6 years ago
USA’s ‘Dare Me’ deconstructs the likable female archetype
Willa Fitzgerald, who plays 28-year-old cheer coach Colette French on the USA show Dare Me, says that when creating her character, she ...
6 years ago
February Show Forecast
Art by Julia Fletcher, find more of her work here.
January was a little dismal, but we’re moving towards SXSW slowly but ...
6 years ago
Watch: Best Coast teams up with FIDLAR creative for “Everything Has Changed”
Best Coast have built an identity out of sunny, hummable tunes with broadly relatable themes. Sweet, sugary three-minute sonic morsels ...
6 years ago
Modern Vices: a few of our favorite things
Nostalgia’s cycle is typically about 20 years. In the early ’90s growing up, bell-bottoms were it and everyone dressed up ...
6 years ago
Overcoming pain with The Garden
“Clench To Stay Awake” is The Garden’s newest single from their upcoming release and fourth studio album Kiss My Super Bowl Ring ...
6 years ago
Watch: Max Leone debuts with a delicately filthy “First Grade”
I’m a real sucker for a moody pop song that holds and releases tension so precariously, like a hammock waiting to spill gallons ...
6 years ago
Craft and Commitment with Elliot Moss and Kevin Condon
Interview by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here. Photos by Kevin Condon, find more of his work here.
I first met ...
6 years ago
The Trash Bags’ record release subway show
Text by Obash. Photos by Allen Ying.
It was a freezing December night, I heard about The Trash Bags record release show day of, ...
6 years ago
Alt Citizen Presents Night 3 of Kate Clover’s LA Residency
Kate Clover’s “Funnel of Love” gives off major summertime beach vibes with that classic drum beat that woke everyone ...
6 years ago
We won’t stop dropping albums until we drop dead — “Friends” and the future of Lowertown
Olivia Osby and Avshalom “Avsha” Weinberg have a once in a lifetime kind of friendship. After meeting in high school and bonding ...
6 years ago
Taking shots with THICK: Altered States S1 E1
THICK is one of Brooklyn’s best party bands guaranteed to deliver a set you’ll remember for years to come – maybe ...
6 years ago
Noir. Tarot card teens. Death. Listen to Bambara’s new single “Heat Lightning”
“Heat Lightning” is the 3rd single released by Brooklyn-based post-punk band Bambara in advance of their 4th LP, Stray. Formed in ...
6 years ago
With new single “Fitness”, Post Animal prove they want to go somewhere
Photo by Marie Renaud
Post Animal. A band which has often been described as either “that genuinely good psychedelic band” or ...
6 years ago
Get excited For cumgirl8
Photos by Allen Ying.
Something is very unusual about the band name cumgirl8. It’s not that its sexually ...
6 years ago
Catching up with Nation of Language
Photo by Rita Iovine
It’d been a minute since I last interviewed Brooklyn’s finest neo new wave group, Nation of Language. They ...
6 years ago
Do we stan Coachella now?
Photo by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here.
There are plenty of reasons to drag Coachella. AEG has been tied ...
6 years ago
Procession: I’m just here for the hugs
Procession is a photo column by Allen Ying.
Yaasss played with The Mystery Lights at Berlin.
Yaasss shows ...
6 years ago
January Show Forecast
Art by Julia Fletcher, find more of her work here.
It’s a more chill month in terms of shows, but still some heavy hitters. ...
6 years ago
Alt Citizen’s favorite live acts of 2019
Art by Charis Forrester
It’s the last day we can do any sort of list like this for 2019 so HERE IT IS. Some (but def not all) ...
6 years ago
Tour diary: Birdgangs
Portrait by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
For a band that’s just relocated to New York, Birdgangs has been ...
6 years ago
Mixtape: Alt Citizen’s 2019 trax
Art by Charis Forrester
Not necessarily 2019 releases, but shit in general we’ve been digging this past year. Put this baby on ...
6 years ago
Alt Citizen’s favorite releases of 2019
Art by Charis Forrester
Because we wouldn’t leave 2019 in the dust without giving you our two cents, here’s our ...
6 years ago
Alt Citizen holiday mixtape
Happy holidaze from our internet fam to ...
6 years ago
Letter from the editor: non-seasonal and all-time favorites
The holidays don’t feel like the holidays this year so here are some non-holiday, non-seasonal, random shit I love this season ...
6 years ago
Twin Peaks @ Webster Hall
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
I remember feeling like my ribs were gonna bust in the best way possible at ...
6 years ago
Premiere: Tall Juan “Vienes Y Te Vas” — A refreshing take on breakup music
Photo by Lililana Merizalde & Sebastian Rosas
If you are at all familiar with Tall Juan and his usual brand of loud, messy, ...
