Best New Bands » Collin Elwyn 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 Real Estate, Big Troubles Rock the Doug Fir Lounge http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/real-estate-big-troubles-rock-the-doug-fir-lounge/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/real-estate-big-troubles-rock-the-doug-fir-lounge/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:25:11 +0000 Good vibes and shimmering chords filled the air last night at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland where Real Estate played a brief but wonderful set in promotion of their excellent new album, Days. The five-piece kicked off their set with “Suburban Beverage,” harkening back to their first record with the repeated, perfectly meaningless line,

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  1. Real Estate Owns at The Independent in San Francisco Real Estate Last night, I made my way over to The Independent in San Francisco for the psych indie sounds of the New Jersey born Real Estate. I started my night out by missing my bus stop. This had me...
  2. The Morning Benders play Big Echo at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge San Francisco four-piece The Morning Benders played with Cults and Twin Sister at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge on Tuesday night in support of their recent breakthrough release, Big Echo. The two openers played lively sets that seemed to intrigue the...
  3. Saturday night at the Doug Fir Lounge with Fruit Bats and The Parson Red Heads. It was a twangy, rocking good time on Saturday night at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland Oregon for a night with Fruit Bats and The Parson Red Heads. The Parson Red Heads took the stage first, the back wall...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/real-estate-big-troubles-rock-the-doug-fir-lounge/feed/ 0 Saturday night at the Doug Fir Lounge with Fruit Bats and The Parson Red Heads. http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/saturday-night-at-the-doug-fir-lounge-with-fruit-bats-and-the-parson-red-heads/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/saturday-night-at-the-doug-fir-lounge-with-fruit-bats-and-the-parson-red-heads/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:30:53 +0000 It was a twangy, rocking good time on Saturday night at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland Oregon for a night with Fruit Bats and The Parson Red Heads. The Parson Red Heads took the stage first, the back wall of the staged covered in a cool blue light, the foreground draped in red. Singer/Songwriter

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  1. The Morning Benders play Big Echo at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge San Francisco four-piece The Morning Benders played with Cults and Twin Sister at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge on Tuesday night in support of their recent breakthrough release, Big Echo. The two openers played lively sets that seemed to intrigue the...
  2. Show Review: J Tillman and Phosphorescent at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge The mellow crowd at Portland’s Doug Fir on Friday night came to almost complete silence when folk singer-songwriter J Tillman sang his first words. Despite his relative fame as the drummer with the sweet voice from Fleet Foxes, Tillman has...
  3. Show Preview: Peter Wolf Crier at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge Portlanders can enjoy a night of mellow indie-folk at one of the rose city’s best music venues this Friday. Head to the Doug Fir early for some dinner or to enjoy some of the great happy hour bar food. Walk...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/saturday-night-at-the-doug-fir-lounge-with-fruit-bats-and-the-parson-red-heads/feed/ 0 Walls and Battles Take Over Portland’s Webster Ballroom http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/walls-and-battles-take-over-portlands-webster-ballroom/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/walls-and-battles-take-over-portlands-webster-ballroom/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:38:46 +0000 Thursday night at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom might not have been the best place to see too many great singers, but stellar musicians abounded. First up was Walls, a two-piece electronic act that took the stage right at 9:00. The band lived up to the implications of it’s name, filling the room with thumping beats that

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  1. Fergus & Geronimo Play the Bowery Ballroom in NYC Tuesday night was just another night at the Bowery Ballroom, where some of the best music happens in NYC. I have yet to see anything less than a packed room there. First up was Fergus & Geronimo, already one of...
  2. The Joy Formidable & The Lonely Forest Prove To Be A Formidable Live Pair at Webster Hall In what has to be the most elaborate stage setup I’ve ever seen executed in New York with a venue NOT named Madison Square Garden, The Joy Formidable took the stage at Webster Hall Friday evening, complete with antique furniture,...
  3. Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s are a Crowd Pleaser at Webster Hall This past Friday, May 13th (yes, Friday the 13th) I caught The Twilight Singers and Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s at the ballroom in Webster Hall. This is a bigger venue that I don’t frequent often, since it...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/walls-and-battles-take-over-portlands-webster-ballroom/feed/ 0 The Naked and Famous, Freelance Whales, and Foals at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-naked-and-famous-freelance-whales-and-foals-at-portlands-wonder-ballroom/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-naked-and-famous-freelance-whales-and-foals-at-portlands-wonder-ballroom/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:30:00 +0000 freelance whales, courtesy their myspace The line outside of the Wonder Ballroom in North East Portland Tuesday night was nearly to the end of the block for The Naked and Famous, Foals, and Freelance Whales. A sold-out crowd was arriving early as the doors remained shut past their promised 7:30 opening. The crowded venue was

