5 years ago
The anxious euphoria of Nation of Language’s “Across that Fine Line”
Photo by Kevin Condon
It is so rare that a song specifically, accurately, and fully replicates a uniquely delicious human experience, ...
5 years ago
What’s old is new again: the great cover resurgence
The pandemic was filled with a bunch of not so great stuff for music and for artists. Albums were put on hold. Tours were cancelled. ...
5 years ago
Iceage’s “High & Hurt” portrays an outcast revolution
The cosmic struggle between good and evil has been historically documented, indoctrinated, propagandized, dismantled, used to ...
5 years ago
We’ve All Been To “Party Jail”
Photo by Noelle Duquette
I’m not a very fun person. That probably comes as a surprise to the group of people who I regularly ...
5 years ago
King Woman’s “Morning Star” is simple, hellish, and effective
King Woman, aka Kris Esfandiari, returns with a grimly elated video for “Morning Star” as a taste for what’s to ...
5 years ago
G.M.G. mix up a love potion on the chemically charged “Death To Jealousy”
Chemistry is the process of achieving a desired result through measured combining of unique elements and rigorous testing. The right ...
5 years ago
Listen: Black Midi ‘Calvacade’
When a new artist releases an incredible debut album, one usually fears a sophomore slump. With Calvacade, Black Midi overcame this ...
5 years ago
Welcome to Gemini season: Play/Destroy
Gemini season (May 21 – June 20) is upon us, with the full lunar eclipse just this past Wednesday early morning to boot. This ...
5 years ago
Listen: Maple Glider “Baby Tiger”
Photo by Bridgette Winten
Maple Glider, aka Tori Zietsch, shares “Baby Tiger”, the latest offering off of her ...
5 years ago
Watch: Touchy’s “Secret Melody”
Photo by Rebecca Noble
As we get ready to be buzzed in a club under multicolored lights and (ideally) a disco ball, Touchy gets us ...
5 years ago
Listen: FUR “The Fine Line of a Quiet Life”
Photo by Julia Nala
Brighton band FUR melds 60s inspiration with early 2000s guitar-rock-resurgence nostalgia on their latest track ...
5 years ago
Listen: Sub*t “Boxing Day”
Power-duo Jade Alcantara and Grace Bennett formed the project Sub*t as a post-pandemic rise up with full-fledged, gritty 90s angst on ...
5 years ago
Squid’s “Pamphlets” is eerily stunning
Following the release of their debut full length Bright Green Field, Squid has released a music video for the climactic track of the ...
5 years ago
Olivia Rodrigo sheds her Disney skin on “good 4 u”
Disney has finally seemed to take the hint and let their stars act their own age. Following in the steps of predecessors like Britney ...
5 years ago
Watch: Monsterwatch “Somewhere”
Monsterwatch’s “Somewhere” is an electric trek towards your own demise. Repetitive and pulsating, the single hammers ...
5 years ago
Mixtape: anti-hibernation
Scene: Summer 2021. You are a fully vaxxed individual. Tours are being announced for the fall. You have hope for the first time in you ...
5 years ago
Dayglow’s “Balcony” is missed connections romanticism
photo by Pooneh Ghana
As we start to re-emerge into some form of social life with vaccinations, decent weather, and the promise of ...
5 years ago
Little Simz is elegance and opulence on “Woman”
In her directorial debut, Little Simz creates a luxurious world dripping in diamonds and clothed in silks for her latest music video ...
5 years ago
Listen: Iceage ‘Seek Shelter’
Over the last decade, Iceage have managed to become one of the most divisive acts in punk and indie rock. The four records comprising ...
5 years ago
Shadow & Bone isn’t the next Game of Thrones, it’s better
Three years and counting and we still can’t quite escape the shadow of Game of Thrones. Every fantasy series and film inevitably ...
5 years ago
Brooklyn, there’s a new band in town. Meet Catcher.
Photo by Grace Watts
Coming in like a cool breeze, stylish new post-punk outfit Catcher have made their entry into the Brooklyn ...
5 years ago
Alt Citizen social hour @ The Sultan Room
Thanks so much to everyone who came out last week! Was a blast to listen to great tunes from DJs Lola Pistola and Justin Krim and see ...
5 years ago
Sarah Greenwell’s latest as Greeensleeves is a heartbreakingly earnest ode to love and loss
Photo by Devon Bristol Shaw
Sarah Greenwell’s solo project, Greeensleeves, charts a different course from her rambunctious output ...
5 years ago
Welcome to Taurus season: luxury, baby
Tauruses are good at a lot of things, but they’re best at luxuriating. This Taurus season (appropriately beginning this past ...
5 years ago
Les Rallizes Dénudés: the most mysterious band in Japan
Please find both Spanish and English translations of the article below
Desde secuestrar un avión hasta bootlegs, esta es la historia ...