6 years ago
Alberto Pazzi’s pink obsession
Photos by Michelle LoBianco
Alberto Pazzi has an obsession. Not only with heavy black lines and contours, but with the symbolic ...
6 years ago
Devendra Banhart @ Brooklyn Steel
Live photos shot on 35mm film by E.R. Pulgar.
Devendra Banhart launched into “Kantori Ongaku”, lead single off latest ...
6 years ago
SUO: Dancing Spots And Dungeons
Photos by Allen Ying
Saara Untracht-Oakner is just as confident and unapologetically opinionated as she seems. Or, if she ...
6 years ago
Pile and the anxiety of the unknown
Early May of this year, Boston transfers and now Nashville-based band Pile, released their third album (7 releases in total), the ...
6 years ago
Liza Anne: Aquarius sun, Scorpio moon, Libra rising
Liza Anne has always nudged her way to the front of the sea of other arguably equally as talented musicians for one main reason ...
6 years ago
GRLwood’s moved on from sarcasm since ‘Daddy’
GRLwood are the loudest, sweetest, weirdest, most talented, and also did I say sweetest? thing to come out of Louisville. Karen and ...
6 years ago
Of Poets + Punks, III: Chromesthesia
Photos and feature by E.R. Pulgar
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“I see music in colours. I love music that’s black, pink, purple or ...
6 years ago
Dec 8: Babes All Rock @ Trans Pecos
In it’s second iteration, Babes All Rock is back and taking over Trans Pecos this Sunday. The festival by Hi Tide features a ...
6 years ago
Pseudo cults and karate kicks with Divino Niño
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Earlier this year, I stumbled upon Divino Niño’s album, Foam, released ...
6 years ago
Bambara want you to know that you’re gonna die someday, so f*ck it — listen to “Sing Me to the Street”
In a body to body-to-body packed show at St. Vitus a couple of weeks back Bambara played a very loud show, very close to the dense ...
6 years ago
Hinds are back with the most Hinds video possible: watch “Riding Solo”
Photo by Andrea Savall
Hinds has always been really spectacular at knowing what Hinds fans want from Hinds. Hinds is a feeling or a ...
6 years ago
December 6: Twin Peaks @ Webster Hall
Photo by by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
As we’re coming to the end of the decade, there’s been a definite ...
6 years ago
December Show Forecast
Art by Julia Fletcher, find more of her work here.
If you’re as emotionally and mentally ready to check out for the holiday ...
6 years ago
Procession: Smoko kills
Procession is a photo column by Allen Ying.
Koko Williams of Coco Verde, at Rubulad, which took over the former Secret ...
6 years ago
Premiere: just like “Strychnine” — Ricky Hell & The Voidboys spike classic alternative nostalgia with a dash of modern danger
Musical taste is cyclical. Sounds and styles simmer in the underground before boiling up into the mainstream for consumption by the ...
6 years ago
Photo Diary: (Sandy) Alex G @ Brooklyn Steel
Live photos by Lucy Blumenfield. Find more of her work here.
Indigo De Souza
Tomberlin
(Sandy) Alex ...
6 years ago
Parasite’s cultural nuances in the economic divide
Review by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here.
Amour, A Separation, Roma, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: all foreign language ...
6 years ago
Premiere: live in The Moment with Modern Vices
One of the most psychologically defeating aspects of enduring challenging times is the feeling of being completely alone, that there ...
6 years ago
Black Mountain summit the highest peaks on Horns Arising tour
Way back in the depths of history, 2016 to be precise, Vancouver psych rockers Black Mountain released their fourth album, aptly ...
6 years ago
Cerebral corpse walking on brass horns : an interview with Johnny Scuotto
Photos by Felicia Wolfe
As a Star is forming in harsh abyss, collecting particles, sucking blank matter, heating, expelling colors ...
6 years ago
A few of my favorite things: Kachi
I fully intended on seeing Kachi when I was in Chicago last month, but public parking and some personal deep dish pizzas had other ...
6 years ago
Catch on fire: 5 extreme nights at Ty Segall’s New York residency
Artwork by Jake Pflum. Photos by Coen Rees, Julia Khoroshilov, and Lauren Khalfayan
Ty Segall deals primarily in extremes. The volume ...
6 years ago
Listen: Russian Baths ‘Deepfake’
On their debut album, Deepfake, Brooklyn’s rock band Russian Baths conjures a ritualistic battle between soft and heavy, a glam ...
6 years ago
Beach Fossils @ The Dance
Photos by Julia Fletcher, find more of her work here.
On a dark and stormy night, rain hits the streets of Manhattan. A red ...