April 20: Sure Sure and Lizzie No @ Rough Trade, 9pm ($15)
Finally, a band that reminds me of my jeunesse (youth), of high school innocence, the incense of night blooming jasmine, biting into ...
Finally, a band that reminds me of my jeunesse (youth), of high school innocence, the incense of night blooming jasmine, biting into ...
Who’s never cried listening to “Into my Arms” after a bad break up? Who’s never felt bad as fuck walking down the ...
Illustration by Alberto Pazzi.
It’s a party no matter where these guys are! If you haven’t met them yet, say howdy to The ...
Illustration by Cynthia Alfonso, see more of her work here and here.
Maybe it’s the post SXSW migration back to New York or the ...
Photo by Julie-Anna George.
At this point there’s not much more I can say, scream or write about Bambara. So read this or this! ...
A Place To Bury Strangers has been pummeling their noise into (initially) unsuspecting people for about 15 years during which ...
Since their 2015 release Peripheral Vision, Virginia based band Turnover has been creating dreamy emo rock, with lyrics that stick in ...
It’s hard to believe but we’ve been doing Cult Citizen for long enough that our next one will be the 20th! And it seems ...
As a southern California native, Frankie Rose played a pivotal role in composing my musical landscape. I have sweet memories of ...
Come pre-game for our SXSW Cult Citizen presents showcase with the second installment of our Quit Your Day Job party along with Siren ...
Just before festival season gets started, April is a busy, busy month for live music. To get the rainy month started, McLovins are ...
Attention everybody: This garage rock duo left the warm and sunny shores of Miami, FL to live the rough ‘n’ tuff gritty ...
For some reason, the weather shot up to almost 70 degrees this week. Maybe it’s because Jacuzzi Boys are bringing the heat this ...
It’s not with every music release that you truly get a peak inside the head of a musician.
Brian Merrill has fully exposed ...
What’s the common point between Californian Surf noir, car accidents, mustaches and psychedelic rock? Of course it’s the New ...
Quad Cinema has an impressive lineup of experimental animation programs for the coming weekend, called “Independent Frames: American ...
February is dark, cold, sad, and incontestably the worst month of the year—and it’s happening all over again starting this ...
As Told By is a series of tour stories straight from the mouths of our favorite bands. Interview by Tamim Alnuweiri, Illustrations ...
You should really see David Johansen however you can—obviously with the New York Dolls if you can manage it, during his ...
Each one of our Cult Citizens is picked and poured over painstakingly but this one is very special given the current state of our ...
Photo by Audrey Del Piccolo. Interview by Julie-Anna George.
Tall Juan is a nice guy who plays rock and roll—that’s it. Like ...
MoMA opened their doors to the fauna of punk feminists, burlesque males, drag queens, weirdos and artists from the mystic Club ...
You know what goes well with the holiday season? Cheese. Any kind: cheese balls, pub cheese, a big ol’ charcuterie and cheese board ...
Even after getting boo-ed offstage at sold-out stadiums when opening for bands like Tenacious D and Faith No More, most people still ...
This Tuesday the 21st come to Baby’s to wake up the bad genie YAASSS and fall in love with UNI.
YAASSS could be the in next John ...
Cult Citizen took a little break but we’re back! November 8th come hang out with Arrows of Love who are coming all the way from ...
Saara Untracht-Oakner is likely known to you as the Mia Farrow-esque vocalist of Brooklyn outfit BOYTOY. Like most artists however, ...
This Thursday Marx Clarke drops back into Brooklyn for his Cut Worms EP Release show at Baby’s All Right! Just off their tour ...
You’re in for a scare! Beloved NY Night Train DJ Jonathan Toubin is throwing a multimedia Halloween dance party at the Knockdown ...
This Wednesday, dance away your worries at Le Poisson Rouge—New Zealand dream pop suit Yumi Zouma will grace the stage. Coming off a ...
La Femme, the French post-punk/psych rock/whatever other rock derivative band is playing in New York on October 27th . We are giving ...
I don’t want to bring everything back to the dismal state of existence we’re currently in but it’s hard not to when ...
Walking through the East Village is rough these days, meatheads, frat dudes and dudettes on the sidewalk gurgling mimosas while ...
I want to compare Chicano Batman to The Growlers but it’s not entirely accurate—it’s not that they share sonic ...
They say discovering a great new band is fate. Brooklyn-via-Miami, Mons Vi, creates a lo-fo mix of hip-hop influenced beats, ...
The first few years I spent in New York I let Bushwig, the alternative drag festival created by Horrorchatta and Babes Trust in 2012, ...
The amorous Champagne Superchillin will put you in a bubbly haze of romanticism through wine colored glasses.
The NYC by way of ...
Liars are back! This summer Angus Andrew (as the only remaining member of Liars) released TCFC and is now on tour (with members of ...
Insecure Men is in New York and playing the late-ish show at Baby’s alongside Roya and R. Jakov Bovden of Night Beats. As far as ...
You’ve seen Frank Ape—a sticker on a lamppost, on the corner of a wall on the Lower East Side, or at an art gallery. The ...
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 ...
Triathalon have not put anything out since 2016’s Cold Shower EP but they will be here at Sunnyvale powering through their ...
In recent times, Brooklyn has gotten the reputation of being the “arty” center of drag. The current reigning ...
What does it look like to be on the road with one of the most notoriously intense bands of our time? Sacha Lecca (Deputy Photo Editor ...
Apparently, it’s Brooklyn Music Week? Yeah, I didn’t know either. Anyways a number of up and coming bands that have ...
This Friday Dead Stars are releasing their new album Perfect Patterns. And since the most high energy shows tend to be the very joyful ...
I was going to go to Long Island this weekend for a barbecue until I realized how far it is—three hours roundtrip guys, that’s ...
There’s something about Each Month’s Day: yep, that’s what I’m going to call it— aka, 6/6, 7/7, 8/8… if you have a better ...
Photo by Devon Bristol Shaw
Psychic Selves‘ new single ‘Rosemary’ is a love song about loving yourself and not ...
Every now and again you come across a party with such a killer lineup you know it’s going to be wild. That was the case as soon ...