Death trax: Kristin Gallegos
Death Trax is a mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own funerals. This week photographer and DJ Kristin Gallegos shares her playlist. Photo by Jeffrey Graetsch. It...
View ArticleBand Crush: Peeping Drexels bring honky tonk sleaze to South London
South London’s Peeping Drexels ooze a sleaziness once only fabricated in poorly insulated basements in the Lower East Side circa 1970. The term “band crush” rings perfect for five piece punk band...
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Death Valley Girls will hypnotize you
Photos by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here. You could say Death Valley Girls abstain from creating new musical tendencies on purpose— yet they still create the most mythical and least...
View ArticleWatch Sorry’s “Startruck”
In the hems of the sounds from bands like The Kills, Royal Trux, and poppy-era The Cardigans, “Starstruck” by London band Sorry, is a stylish and modern-garage track that resonates within assertive and...
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Watch: Surfbort “Dope”
Staying sober never seemed so cool. In Surfbort’s latest music video, “Dope”, lead singer Dani Miller sings through her mascara stained tears about leaving drugs behind. She stumbles down the Hollywood...
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Floating away with Kid le Chat’s Lost Critters
Kid le Chat has self-released their sophomore LP, Lost Critters: a constantly captivating new-wave album made for you to dance, daydream, and sing along to like it’s summertime in the 80’s. These...
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Chris Maier on crafting instrumental album “Sleeping in the Hall”
Chris Maier’s instrumental album, Sleeping in the Hall, creates effortlessly lush soundscapes that meet the ear with ease. Instrumental albums—let alone classical instrumental albums—are incredibly...
View ArticleMoon Panda explore the capricious human mind on “Gun”
Moon Panda’s second single of 2018, “Gun,” is an entrancing world of indecision and complexities of the mind. A great song for those moments you feel you have no idea what you’re doing. The London...
View ArticleDeath trax: Nick Fulton
Death Trax is a mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own funerals. This week writer Nick Fulton shares his playlist. Making a playlist for my own funeral was an...
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Premiering Ryne Ziemba’s video for “Trying Not To Try”
There must be some ounce of frustration among bands when they spend time plotting, budgeting, constructing and shooting a deep and expensive music video, only for a more famous band to film a middle...
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Mixtape: Darker days
If I wake up early enough I might catch a glimpse of the sun for a minute. But then I head into my office and I leave once to get lunch, maybe twice if I need coffee and by the time out in the world...
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Ron Gallo on “Stardust Birthday Party” and the exploration of self
Photos by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here. Directing your attention and accountability inward can be daunting – so daunting, in fact, to the point where it seldom crosses the mind. After...
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The Damned @ Irving Plaza
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here. Radkey The Damned
View ArticlePremiering Been Stellar’s latest single “JFK”
The core characteristic of New York rock has always been a raucous, youthful, devil-may-care energy—stumbling around the Lower East Side at 4 AM, or having a drunken conversation on an L train heading...
View ArticleWatch: Vypers “Mista Girl”
“Mista Girl,” the latest single from Vypers most recent EP, Champion 100, and it is a track with psychedelic veins. Vyper’s most apparent ingredient is feedback – FEEDBACK, FEEDBACK, FEEDBACK. However,...
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Shouting over soundcheck with Pale Waves
Photos and feature by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. I’ve heard a lot about Pale Waves over the past year (and have seen even more of them via social media), but they’ve remained...
View ArticleAlt Citizen’s favorite releases of 2018
Illustration by Cynthia Alfonso, see more of her work here and here. 2018 is almost over and these lists are kind of inane and asinine but really they’re just helpful for sorting through the massive...
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