Best New Bands » Tony Hardy 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 New Bands At Glastonbury: Haim, London Grammar And More http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-glastonbury-haim-london-grammar/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-glastonbury-haim-london-grammar/#comments Wed, 28 Jun 2017 07:08:35 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34548 Somerset, UK – Sunday morning and there’s no need mention the weather. Don’t fret campers, it’s going to be dry all day (you just mentioned the weather). Anyone suffering from ‘Sunday struggle’ having overindulged since the Glastonbury gates opened and in need of a touch of TLC should have been at the Avalon Stage at

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  1. New Bands At Glastonbury – 2017 Preview London – Glastonbury 2017 is upon us. Right now there are a whole bunch of people wishing they had tickets, and the 135,000 or so who have, wondering how they can reconcile experiencing the entire 135 billed minutes of Radiohead’s...
  2. New Bands At Glastonbury – George Ezra – Royal Blood & More Somerset, UK – The festival got going in earnest on Friday as campers woke up to more of the same weather – warm, cloud cover with sunny intervals. A few souls were persisting with wellies as the chosen footwear but...
  3. A First Look At Glastonbury 2017 London – Glastonbury has announced the first major tranche of acts to play at this summer’s festival alongside headliners, Radiohead, Foo Fighters and Ed Sheeran. Returnees include Royal Blood, who went down a storm as a relatively unknown act in...
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  1. Father John Misty Previews New Material In Northern Calif. Sonoma, CA – It’s not often I travel up to a random auditorium in the middle of wine country to see a concert, but for Father John Misty’s show at the Sonoma Veterans Memorial Hall, I did just that.  Josh...
  2. Father John Misty Proves to be a Pop Idol Oakland – “I want to be a pop idol.” That is Oscar Wilde’s first and only line in the 1998 film Velvet Goldmine, director Todd Haynes’ love letter to the glam rock phenomenon that took London by storm, during the 1970s. In...
  3. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear Los Angeles – There is no doubt that Father John Misty is the most interesting person living in Los Angeles.  Okay, perhaps the previous statement is a bit overreaching when one considers the sheer density and diversity of artists dwelling...
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  1. George Ezra ’s ‘Voyage’ Docks In Los Angeles Los Angeles – On Friday night at The Forum bluesy folk-rock musician George Ezra opened for pop sensation Sam Smith. While both artists are from England (Ezra from Hertford, Smith from London), their musical styles are enormously different. Smith gave...
  2. New Bands At Glastonbury – 2017 Preview London – Glastonbury 2017 is upon us. Right now there are a whole bunch of people wishing they had tickets, and the 135,000 or so who have, wondering how they can reconcile experiencing the entire 135 billed minutes of Radiohead’s...
  3. George Ezra is Definitely Wanted in the U.S.! See Him on SNL! New York - George Ezra, the fast rising indie artist from London, who got everyone talking with the single, “Budapest,” is not letting any momentum pass him by! (Existing fans of Ezra will remember Best New Bands contributor, Sean Kayden, reviewing Ezra’s performance in...
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  3. Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition 2017: The Last Eight London – BestNewBand’s Tony Hardy was one of 40 music writers invited by Glastonbury Festival to settle on a long list of 120 acts from the several thousand entries to the 2017 Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition. Once the long list...
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  1. Glastonbury 2015: Preview – Anticipating The Best Of The New Bands London – With a few days until the gates open at the UK’s premier festival, Glastonbury goers are dusting off their tent pegs, checking the wellies don’t leak and consulting that marvelous donations-please resource, www.clashfinder.com. The latter may be a...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/glastonbury-2017-preview/feed/ 0 Paradisia Find Liberation In Sound Of Freedom http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/paradisia-find-liberation-sound-freedom/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/paradisia-find-liberation-sound-freedom/#comments Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:03:01 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34429 London – Songwriters have a heads-up on most of us. They are able to work through all kinds of emotions in song: setting records straight, sending coded or not-so-coded messages to lovers or ex-lovers, embellishing truths for heightened effect, exorcising ghosts, seeking change and more. The result can be a kind of freedom; a release

