9 years ago
Listen: Common Holly “If After All”
There (hopefully) comes a time in every 20-something’s life when they look around at the way they are living and think “this has ...
9 years ago
The Shush Series: Holy Tunics and Max Pain and the Groovies
Photos by Devon Bristol Shaw.
The inaugural ‘Shush Series’ at Drexler’s kicked off last week and will be happening ...
9 years ago
Watch: The Velvet Underground & Nico in “A Symphony of Sound”
I got sucked into a whole on YouTube trying to find a video of a complete Richard Hell & the Voidoids performance at CBGB. ...
9 years ago
July 18: New Rose, Junk Boys, Winstons, Straw Pipes @ Union Pool, 8PM ($10)
The western revival is in full effect. Every band and their mother seems to be jumping on the bandwagon but few have been doing it as ...
9 years ago
Cool Shit: Proto-Punk
It’s completely cliche to be obsessed with punk and the 70’s but!!!!! That is who I am — cliche and uninteresting. Anyways ...
9 years ago
July 22: Burger Records Beach Bash 2 @ Coney Art Walls 2PM ($15)
It’s that time of the year again! Burger Records and Modern Sky USA have gotten together to throw an epic banger on Coney ...
9 years ago
Interview: PILL
Photos by Cheryl Georgette.
Hello all you Alt Citizens. Do you need something new to listen to? We’ve got your back. Meet PILL, ...
9 years ago
Jul 25: Cult Citizen presents Weeknight, Blond Ambition, Kyle Avallone @ Baby’s All Right ($10)
Our summer Cult Citizen series are here! Next one is July 25 and features pop sensations Weeknight, Blond Ambition, and Kyle Avallone. ...
9 years ago
Listen: Pomona Dream “Tropicana”
Pomona Dream’s “Tropicana” is like a pleasant dream where you can’t quite tell where you are, or who you’re with, but ...
9 years ago
Listen: SPINN “Notice Me”
Just over the pond the Brits are reminding us they know what dream-pops are made of. The Liverpool janglers, SPINN, are amassing some ...
9 years ago
Film Review: L’important c’est d’aimer
L’important c’est d’aimer is the story of an average person living outside the mainstream and the melodrama of ...
9 years ago
July 11: Max Pain & The Groovies, Holy Tunics @ Drexler’s 9PM (Free!)
Flyer by Dan Curran.
This is the first of the Shush Series–entitled shush as in, “shush, I’m trying to hear this ...
9 years ago
Buster Poindexter at City Winery
Photos by Cheryl Georgette.
When I talk about dinner and a show I’m usually referring to the raccoon death cage matches that ...
9 years ago
Album Review: Broken Social Scene “Hug of Thunder”
The 00s indie rock scene was a true golden age. Broken Social Scene were a titan of that era, and their absence since 2010’s ...
9 years ago
July 13: Rey Pila, The Britanys, ROMES @ Baby’s All Right, 8pm ($12)
Rey Pila sits on a line straddling the 80’s with their synth and menacing backbeats, punctuating the horror movie that is ...
9 years ago
Interview: Palm
Photos and interview by Stasia de Tilly.
I was put onto Palm a few weeks ago by a friend and die-hard fan. When I hear they were a ...
9 years ago
Mixtape: Morose and Macabre
Well, occasionally you just gotta think about sad and glum shit and instead of trying to escape it just let it swallow you whole ...
9 years ago
Back10: 2007 series @ Nitehawk
Ahhh 2007. The year we all had flip phones, and Kim Kardashian was still Paris Hilton’s assistant. The moving image I most ...
9 years ago
Watch: Jakob Ogawa “You Might Be Sleeping”
Fallen Angels (1995) Wong Kar-Wai
Ambient-dream-weaver, Jakob Ogawa, just dropped a music video for his single “You Might Be ...
9 years ago
Interview: The Vacant Lots
The Vacant Lots are usually described as being a quintessentially New York band. The sound a mixture of chaos, grit and light — ...
9 years ago
Meet The Nude Party
Photos by Alec Castillo (bassist for The Nude Party)
Disclaimer: some “facts” in the following article are ...
9 years ago
July 1: AdHoc presents RIPS (Record Release), Poppies, Dougie Poole @ Baby’s All Right, Ticket Giveaway!
Earlier this month RIPS released their self titled debut album (we reviewed it here). The band has spent the last year playing every ...
9 years ago
Cult Citizen Recap: Heartsrevolution, Promiseland and Alexander F
On June 7th we hosted our June Cult Citizen show at Baby’s All Right with a lineup featuring Heartsrevolution, Promiseland and ...
9 years ago
Summer Mixtape: 100 Songs
Here’s 100 songs to play at your summer digs. Party like there’s no tomorrow or chill harder than ever before. And ...
