8 years ago
Listen: Palberta “Roach Goin’ Down”
Listening to the new Palberta track “Roach Goin’ Down,” the thing that strikes me the most is that it feels kind of ...
8 years ago
Live review: Cigarettes After Sex @ Brooklyn Steel
What does it mean to put on a live performance? Are musicians supposed to stay true to their original creation or provide an ...
8 years ago
April 24: Lola Pistola, Mima Good, Pom Pom Squad and Menjuje (The Good Girl Party) @ Elsewhere 7pm ($10)
Are you a good bitch or a bad bitch? It’s 2018! You can proudly be anyone you want to be and where better to celebrate that than ...
8 years ago
Interview: Haley Blais
Haley Blais blends provoking lyrics with a laid back brand of harder rock, bringing to mind influences of predecessors like PJ Harvey ...
8 years ago
Photo diary: Honduras and Public Access TV @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Honduras
Public Access ...
8 years ago
Photo diary: Dan Auerbach and Shannon & The Clams @ Brooklyn Steel
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here.
Shannon & The Clams
Dan ...
8 years ago
Album Review: Many Rooms “There Is A Presence Here”
Somber and neither here nor there, Many Rooms, the moniker of Houston-based singer/songwriter Briana Hunt, conceived a debut album ...
8 years ago
April 20: Sure Sure and Lizzie No @ Rough Trade, 9pm ($15)
Finally, a band that reminds me of my jeunesse (youth), of high school innocence, the incense of night blooming jasmine, biting into ...
8 years ago
An interview with New York’s post punk icons Bush Tetras
Interview by Lola Pistola, illustration by Ava East.
Pat Place, Cynthia Sley and Dee Pop are still making the rounds. Yesterday New ...
8 years ago
Ticket giveaway! Nick Cave @ Murmrr, May 5th
Who’s never cried listening to “Into my Arms” after a bad break up? Who’s never felt bad as fuck walking down the ...
8 years ago
Song Premiere: Mima Good “Bad For Me”
If being a good girl is doing as grandma says, we’re screwed. It’s imposed on every female identifying person that there’s a ...
8 years ago
Faded films: Back from the brink
So I guess a few weeks ago now I had a semi public meltdown which I used this increasingly bizarre ...
8 years ago
Video Premiere: Ackerman “Mission Control”
A hazy song that’ll take you out of this world—Ackerman is a NYC-based band that brings you trippy indie beats that create a ...
8 years ago
Photo Diary: Caroline Rose @ Rough Trade
Photos by Brett Myers.
Caroline Rose
“I do believe we might be the most grateful band in the world.”
...
8 years ago
Listen: Twins “Glass Breaks Glass”
Found sounds are a great way to disrupt the melody and meaning, it is also something that will always have a dual effect on the ...
8 years ago
Photo Diary: Lucille Furs, Fruit and Flowers, and The Nude Party @ Elsewhere
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Lucille Furs
Fruit and Flowers
The Nude ...
8 years ago
We survived SXSW: A recap of Cult Citizen presents
Text by Tamim Alnuweiri, photos by Luis Lucio.
It doesn’t exactly make sense to start here since this was actually the last ...
8 years ago
Live Review: Nobunny @ Diviera Drive
I don’t know what happened to me as a kid but I’m only satisfied at shows if I’m deaf and sweaty by the end of it—and if the ...
8 years ago
Mixtape: Music for the way down
I’ve been so supremely stressed out by my jobs and general life decisions for the last few months that I have not emotionally ...
8 years ago
Album Premiere: The Night Screams ‘Stuck’ EP
Photo by Jeanette D. Moses/ Blood Sweat & Beers NYC
You can’t get any grittier than this. Say hello to the guttural and ...
8 years ago
Interview with the Godather of Persian rock Kourosh Yaghmaei
Interview by Kyle Avallone.
How did you start playing music?
I learned on a Santur, an eastern instrument, that my father bought for ...
8 years ago
Photo Diary: Zuli @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
...
8 years ago
Diaries from Treefort Fest: Part 2
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
After a killer weekday startup, Treefort fest was in full swing come ...
8 years ago
Photo Diary: Dr. Martens Presents Kyle Craft @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
...
8 years ago
Spoiler Alert: Errol Morris’s ‘Wormwood’
The problem with this epic documentary is that it takes six hours to reveal the insanely explosive conclusion, so let me just put it ...
8 years ago
Song Premiere: Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser “Kindness Is Hot”
Photo by Greg Alvarez.
The lesson taught by this amp-exploding tune is right there in the title. Recorded at the Volcom HQ, produced ...
