8 years ago
Mixtape: Cancer season
Dear Cancer, you are one of the three zodiac signs ruled under the water element, alongside Scorpios and Pisces. But since Cancer is ...
8 years ago
A night of strange sensations at Full Moon Festival 2018
I have a very severe love-hate relationship with music festivals. On the one hand, I love live music, and festivals provide the ...
8 years ago
Interview: Rey Pila and the journey into no man’s land
Caught in a downpour during a bus ride to Philadelphia a few months ago, I wanted to take the storm in from the safety of my seat, to ...
8 years ago
Gnarcissists premiere first single “We All Just Wanna”
Photo by Jin Kay Lee.
The sounds of New York punk’s past feel instilled into the gritty garage jams of the Gnarcissists, the ...
8 years ago
Film Review: Hereditary
It takes a lot to make me jump. Horror has been my go to genre for distraction since I was thirteen, but when I look back on it, maybe ...
8 years ago
July: Summer with CHILLEMI Residency, Every Wednesday @ Berlin, 21+ ($10-$25)
Think Alan Vega style beats over Neil Young guitars. For his upcoming residency at Berlin, CHILLEMI will have a full backing band to ...
8 years ago
Death trax: Cynthia Alfonso
Play This At My Funeral is a new mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own funerals. This week ...
8 years ago
Jul 25: Cult Citizen Presents Gnarcissists, Den-Mate, and Native Sun @ Elsewhere, FREE
Spend golden hour with Cult Citizen on Wednesday, July 25 with live music from Gnarcissists, Den-Mate, and Native Sun! Doors are at 5 ...
8 years ago
Life Releases Video for “Grown Up”
Life released the video for their recent single “Grown Up,” a song that makes you think about the things that make ...
8 years ago
July 22: Yaasss, The Muckers, Rose Cologne @ Baby’s All Right, (21+) $10
Poster by Alberto Pazzi.
The fictitious Baby’s All Right’s parking lot is used to being full of magic carpets and camels waiting ...
8 years ago
Meg Myers leaves fans elated at Mercury Lounge
Photos by Aricka Moultry-Davis. Polaroids by Grace Eire.
When we get to the venue at 4:00 PM, there’s already someone posted up ...
8 years ago
The bleak optimism of documentary ‘The Gospel of Eureka’
It’s been four days since I saw the sneak preview screening of Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s feature-length documentary ...
8 years ago
EP Premiere: Ruth Carp & The Fish Heads/Dead Brian ‘Ruth & Brian’s Unholy Matrimony’
Remember those summer nights where you end up making out with your crush while you’re on some wild wine infused adventure? Your ...
8 years ago
Song premiere: White China’s “Follows You Around”
Brooklyn/LA based band White China’s newest single, “Follows You Around,” sounds like a hybrid of Lana Del Rey at the heights of ...
8 years ago
Catching up with Margaret Glaspy at Le Poisson Rouge
Margaret Glaspy’s music puts the hard to say thoughts into words that otherwise can’t be found. Her debut, Emotions and Math, ...
8 years ago
Listen: Material Girls “Residual Grimace”
If you’re ever told that the sweat-and-leather-driven, electric guitar rock ’n’ roll is a thing of the past, “Residual ...
8 years ago
Video Premiere: Tampa “Silent Moon”
Neon, skydiving, airplanes and a multitude of sunglasses. Tampa, Jeff Kite of The Voidz’s L.A. band, premiere their new music ...
8 years ago
Death trax: SadGirl
The LA-based punk band SadGirl has just been welcomed into the Suicide Squeeze family and recently released a single from their ...
8 years ago
To the pit and back with THICK
From Craigslist to California, Brooklyn’s own THICK just don’t know when to stop. And thank God they don’t! They’re joyous, ...
8 years ago
EP Premiere: War Violet ‘Getaway’
The hot and sticky summer calls for War Violet’s whimsical escapism of psychedelic folk rock. Multi-instrumentalist Jummy Aremu ...
8 years ago
Song Premiere: Dismal Thinkings “Gone Away”
Nothing suits summer better than a melancholic rock song, and today, Seattle-based alt-rock band Dismal Thinkings has gifted us with ...
8 years ago
Nightcrawler: Pussy Riot @ Elsewhere
Luis Lucio‘s Nightcrawler series is a documentation of his nights in New York City, the shows he sees and the people he ...
8 years ago
Death trax: Wisha Kungsanant
Play This At My Funeral is a new mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own funerals. This ...
8 years ago
Hablemos Del Alma creates satirical religious electronic music
Hablemos Del Alma is the moniker of Angelo Santa Cruz a Chilean new-age electronic musician, who makes music for the “soul.” ...