5 years ago
Pen Pals with Subtext
One of the things I miss most about live music is all the amazing people you would meet at the gigs. Depending on the show or the band ...
5 years ago
ICYMI: Iceage, Pretty Sick, Uwade, FEET
ICYMI is a series featuring new and notable releases you (and we) may have missed
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their ...
5 years ago
Black Fly reveals a depth to the darkness on ‘Black Fly 01’
There’s something contradictory about Black Fly’s music.
Described as soaring and cinematic, the reality of Black Fly’s 01 is ...
5 years ago
Wayne Snow walks on Mars in “Seventy”
Berlin-via-Paris-via-Nigera experimental neo soul artist Wayne Snow gained popularity during the rise of the nu jazz scene in Berlin ...
5 years ago
April 29: Alt Citizen social hour @ The Sultan Room
You’re invited to socialize with us IRL! It’s been a minute, but we’re having a social hour next Thursday, April ...
5 years ago
Damon Smith, Piano Man
Article by Urvija Banerji Photo by Charlie Baker
At an intimate show at Rockwood Music Hall earlier this week, Damon Smith unfurled a ...
5 years ago
Wolf Alice delivers a stadium-sized britpop empowerment anthem on the kaleidoscopic “Smile”
Wolf Alice’s steady development from folk leaning acoustic project to full blown indie rock powerhouse has reached critical mass ...
5 years ago
4/20 mixtape
*wooooo*
Whether you’re “celebrating” or not today, here’s a mixtape to pair with the day. Even though ...
5 years ago
Listen: Spellling’s fantastic and theatric “Little Deer”
Spellling has always appeared to be a mystical, magical sort of human with a magnetic and mysterious aura, but she dives even deeper ...
5 years ago
Sedona’s “Missing in Paradise” will make you fall in love
Sedona’s “Missing in Paradise” is a 80’s style dream pop fantasy song a la Love Witch. In fact Sedona herself ...
5 years ago
A question of faith: Native Sun seek salvation at the end of a fishhook on the biblical “Jesus”
Ancient Christians used the symbol of Ichthys, a fish-like shape comprised of a pair of inverted arches commonly found adorning the ...
5 years ago
Live music is back at The Sultan Room *cries*
Photo by Allen Ying
It feels almost surreal to say, but live music is coming back. It might not be in the same sweaty, beer soaked ...
5 years ago
Social distancing with The Muckers
Photos by Lucy Blumenfield. Find more of her work here.
The Muckers are Brooklyn-based rock band with a distinctly New York sound, ...
5 years ago
Listen: Essential Forever ‘There’s A Lot Still To Say About’
Al Heaney of Chicago’s Jungle Green has ventured out on a new solo project, Essential Forever, playing the character of a ...
5 years ago
Psychodelia in Latam
Please find both Spanish and English translations of the article below
Mientras el Summer of Love, Woodstock y Vietnam creaban una ...
5 years ago
Listen: Tkay Maidza “Syrup”
Our Issue 9 cover star, Zimbabwe-born Australian Rapper Tkay Maidza is back, following up her 2020 release Last Year Was Weird Vol. ...
5 years ago
Sorry takes a deep dive into their own diaries with ‘Twixtustwain’
Photo by Sam Hiscox
One of North London’s most exciting offspring, Sorry – the musical brainchild of duo Asha Lorenz and Louis ...
5 years ago
Premiere: MONSTERWATCH return with ‘Lick The Wall”
It’s been a minute since Seattle-based MONSTERWATCH released their EP Z O T (in 2018), but they’ve come back with a ...
5 years ago
Wombo’s “Dreamsickle” is a dreamy lullaby
Photo by Destiny Robb
The video for Wombo’s Dreamsickle puts the viewer in the perspective of a very young child, looking up at ...
5 years ago
Been Stellar break free from media mind control on the rebellious “Louis XIV”
Photo by Drake Li
Tackling heady topics in musical four-minute treatises is a hallmark of a certain school of independent music, and ...
5 years ago
Dry Cleaning doesn’t care about your socialized ideals
Photo by Steve Gullick
On their latest video, “Unsmart Lady”, Dry Cleaning shares amongst skittering guitars and Florence ...
5 years ago
Mixtape: it’s called regression, sweaty
You’re either lying or living in a very different reality if you haven’t experienced even a *momentary* moment of ...
5 years ago
Watch: Iceage “Shelter Song”
Photo by Jonas Bang
Iceage’s “Shelter Song” is shockingly tender, embodying a hugely 90s sound with mellow, chest-driven vocals ...
5 years ago
Welcome to Aries season: hard-headed but squishy on the inside
Aries season, March 20-April 19, marks the start of the zodiac calendar. It’s fresh, it’s Spring, it feels like we might ...
5 years ago
Sex is good but have you listened to Donna Missal?
Photo by Julia Pitch
We’ve all been doing a lot of masturbating lately. Certainly the rise of OnlyFans is proof of that. ...