7 years ago
A night at Jonathan Toubin’s annual Haunted Hop
All photos are from the 13th NY Night Train/Jonathan Toubin’s Halloween Haunted Hop taken by Devon Bristol Shaw—follow her ...
7 years ago
Surfbort’s Dani Miller breaks down the new Gnarcissists EP
Photos and words by Dani Miller of Surfbort. You can keep up with Surfbort on Instagram.
The most genuine banging and clanging ...
7 years ago
At middle distance with Big Bliss
Photos and feature by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
As someone who is fairly new to New York, I can attest that ...
7 years ago
Spectator: End of summer daze
Spectator is a video zine by Molly Mary O’Brien, documenting the coolest, weirdest, and most thrilling shows in NYC. Follow her ...
7 years ago
Dances return with “Venus Figurine”
In a testament to persistence and mental resilience Dances return with the excellent Venus Figurine. After their debut album Dances ...
7 years ago
Video premiere: Blood Cultures “Dunk On Me”
It’s interesting that the most repeated line in Blood Cultures – “Dunk On Me” is “They don’t know ...
7 years ago
A Killer Show: terror strikes the DIY scene
‘A Killer Show’ is a short horror story by Elena Childers. Illustrations also by @elunachilders
“Sick set,” she says ...
7 years ago
Thom Yorke and the horror hall of fame
So it’s that time of year again. Summer’s officially over and instead of contemplating beach dresses and polo shirts for a night ...
7 years ago
Hippo Campus @ Terminal 5
Photos and feature by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
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7 years ago
Death Trax: Lord Fascinator
Death Trax is a mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own funerals. This week Lord Fascinator shares ...
7 years ago
A new Halloween mix from Jonathan Toubin ahead of this year’s Haunted Hop
There is really only one place to be every Halloween and that is wherever Jonathan Toubin tells you to be. This year he’s ...
7 years ago
Working harder to serve you better: Number nine, number nine
Photos by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here.
Working Harder To Serve You Better is a multi-media series that pieces ...
7 years ago
Alt Citizen’s Guide to London Bands
We’re headed across the pond for some shows with our favorite UK bands. Here’s what you can look forward to from the best ...
7 years ago
Johnny Marr @ Warsaw
Black and white photos by Allen Ying. Color photos by Jingmin Ye.
The Belle Game
Johnny ...
7 years ago
Ariana and the Rose wants to create a safe space for you to dance
Photos by Louis Browne
New York, for all its the-city-is-not-what-it-used-to-be detractors, remains one of the most ...
7 years ago
The Vaccines @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her ...
7 years ago
Amyl & The Sniffers tear through Brooklyn
Photos by Allen ...
7 years ago
Nighttime’s ‘Hand in the Dark’ cured my breakup blues
Eva Louise Goodman’s new album, Hand in the Dark, is absolutely ideal for sipping a heavily CBD infused almond milk latte after a ...
7 years ago
The visceral violence and harmony of Guadagnino’s “Suspiria”
I’m going to try to keep the comparisons between this version and the past one to a minimum but they will of course come up so ...
7 years ago
Death Trax: Den-Mate
Death Trax is a mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own funerals. This week Den-Mate shares their ...
7 years ago
Photography files: Sacha Lecca
Rolling Stone’s Deputy Photo Editor Sacha Lecca’s photography has become a part of the greater music conversation for years ...
7 years ago
The lightspeed fury of Surfbort’s “Friendship Music”
Only Surfbort could have an album title as innocent as Friendship Music yet fill it with tracks that exude an infectiously gritty, ...
7 years ago
Two nights of Shame @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Night one photos by Jason Sheldon and Lauren Khalfayan. Night two photos by Allen Ying.
Night One
Jason Sheldon
Lauren ...
7 years ago
Beautiful Boy and the ugliness of addiction
There are several ways that addiction can appear glamorous. There is the downtown club kid way. The grungy, leather wearing, cigarette ...
7 years ago
Dispelling the tortured artist complex with Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser
Photo by Ben Trimble
We all know the type: The sad musician who sings about heartbreak, but is currently ghosting like three different ...
