Los Angeles – Chicago five-piece The Orwells are excited to announce a tour with The Arctic Monkeys beginning in January of next year. The band recently finished a tour with their friends in FIDLAR that took them around the country, including an especially wild show at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom. The band also revealed that they
Jamestown Revival have announced a string of tour dates around the west coast this December. The band will be touring beginning on December 8 in San Diego at Lestats, before playing in Los Angeles on December 10 at the Troubadour. The tour continues with dates in San Francisco, Seattle, and other cities, before ending on December 21 in Denver at the
Oxford, England-based Glass Animals have just released a self-titled EP–their first–on Harvest Records in the U.S. Vocalist-producer Dave Bayley’s hypnotic sound is immediately apparent on lead track, “Psylla.” (That’s a word we don’t recognize but a quick online search identified it as “a genus of sap-sucking insects.” Much about Glass Animals is still a mystery
We didn’t know what to expect when we asked our writers one year ago to nominate their favorite new artists of 2012 for our inaugural Newbie Awards. In November, we identified the categories—New Band, Male, Female, Album and Song—and then waited for the nominations to come in. The diversity of the artists blew us away…after
Whew…the sound you just heard wasn’t a sigh. It was simply us catching our breath after tabulating the votes from our writers for the nominees of our second annual Newbie Awards, honoring the top new band, female, male and album of 2013. While there were some names that we fully expected to see—and did—there were others that
Our Best New Band of 2013 Newbie Awards nominees are nicely split among men and women (since one band includes both). While there’s no underlying message there, for our writers it just meant that 2013 was another kickass year for new bands.
BestNewBands.com’s Best New Male Artist of 2013 Newbie Awards nominees reveals the tremendous musical diversity that’s being embraced today. Note to those hoping to establish themselves in 2014…get a stage name. And it apparently doesn’t hurt if you’re still in your teens.
It was a big year for young female singers and performers to establish themselves. BestNewBands.com’s Best New Female Artist of 2013 Newbie Awards nominees include a teenager and a pair of 21-year-olds and range, quite literally, from A-Z across a wide range of musical genres. Not surprisingly, many noteworthy performers received votes from our panel
There’s something for everyone in our Best New Album of 2013 Newbie Awards nominees. Frankly, the diversity of our writers’ musical tastes made this category pretty wide open and it was thus hard to narrow the list down to a manageable number. We anticipate the final voting margin to be this close.
“They are a vessel of independent art and ambition. They are a movement.” Those were the last two lines I wrote about The Yellow Dogs in my review of their show at Mercury Lounge, and how I ended my year in 2012. That show wasn’t the only time I saw The Yellow Dogs live, but if