9 years ago
Video Premiere: The Values “Colors”
Forget all the colors of the wind–try seeing all the colors of the passing cars.
Brooklyn group The Values is coming at you with ...
9 years ago
Sep 1: Dead Stars (record release), Grim Streaker, Big Bliss and Fraidycat @ Sunnyvale, 8PM ($10)
This Friday Dead Stars are releasing their new album Perfect Patterns. And since the most high energy shows tend to be the very joyful ...
9 years ago
Watch: King Krule “Czech One”
Not Archy Marshall, not Return of the Pimp Shrimp or any of his other aliases but King Krule is officially back. After a week or two ...
9 years ago
Aug 26: AdHoc presents Surf Curse, Lala Lala, Navy Gangs @ Trans-Pecos, 8PM ($12)
I was going to go to Long Island this weekend for a barbecue until I realized how far it is—three hours roundtrip guys, that’s ...
9 years ago
Sep 9: Thee Oh Sees @ Warsaw, Ticket Giveaway
There’s something about Each Month’s Day: yep, that’s what I’m going to call it— aka, 6/6, 7/7, 8/8… if you have a better ...
9 years ago
Interview: The Yorks
Based in Los Angeles, The Yorks are a (for the most part) duo, fusing pop vibes and lo-fi rock to create a fuzzy, mid-day haze sound. ...
9 years ago
Mixtape: Summer Nights
For those hot summer nights where the atmosphere feels almost tangible, the air a warm blanket around you, thick enough to feel like ...
9 years ago
Video Premiere: Sloppy Jane “Mindy”
Premiere by Mandy Brownholtz. Photo by Daniel Topete.
Sloppy Jane is the brainchild of artist Haley Dahl, newly relocated from L.A. ...
9 years ago
Cool Shit: The Cramps Live at Napa State Mental Hospital
In the summer of 1978 one of the most bizarre yet most vehemently “punk” shows happened at the Napa State Mental Hospital. ...
9 years ago
Listen: Derde Verde “Turn”
These days, it feels a little hard to well, feel anything you haven’t necessarily felt before, when listening to music. However, Los ...
9 years ago
Video Premiere: HEARTSREVOLUTION “SEARCH AND DESTROY”
The video for HEARTSREVOLUTION‘s song “SEARCH AND DESTROY” begins with a sample that sounds like it’s from one ...
9 years ago
Video Premiere: Psychic Selves “Rosemary”
Photo by Devon Bristol Shaw
Psychic Selves‘ new single ‘Rosemary’ is a love song about loving yourself and not ...
9 years ago
Q&A: Horrorchata on Razor 5000 @ Secret Project Robot
Every now and again you come across a party with such a killer lineup you know it’s going to be wild. That was the case as soon ...
9 years ago
Watch: Who Is She? “Top 8”
There’s still no word on if/when punk supergroup Childbirth will release new music, but now there’s another Seattle-based ...
9 years ago
Aug 30: High Waisted At Sea 4 – A Rock ‘n’ Roll Booze Cruise ($25-40)
Photos by Devon Shaw.
Get your flippers ready and find your most colorful outfit, ’cause the Booze Cruise is docking! For four ...
9 years ago
Interview: The Garden
Photos by Cheryl Georgette.
Greil Marcus once wrote that the more Lester Bangs loved and respected a band, the worse he was at ...
9 years ago
The Shush Series: Dougie Poole and Casey Hopkins Trio
Photos by Devon Bristol Shaw.
Hey party people. Wait, wrong crowd? Well, anyways, I’m going to assume regardless that ...
9 years ago
This is not a photograph: Big Business and Uncrossing
I shoot a lot of film each week, of everything and nothing. Or, as I say, portraits of nouns (people places things and ideas). Here ...
9 years ago
Review: Priests, Future Punx, and Groupie at Brooklyn Night Bizarre
Photos by Devon Shaw. Review by Mo Wilson.
Groupie
“What is punk?” a friend texted me when I told them I’d be going to the ...
9 years ago
Watch: Sløtface “Pitted”
You hear a lot of valid stories from musicians about how touring is incredibly hard. But it is so refreshing to see a band still have ...
9 years ago
Aug 29: Cult Citizen presents Puzzle, Junk Boys, YAASSS @ Baby’s All Right ($10)
The next Cult Citizen is happening Aug 29 and features headliner Puzzle (1/2 of The Garden) with support from local favorites Junk ...
9 years ago
Wanna Meet The Wants?
Photos by Devon Bristol Shaw.
Yeaaaaah, you do.
In the words of Cheap Trick, “I want you to want me. I need you to need ...
9 years ago
Mixtape: Intro to Twee
WTF is Twee? First emerging in the Northern UK in the mid-80s before spreading to America, Twee was simply defined as the lighter ...
9 years ago
Video Premiere: Champagne Superchillin “Mon Loup”
Listen to Champagne Superchillin and let the bubbles take control.
The recently NYC-based band (by way of Nashville) is ...
9 years ago
Watch: Frankie Rose “Dyson Sphere”
After a four year hiatus, Frankie Rose is back, ready to hold dominion over your unplanned earworms. Her latest release, “Dyson ...
