4 years ago
Watch: Been Stellar “Kids 1995”
Photo by Naz Kawakami
In preparation for a UK tour with The Goa Express, New York’s Been Stellar have just released their new ...
4 years ago
Skinty Fia – Fontaines D.C. Escape their Destiny
2019 still feels so vivid in my memory. It was the year I interviewed Fontaines D.C. before they played their first show in ...
4 years ago
The Lazy Eyes spin traditional psych in dynamic new directions on summery LP ‘Songbook’
Photo by Jack Moran
At long last, The Lazy Eyes’ debut LP has arrived! The ramp up to Songbook has been strong and steady, ...
4 years ago
Death Valley Girls’ “When I’m Free” gets transformed into a dancefloor banger on new Peaches remix
Dance remixes of rock tunes used to be fairly common around the turn of the millennium, breaking down the boundaries of the ...
4 years ago
Premiere: Pop songstress Tiarlie comes clean on latest single “Sober”
Photo by Olivia Brissett
Pop songstress Tiarlie made a splash with her striking debut single, “Table Bitch,” a noir slow burn ...
4 years ago
Watch: Desire “Telling Me Lies”
Desire, the synth-pop project from Megan Louise and Johnny Jewel, have released their latest video/single for the sultry dance track ...
4 years ago
THICK headlines opening night of Coachella with a ripping set at The Echo
The stage lights of Coachella may have been 135 miles away but they didn’t shine nearly as brightly as those at The Echo in Los ...
4 years ago
Boy Harsher’s Lonely Hedonism
Writing and photos by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here.
I discovered Boy Harsher through an old Tinder date. She enjoyed ...
4 years ago
Faux Real won SXSW 2022 & ‘only believes in the afterparty’
Photos by Miriam Marlene, find more of her work on Instagram
Faux Real have been around for a minute, starting off a couple of years ...
4 years ago
Upchuck temper muscular punk aggression into grungy slow burn “Night Calls”
Photo by Marlon Garcia
Atlanta punks Upchuck have been causing a ruckus on the heels of their deliriously noisy debut EP and brawny ...
4 years ago
Listen: Sub*T “Asterisk”
Listening to Sub*T feels like reading the scrawled, inky, mess crammed in the margins of old notebooks. It’s nostalgic, ...
4 years ago
Photo diary: Wet Leg, Momma @ The Crocodile
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Momma
Wet ...
4 years ago
Watch: Sextile “Modern Weekend/Contortion”
After a 3 year hiatus, the LA-duo Sextile is back in a big way. Ushering in a new era with a short film scored by their two latest ...
4 years ago
Pleasure Craft delivers high-concept industrial narrative on the cacophonous ‘Walls, Mirrors, and Windows’
Presented as a concept album in three acts, Pleasure Craft’s debut LP Walls, Mirrors, and Windows taps directly into peak-industrial ...
4 years ago
Watch: Club Intl “Ride”
Photo by Erik Lee Synder
Club Intl — the collaboration of John Eatherly (Be Your Own Pet, Public Access TV) and producer Johnny ...
4 years ago
Euphoria season 2 backtracks on a beautiful message — and that’s a shame
A year ago, around the time of Zendaya‘s Emmy win, I wrote an article largely praising the (even at the time) controversial HBO ...
4 years ago
GIVEAWAY – March 3: BAMM BAMM presents Surfbort, Cumgirl8, Pussy Gillette, Dog Date @ Market Hotel
Brooklyn’s wildest band may have relocated to LA, but that just means we get to celebrate their return to the big, bad apple ...
4 years ago
SASAMI triumphs in sophomore release ‘Squeeze’
Photo by Kyle Thomas
Sasami Ashworth reunites us with dynamics and emotionally atypical paradigms in her second full length release, ...
4 years ago
Watch: Momma “Rockstar”
Momma’s latest track “Rockstar” envelopes listeners in 90s bliss with supple vocals and heavy guitars. The track ...
4 years ago
Watch: Dehd “Bad Love”
Listening to Dehd’s latest single “Bad Love” would not instantly bring to mind visions of a leather-clad strip club ...
4 years ago
Feb 11th: ZONA MACO afterparty w/ El Llamafante(8PM)
It’s art week in Mexico City and acclaimed fashion brand El Llamafante is hosting a killer afterparty for ZONA MACO. Fashion, ...
4 years ago
Album review: A Place To Bury Strangers ‘See Through You’
A Place to Bury Strangers (APTBS) builds a bridge between melancholic dread and fury on their album See Through You out today via ...
4 years ago
Listen: SASAMI “Call Me Home”
Photo by Angela Ricciardi
Adding some softness and comfort to the industrial mix of her forthcoming record Squeeze, SASAMI shares ...
4 years ago
Listen: The Districts “No Blood”
Photo by Ebru Yildiz
Leaning into the intricacies of what it is to be “American”, The Districts are set to release their ...
