COOL KIDS: Gnarcissists
Marisa Whitaker
December 18, 2025
COOL KIDS #6: GNARCISSISTS ★★★★★★★ Punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies and the
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
Every so often, something entirely new can stir a faint and familiar feeling. I ‘get it’ tout de suite. Listening to the rococo sound of
Photo by @foxsticks After 4 years since their last full length album, Danish band Communions are ready to bring you something new. On track to
Photos by Jenna Murray, Words by Lulu Rodriguez Fontaines D.C., post punk band from Dublin played another series of sold out shows in New York
Hailing from Corsica and now residing in Paris, Casablanca Drivers have been delighting our ears for quite some time. But the band they once were
Born out boredom in the city of Paris, experimental electronic / rock band Bracco sure know how to put on a show. If you have
Photos by Monty Hamm and Dutch Doscher. “We don’t play, we work.” Jim Morrison’s infamous declaration to Eve Babitz came to mind while speaking with
Charlotte Rose Benjamin, photographed by Charlotte Dulany. In girl world… There’s sentimentality, friendship, infatuation, and glittering exuberance. Charlotte Rose Benjamin loves it here. She’s a
I first saw SHAGGO almost a year ago at The Sultan Room, and while the band’s irreverent, punkish, feminist-centric ethos has been evident from the
Photos by Eliot Leblanc-Hartmann Ahead of their gig at The Marbrerie, where they played with Parisian groups Spanish Horses and Oh Non, I sat down
With just one listen, Ray Bull’s music sparks an immediate conversation of movement — foot tapping, finger snapping, head bobbing, side-to-side swaying. I got my
Story by Sophie Abeles. Photos by Matt Weinberger. Named for the word’s mouthfeel rather than the world’s largest lizard, Komodos is a garage rock band
Story and photos by Sophie Abeles. Two years ago, The Thing, a four-piece indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, abandoned their leases and jobs
‘Dove Fall’ the latest single by French shoegaze band Avalon Bloom is out today. This is the premiere single from their new upcoming project, having
Noah and Dylan Chenfeld, photographed by Charlotte Dulany. Oasis. The Kinks. Radiohead. The National. Rebounder. What ties them together? One invisible string: Brothers. Rebounder hails
It’s Saturday December 7th, 2024 – a rainy night in Paris. After a packed out show and a dazzling performance, I corral the boys of