Listen: The Breeders “Wait in the Car”
Thank goddess for The Breeders. In a world full of mass shootings, earthquakes, and a president unable to respond appropriately to any of it, the Deal twins and their Last Splash-era bandmates...
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Photo credit: Ben Lieber (of Head North) What’s the first thing you think about when you hear the word, Buffalo? Wings, unbearably cold winters, or literal, furry buffalo? Add music to the list. The...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Torres ‘Three Futures’
Torres’ Three Futures, her third studio album, feels like the full-realization of an artist trying to chip away at her own sound and discover herself. The pieces were there all along, and in...
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Nightcrawler: Portraits from South Street Seaport
Editor’s Note: After first coming across Luis Lucio‘s work on the people’s platform, Instagram, we got in touch with him in hopes of having him contribute and share his phenomenal and captivating work...
View ArticleMixtape: Don’t text him
Tunes to accompany crappy drip coffee or nighttime bike-rides over the wind tunnels of the Williamsburg Bridge. Here’s your musical companion for the early cuffing season feels. I know he was cute but...
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Interview: Kyle Duke and the Brown Bag Boys
Kyle Duke and the Brown Bag Boys exists on a continuum between aquatic metaphors set to 60s inspired rock love songs and a cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs. I caught Duke and the boys at Mercury...
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Week two and a half with Ice Balloons: more trash from tour
Ice Balloons is on tour and phoning in their tour diaries! Check back for further installments, and stop by one of their last shows, see tour dates below. FRISCO BLUES We listened to KALX while driving...
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Interview: Reduction Plan
Album cover by Alan Huck, photo by Dalton Patton. Reduction Plan is the passion project of Daniel Manning. Born out of a love affair with The Cure, The Smiths, and all things 80s, Reduction Plan uses...
View ArticleRadiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ 10 years on
Review by Michael Morgan. When a band you admire goes on a four-years-plus-long break in between releasing albums, there’s one thing you think: oh shit, they’ve lost it. After Radiohead took 53 months...
View ArticleWatch: Jay Som “The Bus Song”
Follow Jacob on Instagram and Twitter. In times like these tenderness is hard to come by, but Jay Som’s “The Bus Song” offers three and half minutes of musical and visceral relief. The music video,...
View ArticleWatch: King Krule “Half Man Half Shark”
King Krule debuts his third single “Half Man Half Shark” in a compilation of lo-fi footage taken from recent shows in New York, LA and London. Doused in soft red tones, the video is permeated with...
View ArticleThrowback Review: Iggy Pop ‘The Idiot’
Review and illustration by Alberto Pazzi. Good Rock’n’Roll is like comedy. When I see old videos of Iggy Pop bouncing around the stage, spreading his legs and smearing peanut butter all over his body,...
View ArticleReview: LVL UP at Baby’s All Right
The first time I saw LVL UP was in 2013 at a basement show in New Paltz, New York as one of the openers for Lemuria. I remember them then—they were brash and messy in all the right ways, a joyous haze...
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Interview: Arrows of Love
Arrows of Love have been described as chaotic and musically ferocious. They are certainly a band who are as fearless with their melodies and as they are with their opinions. The child of creative...
View ArticleBeyond Earshot: the invalidation of Lauryn Hill
Beyond Earshot is a new series by Jacob Seferian examining the cultural impact of music, past and present. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter. In 2015 the sun set in Brooklyn as the mic feed cut off,...
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Nightcrawler: Insecure Men, Roya, Triathalon and Cutouts
Editor’s Note: After first coming across Luis Lucio‘s work on the people’s platform, Instagram, we got in touch with him in hopes of having him contribute and share his phenomenal and captivating work...
View ArticleFive British bands you should be listening to
Editor’s Note: Lallie Doyle is Alt Citizen’s new European Features Editor! We asked her to compile a list of British bands and musical projects that she thinks are need-to-know. See below for her picks...
View ArticleVideo Premiere: Tempesst “Waiheke”
For London based Tempesst, their home based rainy climate doesn’t seem to bring their music down. The four piece rockers have followed up the recent release of the charming “Waiheke” with an...
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Interview: Cowgirl Clue
Images courtesy of Cowgirl Clue. Listening to Cowgirl Clue often feels as though you have ripped open a Barbie car, and out of which poured pink glitter-covered serenading fairies wearing thigh high...
View ArticleWatch: SOPHIE “It’s Ok To Cry”
SOPHIE, a loose associate of the PC music crew and producer for pop stars like Charli XCX and Madonna, has been secretive since their 2013 debut. Single covers/profile pictures featured bizarre plastic...
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