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November 11: Sports with Ginla @ Gramercy Theatre

Aricka Moultry-Davis August 13, 2018

Everyone deserves a night of groovy and chill vibes and that is exactly what Sports embodies. The smooth and wavy chill-pop band will be making

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Oct 28: Alt Citizen and Rose Gold presents Lunacre, Rose Cologne, and The Big Wheel @ DIY Space for London

Lauren Khalfayan August 10, 2018

Continuing Alt Citizen’s stint across the pond, we’ll be hosting a show at DIY Space for London featuring some of our biggest band crushes: Lunacre, Rose

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Aug 18: Gnarcissists, Chorizo, Glove, Sixteen Jackies @ El Cortez ($8)

Elena Childers August 6, 2018

Welcome to the second installment of 3rd Party—the newest monthly show featuring Brooklyn’s psychs, punks, grungers, hazers, and dazers. This time around they’ve gathered a line-up that’ll keep

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Aug 2: Animal Show, Max Pain & The Groovies, Menjuje, Julep @ Secret Project Robot ($10)

Elena Childers July 31, 2018

Poster by Nazar Khamis If you wanna see a killer line up of NYC bands (& one band from Boston: Julep) that play from the

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July 25: David Johansen, Hennessey, CHILLEMI @ Berlin ($25)

altcitizen July 23, 2018

On July 25 the legendary David Johansen will headline the final night of CHILLEMI’s residency, with support by Hennessey. Only a few tickets left, get

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Ticket giveaway & video premiere: Little Junior @ Irving Plaza w/ Calpurnia, July 14

Elena Childers July 13, 2018

Photo by Tamara Léger The rad queer-fronted power pop-punk band Little Junior from Toronto is premiering with Alt Citizen their new lyric video to angsty heartbroken

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July: Summer with CHILLEMI Residency, Every Wednesday @ Berlin, 21+ ($10-$25)

altcitizen July 9, 2018

Think Alan Vega style beats over Neil Young guitars. For his upcoming residency at Berlin, CHILLEMI will have a full backing band to bring his

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Jul 25: Cult Citizen Presents Gnarcissists, Den-Mate, and Native Sun @ Elsewhere, FREE

altcitizen July 8, 2018

Spend golden hour with Cult Citizen on Wednesday, July 25 with live music from Gnarcissists, Den-Mate, and Native Sun! Doors are at 5 and happy

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Life Releases Video for “Grown Up”

Aricka Moultry-Davis July 6, 2018

Life released the video for their recent single “Grown Up,” a song that makes you think about the things that make adulthood and age what

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July 22: Yaasss, The Muckers, Rose Cologne @ Baby’s All Right, (21+) $10

Julie-Anna George July 5, 2018

Poster by Alberto Pazzi. The fictitious Baby’s All Right’s parking lot is used to being full of magic carpets and camels waiting for their sweaty

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EP Premiere: Ruth Carp & The Fish Heads/Dead Brian ‘Ruth & Brian’s Unholy Matrimony’

Elena Childers June 29, 2018

Remember those summer nights where you end up making out with your crush while you’re on some wild wine infused adventure? Your merlot stained mouths

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June 19: Mick’s Jaguar ‘Fame and Fortune’ record release @ Saint Vitus

Aricka Moultry-Davis June 13, 2018

Mick’s Jaguar started out as a Rolling Stones cover band before they decided to start writing original music. When they started writing and creating their

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June 5th: Alt Citizen’s Altered States with Alex Carapetis @ Night of Joy

Tamim Alnuweiri June 4, 2018

It’s been really beautiful to watch Alt Citizen grow and mutate into its current incarnation for the last two years. It feels like the community

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Alt Citizen’s June Show Forecast

Hannah Burke May 31, 2018

Art by Ava East. It’s summer in New York which doesn’t change much for the show attending hordes other than many of the gigs have

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Meet The People of Tanlines: a Latinx Party/Pop-Up Mall

Mo Wilson May 24, 2018

Last summer, Tanlines was the best day party around. The queer Latinx-centered party happened in the backyard of popular Brooklyn gay bar The Rosemont, and

