Black Mountain summit the highest peaks on Horns Arising tour
Way back in the depths of history, 2016 to be precise, Vancouver psych rockers Black Mountain released their fourth album, aptly titled IV in the grand tradition of colossal and transformative fourth...
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Premiere: live in The Moment with Modern Vices
One of the most psychologically defeating aspects of enduring challenging times is the feeling of being completely alone, that there is no one to turn to for support and guidance. Even, or maybe...
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Photo Diary: (Sandy) Alex G @ Brooklyn Steel
Live photos by Lucy Blumenfield. Find more of her work here. Indigo De Souza Tomberlin (Sandy) Alex G
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Premiere: just like “Strychnine” — Ricky Hell & The Voidboys spike classic...
Musical taste is cyclical. Sounds and styles simmer in the underground before boiling up into the mainstream for consumption by the masses. Eventually their bowls are empty and the leftovers packaged...
View ArticleDecember Show Forecast
Art by Julia Fletcher, find more of her work here. If you’re as emotionally and mentally ready to check out for the holiday weekend as I am, take a peruse at the upcoming shows that’ll be coming our...
View ArticleDecember 6: Twin Peaks @ Webster Hall
Photo by by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. As we’re coming to the end of the decade, there’s been a definite shift in attention to what was the “best of” of the last 10 years. In terms...
View ArticleHinds are back with the most Hinds video possible: watch “Riding Solo”
Photo by Andrea Savall Hinds has always been really spectacular at knowing what Hinds fans want from Hinds. Hinds is a feeling or a world that’s kind of a little too cool to be true, but it’s a feeling...
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Bambara want you to know that you’re gonna die someday, so f*ck it — listen...
In a body to body-to-body packed show at St. Vitus a couple of weeks back Bambara played a very loud show, very close to the dense room. They’re a band’s band, writing gothic novelas set to a booming...
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Pseudo cults and karate kicks with Divino Niño
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. Earlier this year, I stumbled upon Divino Niño’s album, Foam, released just as summer was getting started. It couldn’t have been better timing...
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Of Poets + Punks, III: Chromesthesia
Photos and feature by E.R. Pulgar “I see music in colours. I love music that’s black, pink, purple or red—but I hate music that’s green, yellow or brown.” – Charli XCX...
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GRLwood’s moved on from sarcasm since ‘Daddy’
GRLwood are the loudest, sweetest, weirdest, most talented, and also did I say sweetest? thing to come out of Louisville. Karen and Rej are so friendly when I was taking photos of them that it was one...
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Liza Anne: Aquarius sun, Scorpio moon, Libra rising
Liza Anne has always nudged her way to the front of the sea of other arguably equally as talented musicians for one main reason – I don’t feel like she’s ever lying to me. You know the feeling of...
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Pile and the anxiety of the unknown
Early May of this year, Boston transfers and now Nashville-based band Pile, released their third album (7 releases in total), the cathartic and still melodic Green and Gray, through Exploding In Sound....
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SUO: Dancing Spots And Dungeons
Photos by Allen Ying Saara Untracht-Oakner is just as confident and unapologetically opinionated as she seems. Or, if she isn’t, it would be impossible to tell. You might recognize Saara from her...
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Devendra Banhart @ Brooklyn Steel
Live photos shot on 35mm film by E.R. Pulgar. Devendra Banhart launched into “Kantori Ongaku”, lead single off latest record Ma, after encouraging the crowd to do shoulder exercises. He then...
View ArticlePremiere: Tall Juan “Vienes Y Te Vas”— A refreshing take on breakup music
Photo by Lililana Merizalde & Sebastian Rosas If you are at all familiar with Tall Juan and his usual brand of loud, messy, authentic punk rock, then listening to his latest single “Vienes Y Te...
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Twin Peaks @ Webster Hall
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. I remember feeling like my ribs were gonna bust in the best way possible at the first Twin Peaks show I ever went to. Slammed up against the lip...
View ArticleAlt Citizen’s favorite releases of 2019
Art by Charis Forrester Because we wouldn’t leave 2019 in the dust without giving you our two cents, here’s our staff’s fave albums of the year. Black Midi – Schlagenheim It’s hard to believe that...
View ArticleMixtape: Alt Citizen’s 2019 trax
Art by Charis Forrester Not necessarily 2019 releases, but shit in general we’ve been digging this past year. Put this baby on shuffle.
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