Best New Bands » Festivals 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 Featured Reviews http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/16671/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/16671/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 20:55:04 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/wp_bnb/?p=16671 The post Featured Reviews appeared first on Best New Bands.

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  1. Canto featured On MTVU Canto’s video for “Farewell Well Well” was just added to MTVU and debuted on MTV 120 Minutes this morning…and here it is....
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  1. Get PSYCH-ed For Austin Psych Fest! So Spring Break is so five minutes ago which means it’s onto planning how you’ll be Spring-ing into the Summer festival season. Lucky for us Austin is getting us amped for the fourth annual Austin Psych Fest! Grab your closest...
  2. FYF Fest Lineup Announced Good news for fans of new music: FYF Fest is proud to announce its return to the Los Angeles State Historic Park in downtown Los Angeles, where it’s been held for the past four years. Taking place on Sept 1...
  3. Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival Announces 2012 Lineup February 14, 2012, New York, NY — Superfly Presents and A.C. Entertainment are excited to announce the initial lineup for the 2012 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The 11th annual four-day camping and music festival will be held on June...
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  1. Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits I’m not even going to bother going into the “supergroup” thing (oops) and instead recognize that Divine Fits is a well-balanced band comprised of dudes that have their own successful projects, and who combined the best aspects into something of...
  2. Divine Fits Play Their First Show In Los Angeles Since the announcement back in May that Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs’ Dan Boeckner and New Bomb Turks’ Sam Brown formed a band, Divine Fits have been on everybody’s radar and rightfully so. Though its members are highly influential...
  3. Handsome Furs are Unleashed at Slims The Montreal based husband and wife duo of indie electronic rockers Handsome Furs – Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade) and Alexei Perry – made a stop in San Francisco last night. The show at Slims was a part of a tour...
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  1. Braids Announce Fall Tour Braids, the Canadian experimental pop group who releasedNative Speaker in 2011, have reinvented themselves in the making of their second full length. Countless late-night drives have steered their attention towards new techno and house genres, deepening their appreciation of electronic...
  2. BRAIDS Amaze the Crowd at the Bottom of the Hill On Tuesday night, I made my way to the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco to catch a bill that I have been looking forward to for nearly a month. The lineup was topped with Montreal based trippy art...
  3. 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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  1. Turbo Fruits Record Release Show at Mercury Lounge You may want to consult your physician before attending a Turbo Fruits show. If you have a weak neck, weak lungs, or a bad liver, you may want to check out that solo acoustic show down the street instead. The...
  2. Turbo Fruits Work Hard and Play Harder Not many bands can say that they run their own label, put together a festival on a cruise ship, tour consistently, and manage to break out new material in between all of that. Nashville garage rockers Turbo Fruits can, and...
  3. Knife Party To Release Rage Valley EP May 28 2012 Since releasing their debut EP 100% No Modern Talking in 2011, the past 4 months have been a whirlwind of success forKnife Party- the four tracks have received over 500,000 downloads worldwide and Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen have been...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/cmj-2012-day-4-dent-may-and-turbo-fruits/feed/ 0 CMJ 2012 Highlights: Daughn Gibson, METZ, and King Tuff http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/cmj-2012-highlights-daughn-gibson-metz-and-king-tuff/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/cmj-2012-highlights-daughn-gibson-metz-and-king-tuff/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:29:04 +0000 Thursday night of CMJ ended up being good for sweat and beer at Knitting Factory, but it didn’t start out that way. The first musician I caught there was Daughn Gibson. who paired some dark country croonin’ with electronic beats. He was joined by a librarian-esque keyboard player, who added an extra layer of dusty

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  1. King Tuff Lights Up The Doug Fir It’s not that the sun hates Portland, OR. It’s just… a little negligent. Even after the summer solstice, when the rest of the country bakes in warmer climes, it’s not uncommon to find us still cursing overcast skies (see: this)....
  2. Elle King Selected As Opening Act For Of Monsters And Men Elle King, a brand new RCA Records artist has been hand-picked as the opening act for OF MONSTERS AND MEN on a slew of upcoming theater dates. Before heading out on tour,   Elle King will be performing at the CMJ...
  3. Kaki King’s GuiTour What surprises most people about Kaki King is her size. She’s not a tall girl, and it’s a wonder how her small hands manipulate the guitar like they do. Since meeting her back in 2008 at Outside Lands while running...
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  1. Death Grips Sign to Epic, Offer New Video, Releasing Two Records in 2012 As a follow up to their critically acclaimed debut Ex Military, Death Grips will release two albums this year on Epic Records. The Money Store will be released April 24th and includes the new songs “Blackjack” and “Get Got”.   PREMIERE: “GET...
  2. Flying Lotus To Release New Album And Tour This Fall Flying Lotus will be releasing Until The Quiet Comes, the long-awaited follow-up to 2010′s Cosmogramma on October 2 on Warp Records. Composed, according to the rapper, as “a collage of mystical states, dreams, sleep and lullabies”, the new album has...
  3. T.R.I.P. with Ancient Sky at Death by Audio Tonight Ancient Sky Descend into the weekend tonight with psychedelic rock band Ancient Sky’s record release show for their latest LP, T.R.I.P.S., at Death by Audio. This album is certainly a trip, and I would expect their live show to be...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/more-cmj-2012-highlights-buke-and-gase-death-grips-and-flying-lotus/feed/ 0 CMJ Highlights: Corrupt Autopilot and Juicebox http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/cmj-highlights-corrupt-autopilot-and-juicebox/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/cmj-highlights-corrupt-autopilot-and-juicebox/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:26:56 +0000 After the first day of CMJ panels and wrapping my head around the overly ambitious music schedule I had created (as well as juuuusst missing last call for the open bar at the press mixer), I decided a pizza party at L’asso should be my first stop. That’s where I ran into the congenial guys

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  1. Artist of the Week: Swift Technique Swift Technique is a funk band with Philadelphia in their bones. With a foundation in the roots of hip-hop, drawing on inspiration from Led Zeppelin, James Brown, and the streets of Philly, this six-piece combines hip-hop, funk, jazz, soul, and...
  2. Monophonics Go Heavy on the Psych and Soul at Sullivan Hall Here at BestNewBands.com, we tend to focus mainly on what’s generally lumped into the “indie” genre; “indie” being a word that has come to be used more as a categorization for a certain sound and image of a band, as...
  3. Turbo Fruits Record Release Show at Mercury Lounge You may want to consult your physician before attending a Turbo Fruits show. If you have a weak neck, weak lungs, or a bad liver, you may want to check out that solo acoustic show down the street instead. The...
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  1. Seattle’s Decibel Festival, a Preview Seven years ago music enthusiast Sean Horton founded the Decibel Festival in Seattle, bringing to life an exhibition of his passion. The identity of the festival was the electronic music scene and the effect of it, in a city that...
  2. Earshot Jazz Festival, a Preview A grand congregation featuring over 50 shows of the nations most acclaimed and promising jazz musicians will form in Seattle on October 15 and conclude 23 days later on November 7. The annual Earshot Jazz festival, established in 1984, has...
  3. Festival Preview: Bonnaroo What Bonnaroo does better than any other North American festival is purvey that communal atmosphere of Woodstock. As great as the festival’s atmosphere is, let’s talk about some of the bands we’re most excited to see. They’re not exactly a...
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  1. Earshot Jazz Festival, a Preview A grand congregation featuring over 50 shows of the nations most acclaimed and promising jazz musicians will form in Seattle on October 15 and conclude 23 days later on November 7. The annual Earshot Jazz festival, established in 1984, has...
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