5 years ago
ICYMI: Claud, Shame, Adam Melchor
ICYMI is a series featuring new and notable releases you (and we) may have missed
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their ...
5 years ago
“If it was purely serious it would be a wank, if it were purely fun it would be meaningless.” A look inside a fake cult
With the way things are going I, more often than I’d ever thought I would be, find myself thinking about cults; what it takes to ...
5 years ago
Welcome to Capricorn Season: Connect with intention
Capricorn is, as far as my experience goes, the most forgotten zodiac. Their level-headedness and steadfastness as the earthiest earth ...
5 years ago
Zine preview: Dehd
Designed by Lucas Long. Photo by Alexa Viscius, courtesy of Dehd
Listening through Dehd’s Flower of Devotion for the first time ...
5 years ago
Alt Citizen’s favorite releases of 2020
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here.
2020 was not our best! But the music was pretty great at least. ...
5 years ago
Mixtape: Alt Citizen’s 2020 trax
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here.
Not necessarily 2020 releases, but the music that got us through this ...
5 years ago
Riz Ahmed’s ‘The Long Goodbye’: A livestream more alive than a live show
Written by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here.
2020 has forced everything and everyone to adapt to it. A pandemic, in parallel ...
5 years ago
Zine preview: welcome to the Automatic ChatRoom
Photos by Lucy Blumenfield. Find more of her work here.
Welcome to the Automatic ChatRoom! Remember to be respectful, and keep this ...
5 years ago
Procession: Party like it’s 2019
Procession is a photo column by Allen Ying.
So it’s been like 9 months since shows and parties have been cancelled from life, ...
5 years ago
Holiday mixtape
Tis the szn! Here’s a mix of holiday songs, old and new, to help get you in whatever the mood may be given the current ...
5 years ago
Artist x Artist interview with Lupin and Samia
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here. Samia photo byJessica DiMento. Lupin photo by Graham Tolbert.
Jake ...
5 years ago
Zine preview: Paperboy Prince
Photos by Allen Ying
Paperboy Prince is everything millennials need in a politician. They have the ideas and the creativity to ...
5 years ago
‘Another Round’ explores the beauty of a bender
Another Round, the latest outing by prolific director Thomas Vinterberg, is titled Druk in its native Danish. “Druk” means ...
5 years ago
Offscreen: crying and coming
Offscreen is a new column by writer, actress, producer, Virginia Rand
Selfing-soothing is the love language of the isolated. ...
5 years ago
Death Valley has become the stage to Danz CM’s new lease of life
Photos by Shae Detar. Styled by Amanda Sherriffs.
Danz CM is one of those musicians that just radiates talent. Whilst many artists ...
5 years ago
When nihilism becomes real in Viagra Boys’ newest video for “Creatures”
Following the first glimpse into Welfare Jazz, last week Viagra Boys shared the video for their newest track “Creatures” — a ...
5 years ago
Zine preview: Show Me The Body
Photos by Izel Villarba
In the spirit of nostalgia, we’re taking a trip back to Show Me the Body’s show at Music Hall of ...
5 years ago
A few of our favorite things: Chloe Saavedra and Zhone of WTRGRL
Photos by Danny Lane
LA-based musician Chloe Saavedra and Seattle based producer Zhone’s new project WTRGRL came into fruition ...
5 years ago
Rodes Rollins and HNRY FLWR duet in breathtaking new video, “Isolation”
Photos by Elliot Travis
Originally released earlier this year as an exceptionally polished demo, Rodes Rollin’s “Isolation” was ...
5 years ago
Gossip Girl and the Responsibility of a Queer Reboot
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here
I should be clear from the start, I only religiously watched the first ...
5 years ago
Welcome to Sagittarius season: content to keep searching
Saggitarius Szn started last Saturday the 22nd, and ends right before Christmas on the 21st of December. Welcome!
When I think of Sags ...
5 years ago
Zine preview: Sloppy Jane is both a universe and a sickness
Photos by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here.
Haley Dahl has a talent for visualizing and creating beauty, it just ...
5 years ago
It’s Is My Life with Juulsexual
Juulsexual is our favorite meme account hands down, no questions asked, you cannot change our minds, this is fact. The guys from The ...
5 years ago
Photographer Daniel Topete takes us behind the scenes of self-recorded music with ‘Mirror Sound’
Photos by Daniel Topete
If you keep up with the New York music scene or any of the best established or up-and-coming rock and punk ...
5 years ago
The Paranoyds skewer manufactured beauty standards on surreal new single “Hotel Celebrity”
Photo by Little Ghost
The cult of celebrity never seems to lack in willing initiates, forking over sizeable portions of their cash ...
5 years ago
Record collection tour with Chris Maestro of BierWax
If you’re a vinyl and craft beer lover who needs to escape their apartment (or their holiday plans, or…reality?) this ...
