Quantcast
Channel: Music | Alt Citizen
Browsing all 1590 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Zine preview: The Murlocs and Moonwalks tour diary

Photos by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here. Check out some outtakes from Julia’s tour diary with The Murlocs and Moonwalks featured in Issue 8 — you can check out the full tour diary...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Zine preview: Surfbort @ Market Hotel

Photos by  Allen Ying. Arguably the coolest venue in the city hosted the release party for Surfbort’s debut EP with Muddguts Records — “Billy”. With appearances from Twompsax, Dirty Fences, Amy of Amyl...

View Article


Sheer Mag’s exactly the same but totally different on ‘A Distant Call’

Sheer Mag’s sound is one that you don’t really want tampered with. You want more from them, but as a fan, you worry how they could ever evolve from 2017’s Need to Feel Your Love in a way that doesn’t...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Beck and Cage The Elephant

Photos by Jason Sheldon Beck Cage The Elephant

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Beau: A few of our favorite things

The music of Beau (Heather Golden and Emma Jenney) might have the breezy strumming of an acoustic guitar and soulful vocal stylings, but make no mistake: their work surpasses the realm of easy...

View Article


September show forecast

A front heavy show month with lots of competing shows (and lots of gigs already sold out *RIP*) — if you can’t make ’em all, at least you have a check list of the best ones to hit.  Tuesday, September...

View Article

Listen: Blanck Mass ‘Animated Violence Mild’

Sometimes the busiest electronic music is the most fulfilling. Listening to Animated Violence Mild, Benjamin John Power’s latest solo record as Blanck Mass, can turn a task like driving to the grocery...

View Article

Oct 25: DIY Mag x Alt Citizen present The Wants, Beechwood, Whiner @ The...

We’re headed back to The Broadway with our pals at DIY Mag to host what will no doubt be a killer evening. Brooklyn’s own The Wants, fresh off a stint in the UK, will be headlining the night with their...

View Article


Listen: The Wants “Clearly a Crisis”

Though 2019 is rounding the corner into the final stretch, who’s to say now isn’t as good a time as any for new talent to make themselves known? Clearly, new wave-leaning newcomers, The Wants, have...

View Article


Lana Del Rey may have just written the next best American record

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what Lana Del Rey has been doing for the last seven years. In 2012 she stormed the world with her debut album Born To Die, a unique collection of R&B tracks which...

View Article

Premiere: Sharkswimmer paints an intimate portrait of the healing experience...

Photo by Michelle Lobianco You might get emotional while watching the music video for Sharkswimmer’s track, “Shut-In.”  The animated video, which was written, directed, and illustrated by member Justin...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Kyle Craft: sprinkled with apocalypse

Photos and feature by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.  I remember first stumbling across Kyle Craft back in 2016 with his debut album Dolls of Highland. I’m not sure why it made such a...

View Article

Premiere: Kewl “Glamour Muscles”

Honey. Syringes. Bears. Oh my. Dark, alluring, and a touch disturbing, the video for Kewl’s hypnotic “Glamour Muscles” renders the cast of classic nursery tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears in a new,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Stonefield, ORB @ Central Park

Color photos by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here. Black and white photos by Allen Ying ORB   Stonefield   King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard           

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Crippled Swirling Dome — Is Jesus, cross? A few words on vinyl records with...

Interest in anything is the first step towards waking among floating Goddesses, who sip tea (verbatim). This is a fact. So what compels one to become interested? Who are those out to murder the...

View Article


ICYMI: Angel Olsen, Girl Band, Rose Cologne

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 work here Angel Olsen – “Lark” Apparently, Angel Olsen doesn’t want...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Pictionary with Pottery

Photos and feature by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.  I have been hearing good things about Pottery for what feels like a long time, but in actuality has probably just been since last...

View Article


Listen: Surf Curse ‘Heaven Surrounds You’

Everyone recalls the ever-iconic Perks of Being a Wallflower scene in which everything comes to a close: Sam and Charlie have completely let go of their inhibitions, as they stand, arms reaching toward...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Shows we went to: FONTAINES D.C., Glove, SUO

Bringing back an old classic with a new twist. Shows We Went To started it’s online incarnation as a 35mm photo series back in 2015. Some of us may have adopted digital devices, but our ethos is still...

View Article

Gaitas from The Castro: Devendra Banhart’s Immigrant Song

I.      The folk goddess Maria Lionza is said to live on top of Montaña Sorte in the Yaracuy region of Venezuela. Artistic depictions, most famously a statue by the sculptor Alejandro Colina...

View Article
Browsing all 1590 articles
Browse latest View live