8 years ago
Listen: The Voidz “Pointlessness”
What a way to go. The Voidz have a new album on the way, Virtue, and it’s closing track, the newly released “Pointlessness,” is ...
8 years ago
EP Premiere: Brian Merrill ‘Bliss Bunnies’
It’s not with every music release that you truly get a peak inside the head of a musician.
Brian Merrill has fully exposed ...
8 years ago
Feb 17: La Luz & The Mystery Lights @ Elsewhere, Ticket Giveaway
What’s the common point between Californian Surf noir, car accidents, mustaches and psychedelic rock? Of course it’s the New ...
8 years ago
Mixtape: Valentine’s day special
Illustration and playlist by Alberto Pazzi.
Nothing says ‘I love you’ better than a meticulously curated Valentine’s Day ...
8 years ago
Watch: La Luz “Cicada”
La Luz just revealed “Cicada,” the lead single from their upcoming album Floating Features coming out on May 11th. It’s the ...
8 years ago
You should probably watch these: Oscar snubs 2017
With the awards season in full bloom, we thought it only proper to give praise to some of our favorite films left off the nomination ...
8 years ago
Photo Diary: Post Animal @ Brooklyn Steel
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Post Animal
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8 years ago
February: Independent Frames @ Quad Cinema
Quad Cinema has an impressive lineup of experimental animation programs for the coming weekend, called “Independent Frames: American ...
8 years ago
Live Review: QWAM @ The Knitting Factory
photos by Connor McNamara.
When I premiered QWAM’s EP, I predicted that their show would be a heck of a good time. I’m ...
8 years ago
Photo diary: NYC’s Hardest Working Bands @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Thick
Grim Streaker
Sic Tic
Darkwing
Fruit & ...
8 years ago
Listen: Hop Along “How Simple”
Hop Along’s new single manages a lot in just under four minutes. When the song begins, Frances Quinlan seems to be coming from a ...
8 years ago
Mixtape: Aquarius season
February, the aquarius month—symbolized by the philanthropic and objective Water Bearer, Aquarius energy is innovative and ...
8 years ago
Live review: Hinds @ Elsewhere
Luis Nieto Dickens for Elsewhere.
It feels like a long time since I first came across Hinds in a lo-fi garage rock playlist. It was ...
8 years ago
Photo diary: Mourning A Blk Star @ DROM
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on ...
8 years ago
Spoiler alert: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Phantom Thread’
I have no idea why everyone’s getting hot and bothered by this little English manners romance. Unlike the mustached guy next to me, ...
8 years ago
Video Premiere: shy kids “i was in new york”
shy kids from Canada is swinging by our quaint little town of New York City on March 25th at Baby’s All Right. In the meantime, ...
8 years ago
Listen: Palm “Composite”
Palm is one of those bands that defy categorization—they’ve been called experimental, art, math, post-post-post rock—but ...
8 years ago
Live review: Snail Mail @ Brooklyn Bazaar
Nearly every band mentions how much they love the city they’re visiting. Returning to the city she wishes she could ...
8 years ago
Feb 2: Adult Mom, Harmony Woods and Goodie @ Baby’s All Right, 8pm ($12)
February is dark, cold, sad, and incontestably the worst month of the year—and it’s happening all over again starting this ...
8 years ago
Faded films: confabulation (or becoming the least reliable narrator)
When did my memory get so bad? In college it was actually a running “””joke””” among my friends ...
8 years ago
Live review: Sløtface @ Elsewhere
Review by Albert Testani. Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
“Sløtface are solid.” Pretty much ...
8 years ago
As Told By: BOYTOY
As Told By is a series of tour stories straight from the mouths of our favorite bands. Interview by Tamim Alnuweiri, Illustrations ...
8 years ago
Listen: The Voidz “Leave It In My Dreams”
The Voidz share their new single “Leave It In My Dreams” in anticipation of their second album, released under RCA and ...
8 years ago
Listen: Belle Game “Only One”
Last January, I uploaded an Instagram video of the snow falling outside my Washington Heights window to Frank Ocean’s, new single, ...
8 years ago
EP review: Alex Napping ‘Dish Soap’
I fell in love with Austin-based Alex Napping when I saw them open for the Hotelier at Brooklyn Bazaar this fall, and their album Mise ...
8 years ago
Watch: Gift Wrap “Losing Count”
Brendan Avalos is an all-around great Brooklyn guy who can be found at any given showing of local talent, especially in the Dull ...
