
Faded Films: Post-Bildungsroman
A few weeks ago I watched the Trainspotting sequel which left me with a few thoughts. First, out of every movie from the ’90’s, who thought

A few weeks ago I watched the Trainspotting sequel which left me with a few thoughts. First, out of every movie from the ’90’s, who thought

The Cutouts are playing their first official show this Tuesday the 25th at Gold Sounds. Considering how sharp their debut album Baby Blue Suede is

I started writing this post before the new and horrible news from Shea Stadium regarding their current location. According to the post after getting through

I met Mona on the back corners of the Internet during a brief wondrous fling with teenage, semi-internet fame during the early days of Tumblr.

You should take any opportunity that presents itself to see B Boys. Following last year’s stellar No Worry No Mind, B Boys are gearing up

I haven’t read Sartre’s No Exit since 11th grade when I discovered Hemingway and decided that existentialism was the most profound ideology I could commit

Photo by Cheryl Georgette. We’re looking for new talent here at Alt Citizen. If you’re a writer, photographer, illustrator or anything in between and are

Following the overnight and impressive success of Arctic Monkeys AM things got a little weird. Is Alex Turner funny or arrogant? A genius or a

Exhibition is the super new project of musician Hammarsing Kharhmar. If you feel like you’ve seen him before it’s probably because for years he’s been

As Told By is a new series of tour stories straight from the mouths of our favorite bands. Interview by Tamim Alnuweiri, Photos by Cheryl

Metrograph sprung up last year in the Lower East Side as a quite and subtle ode to cinema. The theatre plays a slew of 35

Basically a playlist of songs people have asked me to turn off at one point or another. They don’t have that much in common aside from the

Before the end of 2016 we went over how many venues we lost in the city. Now comes another turning point where you can help

Junk Boys are back with their first release since 2015’s self titled LP. The new track “Walk With Me” expands on what we’ve already seen from

This Thursday one the most standout Australian rock bands in recent memory, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, will be playing a post SXSW show at Baby’s All

Despite the way I waste my life away in this endless pit of cyberspace I somehow missed Milky Chance’s meteoric and swift rise to Internet stardom.

Photo by Diane Alexander White We’ve got the best type of news to kick off your weekend — a song premiere and an album announcement! Exceedingly prolific,

One of the best music videos I’ve seen this year, “To The Door” is Rocky Horror Picture Show meets John Waters. It’s absurd, campy, gory

Mad Max: Fury Road was one of the few recent blockbuster movies that didn’t make me wish I didn’t have eyes. Tom Hardy is one

It feels like WALL went into hiding just as they were getting ready to unleash the full potential of their brand of noise into the

Some mornings I wake up and remember that we are all human garbage with no real purpose! This is the playlist for the aforementioned mood —

There is no better way to celebrate Lou Reed, his birthday and his monumental contributions to contemporary culture than with a local show — especially when

Album cover by Madison Carroll, photos and feature by Tamim Alnuweiri. Sometimes you get in on the ground floor while a band is still new and

Oh man. Time for some unnecessary and bizarre insights into my psyche. When I was a child, I spent a lot of time visiting my

If there was one show I would recommend going to this month it’s Naomi Punk, PC Worship and Maria Chavez at the Park Church Co-op.

Everything seems kind of horrible and it quite possibly is but ya can’t spend all your time moping around and feeling sorry for yourself over

Taylor Bonin is a renaissance man. When he comes up at Alt, it’s almost never about the same thing. He’s spent the last few years

Since forming in 2015 Sun Abduction has become a staple of the New York rock circuit, gone through several live changes, and finally buckled down

Making weekend plans always feels like an anxiety riddled game of telephone, so instead of aging yourself by thirty years just to end up at a bar

This column is late and I want to have a good excuse, like I was backpacking through Guam, but I don’t I’ve just been so

I understand the urge to use Monday as an excuse to rush home and get into a night of serious binge-watching but you should probably make

Garage rock will be resurrected this week when Public Access T.V., The Britanys and Splashh play the final (and homecoming) show of their US tour