Best New Bands » Tom Crosthwaite-2 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 Review: Fuzz, Fuzz http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-fuzz-fuzz/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-fuzz-fuzz/#comments Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:20:34 +0000 Seattle – The ironic thing about Ty Sygall’s latest album, Sleeper was that no one could imagine a time between touring, festivals and writing new albums for countless side projects when Segall and his crew actually find time to sleep. Just over a month after the August release of Sleeper, Segall and his latest project Fuzz

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  1. Album Review: Ty Segall, Sleeper At this point, the name Ty Segall has become almost synonymous with prolific. Just last year, he released three albums and started 2013 by announcing yet another project – Fuzz – that’s set to release its debut album in September....
  2. Night Beats and Ty Segall Bring Psychedelic Colors to the Black Lodge Another weekend passes and to no shock of mine, I found myself at the Black Lodge yet again. This time it was for Seattle based band, Night Beats, who graced its hometown with what I feel I can now say...
  3. Mixtape 32: Lord Huron, Ms Mr, Fuzz And More It was a good week for music this past few days. Kristen talked to Ben Schneider from Lord Huron, who struck her as “a thoughtful and well spoken individual with an uncanny aura of passion and intelligence,” and who regaled her...
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  1. Grace Potter and Langhorne Slim Please The Crowd In Chicago Walking into a show with signs heavily posted that warn people of the extensive use of strobe lights during the performance, I couldn’t help but smile and know I going to be in for a great night. Having already seen...
  2. Album Review: Yellowbirds, Songs From The Vanished Frontier It’s 2013 which means Apollo Sunshine hasn’t been around for about four years now, which sounds like a longer time than it feels. Perhaps that’s because, while the band might have left us, thankfully front man Sam Cohen has not....
  3. Races Headlines Dirty Laundry TV Fundraiser At L.A.’s Los Globos I have seen Races perform a number of times, and though the Los Angeles-based sextet always blows me away, I have never seen it play like it did Thursday night. As part of Dirty Laundry TV’s Kickstarter Campaign to keep...
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  1. Go see Crystal Stilits and Moving Units at the LA Natural History Museum this Friday! Moving Units This Friday, Los Angeles-based Moving Units and Brooklyn’s Crystal Stilts will perform as part of the continuing “First Fridays” series of musical performances at The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Moving Units is a dramatic, glamorous...
  2. Early Photos From Lollapalooza 2012 – Friday The Friday afternoon crowd. Sharon Van Etten Dr. Dog The Head And The Heart...
  3. Show Preview: The New Pornographers in Portland this Friday! The New Pornographers are a unique blend of big personalities and even bigger musical talent. Despite logic, the star-stacked group consistently makes catchy, chorus-heavy pop-rock tunes to please the indie masses. They have just released their fifth album, “Together,” which...
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  1. The Pigeon Detectives Release Video For New Single ‘I Won’t Come Back’ The Pigeon Detectives have just released the video for their new single ‘I Won’t Come Back’. The came single out today on Cooking Vinyl. The song, taken from the new album ‘We Met At Sea’ (out 29th April) is a raw and ballsy...
  2. Cold in Berlin release new single ‘Take Control’ & tour ‘Translators for our imploding society’ was how Artrocker described CiB’s debut ‘Give Me Walls’. Awarding it album of the month and later an Artrocker album of the year. Since it’s release our world has truly imploded and in many places exploded....
  3. On An On Release New Single ‘The Hunter’ ON AN ON have released “The Hunter,” the second song from their forthcoming debut album Give In, out January 29, 2013 via Roll Call Records. “The Hunter” comes on the heals of their incredibly well received debut single “Ghosts,” which Nylon gushed...
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  2. Thurlow at Silverlake Lounge Thurlow is the musical project of Augustus Green and Jacqueline Caruso, husband and wife duo from Washington, D.C. that now resides in Los Angeles. They recently released an eight track EP called Training Wheels, now available for free download on...
  3. The Parlotones Made A “Giant Mistake” (And Then Rocked The Viper Room!) I headed over the hill and through the canyon last night to check out my favorite South African imports the Parlotones- and as expected, they did NOT disappoint! Because at a Parlotones show you come to expect the unexpected, I...