8 years ago
Photo diary: Parquet Courts @ Public Arts
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her ...
8 years ago
Album Review: MOURN ‘Sorpresa Familia’
Sorpresa Familia opens up with their first lead-in single “Barcelona City Tour,” which is packed and punching with energy. It’s ...
8 years ago
Mixtape: Summer sludge
Photo by Tamim Alnuweiri.
In my youth what summer in New York meant was waking up on saturday mornings and hoofing it to Coney Island ...
8 years ago
June 19: Mick’s Jaguar ‘Fame and Fortune’ record release @ Saint Vitus
Mick’s Jaguar started out as a Rolling Stones cover band before they decided to start writing original music.
When they started ...
8 years ago
Interview: The emotional labyrinth of Exitmusic
Exitmusic’s latest release, The Recognitions, may very well be its last. The 12-year relationship and musical collaboration between ...
8 years ago
Video Premiere: Twisty Cats “My Quiet Fantasy”
Twisty Cats latest video for their track “My Quiet Fantasy” is like watching a black magic erotica. The women in the film gather ...
8 years ago
Album Premiere: GRLwood “Daddy”
The queer revolution is here and it’s…Kentucky-fried with a side of screamo? That’s what “scream-pop” duo GRLwood have ...
8 years ago
Mixtape: Pride for punks
The first pride parade was to commemorate a riot (if you don’t know what I’m talking about google Stonewall). Now it’s awash ...
8 years ago
Film Review: The relentless thrill of new-wave horror flick “Revenge”
French filmmaker, Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature Revenge makes Kill Bill look PG. Somehow, amidst the terrifyingly gruesome scenes ...
8 years ago
Japanese Breakfast brings upbeat energy to Warsaw
My only previous live Japanese Breakfast experience was at Union Pool outside on the patio on an incredibly hot summer day. Like, ...
8 years ago
Song premiere: The Ophelias “General Electric”
After playing the token girl in numerous bands of guys, bassist Grace Weir, guitarist and lyricist Spencer Peppet, percussionist ...
8 years ago
Hop Along at Brooklyn Steel
Philadelphia indie band Hop Along feels very grounded. It isn’t just the simplicity with which they present their music, lead ...
8 years ago
Maybe just skip the shallow and exploitative “27: Gone Too Soon”
27: Gone Too Soon, the latest documentary to focus on the 27 Club, is shallow, exploitative and offensive. The first clue this film is ...
8 years ago
Video premiere: Sleeping Pills “Drift Away”
Using just a green screen and some oversaturated graphics and patterns, Sleeping Pills has put out a psychedelic surf video for ...
8 years ago
Photography Files: PJ Couture
Boston based photographer PJ Couture tells me that he’s a sucker for being put in strange situations with his camera. His mostly ...
8 years ago
Starcrawler and Yaasss wreaking havoc at Elsewhere
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on ...
8 years ago
June 5th: Alt Citizen’s Altered States with Alex Carapetis @ Night of Joy
It’s been really beautiful to watch Alt Citizen grow and mutate into its current incarnation for the last two years. It feels ...
8 years ago
Mixtape: Navy Gangs’ songs for the road
Navy Gangs is on the road and sent in their road trip playlist. Listen to it below and catch them while they’re on tour.
Hey ...
8 years ago
Man and Machine: An Interview with Sons of An Illustrious Father
Text and interview by Lauren Khalfayan. Photos by Luis Lucio
There are very few instances in which I’ve listened to an album ...
8 years ago
Alt Citizen’s June Show Forecast
Art by Ava East.
It’s summer in New York which doesn’t change much for the show attending hordes other than many of the gigs have ...
8 years ago
To Philly and back to see The Kills @ Union Transfer
There’s a reason The Kills and their crunchy blues-rock continue to make the rounds and blow out speakers. Their most recent LP, ...
8 years ago
“Hôtel des Amériques” at the Quad: French Film in Technicolor
When I think of French film, I think of black and white, of jump cuts and stark symbolism in the lighting and framing of the shot. But ...
8 years ago
An interview with The Black Lips—America’s most dangerous country band
Find the Black Lips on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
In April The Black Angels and Black Lips rolled through Saint Petersburg, ...
8 years ago
First Listen: Mazzy Star “Still”
Hope Sandoval and David Roback, better known as the core duo of mournful, misanthropic Mazzy Star have been around for a very long ...
8 years ago
Hinds: Behind the scenes of a sold out Warsaw show
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, polaroids by Grace Eire.
At 2:30 on Thursday afternoon, Hinds is recovering from a night off in Brooklyn. ...
8 years ago
Play this at my funeral: Jimena García Vázquez
Photo by Zabrina Estrada.
Play This At My Funeral is a new mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own ...