5 years ago
Issue 9: Tkay Maidza, Dehd, Sloppy Jane, Show Me The Body, and more
Thrilled to finally be sharing what we’ve been working on for a minute now — Issue 9 is finally here!
We started this ...
5 years ago
Phoebe Bridgers battles herself for release of the year
I think the world stopped turning for a minute when I heard that Phoebe Bridgers was releasing a set of orchestrally re-worked tracks ...
5 years ago
Mamalarky’s self-titled debut LP, self-prescribed quarantine dancing, and loving over time
You put on any Mamalarky song and you instantly know it’s gonna be good. It’s easy to listen to but not for any lack of ...
5 years ago
Watch: Dry Cleaning “Scratchcard Lanyard”
Thank god that as the world (and humanity) is spiraling further into the abyss Dry Cleaning remains a monotone, cheeky voice of dark ...
5 years ago
Mush preps for Armageddon with “Blunt Instruments”
Photo by James Brown
Earlier this year Mush hit us with 3D Routine, an incredibly optimistic album super-packed with playfulness and ...
5 years ago
Premiere: Watch Body/Negative’s “The Big Sleep”
Photo by Bailey Kobelin
Today, LA-based nonbinary artist/producer/multi-instrumentalist Body/Negative (aka Andy Schiaffino) is ...
5 years ago
Listen: Nation of Language “A Different Kind of Life”
Nation of Language released the upbeat single “A Different Kind of Life” last week. Proving they’re staying busy in ...
5 years ago
Mortality’s a given: Working Men’s Club’s ‘John Cooper Clark’
It’s Friday y’all. We can’t really dance with each other, but this Working Men’s Club vid for “John ...
5 years ago
Wasuremono’s “Big Big Smiles” is an exercise in weaponized Dadaist philosophy
Photo by William Southward
The artistic movement known as Dadaism emerged in the early years of the 20th Century as a reaction to ...
5 years ago
ICYMI: Sedona, Wombo, Tempesst, DANCEHALL
ICYMI is a series featuring new and notable releases you (and we) may have missed
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their ...
5 years ago
Listen: Reptaliens ‘Wrestling’
Even for an EP, Reptaliens latest output is brief. Going by the name of ‘Wrestling’, the tracks come and go like waves on ...
5 years ago
Calm TF Down mixtape
This past week, this month, this year has been A LOT. I know we’re all on the same page with that. Even if we have moments of ...
5 years ago
Watch: Jordan Dennis “Elon Must”
It’s 2020, and judging by his new video, Jordan Dennis has been spending lock-down looking at memes on the internet. Let’s be ...
5 years ago
It’s Is My Life: first episode and new podcast series
Welcome to the first episode of It’s Is My Life — a new video podcast series brought to you by Whole Wide World and The ...
5 years ago
ICYMI: Black Country New Road, Molchat Doma, Pretty Sick
ICYMI is a series featuring new and notable releases you (and we) may have missed
Black Country, New Road – “Science ...
5 years ago
Welcome to Scorpio Season: defy and evolve with certitude
First off, I need to apologize to all the Libras. I skipped you. Life happened, but I love you. You probably didn’t need anyone ...
5 years ago
Premiere: Cindy Cane is the one that haunts your dreams on menacing single “The Darkness”
Single Art by Tom Lescovich
There is a chill in the air, the kind that bites through wool and leather and forces you to pull up your ...
5 years ago
The no good, very bad, fucked up, wonderful world of horror
Written by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here.
It’s that time of the year again. Though things are a little different — ...
5 years ago
Shadow Show question reality on psychedelic 7-inch ‘What Again Is Real’
Photos by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here.
As the end of 2020 rapidly approaches it’s easy to reflect on this ...
5 years ago
Halloween mixtape: LET’S BOO-GIE
Art by Charis Forrester
Happy Halloween from Alt Citizen! Enjoy some haunted tracks to soundtrack the season. Featuring classic ...
5 years ago
Why I want more horrifying women in horror
Horror movie villains always have some basis in the psycho-social. Whether they are the more realistic incarnation of Patrick ...
5 years ago
Native Sun’s “Government Shutdown” is gratifyingly bashing and brutal
Photo by Jessica Gurewitz
Before… all of this — all of everything, you know what I mean — Native Sun were catching up on ...
5 years ago
October 26-30: Siren Sounds presents Independent Venue Week
Art by Connor Mikita
I almost can’t believe I get to writeup… an event?! I’m thrilled.
I’ll be the first one ...
5 years ago
Listen: Spare Parts for Broken Hearts “Dirty Milk”
Earlier this month, LA-Based rock band Spare Parts for Broken Hearts released their newest track and second single of the year, ...