9 years ago

BRIAN’S LIST: WEEK OF 3/13/17

BRIAN’S LIST: SHOWCASING THE BEST DEALS AND INTERESTING FINDS IN MUSICAL EQUIPMENT IN NEW YORK CITY.  FARFISA COMPACT DELUXE ...

9 years ago

Interview: Milky Chance

Despite the way I waste my life away in this endless pit of cyberspace I somehow missed Milky Chance’s meteoric and swift rise ...

9 years ago

Interview: Dolly Spartans

Photos by Tino Zhang and Stasia de Tilly. Dolly Spartans kicked off their mini-east coast tour with last Thursday’s SXSW ...

9 years ago

March 18: Weird Omen, Ryne Ziemba, Holy Tunics @ Alphaville 8pm ($10)

Time to get weird! We’ve got Weird Omen headlining the night providing their ghostly tunes with drums, guitar, and sax to get ...

9 years ago

Premiere: White Mystery “F.Y.M.S”

Photo by Diane Alexander White We’ve got the best type of news to kick off your weekend — a song premiere and an album ...

9 years ago

Film Review: Get Out

In theory, a horror movie may seem like a stretch for Jordan Peele but with Get Out he’s brilliantly crafted a poignant social ...

9 years ago

Apr 28: Psychic Ills, Junk Boys @ Baby’s, 8PM ($13)

We’re co-presenting a killer line up with our buds at Flat Box. Stay tuned for full line up. Tix and more info ...

9 years ago

Apr 18: Cult Citizen presents Exhibition (Release Party), High Water, Wild Pink @ Baby’s, 8PM ($12)

The next Cult Citizen is happening April 18th. Save the date! This is gonna be a special one. More info ...

9 years ago

Mar 15: SXSW Showcase @ The Morelos House, 12-8PM (FREE)

We’re co-hosting this year’s SXSW showcase with Siren Sounds & Soft Junk.  Sweet bands and free beer courtesy of ...

9 years ago

Watch: HMLTD “To The Door”

One of the best music videos I’ve seen this year, “To The Door” is Rocky Horror Picture Show meets John Waters. ...

9 years ago

BRIAN’S LIST: WEEK OF 3/6/17

BRIAN’S LIST: SHOWCASING THE BEST DEALS AND INTERESTING FINDS IN MUSICAL EQUIPMENT IN NEW YORK CITY.  Hey Folks! Apologies I been ...

9 years ago

March 15: Mad Max Fury Road and Why I March @ Nitehawk Cinemas, 7:15PM ($30)

Mad Max: Fury Road was one of the few recent blockbuster movies that didn’t make me wish I didn’t have eyes. Tom Hardy is ...

9 years ago

Premiere: Stuyedeyed “Funeral”

You’d think someone so obsessed with chicken nuggets would be some kind of freak you’d try avoiding on the streets at ...

9 years ago

Listen: Stream Strange Lot’s New Album “Gods & Clods” Out Today!

A combination of haunting melodies, agile beats, and catchy lyrics take you on a psychedelic journey with Strange Lot‘s newest ...

9 years ago

Listen: WALL “High Ratings”

It feels like WALL went into hiding just as they were getting ready to unleash the full potential of their brand of noise into the New ...

9 years ago

Premiere: Mustardmind “Glitch”

What’s the opposite of a mastermind? According to these Brooklyn-based musicians it’s a Mustardmind, and that’s ...

9 years ago

Mixtape: Eternal Nihilism

Some mornings I wake up and remember that we are all human garbage with no real purpose! This is the playlist for the aforementioned ...

9 years ago

March 2: Kyle Avallone, Junk Boys, Shilpa Ray @ Trans-Pecos, 8PM ($8)

There is no better way to celebrate Lou Reed, his birthday and his monumental contributions to contemporary culture than with a local ...

9 years ago

Throwback Review: Final Destination

A group of high schoolers avoid a catastrophic death by getting kicked off a plane when one has a vision of the plane exploding just ...

9 years ago

Feb 24: JEFF The Brotherhood & Tweens @ Sunnyvale, 8PM ($15)

Raucous as ever, JEFF The Brotherhood are back in NYC to toss up your Friday night plans. The Nashville duo is over 15 years strong on ...

9 years ago

Interview: The Cutouts

Album cover by Madison Carroll, photos and feature by Tamim Alnuweiri. Sometimes you get in on the ground floor while a band is ...

9 years ago

Film Review: XX

In the horror genre, burgeoning directors & big league names alike tamper with a format that allows for crisp, original shorts to ...

9 years ago

Faded Films: Geriatrics

Oh man. Time for some unnecessary and bizarre insights into my psyche. When I was a child, I spent a lot of time visiting my ...

9 years ago

Feb 21: Naomi Punk, PC Worship, Maria Chavez @ The Park Church Co-op, 8PM ($12)

If there was one show I would recommend going to this month it’s Naomi Punk, PC Worship and Maria Chavez at the Park Church ...

9 years ago

Watch: Parquet Courts “Captive of the Sun”

Parquet Courts track “Captive of the Sun,” from their 2016 album Human Performance, received a nice little remix on ...