4 years ago
Watch: NoSo “Honey Understand”
Photo by Bella Rose Porter
Recent Partisan signee NoSo has released their latest single and accompanying lyric video, “Honey ...
4 years ago
Premiere: Catcher “Behind A Bleeding Heart”
Photo by Julia Austin
Brooklyn post punk outfit Catcher have released their latest, and maybe strongest, single yet. “Behind a ...
4 years ago
Listen: Yard Act ‘The Overload’
We’re all at the point where if we didn’t have to utter the words “post punk” again, we could live very ...
4 years ago
Boy Harsher’s ‘The Runner’ doesn’t answer your questions and it doesn’t need to
The majority of reviews out now for noise band Boy Harsher‘s horror short The Runner question whether the 40 minute film could ...
4 years ago
Listen: Eades “Delusion Spree”
Photo by Joel Johnston
Leeds quintet Eades have released “Delusion Spree”, the third track off their forthcoming album of ...
4 years ago
Death Valley Girls and Le Butcherettes spread the intergalactic gospel of self-actualization on spirited new split 7″
Celebrating the unmitigated positivity of Death Valley Girls’ empowerment anthems is a new split 7” that teams the band up ...
4 years ago
Listen: VLURE ‘Euphoria’
photo by Marilena Vlachopoulou
Despite the thoughtful simplicity of their album artwork, VLURE’s debut EP Euphoria is anything ...
4 years ago
Fontaines D.C. explore a new darkness with “Jackie Down The Line”
Photo by Filmawi
Fontaines D.C. have been a band that has always felt very authentic and in touch with their roots and where they ...
4 years ago
Listen: SASAMI “Say It”
Photo by Angela Ricciardi
SASAMI has shared her latest industrial-influenced track “Say It” off her forthcoming ...
4 years ago
Listen: Slow Fiction ‘The Cut / Niagara’
New York-based Slow Fiction have just released their debut double single — ‘The Cut / Niagara’. Seeming to have been ...
4 years ago
Turnstile’s Tiny Desk (at home) is meant to manipulate what things can or should be
Turnstile’s having their deserved, long-time-coming moment with GLOW ON, making an NPR Tiny Desk (at home) pretty much ...
4 years ago
January 14: world premiere of Boy Harsher’s film ‘The Runner’
Musical duo Boy Harsher have decided to go in a different direction for their next release — making a feature film. The Runner came ...
4 years ago
Alt Citizen’s favorite tracks of 2021
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here.
Not necessarily 2021 releases, but the music that got us through yet ...
4 years ago
Alt Citizen’s favorite albums of 2021
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here.
Our favorite releases of the past year helped us make sense of a still ...
4 years ago
Premiere: Dropper “Memoirs of Working in a Bowling Alley”
Photo by Cirsty Burton
I am a huge proponent for the therapeutic benefits of using a creative outlet to deal with past trauma and my ...
4 years ago
Listen: Niña Diablo “Como Si Nada”
“Como Si Nada”, the latest from Mexico City rock group Niña Diablo struts with a casual, calculated intensity. Like a ...
4 years ago
Shame redefine a Christmas classic with “Baldur’s Gate”
Christmas music is often unrepresentative of the actual mood of the season. Yes — ideally we’re all holly jolly, but it is the ...
4 years ago
SPUD serves up a heaping helping of carbo-loaded deep-fried psychedelia on debut EP
Operating from a different angle than the shadowy psych-doom project Stonefield where she holds down the low-end, Holly Findlay used ...
4 years ago
Watch: LANNDS “HITEM”
LANNDS craft an entire auditory landscape with their latest release “HITEM”. The track is trippy and varied — attention ...
4 years ago
Alt Citizen’s 2021 gift guide
As the holidays are fast approaching, if you don’t know what to get that special someone in your life who has looked at this ...
4 years ago
Watch: Wombo “One of These”
Photo by Sara Collins
Wombo’s latest release “One of These” is at once ethereal and grunge-y, haunting and ...
4 years ago
Wet Leg share “Too Late Now” and “Oh No” to announce their debut record
After releasing two immediately catchy and instantly unforgettable tracks this summer, Wet Leg have finally announced their debut ...
4 years ago
December show forecast
Gonna keep it short and sweet this month. Happy holidays.
Thursday, December 2nd
Caroline Polachek, Oklou – Terminal 5 (SOLD ...
4 years ago
Watch: Yard Act “Payday”
Yard Act’s latest offering “Payday” is the dance track for society’s collective downward spiral. A commentary ...
4 years ago
Watch: Mattiel “Jeff Goldblum”
The way Jeff Goldblum has unintentionally cemented himself in multiple pieces of music is pretty impressive. His impact is clearly not ...
4 years ago
A few of my favorite things: CLIP
I don’t know if CLIP is a Scorpio, but she gives off big Scorpio energy. The New York rapper’s new single “Calvin ...