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  1. Paradise Found with Paradisia London – The Waiting Room nests underneath the Three Crowns pub in the drab North London neighbourhood of Stoke Newington. It may not be the smartest part of town but the venue, described as an intimate basement space, was hosting an event...
  2. New Videos From Paradisia, The Kings Parade And More London – UK three-piece Paradisia has been on Best New Bands radar since we first caught the band live last year. Soon to release its debut full-length, Sound of Freedom, Paradisia has shared a video for “Warpaint”, the third track...
  3. Big Harp Are Back With A Big Sound Chicago – The L.A. via Omaha band Big Harp played Lincoln Hall, along with another band started in Omaha, The Good Life. The bands have been touring together, which isn’t too surprising considering they share a member: Stefanie Drootin-Senseny. They also used...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/paradisia-find-liberation-sound-freedom/feed/ 0 MisterWives Connect The Dots with Added Spirit http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/misterwives-connect-dots-added-spirit/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/misterwives-connect-dots-added-spirit/#comments Thu, 08 Jun 2017 18:45:06 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34406 London – New York’s MisterWives has returned with Connect The Dots, employing origami-style versions of the various ‘spirit animals’ adopted by each of the six band members on the striking cover art. Indeed, a common spirit clearly binds them as humans too. With this follow up to its 2015 debut album, Our Own House, MisterWives

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  1. LANY Found Love in Chicago Chicago – L.A. trio LANY played two back-to-back shows at the House of Blues in Chicago, supporting Troye Sivan on the Blue Neighbourhood Tour. Best New Bands was at the second sold-out show on Tuesday night, to catch LANY –...
  2. Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Multi-Love Los Angeles - Following each of their two full-length releases, Unknown Mortal Orchestra gained an uptick in attention from places far outside of their psych-pop niche; with Multi-Love, the band yet again adjusts the formula, eschewing much of the guitar heroics...
  3. Wolf Alice Release Their Highly Anticipated “My Love Is Cool” New York – North London quartet Wolf Alice, comprised of Ellie Rowsell, Joel Amey, Joff Oddie and Theo Ellis, officially release their debut LP My Love Is Cool June 23rd on Dirty Hit Records.  The album is highly anticipated after the release of...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/ariana-grande-love-wont-tear-us-apart/feed/ 0 Will Stratton Mines Treasure with Rosewood Almanac http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/will-stratton-mines-treasure-rosewood-almanac/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/will-stratton-mines-treasure-rosewood-almanac/#comments Fri, 19 May 2017 17:31:30 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34390 London – The sense that you are uncovering something precious hits you just a verse or so into “Light Blue”, the opening round of ten songs that make up Rosewood Almanac, the new album by California-born New Yorker Will Stratton. The record is Stratton’s first for Bella Union and, notably following a career composed of

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  1. Holly Macve & Will Stratton Enthral At Landmark London Church London – The early nineteenth century church of St John on Bethnal Green in East London presents the kind of austere elegance that offers a fitting space for music of a more cerebral nature. Blessed with fine acoustics, it is...
  2. Recap: 4 New Bands At Treasure Island Festival San Francisco – This year’s Treasure Island Music Festival boasted one of the most interesting lineups of the year, promising sets from a lot of seasoned veterans across a multitude of genres, including OutKast, Massive Attack, TV on the Radio,...
  3. 5 New Bands At Treasure Island Music Festival – Day 2 San Francisco – Sunday at Treasure Island 2015 started out much sunnier than the previous day, but the wind was constantly blowing throughout the day.  It was a much stronger breeze than Saturday’s, so much so that I could’ve sworn I...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/will-stratton-mines-treasure-rosewood-almanac/feed/ 2 Gayle Skidmore Moves Forward With The Golden West http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/gayle-skidmore-moves-forward-golden-west/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/gayle-skidmore-moves-forward-golden-west/#comments Tue, 02 May 2017 22:07:35 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34346 London – Now based in Amsterdam, the former San Diego, CA singer-songwriter Gayle Skidmore recently returned from a US tour to support the release of her new album, The Golden West. She took some time out to speak to Best New Bands about her songwriting and experiences. You have been a really prolific songwriter since

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