8 years ago
Interview: Haley Dahl of Sloppy Jane
Interview and photos by Julie-Anna George.
After the Sloppy Jane show at Elsewhere a couple of week ago, I had the desire to talk ...
8 years ago
Photo diary: Drugdealer and Weyes Blood @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan. Find more of her work here.
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8 years ago
Interview: Dream Wife dreams of New York City
Photos by Sonya Mezhericher.
The three members of Dream Wife, Rakel, Alice, and Bella sat huddled around a table in Williamsburg ...
8 years ago
EP Premiere: QWAM ‘Feed Me’
QWAM make straightforward pop-punk of the non-emo variety, the kind that reminds me of the rush you feel when you do poppers on the ...
8 years ago
Cult Citizen photo recap: Twin Guns, Wooing and Uni
A visual recap of our last Cult Citizen on December 28th at Elsewhere. Check out the guestbook here and make sure to stop by the next ...
8 years ago
Video Premiere: Twisty Cats “(You’ll) Sleep When I Die”
The Twisty Cats bring a new age twist to the Ancient Greek myth of Diana and Actaeon in their new video for “(You’ll) ...
8 years ago
Reality is weirder than fiction: A conversation with Danny Gomez
Interview and photos by Alberto Pazzi.
If I had met Danny Gomez a few years back I would probably have written “most likely to ...
8 years ago
Jan 20: David Johansen + New York Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off Party @ Elsewhere, 7PM ($20)
You should really see David Johansen however you can—obviously with the New York Dolls if you can manage it, during his ...
8 years ago
Jan 31: Cult Citizen presents a PRIMA Benefit with Buscabulla, Prinze George and Bairoa @ Elsewhere, 8PM ($15)
Each one of our Cult Citizens is picked and poured over painstakingly but this one is very special given the current state of our ...
8 years ago
Mixtape: It’s death that has assassinated me
Illustration by Alberto Pazzi.
From 80’s French new wave to disco vibes, these songs speak about love, missing, joy, death, ...
8 years ago
Watch: David Byrne “Everybody’s Coming to my House”
David Byrne has announced his first solo album since 2004’s Grown Backwards. The former Talking Heads front man has teamed up with ...
8 years ago
Film review: Ai Weiwei’s ‘Human Flow’
I want the right of life,
of the leopard at the spring, of the seed splitting open-
I want the right of the first ...
8 years ago
Video premiere: Lola Pistola “I’m Stupid”
Somewhere in the back of an arcade of a mall in suburbia is a girl in a photo booth and low rise jeans lip syncing her way through ...
8 years ago
Photo diary: Evil Jesus Band @ Mercury Lounge
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on ...
8 years ago
Book Review: ‘Europa My Mirror’
Between the ordering and the arriving, I had some time to wonder about the enignatic title and cover of the new book Europa My ...
8 years ago
Watch: Insecure Men “Teenage Toy”
By Kirsten Kay Thoen aka Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here.
Insecure Men’s release of its first music video for ...
8 years ago
Film review: Chavela
Queer folk have a tendency to bestow idol-hood on personas with bombastic glamour who are prone to antics; characters living out loud ...
8 years ago
Album premiere: The Royal They ‘Foreign Being’
Close enough to hardcore to cause a riot, but far enough away for everyone to enjoy.
The bold new album Foreign Being, beginning with ...
8 years ago
Cult Citizen Guestbook: Wooing and UNI @ Elsewhere
Photos by Lissette Emma taken at our last Cult Citizen with Twin Guns, Wooing, and Uni.
Stop by the next one this month on January ...
8 years ago
Photo diary: Lydia Lunch and Art Gray Noizz Quintet @ Rough Trade
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here.
Lydia Lunch
Art Gray Noizz ...
8 years ago
Premiere: The Muckers “Suspended For A Long Time”
Photo by Michael Younker. Text by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Have you ever seen a band live, spoken to them and just been so enthralled by ...
8 years ago
Watch: Dois “Stromboli”
Text by Cynthia Alfonso who you may recognize as the illustrator behind our brilliant end of year posters. Below is a video that she ...
8 years ago
Watch: Mo Troper “Tow Truck”
Photo by Samantha Sutcliffe.
A la boy bands of the 60s, namely The Monkees, Portland based Mo Troper takes to an older style of ...
8 years ago
Editors’ Picks: Best new bands of 2017
2017 is over! We’ve spent the last few weeks revisiting our favorite music videos, albums, and live acts. In this last ...