9 years ago
Photo Diary: Buster Poindexter at City Winery
Photos by Thomas Sarvello.
Buster’s back! Catch the man, the myth, the legend for the last time this summer at City Winery on ...
9 years ago
Interview: HOMESHAKE
Looking at HOMESHAKE and his trilogy of records he claims, “It felt like I had finished what was going on with the three of them. I ...
9 years ago
Watch: Annie Hart “Hard to Be Still”
“I never dreamed the video I made on my phone in my basement would premiere on VOGUE!!!”, Annie Hart, of Au Revoir Simone, ...
9 years ago
Mixtape: MELT
The last days of summer are upon us. But with countless more festivals, tours, and releases on the horizon, now is not the time for ...
9 years ago
September 8th – 10th: Otis Mountain Get Down @ Elizabethtown, NY ($60-70)
The best mountain in the world to forget all your worries.
High up in the skies, somewhere in upstate New York, hordes of people ...
9 years ago
Cult Citizen Guestbook: Weeknight, Blond Ambition and Kyle Avallone
Photos taken by Tamim Alnuweiri using a Lomography Instant Wide, which is some space age 2001: A Space Odyssey type of business. ...
9 years ago
The Shush Series: Animal Show and Psychic Selves
Photos by Devon Bristol Shaw.
The Shush Series at Drexler’s is back at it and this week I’ve got the feels. I’m an ...
9 years ago
Film Review: Dries
The word fashion I don’t like because fashion means something that is over in six months – Dries Van Noten
Dries Van Noten is a ...
9 years ago
Interview: Poppies
New York-based four-piece Poppies are the perfect blend of bedroom pop infused with a nebulous, yet distinctly evocative 90s sound. ...
9 years ago
Video Premiere: Surfbort “HIPPIE VOMIT INHALER”
Photo by Cheryl Georgette.
Surfbort is gearing up to release a new 7″ BORT TO DEATH this September via HOZAC Records. ...
9 years ago
August 1: PopGun Presents Pronoun @ Baby’s All Right, Ticket and Vinyl Giveaway!
The only thing better than winning a pair of tickets is winning a pair of tickets and a vinyl! With the help of our friends PopGun ...
9 years ago
Album Review: Katie Von Schleicher “Shitty Hits”
Before even getting into Katie Von Schleifher’s Shitty Hits you’ve understood a level of self deprecating humor that ...
9 years ago
Listen: Kyle Avallone “Borrowed Spell”
Last week we we spoke to Kyle Avallone about his new project and upcoming Cult Citizen show. If you caught him in the flesh this ...
9 years ago
Interview: Moonwalks
When I last saw Moonwalks at Sunnyvale about a month ago alongside Sun Abduction, the Deadly Vipers and the Junk Boys, I was so ...
9 years ago
Song Premiere: Coyote Run “Again Again”
Coyote Run, aka Kasie Shahbaz, is a West Coaster obsessed with prog rock and folk music–we’ll call it prog folk! Never ...
9 years ago
July 28: Dougie Poole, BUCK, Rhinestone, Frame @ Secret Project Robot, 8PM ($8)
The western/country tinge revival is still in full force folks. This Friday Dougie Poole headlines the recently revived Secret Project ...
9 years ago
July 28: Pysmon Spine, The Roofer’s Union, Cutouts @ Mercury Lounge, 7PM ($10)
One of my favorite recent bands Cutouts (also a band I can actually testify to as being very good live) are playing this Friday ...
9 years ago
The Shush Series: Larry Sass, New Love Crowd and Champagne Superchillin
Photos by Devon Bristol Shaw.
Alright, alright, alright. We did it again. We brought the weird and wonderful, the beautiful and new ...
9 years ago
July 26: Poppies, Older Brother, Wet Mut, Honest Lee @ Alphaville, 8PM ($10)
It can feel tedious watching the same tired and ol’ bands in the same locker-room music venues. But stop by Alphaville on ...
9 years ago
Interview: Priests
Photos by Savannah Quental.
My first experience with Priests was a 2013 show at Comet Ping Pong in DC, a bastion of the DC DIY scene ...
9 years ago
Album Review: Lana Del Rey “Lust for Life”
There are essentially two camps in the Lana Del Rey fandom: those who believe that the slow burn of 2014’s Ultraviolence was her ...
9 years ago
Sharkmuffin & The Off White Announce Tour Dates and Release New Split EP
Sharkmuffin kicks ass with fast punk rock tempos and hi-hat heavy songs—it makes you wonder how any drum set or sound system can ...
9 years ago
Photography Files: Christto & Andrew
Christto and Andrew’s colorful and humorous photographs have set them apart from contemporary photography, having shown in most ...
9 years ago
Interview: Kyle Avallone
Photos by Christopher Wozniak.
Kyle Avallone is one of those staples of the New York music scene. A sign you’re in the right ...
9 years ago
July 21: Exhibition, Daisy Glaze, Brian Hill and the Noh Starrs @ Berlin, 8PM ($7)
Brian Hill and the Noh Starrs is doing a month long residency at Berlin. Every Friday night in July you can catch the dude playing ...