8 years ago
Death Trax: The Big Wheel
Death Trax is a mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own funerals. This week, UK band, The Big ...
8 years ago
The guttural pursuits of sonic terrorists: an interview with The Sediment Club
Interview by Tamim Alnuweiri. Photos by Luis Lucio at Nick van Woert’s studio.
Writing about The Sediment Club feels like a ...
8 years ago
Meet The People of Tanlines: a Latinx Party/Pop-Up Mall
Last summer, Tanlines was the best day party around. The queer Latinx-centered party happened in the backyard of popular Brooklyn gay ...
8 years ago
Interview: Spitting blood with Starcrawler
Photos by Noelle Duquette at Elsewhere’s Loft, styling by Cait Durra for Worship. Interview by Amanda Lang.
Everything about ...
8 years ago
Tour diary: On the road with Glove
Find Glove on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Instagram.
My band Glove is a new wave rock n’ roll band hailing from Tampa, Florida and ...
8 years ago
Watch: Champagne Superchillin’ “Amor Fati”
Photo by William Aubrey Reynolds.
Nietzsche and David Lynch ain’t got nothing on Champagne Superchillin’. The wonderfully ...
8 years ago
May 25-26: The Elsewhere Rooftop Opening with NOBUNNY & Branko ($10-$20)
Summer has (finally) fucking arrived and besides the blistering humidity and a pervasive smell of warm urine, it also means it’s ...
8 years ago
Film review: Nico, 1988
Nico, 1988 opens with an older woman getting ready for her morning in a quaint beach house off the coast of Ibiza. I knew I was ...
8 years ago
Play this at my funeral: Daniella Valdez
Play This At My Funeral is a new mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own funerals. This ...
8 years ago
All headlines: An interview with The Dreebs
Text and interview by Tamim Alnuweiri. Photos by Lauren Khalfayan.
I read something on Pitchfork or some shit that called The ...
8 years ago
May 27: Sally Can’t Dance-Tribute to The Talking Heads @ The Bowery Electric, 8:30PM ($15)
Memorial Day Weekend is one of those horrible moments in life where the thought of finding something to do is almost enough to make ...
8 years ago
Sweet and creamy: Fever Ray @ Brooklyn Hangar
Nine years after unleashing their pitch-black eponymous debut album, Fever Ray is back in the States again with a quake full of dark ...
8 years ago
EP Premiere: Kip Nelson ‘Waves After Work’
It’s hard to find any genuine sense of relaxation these days—the news makes it feel like the world is constantly on the verge ...
8 years ago
Album review: Courtney Barnett ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’
Courtney Barnett is among the most observational of contemporary songwriters. 2014’s The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas and the ...
8 years ago
May 18-May 20: The Oddly Satisfying Spa @ The Spectrum
Popping bubble wrap, puffing cream and slicing butternut squashes; here are just a few of the simple pleasures one can enjoy in an ...
8 years ago
Play this at my funeral: Josh Salter, Nap Eyes
Artwork by Kiana Green.
Play This At My Funeral is a new mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own ...
8 years ago
Live review: Varsity @ Mercury Lounge
The Chicago garage-pop band Varsity makes music that isn’t restricted by nostalgia for or the sound of a specific ...
8 years ago
Photo Diary: Sedona, RFA, and Ceramic Animal @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Sedona
RFA
Ceramic Animal
...
8 years ago
An alternative soundtrack to “Eyes Wide Shut”
Playlist by Jackie Green.
I’ve been making an “alternative soundtrack” to Eyes Wide Shut over the past couple ...
8 years ago
First listen: Arctic Monkeys “Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino”
A few years ago one of Alex Turner’s friends gifted him a piano, and for the first time in his career, he set aside his guitar. He ...
8 years ago
We survived SXSW: Quit Your Day Job and everything else
Text by Tamim Alnuweiri. Videos and photos by Cheryl Georgette except where noted, gifs by Luis Lucio.
Quit Your Day Job
Luis and I ...
8 years ago
Every Wednesday in May: The Hum at House of Yes
House of Yes is at the top of the game when it comes to being inclusive with all of their programming and events, so it only makes ...
8 years ago
Photo Diary: Gold Connections and Car Seat Headrest @ Market Hotel
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Gold Connections
Car Seat ...
8 years ago
Throwback review: After Hours
The plot of Scorsese’s After Hours consists almost entirely of a guy just trying to make it back home one night in New York City. I ...
