9 years ago
Mixtape: Don’t text him
Tunes to accompany crappy drip coffee or nighttime bike-rides over the wind tunnels of the Williamsburg Bridge. Here’s your ...
9 years ago
Nightcrawler: Portraits from South Street Seaport
Editor’s Note: After first coming across Luis Lucio‘s work on the people’s platform, Instagram, we got in touch ...
9 years ago
Cool Shit: Five of the best CBGB performances
In case you missed the last edition of Cool Shit, YouTube is an endless hole of inspiration and desperation. I would not recommending ...
9 years ago
Album Review: Torres ‘Three Futures’
Torres’ Three Futures, her third studio album, feels like the full-realization of an artist trying to chip away at her own sound and ...
9 years ago
Interview: MAGS
Photo credit: Ben Lieber (of Head North)
What’s the first thing you think about when you hear the word, Buffalo? Wings, unbearably ...
9 years ago
Listen: The Breeders “Wait in the Car”
Thank goddess for The Breeders. In a world full of mass shootings, earthquakes, and a president unable to respond appropriately to ...
9 years ago
Bushwig! 5 people of this year’s drag festival
In case you missed my post last Friday, this past weekend was Bushwig. It’s a 2-day drag festival that doubles as an inclusive ...
9 years ago
Week two with Ice Balloons: Desert Implosion
Ice Balloons is on tour and phoning in their tour diaries! Check back for further installments, and stop by a show, see tour dates ...
9 years ago
Oct 3: Metropolis Video, Rock from CBGB @ The Kitchen, 7PM (Free)
Walking through the East Village is rough these days, meatheads, frat dudes and dudettes on the sidewalk gurgling mimosas while ...
9 years ago
Song Premiere: Plume “Spine”
Within the trudges of my gmail inbox—ghastly and full of incoherent nonsense and half baked song ideas, I took a few minutes to ...
9 years ago
Oct 5-6: Chicano Batman @ Irving Plaza and Warsaw, Ticket Giveaway!
I want to compare Chicano Batman to The Growlers but it’s not entirely accurate—it’s not that they share sonic ...
9 years ago
Night Helix takes us through ‘Plural’ EP track by track
Photo by Spyros Rennt. Album art by Zak Keene.
Night Helix has a new four track EP out—complex, moving and fundamentality escapist, ...
9 years ago
Song Premiere and Interview: The North Country “Island”
Photo by Mikhail Bezruchko.
Washington, D.C. is a bit of a mess, to be frank. It mostly reminiscent of a cheeto-powered man and a ...
9 years ago
Naked Ice Balloons: The dingy truth of life on the road with America’s most dangerous synth band
Ice Balloons is on tour and phoning in their tour diaries! Check back for further installments, and stop by a show, see tour dates ...
9 years ago
Listen: Native Sun “Sister”
Review by Alberto Pazzi.
I went to the first ever Native Sun show a few months ago at Berlin NYC. I got there a little late and the ...
9 years ago
Interview: The Growlers
Photos by Zooey Jolivet. Interview by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Almost a year ago The Growler’s latest record City Club was officially ...
9 years ago
Song Premiere: The Entire Universe “Can They Hear?”
Photo by Renee Carey.
The fatigue and loneliness brought on by the endless cycle of screen-staring and technology infatuation is not ...
9 years ago
Sep 28: Mons Vi, Glass Gang, Late Guest at the Party @ Mercury Lounge, 9 pm ($10)
They say discovering a great new band is fate. Brooklyn-via-Miami, Mons Vi, creates a lo-fo mix of hip-hop influenced beats, ...
9 years ago
Interview: The Modern Savage
In the midst of Alaksa’s “music hungry” indie scene lies post-punk group, The Modern Savage. Based in Anchorage, the quartet ...
9 years ago
Sept 23-24th: Bushwig 2017 @ The Knockdown Center, $30-$45
The first few years I spent in New York I let Bushwig, the alternative drag festival created by Horrorchatta and Babes Trust in 2012, ...
9 years ago
Mixtape: Fiona Silver’s tour playlist
Photo by Cortney Armitage.
There’s a lot of down time in the van on tour, enough that I’ve come up with this ...
9 years ago
Sep 25: Champagne Superchillin (record release), Roya, Reanimadores @ Baby’s All Right, 8pm ($10)
The amorous Champagne Superchillin will put you in a bubbly haze of romanticism through wine colored glasses.
The NYC by way of ...
9 years ago
Ice Balloons on the road: First day of Tour! Cleveland
Ice Balloons is on tour and phoning in their tour diaries! Check back for further installments, and stop by a show, see tour dates ...
9 years ago
Video Premiere: Dances “R U With It?”
There is a certain morose euphoria that comes with a professional diagnosis, the thing hiding in the shadows is less frightening when ...
9 years ago
I went to the Zola Jesus “Immersive” Album Installation
When I received an email inviting me to “an immersive listening and visual experience” of the new Zola Jesus album Okovi ...
9 years ago
Interview: Shilpa Ray
Photos and interview by Stasia de Tilly.
