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Band Crush: Panama @ Baby’s All Right

altcitizen August 11, 2014

I made a late-night stop at Baby’s All Right, a bar that is quickly becoming the hottest music venue in Brooklyn, to catch a trio

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Northside Crush: The Range @ McCarren Park (6/15)

nicole June 17, 2014

Electronic producer James Hinton — aka The Range — kind of blew up out of nowhere. His first full-length release Nonfiction dropped last fall and was honorably

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Northside Crush: Sharon Van Etten @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (6/12)

alex June 17, 2014

Review: Sharon Van Etten @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (6/12) Last Thursday night, Northside badge holders and fans alike lined up during a misty rainfall

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Band Crush: Your Friend @ Baby’s All Right (6/11)

Wallace June 16, 2014

Review: Your Friend @ Baby’s All Right (6/11) It’s Wednesday night in the back room at Baby’s All Right, and the crowd is at ease.

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Band Crush: Flume @ Highline Ballroom (4/14)

nicole April 18, 2014

Review: Flume @ Highline Ballroom (4/14) Trying to find the motivation to go out after work on a Monday can be rather excruciating, especially if

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4 Bands You Shouldn’t Miss at SXSW

altcitizen March 12, 2014

We here at Alt Citizen are extremely jealous of those lucky enough to traverse the endless musical landscape of SXSW — we’re too busy working

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Band Crush: Neighbors @ Baby’s All Right (2/26)

altcitizen March 10, 2014

Review: Neighbors at Baby’s All Right (2/26) Neighbors’ latest album, Failure, is out March 25. In advance of its release, the band stopped by Baby’s

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Band Crush: Blood Orange at Webster Hall (2/06)

altcitizen February 14, 2014

Blood Orange at Webster Hall (2/06) On February 6th, Dev Hynes, AKA Blood Orange, uploaded an Instagram photo outside Webster Hall. The shot told the

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Band Crush: Mutual Benefit @ Knitting Factory (2/08)

altcitizen February 10, 2014

Mutual Benefit @ Knitting Factory (2/08) On a subfreezing, black-iced February night in New York, Mutual Benefit was imagining a more forgiving natural world. Opening

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Band Crush: Shy Hunters @ Baby’s All Right (1/10)

Steph Koyfman January 16, 2014

Review: Shy Hunters @ Baby’s All Right (1/10) A soft launch in more ways than one, last Friday gave Brooklyn a taste of an emergent

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Band Crush: Cloud Control @ Baby’s All Right (1/11)

nicole January 15, 2014

Review: Cloud Control @ Baby’s All Right (1/11) This past Saturday was pretty terrible weather-wise, so Brooklyn’s fairly new bar/restaurant/music venue Baby’s All Right was

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Band Crush: Grooms @ Knitting Factory

alex December 2, 2013

Band Crush: Grooms @ Knitting Factory (11/23) Last week, Grooms played a short set at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn. It was the end of

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Band Crush: Moonface @ Le Poisson Rouge

Steph Koyfman November 14, 2013

Review: Moonface @ Le Poisson Rouge (11/9) Leave the tambourine at home — you won’t need it where we’re going. Put away your trio of

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CMJ Crush: HAERTS @ Bowery Ballroom

altcitizen October 22, 2013

Review: HAERTS @ Bowery Ballroom (10/19) At one point during HAERTS’ brief set, lead singer Nini Fabi misheard an ‘I love you!’ shoutout as a

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CMJ Crush: Deerhunter @ Converse Rubber Tracks

nicole October 22, 2013

Review: Deerhunter @ Converse Rubber Tracks (10/18) You know those bands that you plan on eventually checking out as all of your friends are like, “I

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CMJ Crush: Island Twins @ “Secret CMJ House Show”

nicole October 21, 2013

Review: Island Twins @ “Secret CMJ House Show” (10/19) The crew behind Brooklyn’s favorite electronic cigarette purveyors, Bedford Slims, put together an ideal escape from some

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CMJ Crush: Friend Roulette @ The Gutter

Steph Koyfman October 21, 2013

Review: Friend Roulette @ The Gutter (10/18) With two drummers, a violin and an electronic didgeridoo (I believe the technical term for that is “electronic

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CMJ Crush: Night Terrors of 1927 @ Bowery Ballroom

altcitizen October 20, 2013

Review: Night Terrors of 1927 @ Bowery Ballroom (10/17) The first word that came to mind when seeing Night Terrors of 1927 at Bowery Ballroom

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CMJ Crush: Dan Croll @ Mercury Lounge

altcitizen October 20, 2013

Review: Dan Croll @ Mercury Lounge (10/17) Dan Croll’s name has been tossed around the CMJ bustle for the last few weeks and last night

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CMJ Crush: Caveman @ Rockwood Music Hall

Steph Koyfman October 20, 2013

Review: Caveman @ Rockwood Music Hall (10/15) At the number one spot on The Deli’s Best NYC Emerging Artists of 2012, there’s little doubt that

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CMJ Crush: Silent Rider @ Rockwood Music Hall (10/19)

altcitizen October 19, 2013

Silent Rider, a self-described minimalist, indie-pop act from Brooklyn, was a pleasant repose from the overwhelming sea of bands descending on CMJ during the past

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CMJ Crush: Seasick Mama @ Studio at Webster Hall

Steph Koyfman October 17, 2013

Review: Seasick Mama @ Studio at Webster Hall (10/15) As Seasick Mama told me herself in an interview a couple months ago, her new EP,

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Band Crush: Blue & Gold @ Piano’s

alex July 24, 2013

Blue & Gold, a band made up of a trio of young New Yorkers, celebrated the release of their self-titled debut EP at Piano’s in

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