COOL KIDS #11: MIKE BRANDON of The Mystery Lights and Fast Kids ★★★★★★★ To be empowered – to be free, to be unlimited, to be creative,
For our first ever digital cover, we spotlight an artist who transforms their new record into something all consuming.Nasa sits down with Kris Esfandiari
Interview by Nathalie Naor / Photos by Colin Lane If you’ve done a music festival solo, you know how it goes. It’s just you, the
Photos by Elijah Wells, @wells_elijah.mp3 There are many lists in Mollie’s Notes app; one of them being “ideas for conversations.” When the party lulls, when
Just this past week, French musician Emma Bergmann dropped her latest single, ‘Tonnerre sous les tropiques,’ which in English translates to Tropic Thunder, and she
COOL KIDS #10: THE DUTCH KILLS ★★★★★★★ The duende is a power, not a work. It is a struggle, not a thought … The duende
Maura Brennan’s Local Radar features interviews with New York based musicians about their recently released singles and more in hopes of furthering music discovery and
Monday nights. They used to be dreaded, but that was before rocknite launched their biweekly residency at Nightclub 101. Every other week, Good English Records
COOL KIDS #9: THE BREAKS INC. ★★★★★★★ Being in this band and being in a band that people have heard of doesn’t change the fact
In 2022, I moved away from New York after having lived in the city for five years. I kept in touch with my people in
COOL KIDS #8: ALEXA DARK ★★★★★★★ Fate, I respect a lot. I never regret anything. – Anita Pallenberg When I show up late Make the
Local Radar with Maura Brennan features interviews with New York based musicians about their recently released singles as well as their interests and skillsets in
Love and work: the two tenants of your 20s. To Lucie Lozinski of Ski Team, these values are inseparable. “There’s a magic in love that
COOL KIDS #7: TROPHY WIFE ★★★★★★★ Find out who you are and do it on purpose. – Dolly Parton And I guess life’s full of
Article by Jerid Gooding It all started in Rockaway. For my new music and arts discovery app (in—yc), I partnered with Max Power Presents for
COOL KIDS #6: GNARCISSISTS ★★★★★★★ Punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies and the
Fresh off new releases, Sam Quealy and Jack Powers sit down to talk New York City, dinner party do’s and don’ts, and what it takes
NYC-born multidisciplinary artist and vocalist, Nate Livingston, is fresh off the release of his third single “Respond,” which dropped Dec. 6th, 2025, ahead of a
COOL KIDS #5: CHALK ★★★★★★★ And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They’re
The hyper-digital world we live in is impossible to ignore. On Factory Reset, the new album from Retail Drugs, Jake Brooks interrogates our dystopian technological
When I was 24 I worked as an assistant in a small gallery on Orchard Street. On display, during my first month as a downtown
COOL KIDS #4: NIKITA LEV ★★★★★★★ This world is bullshit. You shouldn’t model your life about what you think that we think is cool and
Alex Arthur & Cole Spike shot by Alex Beh / Alex Arthur shot by Gallery by Geve / Delaney Rowe shot by Gallery by Geve
COOL KIDS #3: SKORTS ★★★★★★★ The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the
COOL KIDS #2: LAVEDA ★★★★★★★ I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I
Lou Salome orbits around the act of yearning: romance with shades of sincerity. Adopting their name from the renowned psychoanalyst Lou Salome, the NYC based
COOL KIDS #1: NATIVE SUN ★★★★★★★ Welcome to COOL KIDS. I was curious about all these new people I was meeting who could stay up
In September, ALT CITIZEN hosted an electric run of 6 live shows throughout New York City to celebrate our 15th anniversary as a publication. At
Photos by Jenna Murray, Words by Maddie Breeden “Epoxy is a polymer, it’s like an industrial glue,” says Alec Publicover, singer of NYC’s screamo three-piece,
Paris-born four-piece, Lulu Van Trapp, will be taking the stage at Nightclub 101 on Sept. 9, 2025 at ALT CITIZEN’s AC15 Music Discovery is Everything
Photos by Marc Giuffre, Words by Marisa Whitaker I sat down with frontman, namesake, and mind of Brooklyn-based rockers Dead Tooth, Zach Ellis, on the
Photo by Matt Weinberger, Words by Marisa Whitaker Mexico City-bred singer-songwriter Americo of rock ‘n’ roll band The Americojones Experience sat down with Alt
