Album review: Arctic Monkeys ‘The Car’
Arctic Monkeys have released their long awaited and highly anticipated seventh studio album, The Car. The album continues in the foreseeable development of Alex Turner’s vision and takes a step further...
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Photo diary: King Gizzard and Black Midi @ Forest Hills
Photos by Nicole Miller King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Black Midi
View ArticleNovember show forecast
The hangover from Halloween remains, but the show must go on. These are the gigs we’re hitting this month in a very particular order (chronological) Wednesday, November 2nd Rina Sawayama – Avant...
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Shows we went to: Starcrawler, The Bobby Lees
Bringing back an old classic with a new twist. Shows We Went To started its online incarnation as a 35mm photo series back in 2015. Some of us may have adopted digital devices, but our ethos is still...
View ArticlePremiere: Hit “Vanderbilt”
Photo by Kenny Ramos With the video for their latest release “Vanderbilt”, Hit makes it no secret how they feel about the rapidly accelerating building of oversized high rises suffocating the New York...
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Photo diary: The Murlocs, Paul Jacobs @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Photos by Nicole Miller Paul Jacobs The Murlocs
View ArticlePremiere: Bratboy “Victoria”
Photo by Cody Briggs An ode to 60s mod style and b-list spy movies, the stylish and insanely catchy Bratboy share their latest video and single for “Victoria”. Shot amongst friends in British Columbia...
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A few of my favorite things: Scout Gillett
Album art provided by artist. Polaroids by Nicole Miller There are not very many people who can name Sharon Van Etten as a mentor. Something that’s maybe more relatable about artist Scout Gillett is...
View ArticleLeave music school, listen to Starla Online
Leaving one musical education for another, Lindsay Dobbs left jazz school and came to New York City to pursue the world of Starla Online. In the world of Starla, music lives in a continuum of movement....
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Shows we went to: Sorry, Pretty Sick, The 1975, Disq, CELINE
Sorry @ Barboza (Seattle) I don’t love going to shows in Seattle. I do because the alternative is worse, but New York has pretty much ruined my show going experience in all other cities. Sorry at...
View ArticleAlt Citizen’s best of 2022
Best Albums of 2022 Ants From Up There – Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There is a masterpiece of a record. The first few seconds of the “Intro” strings set the tone for the record before...
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FIDLAR’s pit is lawless in this new Wild West of rock music
FIDLAR seemed from the outside to be kind of indefinitely gone for a while. But according to Zach Carper, “It didn’t feel like it was gone, it just felt like it was not here.” Which, in FIDLAR fashion,...
View Articlehella new sh*t vol.1
Pretty self explanatory. There are a lot of new tunes. You should check them out. THE GOA EXPRESS – “Portrait” THE GOA EXPRESS is coming to America for the first time this spring and I don’t think...
View ArticleBlondshell’s “Joiner”: nostalgic, earnest, “an exposed nerve”
Photo by Daniel Topete I love Blondshell. Even the name is evocative. It makes me think of Spoon River Anthology — there’s this line, “And I but a shell of myself”. Open, barren, completely raw. “An...
View ArticlePop disruptor The Life challenges preconceptions on anthemic “Grace”
Album artwork by Tom Keelan Party planner and prolific podcaster, Curtis Everett Pawley is adding another feather to his already impressively plumed hat as the beating heart behind rapidly rising...
View ArticleWhite Reaper stretches their sound in boldly diverse new directions on...
If any criticism could be levied against White Reaper it’s that the band is consistent, nearly to a fault. Three LPs of increasingly adept power-pop with a scruffy, punk rock attitude helped to...
View ArticleWatch: Geese “Cowboy Nudes”
Photo by Kyle Berger Geese are back! The Brooklyn 5-piece have just released their first single since their 2021 debut album ‘Projector’ and are gearing up for two sold-out Mercury Lounge gigs on 2/24...
View ArticlePremiere: Comatosed “Sinister & Severe”
Photo by Chad Moore If you are in New York right now, you know that there is an *energy* around the scene — be that music, fashion, or nightlife, but especially for music. Making their bold debut into...
View ArticleNightbus conjures a cautionary tale of late-night inevitability on “Way Past...
Photo by Kitty Handley Like a fatalist combination of Dry Cleaning’s cynically deadpan poetry and the melodic magnetism of the xx, Nightbus craft their own version of personal apocalypse with a...
View ArticleGymshorts stand up for themselves on nuanced revenge track “Love You Funny”
Everybody loves a good joke. The comedian, the class clown, the comic relief are critically important and revered characters that lift spirits and ease pressure, reframing some of life’s most difficult...
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