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May 25-26: The Elsewhere Rooftop Opening with NOBUNNY & Branko ($10-$20)

Brett Myers May 22, 2018

Summer has (finally) fucking arrived and besides the blistering humidity and a pervasive smell of warm urine, it also means it’s rooftop season. And to

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May 27: Sally Can’t Dance-Tribute to The Talking Heads @ The Bowery Electric, 8:30PM ($15)

Tamim Alnuweiri May 18, 2018

Memorial Day Weekend is one of those horrible moments in life where the thought of finding something to do is almost enough to make you

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May 18-May 20: The Oddly Satisfying Spa @ The Spectrum

Lallie Doyle May 15, 2018

Popping bubble wrap, puffing cream and slicing butternut squashes; here are just a few of the simple pleasures one can enjoy in an average day.

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Every Wednesday in May: The Hum at House of Yes

Grace Eire May 10, 2018

House of Yes is at the top of the game when it comes to being inclusive with all of their programming and events, so it

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La Cinémathèque Française brings classic French cinema to the Quad

Albert Testani May 7, 2018

It’s spring. Love and pollen are in the air and everyone is emerging from their dark and cold hibernation dens.  Even better, you can shake

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Here to be Heard: The Story of the Slits

Grace Eire May 1, 2018

“They were wearing chaos, they were being chaos.” The Slits weren’t punk. They weren’t musicians. They refused to let genres or lables box them in;

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Alt Citizen’s May show forecast

Tamim Alnuweiri April 30, 2018

Artwork by Alberto Pazzi. I don’t know what’s going on but there are a shit ton of shows going on like every night. Most of

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Shows we’re going to on 4/20

Tamim Alnuweiri April 20, 2018

4/20 is mostly funny because I spend all year saying 4/20 blaze even though the honest to god thought of marijuana send me into an

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April 24: Lola Pistola, Mima Good, Pom Pom Squad and Menjuje (The Good Girl Party) @ Elsewhere 7pm ($10)

Brett Myers April 18, 2018

Are you a good bitch or a bad bitch? It’s 2018! You can proudly be anyone you want to be and where better to celebrate

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April 20: Sure Sure and Lizzie No @ Rough Trade, 9pm ($15)

Gabriela Contreras April 16, 2018

Finally, a band that reminds me of my jeunesse (youth), of high school innocence, the incense of night blooming jasmine, biting into blackberries—embracing their purplish

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Ticket giveaway! Nick Cave @ Murmrr, May 5th

Julie-Anna George April 14, 2018

Who’s never cried listening to “Into my Arms” after a bad break up? Who’s never felt bad as fuck walking down the street with “Red Right

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Mixtape: The Nude Party’s Country Playlist

Elena Childers April 2, 2018

Illustration by Alberto Pazzi. It’s a party no matter where these guys are! If you haven’t met them yet, say howdy to The Nude Party. A

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Alt Citizen’s April show forecast

Tamim Alnuweiri March 29, 2018

Illustration by Cynthia Alfonso, see more of her work here and here. Maybe it’s the post SXSW migration back to New York or the supposed end of the dreary

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April 13: Bambara (‘Shadow On Everything’ record release) @ Alphaville, 8PM ($10)

Tamim Alnuweiri March 29, 2018

Photo by Julie-Anna George. At this point there’s not much more I can say, scream or write about Bambara. So read this or this! (also

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April 12: A Place To Bury Strangers (record release) @ Elsewhere, 8PM ($15)

Tamim Alnuweiri March 28, 2018

A Place To Bury Strangers has been pummeling their noise into (initially) unsuspecting people for about 15 years during which they’ve seen the rise and continual

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March 24: Turnover, Pronoun and Summer Salt @ Warsaw, 8pm ($22)

Virginia Croft March 21, 2018

Since their 2015 release Peripheral Vision, Virginia based band Turnover has been creating dreamy emo rock, with lyrics that stick in the subconscious and guitar

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Mar 16: Cult Citizen presents at SXSW!

Tamim Alnuweiri March 13, 2018

It’s hard to believe but we’ve been doing Cult Citizen for long enough that our next one will be the 20th! And it seems that

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