7 years ago
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Stonefield, ORB @ Central Park
Color photos by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here. Black and white photos by Allen Ying
ORB
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7 years ago
Premiere: Kewl “Glamour Muscles”
Honey. Syringes. Bears. Oh my.
Dark, alluring, and a touch disturbing, the video for Kewl’s hypnotic “Glamour Muscles” renders ...
7 years ago
Of Poets + Punks, I: On Goodbyes
Photos and feature by E.R. Pulgar
Press Play.
Reporting live from the M Train and the back of Ubers and Lyfts and cabs and the ...
7 years ago
Kyle Craft: sprinkled with apocalypse
Photos and feature by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
I remember first stumbling across Kyle Craft back in 2016 ...
7 years ago
Summer of Schlagenheim
As labor day passes, signifying the death of summer Fridays, it’s time we all reflect on these past few months. This year’s summer ...
7 years ago
Premiere: Sharkswimmer paints an intimate portrait of the healing experience in animated music video for “Shut-In”
Photo by Michelle Lobianco
You might get emotional while watching the music video for Sharkswimmer’s track, “Shut-In.”
The ...
7 years ago
ICYMI: Surf Curse, The 1975, Squid
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 ...
7 years ago
Lana Del Rey may have just written the next best American record
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what Lana Del Rey has been doing for the last seven years. In 2012 she stormed the world with her ...
7 years ago
Listen: The Wants “Fear My Society”
Though 2019 is rounding the corner into the final stretch, who’s to say now isn’t as good a time as any for new talent to make ...
7 years ago
Oct 25: DIY Mag x Alt Citizen present The Wants, Beechwood, Whiner @ The Broadway
We’re headed back to The Broadway with our pals at DIY Mag to host what will no doubt be a killer evening. Brooklyn’s own ...
7 years ago
Listen: Blanck Mass ‘Animated Violence Mild’
Sometimes the busiest electronic music is the most fulfilling. Listening to Animated Violence Mild, Benjamin John Power’s latest ...
7 years ago
September show forecast
A front heavy show month with lots of competing shows (and lots of gigs already sold out *RIP*) — if you can’t make ’em ...
7 years ago
Beau: A few of our favorite things
The music of Beau (Heather Golden and Emma Jenney) might have the breezy strumming of an acoustic guitar and soulful vocal stylings, ...
7 years ago
Beck and Cage The Elephant
Photos by Jason Sheldon
Beck
Cage The ...
7 years ago
Sheer Mag’s exactly the same but totally different on ‘A Distant Call’
Sheer Mag’s sound is one that you don’t really want tampered with. You want more from them, but as a fan, you worry how ...
7 years ago
Zine preview: Surfbort @ Market Hotel
Photos by Allen Ying.
Arguably the coolest venue in the city hosted the release party for Surfbort’s debut EP with Muddguts ...
7 years ago
Zine preview: The Murlocs and Moonwalks tour diary
Photos by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here.
Check out some outtakes from Julia’s tour diary with The Murlocs and ...
7 years ago
Tour Diary: Beechwood Summer European Tour
Beechwood is the Brooklyn band we don’t deserve. As their own song states, they’re “sweet like heroin honey” ...
7 years ago
Listen: Uniform x The Body team up for ‘Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back’
In 2018, Uniform & The Body teamed up to release the brief, but very promising, Mental Wounds Not Healing. Now, a little over a ...
7 years ago
Listen: The Murder Capital ‘When I Have Fears’
It’s an unfortunate reality that bands over here in the United States just don’t have the same sort of “umph” that I’ve ...
7 years ago
Sippin’ coffee & talking post-punk with BLOOM
Photos by Tylor Loring
BLOOM isn’t your typical group of NYC design punks. Their live performance alone should be enough to turn ...
7 years ago
Premiere: Twin Peaks and Post Animal combine magic powers on acid as Column
Photo by Tim Nagle
Chicago bands seem to know each other and connect with each other in a way that doesn’t organically happen ...
7 years ago
Steele: A few of my favorite things
Photo by Cal Mcrae
I totally credit Steele with introducing me to the New York music scene.
When I first moved here several years ...
7 years ago
Zine preview: Kame House
Photos by Jesse Hughey
When I went back to Seattle last summer I was struck by the harsh reality that the artistic home I grew up in ...
7 years ago
Zine preview: To the brink and back with Yak
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here
The first time I listened to the latest Yak album, The Pursuit of ...
7 years ago
Meltasia 2019
Feature and photos by Allen Ying.
Meltasia is a small, DIY music festival up in the Catskills. You see the bands play, you go for a ...
