Start your weekend off right with a selection of music from artists featured this week on BestNewBands.com “Eyes” – Still Corners Last weekend Kelly Knapp caught Still Corners’ set at NYC’s Mercury Lounge. Kelly wrote, “[Still Corner’s] songs were full of effortless-sounding buildup, with frantic guitar notes sprinkled throughout and [lead singer Tessa] Murray’s cool
BestNewBands.com In addition to so many band titles feature woodland and farmland creatures–Deerhoof, Deerhunter, Fleet Foxes, Foxes in Fiction, Mountain Goats, Band of Horses, Wolfmother, Wolf Parade, Grizzly Bear, Sea Wolf, Fruit Bats; need I go on?–we now have one more addition: Deer Meet. And while most of these aforementioned bands have a decidedly whimsical
Picked By: Kelly Knapp Who: Warpaint Where: Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, NY When: Wednesday, March 30th at 8pm Cost: SOLD OUT Age Restrictions: 21+
Start your weekend off with a selection of music by artists featured this week on BestNewBands.com. “Outside the City” – Young Galaxy Kelly Knapp caught this stellar act at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn last weekend. Kelly wrote, “Young Galaxy’s set was pretty entrancing in a danceable way. This was a band with original synth
BestNewBands.com This week, on BNBTV, we have been graced by a band called Noughts and Exes. With their video “Start of Us,” this Hong-Kong based multicultural band–with members from Hong Kong, Canada, Australia and Britain–brings a taste of their structurally (and culturally) diverse, folk rock sound. In this video alone, it is evident that
SXSW is known widely for shamelessly tireless self-promotion, an overload of brand new tunes from emerging (as well as tried and true) artists and we’ve been navigating our way through the latest and greatest. Dry The River’s new single “New Ceremony” is definitely something to get excited about it and here it is for your
Picked By: Kelly Knapp Who: The Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour Where: Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY When: Monday, March 21 at 9pm Cost: SOLD OUT Age Restriction: all ages
Politics is not a topic we cover very often at BestNewBands.com, but today I am going to change that. From governments in the Middle East to the American Midwest, it seems like everything around us is changing – and not in ways that benefit the general public. Whether you want to organize a rally or
Start your weekend off with a selection of music from artists featured this week on BestNewBands.com “Heat Wave” – Princess Pangolin In this week’s BackStory installment, Julie Carpenter of Princess Pangolin shares the story behind “Heat Wave.” This song started with the pizzicato violin riff…I started playing that and humming the melody. It was one
BestNewBands.com My first thoughts on watching this gorgeous video by Creature Colony were something quite unplaceable. I was washed over with nostalgia, I could feel my eye softening, my jaw relaxing and melting downwards. What am I watching?…What am I hearing that reminds me so much of being young and inspired? This animation–where a streamlined