9 years ago
Re-TROS Announces First US Tour In Four Years
You can’t really be a cool contemporary post-punk if you don’t know Re-TROS. The band that combines the robotic sounds ...
9 years ago
Interview: Pom Pom Squad
Photos by Stasia de Tilly & Mia Jacobs. Words by Stasia de Tilly
NYC-based by way of Orlando, FL, Mia Berrin, mastermind behind ...
9 years ago
Six New Tracks #7
Our picks of new music from the last few weeks. Let us know if we’ve missed your favorites.
Soccer Mommy ...
9 years ago
July 15: PopGun Presents Waxahatchee (Album Release Party) with Cayetana, Snail Mail @ Warsaw, Ticket Giveaway
Waxahatchee is set to release a fourth studio album Out in the Storm this July with a record release show at Warsaw. Aaaaand we are ...
9 years ago
July 28: AdHoc Presents Homeshake @ Warsaw, Ticket Giveaway
I remember the last time Homeshake was in town playing a three night run at across Brooklyn. Tickets sold out pretty fast and it ...
9 years ago
PRIDE Week Guide 2017
Hi y’all! It’s Mo again, aka @sadgayfriendx. It’s pride week herein NYC, and like Northside, there’s a high possibility ...
9 years ago
Album Review: RIPS Self-Titled
In my feminist-minded DIY rock circuit, it’s easy to make fun of the plethora of “dude bands” making generic rock-n-roll. The ...
9 years ago
Watch: Aldous Harding “Blend”
New Zealand based artist Aldous Harding has revealed her latest music video for “Blend,” in the lead up to her European ...
9 years ago
Interview: Pat Keen
Pat Keen in Greenpoint. Photos by Stasia de Tilly.
Wisconsin Boy, Pat Keen, has run the indie circuit playing in bands like Gtoss and ...
9 years ago
Album Review: The Drums “Abysmal Thoughts”
It’s been seven years since The Drums debut album, but even now Abysmal Thoughts feels like the first. This is not a comment on ...
9 years ago
Watch: Hippo Campus “western kids”
Hippo Campus’ debut album dropped back in February, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still churning out captivating ...
9 years ago
Franz Ferdinand at Warsaw
Photos on expired film by Alatz Ortega.
The last time Franz Ferdinand played NYC was back in 2013 for their Right Thoughts, Right ...
9 years ago
Northside Festival Highlights (Part 1)
Photos and words by Devon Bristol Shaw.
“System of a Down is my favorite band of all time and you can quote me on that,” said ...
9 years ago
Faded Films: Aesthetics and Ambience
I remember going to see Avatar with my family on New Years Eve (I was really cool in high school!) and thinking what the fuck? ...
9 years ago
June 17: Buster Poindexter Summer Residency @ City Winery, 8PM ($25)
There are few people that spend their entire careers moving from one pivotal and seminal musical group to another. David ...
9 years ago
Video Premiere: Cotillon “I Like People”
Well, he likes people who don’t like other people at least… Cotillon is the brilliant artists merging inspirations from ...
9 years ago
Interview: Palehound
Interview by Kat Pierro, Photos by Kevin Neal.
Ellen Kempner plays the role of lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for Boston ...
9 years ago
June 16: Dead Heavens Release Show with Hideout, Simon Doom @ Union Pool, 8pm ($12)
You don’t need to spend all your money on LSD to have a righteously trippy night–just come to Union Pool on the ...
9 years ago
Album Review: Big Thief “Capacity”
Big Thief’s Masterpiece was unquestionably my favorite album of 2016. It gave me something I felt like I’d been missing for so ...
9 years ago
Mixtape: sLICK
A medley of bass throbbing, riff riding songs to get stuck in your head more that your butt on a subway seat in the summer heat. We ...
9 years ago
Northside Festival Show Guide
Hi! It’s Mo, known on Twitter as @sadgayfriendx. Festivals like Northside can be a mammoth to navigate, what with so many cool (and ...
9 years ago
June 6: The Dives, the Cutouts, Kyle Duke & The Brown Bag Boys @ Bowery Electric, 8PM ($8)
Sometimes you spend your birthday crying alone in the discount cereal aisle at K-Mart but if you’re smart you spend it crying on ...
9 years ago
Interview: Wovoka Gentle
British experimental folk group Wovoka Gentle are taking Europe by storm through their challenging of the borders around musical ...
9 years ago
Listen: Jakob Ogawa “You Might Be Sleeping”
Jakob Ogawa, manifests through music as a Mac Demarco-Mild High Club dream child with an 80s kick. Ogawa pairs contemporary indie ...
9 years ago
Review: The Wackness
I love explaining the premise of The Wackness: Josh Peck exchanges weed for therapy sessions with Ben Kingsley. It really is as good ...
9 years ago
Photography Files: Thomas Sarvello
I think I first came across Thomas Sarvello’s Instagram via a comment he left on a photo the Bowery Electric posted. It must ...