8 years ago
Photo diary: Wolfmanhattan Project, Art Gray Noizz Quintet, Robert Kennedy Assassination @ The Safari Room
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here.
Wolfmanhattan Project
Art Gray Noizz Quintet
Robert Kennedy ...
8 years ago
Nightcrawler: Downtown Boys and Olivia Neutron John @ Brooklyn Bazaar
Photos by Luis Lucio, more of his work here.
Downtown Boys
Olivia Neutron ...
8 years ago
Album review: Hank Wood & The Hammerheads Self-Titled
I’ve been watching Hank & co. for a few years now, and though their live shows have always been super energetic and powerful, I ...
8 years ago
Diaries from Treefort Fest: Part 1
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
When you think of hubs of arts and culture in America, or even just on ...
8 years ago
Mixtape: The Nude Party’s Country Playlist
Illustration by Alberto Pazzi.
It’s a party no matter where these guys are! If you haven’t met them yet, say howdy to The ...
8 years ago
Live Review: Son Lux @ Brooklyn Steel
Photos and review by Brett Myers.
Halfway through Son Lux’s set at Brooklyn Steel last week, one song, “You Don’t Know Me,” ...
8 years ago
Interview with South London’s noisiest talent Goat Girl
Photos by Kevin Neal and interview by Danielle O’Neill.
Last week at Union Pool in Wiliamsburg, four young women, Naima Jelly, ...
8 years ago
Alt Citizen’s April show forecast
Illustration by Cynthia Alfonso, see more of her work here and here.
Maybe it’s the post SXSW migration back to New York or the ...
8 years ago
Album review: The Voidz ‘Virtue’
Tomorrow the Voidz release their second record, Virtue, and it is a behemoth. At this point many of the albums best moments have ...
8 years ago
April 13: Bambara (‘Shadow On Everything’ record release) @ Alphaville, 8PM ($10)
Photo by Julie-Anna George.
At this point there’s not much more I can say, scream or write about Bambara. So read this or this! ...
8 years ago
April 12: A Place To Bury Strangers (record release) @ Elsewhere, 8PM ($15)
A Place To Bury Strangers has been pummeling their noise into (initially) unsuspecting people for about 15 years during which ...
8 years ago
Photo Diary: MGMT @ Brooklyn Steel
Photos by Brett Myers.
...
8 years ago
Live review: Turnover @ Warsaw
Turnover began as a typical pop-punk addition to Warp Tour circa 2015 but transformed into something between shoegaze and emo revival ...
8 years ago
Listen: Devoye “Never Gonna Stay”
Not everyone can say they are made to dance, some people are more reticent to reveal their natural gestures. Yet, that connection ...
8 years ago
Rolling in the mud with Ruby Aldridge and Surfbort
Photos by Luis Lucio, interview by Ruby Aldridge.
Up front at Baby’s All Right on a freezing November night, I was there to check ...
8 years ago
Listen: CHILLEMI “Neon Bride”
Do you ever catch yourself wishing Twin Peaks would start yet another season? I don’t, truly never got the hype—the melodramatic ...
8 years ago
Video premiere: The Entire Universe “Just Don’t”
The last time we had the overlords of suaveness, The Entire Universe, on site they were premiering their twinkling yer subdued track ...
8 years ago
Faded films: Old, withered and weird
I recently spent a weekend afternoon crying after I made a series of bad decisions that though I knew they were going to blow up in ...
8 years ago
Mixtape: Aries season
Aries, lucky you—your sign start with spring and the Persian new year! A sign of renaissance, revival and renewal you are ...
8 years ago
Photography Files: Paul Latislaw
Two years ago while working at Pierogi Gallery in the Lower East Side I followed my colleague Paul Latislaw’s Instagram. I expected ...
8 years ago
March 24: Turnover, Pronoun and Summer Salt @ Warsaw, 8pm ($22)
Since their 2015 release Peripheral Vision, Virginia based band Turnover has been creating dreamy emo rock, with lyrics that stick in ...
8 years ago
Mixtape: City Kids II
Illustration and playlist by Daniel Shepard.
Ear candy tunes for those 70´s Punk lovers, just the right amount of fast paced ...
8 years ago
Listen: Half Waif “Torches”
Twinkling and bright, Half Waif returns with “Torches,” a bellowing anthem of searching and a rightful demand for answers. ...
8 years ago
King Krule sets foot on the moon
As if every track on King Krule’s latest album, The Ooz, wasn’t other-worldly enough, the man behind the music, Archy Marshall, ...