8 years ago
Interview: Numb.er
Interview and text by Tamim Alnuweiri. Gifs by Luis Lucio.
SXSW was kind of a mess and a blur and this one day it was hot as shit ...
8 years ago
Play this at my funeral: Matthew Orr
Illustration by Nazar Khamis.
Play This At My Funeral is a new mixtape series where people sort of obviously curate music for their ...
8 years ago
La Cinémathèque Française brings classic French cinema to the Quad
It’s spring. Love and pollen are in the air and everyone is emerging from their dark and cold hibernation dens.
Even better, you ...
8 years ago
Throwback Review: X Ray Spex “Germfree Adolescents”
I’m constantly stunned by my tendency to obsess and fixate on what I know I love. It’s easy to fall into a routine and to keep ...
8 years ago
Photo Diary: The Coathangers and Minus the Bear @ Warsaw
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
The Coathangers
Minus The Bear
...
8 years ago
Photography files: Zackery Michael
Fashion and portrait photographer Zackery Micheal’s images have a wistful quality to them that reveal a deep intimacy between ...
8 years ago
Listen: Burnt Beach “Another Drop”
Photo by Julia Pierce.
Burnt Beach sounds like something you would listen to in the summer. Their debut single “Another Drop” is ...
8 years ago
Mixtape: ROMES’ summer essentials
A few days ago ROMES premiered the music video for their latest single “When The Night Comes” on Earmilk. The music video ...
8 years ago
Another one bites the dust: RIP Silent Barn
So as of Sunday, April 29th, another one bites the dust, and by that I mean New York is losing another DIY venue with Bushwick’s ...
8 years ago
Photo Diary: Sunflower Bean @ Bowery Ballroom
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8 years ago
Here to be Heard: The Story of the Slits
“They were wearing chaos, they were being chaos.”
The Slits weren’t punk. They weren’t musicians. They refused to let genres ...
8 years ago
Lopsided language: A conversation with Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis
Sadie Dupuis has never been one to avoid making a point. Not in a chatty, incessant way—as a seasoned poet, she has a dark and witty ...
8 years ago
Watch: Phil and The Osophers “Third World American”
It’s nothing new, but the United States kinda suck. And I don’t mean that in a racist, “Make America Great ...
8 years ago
Alt Citizen’s May show forecast
Artwork by Alberto Pazzi.
I don’t know what’s going on but there are a shit ton of shows going on like every night. Most ...
8 years ago
Listen: The Sediment Club “The Payoff”
Brooklyn based No Wave/Punk band The Sediment Club is never easy to listen to. And that’s not a bad thing, the grinding guitars and ...
8 years ago
Mixtape: Taurus season
Dear Taurus, you and me we are very compatible and I have a special tenderness for you. As an Earth sign you are grounded, patient, ...
8 years ago
Watch: Tall Juan “Kaya”
Photo by Audrey Del Piccolo.
After a remarkable show last Friday at Market Hotel, Tall Juan gives us some other good news with his ...
8 years ago
Interview: A Place to Bury Strangers
Interview and text by Tamim Alnuweiri. Photos by Luis Lucio.
Fifteen years on and A Place To Bury Strangers’ imprint on rock ...
8 years ago
Watch: MOURN “Barcelona City Tour”
Although shockingly young, MOURN has been through more in their short existence than many bands encounter in their entire careers. ...
8 years ago
Premiere: Atlas Wynd “Helpless”
Rock music doesn’t need to be reinvented to be worthy. Some bands rely on nostalgia, some bands rely on experimentation, and ...
8 years ago
Photo Diary: Franz Ferdinand @ Brooklyn Steel
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
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8 years ago
Video premiere: PILL “Side Eye”
In some fever dream you wake up and it’s the 80s. You turn on your TV and scramble through public access channels until you land ...
8 years ago
Film Review: La Ciénega
Lucrecia Martel’s debut Film La Cienega (also known as The Swamp) begins with an invasion of sights and sounds. As the opening ...
8 years ago
Live Review: U.S. Girls and Gold Dime @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Going to a lot of shows in New York, you can easily get wrapped up in ...
8 years ago
Issue 6.5 is here!
For the few that care—at one point we were working on an issue 6. It actually featured these interviews with The Growlers, The ...
8 years ago
Shows we’re going to on 4/20
4/20 is mostly funny because I spend all year saying 4/20 blaze even though the honest to god thought of marijuana send me into an ...