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  1. Freelance Whales Make the Detroit Bar Bounce     Last night, Freelance Whales played for all the wide-eyed locals at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa. Opening for them were Miniature Tigers with a little help from The New Limb, an up-and-coming band from the Detroit Bar’s home....
  2. Captain Ahab, Meet Freelance Whales Instrumental segments are bittersweet. A lot of new bands don’t have the skill-set or the patience to rely on their instruments. They are over-zealous is making a name for themselves to the point where they think a catchy lyric is...
  3. Q&A: Doris Cellar of Freelance Whales When people hear Craigslist experiences, they only think of the gloom and doom that could occur from these chance meetings. But fortunately for Queens, New York-based Freelance Whales, the results couldn’t have gone more swimmingly. The band’s name is derived...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-naked-and-famous-freelance-whales-and-foals-at-portlands-wonder-ballroom/feed/ 1 Reading Rainbow and The Dodos at the Doug Fir in Portland http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/reading-rainbow-and-the-dodos-at-the-doug-fir-in-portland/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/reading-rainbow-and-the-dodos-at-the-doug-fir-in-portland/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0000 Reading Rainbow by Maxwell Monty Tuesday night’s Reading Rainbow & The Dodos show at the Doug Fir Lounge jumped out the the gate, with opener Reading Rainbow taking the stage at exactly their assigned time of 9:15. The Boy-Girl garage-pop duo got to it straight off, Drummer Sarah Everton pounding away while hitting peppy and

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  2. Cloud Nothings, BRAIDS, & Toro y Moi at the Doug Fir, Portland cloud nothings Friday night’s show at the Doug Fir Lounge in South East Portland was all about variety, as three bands with completely different sounds took the stage one after another. First on was Cloud Nothings, who appeared promptly at...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/reading-rainbow-and-the-dodos-at-the-doug-fir-in-portland/feed/ 0 Cloud Nothings, BRAIDS, & Toro y Moi at the Doug Fir, Portland http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/cloud-nothings-braids-toro-y-moi-at-the-doug-fir-portland/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/cloud-nothings-braids-toro-y-moi-at-the-doug-fir-portland/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:57:46 +0000 cloud nothings Friday night’s show at the Doug Fir Lounge in South East Portland was all about variety, as three bands with completely different sounds took the stage one after another. First on was Cloud Nothings, who appeared promptly at their assigned time of 9:30. Cloaked in a simple, unchanging blue light, the garage rockers

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  1. Cloud Nothings: Turn it On and Turn it Up Photo by Mark Baldi The first full length from 19-year-old Dylan Baldi from Cleveland, OH under the name Cloud Nothings is what helped me wake up for a few weeks straight. The scratchy fuzzy lo-fi power pop full of messy...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/cloud-nothings-braids-toro-y-moi-at-the-doug-fir-portland/feed/ 0 The Suuns and Crystal Castles take Portland’s Roseland Theater http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-suuns-and-crystal-castles-take-portlands-roseland-theater/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-suuns-and-crystal-castles-take-portlands-roseland-theater/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:00:00 +0000 The tone for last night’s show at the Roseland Theater in Downtown Portland, OR was set the moment that Suuns took the stage. Wasting no time in getting started, the four-piece was hard at work with their pounding synths and grinding guitars the instant that the clock struck Eight PM. Surrounded on stage by flashing

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  2. No Joy, Best Coast, and Wavves hit the Hawthorne Theater in Portland wavves rock out, courtesy their myspace Saturday, February 19th was no night for vocalists at the Hawthorne Theater in the South East corner of Portland, Oregon. With a line-up that consisted of No Joy, Best Coast, and Wavves, volume and...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/no-joy-best-coast-and-wavves-hit-the-hawthorne-theater-in-portland/feed/ 0 Ólöf Arnalds: One Woman Show http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/%c3%b3l%c3%b6f-arnalds-one-woman-show/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/%c3%b3l%c3%b6f-arnalds-one-woman-show/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Filling up a whole stage all by your lonesome can prove a difficult task, but it’s one that Ólöf Arnalds was mostly up to last night at the Roseland Theater. The Icelandic singer-song writer and member of Múm strummed and picked through a beautiful set that was witnessed with subdued appreciation and closed-eyed-swaying by the

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  2. Weekend Playlist: November 19, 2010 photo credit: Liz Livengood Here are some tracks to relive a few of BNB’s musical happenings this week. “Fake Out (Glass Ghost Remix)” – Bear in Heaven“When We’re Dancing” – Twin Shadow On Monday, we released our weekly list of...
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