Best New Bands » Brigit Anderson http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Album Preview: Jack Name, Light Show http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/album-preview-jack-name-light-show/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/album-preview-jack-name-light-show/#comments Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:27:13 +0000 Seattle – Sensory perversion isn’t often given enough credit. When a sound truly assaults your ears, it tends to be viewed (or rather, heard) negatively; this kind of reaction might be automatic but it isn’t necessarily the one that should last. Art can be shocking, can be jarring, can be painful – what makes it

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  1. Show Preview: Air Waves CD Release Show at Glasslands The last time I caught Air Waves was last year at Zebulon, and when I briefly met singer/songwriter Nicole Schneit after the show, she told me that she was moving to Texas. I was bummed that I had just discovered...
  2. Black Marble Opens at Light Asylum’s Fierce Record Release Show Black Marble sounds exactly like what their name implies: cold and dark. Their show at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge this past Thursday showed the duo of Chris Stewart and Ty Kube invoking post punk and no wave styles...
  3. Album Review: Jack Davey, L0 F! For years, Jack Davey was known as one half of Los Angeles electro pop/neo soul duo J*Davey. They were featured last year as one of our Artists of the Week and while they’ve brought fans across the country to their...
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  1. Artist of the Week: The Static Jacks New Jersey’s The Static Jacks are climbing the steep steps to indie-rock acclaim.  Guitar-in-hand, the group breathes juvenile hellfire and wrestles across the barriers of punk, garage and soul on their full-length debut, If You’re Young, produced by Chris Shaw...
  2. Preview: Gardens & Villa – Dunes New York – Lush is best way to describe Gardens & Villa. True to their name, these guys make music that is naturally striking, full of life and blissful to revel in. Their sound is one toxic indie-band cocktail. Start...
  3. BackStory: Andrew Belle’s “Static Waves” In this week’s episode, Andrew Belle tells us the story behind his song “Static Waves.” Static Waves was really an accident that happened while we were in the middle of making ‘The Ladder’ two years ago. We had just begun...
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  1. Featured Artist: Angel Haze Seattle – Angel Haze is an American rapper. Angel Haze is a profound lyricist. Angel Haze, perhaps most importantly, is a serious rebel. Sure, albums are leaked all the time but it’s not so common that an artist defies her...
  2. Album Review: Gold Motel As we previewed in our Artist of the Week and subsequent interview, we’re pretty excited about the new Gold Motel record. The Chicago-natives took singer’s Greta Morgan’s experiences in Southern California and made a pretty successful record despite the recording...
  3. Album Review: Beachwood Sparks, The Tarnished Gold In music, 11 years is an eternity. Fads come and go and what was yesterday’s hit is today’s washed up band. Beachwood Sparks bucks that trend, proving that as long as there’s good music to be made, people will listen...
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  1. The Civil Wars: Barton Hollow Listening to the alt-country duo The Civil Wars’ debut album put me through the emotional wringer. Joy Williams and John Paul White write and perform heart-wrenching duets full of breathy vocals accompanied by sparse acoustic instruments. With voices like theirs...
  2. Hollow Earth Radio Showcases Local Favorites at the Black Lodge   March is an exciting time in Seattle. Not only do the rainy days lessen (if only slightly) and we get more frequent reminders of the that fact that we’re surrounded by some pretty great mountains, but local community radio...
  3. Live Review: Bleached At The Glass House Los Angeles – The Glass House on Saturday felt like a high school dance.  Between the gymnasium floor, the Christmas trees on stage, the red and green spotlights and the floating, twirling mirror ball hanging from the ceiling rafters… It...
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  1. Johnny Angel Wendell – Artist Of The Week – Part 1 Throughout the history of rock music, there have been numerous stories of bands that were on the cusp, but for some reason or another, didn’t achieve the stardom they deserved. During the late-‘70s and early ‘80s in the Northeast, there...
  2. Featured Artist: Cumulus Seattle – The name Cumulus is just asking for cloud puns, but I’m going to resist because the band is far worthier than even the best pun could deliver.  The Seattle trio was born out of singer/songwriter Alexandra Niedzialkowski’s (nee-jul-KOFF-ski)...
  3. Featured Artist: Courtney Barnett Los Angeles – A recent review said that the important thing to note about Courtney Barnett is: Girl can write.  A succinct and accurate description, this is just one musing in the mass of praise the 25-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist has received...