7 years ago
Issue 8 release party @ The Broadway: Dreamcrusher, Model/Actriz, Straw Pipes
Thanks everyone who came out to the release party last night! Truly was a magical evening unlike anything I’ve ever experienced ...
7 years ago
Staw Pipes mixtape
Straw Pipes is the collaborative vision of Chinese-born LeLe Dai and her close friend Stonie Clark. A precarious blend of 60’s ...
7 years ago
Zine preview: Mattiel
Photos and feature by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here.
Check out an excerpt and some outtakes from our upcoming zine ...
7 years ago
Zine preview: In the pit with Dreamcrusher
Photos by Allen Ying
Check out an excerpt and some outtakes from our upcoming zine feature on Dreamcrusher
We’re primed for a ...
7 years ago
Zine preview: SASAMI and the divinity of improvised intention
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Check out an excerpt and some outtakes from our upcoming zine feature on ...
7 years ago
A few of our favorite things: Model/Actriz
Photo by Julien Kelly-Gross
Hailing from Boston, dance-noise subversives Model/Actriz are ready to disrupt and amuse you. The trio ...
7 years ago
Zine preview: Viagra Boys
Photos and feature by Lola Pistola
Check out an excerpt and some outtakes from our upcoming zine feature on Viagra Boys
Viagra Boys ...
7 years ago
Beeef sees a day in the sun upon the release of their sophomore album, “Bull in the Shade”
In their sophomore record Bull in the Shade, Alston-based quartet Beeef proves a consistent capability to deliver an exciting and ...
7 years ago
August 8: Issue 8 zine release party feat. Dreamcrusher, Model/Actriz, Straw Pipes, Minty Boi
Come celebrate the release of Issue 8 with some of our favorite acts at The Broadway! After taking some time off of print, we’re ...
7 years ago
Starcrawler commits murder in video for “Bet My Brains”
Photo by Autumn de Wilde
A little over a year ago I interviewed California based hard rock band Starcrawler and attended their show ...
7 years ago
Shows we went to: Amyl and The Sniffers, Conor Oberst, The Marías
Bringing back an old classic with a new twist. Shows We Went To started it’s online incarnation as a 35mm photo series back in ...
7 years ago
Goon brings Heaven to LA with record release show at the Echoplex
To celebrate the release of their debut album, Heaven is Humming, LA-based indie rock group Goon brought their gritty, neo-90s grunge ...
7 years ago
A conversation with The Nude Party ahead of their Lollapalooza set
Photo by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here.
The rise of The Nude Party has been astronomical, to state it minimally. ...
7 years ago
August show forecast
Thursday, August 1st
Kyle Craft — Baby’s All Right ($12)
Blood Orange, Kelsey Lu — Damrosch Park (FREE)
Gymshorts, ...
7 years ago
Issue 8: Viagra Boys, Dreamcrusher, SASAMI, Yak, and more
We’re releasing another zine! It’s been a labor of love and logistics, but we’re stoked to be back in print and ...
7 years ago
Small talk with Mary Timony from Ex Hex
Ex Hex is probably one of the most underrated bands out there. Joke, though, is on anyone who’s never heard of them. The group is ...
7 years ago
July 26: Tall Juan, Las Rosas, YAASSS, Gustaf @ Market Hotel
If you’re in the mood for good ‘ol rock and roll evening and good vibes, you should get your body and should to Market Hotel ...
7 years ago
ICYMI: Kills Birds, Allah Las, DIIV
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 ...
7 years ago
Premiere: Watch Zilched’s “Blue Doom”
Photo by Lydia Kuzak
The vampire sub-sect of rock and roll is often a deep, dark crypt full of pancake-make-up’d men afraid of ...
7 years ago
July 27: New York Poetry Festival (unofficial) After Party feat. CHILLEMI, Ryan Drag, + more
The only thing better than an after party is one you’re not supposed to have. Escape to your happy place (even if it’s ...
7 years ago
July 26-28: Beach Jam 3 @ the Rockaways
It’s that time of year again! Time for all NY-city dwellers to take over the beaches of Rockaway. Beloved Brooklyn indie rockers ...
7 years ago
Shows we went to: CHAI, Alvvays, Black Midi
Bringing back an old classic with a new twist. Shows We Went To started it’s online incarnation as a 35mm photo series back in ...
7 years ago
Blonde Redhead at Industry City
Feature and photos by Allen Ying.
Blonde Redhead went on a short northeast tour in June, ending with an outdoor show at Industry ...
7 years ago
Photography files: Miriam Marlene Waldner
Miriam Waldner has proved rather hard to track down. Having sent her some questions about her work a year ago, I lost hope of her ...