7 years ago
Sleeping with bed bugs and becoming mythic with The Damned
Artwork by Ava East.
Captain Sensible, co-founder of the legendary UK Punk band The Damned thinks that 11-12 albums in a 40 year ...
7 years ago
Basement squatting with Slaves
Photos and feature by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. Select photos by Daggers For Eyes
“TELL ME YOUR ...
7 years ago
Song premiere: YAASSS “$Money$”
Artwork by Alberto Pazzi.
There’s a couple of key descriptors that Brooklyn-based, retro-inspired rock outfit YAASSS (two As, ...
8 years ago
Watch: Daisy Glaze “Little Baby”
Photo by Georgia Mitropoulos.
The retro soaked sounds of Daisy Glaze get a fitting visual companion for their latest track ...
8 years ago
Watch: Surfbort “Slushy”
Climate change is fucking with the seasons, but they’re still changing (even if it’s at a snail’s pace). Cuffing ...
8 years ago
White Reaper @ Bowery Ballroom
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her ...
8 years ago
Listen: Mark Sultan – Let Me Out
Mark Sultan is clearly a man who likes to take his time. Sultan first got into punk music at only 12, moving on to garage rock at 16. ...
8 years ago
Video Premiere: Ghost King “Slither”
Listen up y’all – there’s a million things that we’d all rather do than work the 9-5. It’s a feeling shared by most of ...
8 years ago
Haunters: The Terrifying Reality of Obsession
Haunters: The Art of the Scare follows a series of men and women who sacrifice their time, money, social life, and even health in ...
8 years ago
Death Trax: Nuha Ruby Ra
Painting on wall by Emily Hana.
Death Trax is a mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own ...
8 years ago
Lunacre reflect on the making of their new single “Red Sky”
“You look tired like you’ve heard this all before,” frontman Ben de Vries sings on the pre-chorus of Lunacre’s new single ...
8 years ago
Bambara and IDLES @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Photos by Jessica ...
8 years ago
Shakey Graves @ Terminal 5
Photos by Ryan Layne – see more here
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8 years ago
Album Review: Black Honey, “Black Honey”
It was four years ago now that the UK’s Black Honey first serenaded listeners with their debut EP. With tracks full of fuzzy ...
8 years ago
Listen: Fiona Silver “Nightclubbing”
Somewhere inbetween Marina & The Diamonds, Chvrches and Lily Allen is Fiona Silver. Ahead of her upcoming tour dates with Gary ...
8 years ago
Listen: The Entire Universe “Beyond Me”
“Beyond Me,” the latest single from LA-based rock outfit The Entire Universe, offers up sonic layering and lyrical depth as ...
8 years ago
“The Closing Door” – A Farewell to LVL UP
When I meet people who are as enamored by the music of LVL UP as I am, they usually fall into two categories: individuals involved in ...
8 years ago
Two nights with The Growlers @ Brooklyn Steel
Night one photos by Jessica Gurewitz. Night two photos by Lauren Khalfayan
Night One
Surfbort
The Growlers
Night ...
8 years ago
Grapetooth @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
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8 years ago
Throwback review: Suspiria and the magic of female rage
When Suspiria was first released in 1977, the tagline for the film was “The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes, ...
8 years ago
Alt Citizen’s October Show Forecast
Arguably the best month of live music the city is going to see this year, October is going to be pretty fucking unreal. Here are the ...
8 years ago
Backstage with Lillie West of Lala Lala
Photos and feature by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
In contrast to the realm of popular music where lyrics are ...
8 years ago
Cult Citizen presents Gnarcissists, Den-Mate and Native Sun @ Elsewhere
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, Allen Ying, and Lauren Khalfayan
Native Sun
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8 years ago
Oct 4: Ryne Ziemba, Prude Boys, Rose Cologne @ Berlin, 8PM ($7)
Yeah yeah yeah, keyboards and contemporary genre-spanning musical influences are cool and all, but you ever just want to melt your ...
8 years ago
Oct 18: Alt Citizen presents a Movie Klub 999 screening @ The Roxy, 10PM (Free!)
For the last couple years Movie Klub 999 has been a collection of close friends packed together in a living room watching horror films ...