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  1. Album Review: Magic Wands—Aloha Moon Chris and Dexy Valentine first generated buzz around their self-proclaimed “lovewave” outfit, Magic Wands, when the new band released its first EP, Magic, Love and Dreams back in 2009. Intrigued with the two-piece’s sparkling psychedelic pop gems, music critics and...
  2. Album Review: Toy – Join the Dots Seattle – British quintet Toy’s sophomore album, Join the Dots, starts off in space… deep space. Opening track, “Conductor” has that sci-fi vibe that would lead anyone to believe they’re in for an album of post-rock ballads. The exclusive dominance of...
  3. Here We Go Magic – Live Review New York – It was past 10:40 on Monday night when Here We Go Magic took the stage at the Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right, beers in every hand like a troop of champs. Broken-off bottoms of colored bottles makeup...
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  1. Album Review: Meiko, The Bright Side Over the past few months, we’ve been writing a lot about Meiko, and deservedly so. Though her debut album was released in 2007, she’s still a relatively new artist being that this is only her second release. After reviewing her...
  2. Album Review: Japandroids, Celebration Rock This has been weird year for music. Rap is pretty much dead and this hybrid of hip-hop and pop has formed. Indie rock is more mainstream than what used to be alternative, which is now pretty much dead as well....
  3. Album Review: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Here It’s been a momentous three years for Alexander Ebert. In the short amount of time, he has reexamined his life and his musical direction. Coming from the raucous pop of Ima Robot, the musician created a side project based around...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-toy-join-the-dots/feed/ 0 Cate Le Bon Brings Barboza Back To The 1960s http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/cate-le-bon-brings-barboza-back-to-the-1960s/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/cate-le-bon-brings-barboza-back-to-the-1960s/#comments Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:12:41 +0000 Seattle – There’s Holiday music (which I do unabashedly adore) and then there’s music that just fits for the holiday season. It might not be themed, but its sound is at home with “the season.” Cate le Bon is one such artist whose music is perfectly playable during this time of year. When the Welsh

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  1. Scotland’s PAWS Punk Out Barboza Seattle – I will always love a band that can take us back to the days of high school basement shows while bringing that mature flair of high sound quality. For this reason, but not for this reason alone, I...
  2. Palma Violets Play Big At Barboza Seattle – Palma Violets released its debut album, 180, earlier this year which we clearly loved so it was a treat to hear most of the songs on the album played live. The band was supposed to play Seattle’s Neumos on...
  3. Diane Coffee Steals The Show At Barboza Seattle – Those Darlins and Diane Coffee played Seattle’s Barboza. I’m going to assert that Those Darlins were having an off night because I refuse to accept that a band with such promise and clout as performers regularly put up...
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  1. Live Review: The Cave Singers Bring Pacific Northwest Folk to Los Angeles The Cave Singers could not have chosen a better venue to host its backwoods-inspired folk than the legendary Troubadour in West Hollywood.  Astounding history aside, the Los Angeles club’s atmosphere is small and intimate, which is perfect for a band...
  2. Seattle Rockers Come Out Of Their Cave To Make Terrific Album Seattle has long been a hub for rock bands. Starting with Jimi Hendrix to the grunge bands of the early ‘90s to the Sub Pop indie rock revival in the past decade, Seattle has housed the best music of generations...
  3. Seattle’s Showbox Welcomes Back a New Deltron 3030 Seattle – Deltron 3030 played Showbox at the Market November 17. Any Deltron 3030 fan has been waiting patiently for the Oakland trio to give us some new music and new shows and they’ve finally delivered. It was well worth...
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  1. Featured Artist: Ghost Wave Seattle – New Zealand’s Ghost Wave describes itself as “somewhere between the Flying Nun bands of the 80s, the British explosion of the 1960s and the wayfaring dubs of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry” which is simultaneously very comical and surprisingly accurate (although...
  2. Featured Artist: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis For one reason or another, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are two of the most polarizing figures in music (especially hip-hop) today. One reason may be because Macklemore doesn’t have the typical cred and qualities that go along with being a...
  3. Featured Artist – Hiatus Kaiyote Nashville – Fire dancing isn’t the typical back-up career of fledgling musicians. But then, nothing is typical about Naomi Saalfield. This former fire-dancer, who goes by the all-too-appropriate stage name Nai Palm, is the lead singer/songwriter of Hiatus Kaiyote, a...
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