Shilpa Ray is an introvert expressing her inner weirdo through her theatrical performance. ...
9 years ago
Faded Films: I don’t know what I did this summer
Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Most summers I can trace with some certainty—I spent a lot of time at Double Down Saloon or I ...
9 years ago
Video Premiere: Minus Light ‘Fame’ + Interview
Interview by Tamim Alnuweiri.
Minus Light never got to the 21st century, at least not our version of it. The music is too unaffected ...
9 years ago
Listen: Promiseland “Take Down The House”
Photo and review by Luis Lucio.
Entering an afterparty in the deepest pit of the underground, you first notice everyone dancing ...
9 years ago
Sep 21: PopGun Presents Liars, YVETTE, Idgy Dean @ Warsaw, Ticket Giveaway
Liars are back! This summer Angus Andrew (as the only remaining member of Liars) released TCFC and is now on tour (with members of ...
9 years ago
Cult Citizen Guestbook: Puzzle, Junk Boys and Yaasss
Photos taken by Tamim Alnuweiri and Cheryl Georgette using a Lomography Instant Wide, which is some space age 2001: A Space Odyssey ...
9 years ago
Watch: King Krule “Dum Surfer”
Everyone has that one music video that struck them in such a shocking, horrific way– for me, it was Interpol’s “Evil.” ...
9 years ago
Song Premiere: Hearken “Sure Shock”
Hearken is sure to shock you with their new remastered track “Sure Shock.” The Pittsburgh-based punk rock duo is dark yet ...
9 years ago
Sep 13: Insecure Men, Roya, R. Jakob Bovden (Night Beats) @ Baby’s All Right, 10pm ($10)
Insecure Men is in New York and playing the late-ish show at Baby’s alongside Roya and R. Jakov Bovden of Night Beats. As far as ...
9 years ago
Mixtape: disGO
This is a playlist of seedy glamour, for the freaks who cobbled together what scraps they had and made something bold. It’s ...
9 years ago
Video Premiere: Triathalon “I want It”
Set against a leafy rural backdrop, Triathalon musically deconstruct the feelings of lust and unrequited love in their new music video ...
9 years ago
Sep 14: “In Between Dreams” Brandon Sines Solo Exhibition and Book Release @ Contra Galleries, 6PM (Free)
You’ve seen Frank Ape—a sticker on a lamppost, on the corner of a wall on the Lower East Side, or at an art gallery. The ...
9 years ago
Getting Melted at Meltasia: A Look Back at 2017
Words by Jackie Green and Photos by Devon Bristol Shaw.
Very rarely does an event fully live up to its projected hype. We get all ...
9 years ago
Review: Alex Cameron @ The Lexington, London
Review by Lallie Doyle.
Alex Cameron has carved out a real niche for himself in the music industry– an addition I don’t think we ...
9 years ago
Sep 13: Triathalon, Cutouts, Pueblo and Rose Hotel @ Sunnyvale, 8PM ($10)
Triathalon have not put anything out since 2016’s Cold Shower EP but they will be here at Sunnyvale powering through their ...
9 years ago
Sep 10: Queen! Brooklyn Invasion @ House of Yes, Ticket Giveaway
In recent times, Brooklyn has gotten the reputation of being the “arty” center of drag. The current reigning ...
9 years ago
Video Premiere: HNRY FLWR “As Above, So Below”
Things get mystical in HNRY FLWR’s new music video for “As Above, So Below.”
Like a Miyazaki film, this video ...
9 years ago
Watch: Poppies “Devin”
Like something out of a melancholic Arthur episode, New York based Poppies are back with their music video for the quaint, cheeky ...
9 years ago
Watch: HMLTD “Satan, Luella, and I”
HMLTD, the socially adventures band that has caused some controversy over the way they reference queerness, are back with a new ...
9 years ago
Sep 7: FWF Zine Release Party @ Idio Gallery, 8PM (Free)
What does it look like to be on the road with one of the most notoriously intense bands of our time? Sacha Lecca (Deputy Photo Editor ...
9 years ago
Album Review: The Pains of Being Pure of Heart ‘The Echo of Pleasure’
Autumn, the season of sweaters and cups of tea, approaches. Twee and Shoegaze, the genre that many accused The Pains of Being Pure of ...
9 years ago
Sep 2: Dougie Poole, Teen Body, Johnny Aries, Cutouts, DÆVA @ Hank’s Saloon, 8PM ($10)
Apparently, it’s Brooklyn Music Week? Yeah, I didn’t know either. Anyways a number of up and coming bands that have ...
9 years ago
Mixtape: end of summer daze
Grab your buds, a beer, and grill some burgers. Savor the summer while it lasts—we’ll be hit with full on foliage before we ...
9 years ago
Interview: Spaceface
Interview by Lallie Doyle.
Hailing from Memphis, Spaceface are bringing back psychedelia with their debut LP Sun Kids. I talked ...
9 years ago
Throwback Review: Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive is a movie that I’m glad I waited to watch in theaters. It always loomed there on Netflix, temptingly accessible ...