9 years ago

Interview: Hand Grenade Job

Photo by Sarah O’Donoghue We’re living in incredibly trying times. Like many people, I turn to music for comfort. But ...

9 years ago

Mixtape: Wise Up

Some things are better left unsaid. Sometimes songs make more sense. Here’s a moody mix full of chaos, sweet nothings, and ...

9 years ago

Throwback Review: Urban Legend

I spent a lot of time with my grandparents growing up, and on both sides there was a general adoration of scary movies. One ...

9 years ago

Feb 18: Turn to Crime, Navy Gangs, Rips, Teen Body @ Sunnyvale, 8PM ($10)

Sunnyvale is hosting a gaggle of bands from across the US of A tomorrow, February 18th. The show is only 10 bucks so you can enjoy ...

9 years ago

Mixtape: Buck Up

Everything seems kind of horrible and it quite possibly is but ya can’t spend all your time moping around and feeling sorry for ...

9 years ago

Feb 17: Planned Parenthood Benefit with Future Punx, Big Bliss, Decorum @ Secret Location, 8PM ($5)

Future Punx will be hosting an extra private noise-making fest somewhere in the Five Boroughs this weekend [probably most definitely ...

9 years ago

Photography Files: Taylor Bonin

Taylor Bonin is a renaissance man. When he comes up at Alt, it’s almost never about the same thing. He’s spent the last few ...

9 years ago

Premiere: Sun Abduction “Acid Pyramid”

Since forming in 2015 Sun Abduction has become a staple of the New York rock circuit, gone through several live changes, and finally ...

9 years ago

BRIAN’S LIST: WEEK OF 2/13/2017

BRIAN’S LIST: SHOWCASING THE BEST DEALS AND INTERESTING FINDS IN MUSICAL EQUIPMENT IN NEW YORK CITY.  With Valentines Day upon us ...

9 years ago

Interview: Tim Darcy

Coming off multiple tours supporting Ought’s Sun Coming Down, Tim Darcy is bracing for a tour of his first solo album, Saturday ...

9 years ago

Art Cures: Nasty Women

Art Cures offers a themed list of music, films, books, events and other cool stuff in hopes of supplying you with a sufficient art ...

9 years ago

Throwback Review: I Know What You Did Last Summer

While less humorous than screenwriter Kevin Williamson’s Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer still packs a punch in the ...

9 years ago

Feb 10: Palberta, Surfbort, Frank Hurricane, dog @ Sunnyvale, 8pm ($10)

Since you’re going to be stuck in the house all of today (we know you probably won’t even go down to the corner for coffee on ...

9 years ago

Watch: The Modern Savage Drop Your Winter Cure in “Pull Me”

Anchorage based post-punk band, The Modern Savage have dropped an antidote for anyone feeling lonely this Valentine’s Day in their ...

9 years ago

Feb 11: Junk Boys, The Jeanies, Veronica Forman, Otherworldly Things @ Alphaville, 8PM ($8)

Making weekend plans always feels like an anxiety riddled game of telephone, so instead of aging yourself by thirty years just to end ...

9 years ago

Faded Films: National Nightmares

This column is late and I want to have a good excuse, like I was backpacking through Guam, but I don’t I’ve just been so horribly ...

9 years ago

BRIAN’S LIST: WEEK OF 2/5/17

BRIAN’S LIST: SHOWCASING THE BEST DEALS AND INTERESTING FINDS IN MUSICAL EQUIPMENT IN NEW YORK CITY.  Ok folks this week I got ...

9 years ago

Feb 6: Daisy Glaze, Ne-Hi, Gold Connections @ Baby’s All Right, 8:30 PM (free)

I understand the urge to use Monday as an excuse to rush home and get into a night of serious binge-watching but you should probably ...

9 years ago

Film Review: 20th Century Women

It’s 1979 and the world seems to be at a precipice; Vietnam, Watergate and the Iran Hostage Crisis are behind us and we are at a ...

9 years ago

Band Crush: LVL UP and Cloud Nothings @ Webster Hall (2/1)

Story and photos by Devon Bristol Shaw  Music for me is based on how it makes me feel in the moment I’m present to it. Sure, I have ...

9 years ago

Cult Citizen Recap: Palm Springsteen, The Wedge, The Pizza Boys @ Baby’s (2/2)

A crowd of fresh faces and repeat offenders to the locally-coveted spot “Baby’s All Right” rounded up on a chill Thursday night ...

9 years ago

Feb 9: Public Access T.V., The Britanys, Splashh @ The Bowery Ballroom, 8:30 pm ($13)

Garage rock will be resurrected this week when Public Access T.V., The Britanys and Splashh play the final (and homecoming) show of ...

9 years ago

Throwback Review: Scream

In literary theory, post-modernism is full of high-anxiety themes, multiple media formats invading daily life and a general remittance ...

9 years ago

Watch: CHILLEMI “Child of the Earth”

“I want to feel the universe in your hands” CHILLEMI croons as “Child of the Earth” opens before the ...

9 years ago

Listen: Bunny Michael Unleashes Spiritual Demons in “They”

Brooklyn rapper turned sexual mystic, Bunny Michael teases fans with an intimate low-key banger to briefly distract us from whatever ...