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Tour diary: Birdgangs
Portrait by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. For a band that’s just relocated to New York, Birdgangs has been too busy on the road until late to really spend some time getting settled....
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Alt Citizen’s favorite live acts of 2019
Art by Charis Forrester It’s the last day we can do any sort of list like this for 2019 so HERE IT IS. Some (but def not all) of our favorite live acts from the past year. Faux Real photo by Cheryl...
View ArticleJanuary Show Forecast
Art by Julia Fletcher, find more of her work here. It’s a more chill month in terms of shows, but still some heavy hitters. Check out what shows we’ll be headed to below. Thursday, January 2nd Gustaf...
View ArticleDo we stan Coachella now?
Photo by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here. There are plenty of reasons to drag Coachella. AEG has been tied to anti-LGBT groups, it’s a hotbed for cultural appropriation, and is less about...
View ArticleCatching up with Nation of Language
Photo by Rita Iovine It’d been a minute since I last interviewed Brooklyn’s finest neo new wave group, Nation of Language. They would probably disapprove of being classified as such, but for the sake...
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Get excited For cumgirl8
Photos by Allen Ying. Something is very unusual about the band name cumgirl8. It’s not that its sexually “provocative” because you know what, who gives a fuck anymore? I’m thankful that we are living...
View ArticleWith new single “Fitness”, Post Animal prove they want to go somewhere
Photo by Marie Renaud Post Animal. A band which has often been described as either “that genuinely good psychedelic band” or “that band with the big-hair guy from Stranger Things”. I can be blamed for...
View ArticleNoir. Tarot card teens. Death. Listen to Bambara’s new single “Heat Lightning”
“Heat Lightning” is the 3rd single released by Brooklyn-based post-punk band Bambara in advance of their 4th LP, Stray. Formed in Georgia by brothers Reid and Blaze Bateh, Bambara trailed their...
View ArticleTaking shots with THICK: Altered States S1 E1
THICK is one of Brooklyn’s best party bands guaranteed to deliver a set you’ll remember for years to come – maybe because of how much fun you had, or maybe because of the scar you got tossing yourself...
View ArticleWe won’t stop dropping albums until we drop dead — “Friends” and the future...
Olivia Osby and Avshalom “Avsha” Weinberg have a once in a lifetime kind of friendship. After meeting in high school and bonding over their shared love of music, the two quickly set to crafting their...
View ArticleAlt Citizen Presents Night 3 of Kate Clover’s LA Residency
Kate Clover’s “Funnel of Love” gives off major summertime beach vibes with that classic drum beat that woke everyone the fuck up back in the ’60s. Her voice echoes just a bit like she’s singing to a...
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The Trash Bags’ record release subway show
Text by Obash. Photos by Allen Ying. It was a freezing December night, I heard about The Trash Bags record release show day of, obviously they didn’t want to make it too rowdy cause it was in a public...
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Craft and Commitment with Elliot Moss and Kevin Condon
Interview by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here. Photos by Kevin Condon, find more of his work here. I first met photographer, Kevin Condon, a little over a year ago at a restaurant called...
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Watch: Max Leone debuts with a delicately filthy “First Grade”
I’m a real sucker for a moody pop song that holds and releases tension so precariously, like a hammock waiting to spill gallons of rainwater onto the ground. Max Leone’s first single post-signing with...
View ArticleOvercoming pain with The Garden
“Clench To Stay Awake” is The Garden’s newest single from their upcoming release and fourth studio album Kiss My Super Bowl Ring out on March 13 via Epitaph Records. The song begins with a riff that...
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Modern Vices: a few of our favorite things
Nostalgia’s cycle is typically about 20 years. In the early ’90s growing up, bell-bottoms were it and everyone dressed up as cleaned up hippies in starkly tie-dyed tees and faux suede fringe for...
View ArticleWatch: Best Coast teams up with FIDLAR creative for “Everything Has Changed”
Best Coast have built an identity out of sunny, hummable tunes with broadly relatable themes. Sweet, sugary three-minute sonic morsels inexorably linked to the youthful, laid back lifestyle that is...
View ArticleFebruary Show Forecast
Art by Julia Fletcher, find more of her work here. January was a little dismal, but we’re moving towards SXSW slowly but surely, festival season, and shit’s getting a little more exciting show-wise....
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USA’s ‘Dare Me’ deconstructs the likable female archetype
Willa Fitzgerald, who plays 28-year-old cheer coach Colette French on the USA show Dare Me, says that when creating her character, she wanted Colette to be a woman who doesn’t smile. Well, she...
View ArticleTaking shots with Miranda and the Beat: Altered States S1 E2
If you’re most likely to, take a shot… Miranda and the Beat took that prompt super-seriously, nearly wiping out the tequila before we could get to THICK or Bethlehem Steel (S3 spoiler!)’s interviews...
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