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  1. Thurlow at Silverlake Lounge Thurlow is the musical project of Augustus Green and Jacqueline Caruso, husband and wife duo from Washington, D.C. that now resides in Los Angeles. They recently released an eight track EP called Training Wheels, now available for free download on...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/__404__/feed/ 0 Best New Bands At SXSW: Alt-J, Lucius, On An On and The Weeks http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/best-new-bands-at-sxsw-alt-j-lucius-on-an-on-and-the-weeks/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/best-new-bands-at-sxsw-alt-j-lucius-on-an-on-and-the-weeks/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:09:06 +0000 Publisher’s Note: So many bands. So little time. Kristen Blanton, a newly minted Austin resident, spent most of her week going from concert to concert and interview to interview. She’s exhausted, poor kid. So, I’ve taken the liberty of selecting some of the best new bands we saw there for this recap. The words are

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  1. SXSW Highlights: The Weeks And Lucius As the sun began to set on Austin yesterday, a few things were made very clear: 1.     Beer was not running low 2.     Music was getting louder 3.     People were showing up in insurmountable proportions At times, it seemed a...
  2. More From SXSW: Alt-J, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Vacationer and ON AN ON Everyone is sunburned. The streets of downtown Austin are congested. Yet bands are chatting with their fans, their fans meeting other fans, making friends, sharing beers, it’s a beautiful sight. SXSW perpetuates a synthesis of good music and good people....
  3. SXSW: Shakey Graves, Great Peacock, Ivan and Alyosha, The Lonely Wild As Saturday arrived, we could feel tension of the end approaching. All the friends we’d made bouncing from showcase to showcase were about to go home – off to start recording, back to real jobs on Monday, back on the...
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  2. Concert Review: The Airborne Toxic Event Plays Sin City Back in my hometown of Las Vegas, I had the privilege to see The Airborne Toxic Event play Sin City for their first time.  So, on this characteristically warm Sunday night I cruised through the refreshingly un-traffic-y streets and down...
  3. The Airborne Toxic Event Showcase New Material at Berkeley Studios Seeing a band perform in a small space can be very telling. When the number of attendees is less than 150 people, it’s easy to judge the ability of not only said band’s live show, but also how they’re able...
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  1. Mixtape #12: Gotye, Jim James, Dead Ghosts, Cuckoo Chaos and more Last week was a bit of a big deal due to the Grammys, which is an awards ceremony that some people may have watched like we did. We couldn’t help but point out out favorite highlights, which just so happened...
  2. Harper Simon, Jenny O. and The Living Sisters Throw it Down at The Satellite Monday nights at The Satellite in Silver Lake have long been a bastion for newer and up-and-coming bands to showcase their talents. These free month-long residencies (throughout the city for that matter) allow for musicians to hone their craft and...
  3. Deeper Into Cuckoo Chaos Before their very first show ever in New York at Bowery Ballroom, I spent some time with a few of the Cuckoo Chaos gents; mainly guitarist (one of the three guitarists in the band) Jackson Milgaten and drummer Dave Mead....
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  1. Ticket Give-Away! Nenna Yvonne at The Key Club this Thursday Nenna Yvonne will be taking LA’s Key Club by storm this Thursday night, and you and a friend could be there for free! Nenna’s given us a track you can download for free, and she’d like to give one lucky...
  2. Southeast Engine Fires Up The Bootleg Bar Generally, bluegrass-tinged folk music is not something I’d consider dance worthy, but after watching Southeast Engine perform at Los Angeles’ Bootleg Bar on Tuesday night, I may have to reconsider. The Ohio-based quartet revved up its audience as soon as...
  3. Win Tickets to See Canon Blue at Glasslands This Saturday!   Photo by Tyler James BestNewBands.com is giving away a pair of tickets for Canon Blue’s show at Glasslands this Saturday, August 20th at 8pm! To enter: follow us on Twitter @BestNewBandscom and retweet our Canon Blue show announcement to...
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