collective and party dedicated ...