San Francisco - Sky Ferreira celebrated the second night of her three-night residency at The Independent with a tremendously energetic concert. The 22-year old Los Angeles native—along with her backing 4-piece band—played more than a dozen songs for a highly energetic crowd, drawn mostly from her debut LP Night Time, My Time, which was released last
Chicago – When does an underground hip hop group officially become mainstream? For Run The Jewels, perhaps the answer may be as simple as when you need to add a second show because the first instantly sold out. Rappers El-P and Killer Mike played back-to-back shows at The Metro Saturday night. The duo has only
Austin – You’ll never know who your real fans are until you’re performing on a night when there is flash flooding and torrential thunderstorms all over town. On my way to see Sarah Jaffe at the Parish on Saturday night, I was curious to see the extent of the 28-year-old’s fan base in the midst
New York – The Real Friends show started with a Wentzian voice over. The light rasp of lead singer Dan Lambton’s voice came in over the loudspeakers as the band took the stage. The sentiments, like “I only miss you late at night,” sounded like pop punk lyrics in paragraph form and sent the audience
Los Angeles – Mark my words, in no time flat Panama Wedding will be headlining shows. The New York synth-pop five-piece (Peter Kirk, Lauren Zettler, Jared McCarthy, Brett Spigelman, and Kenny Bernar) creates perfectionist pop. Each beat, line delivery, and guitar riff is impeccable and an animated crowd greeted them on Wednesday night at the
Seattle – Field Report treated The Sunset Tavern to an intimate, folk-laden performance on Wednesday evening. Nearing the close of their fall tour (their first “West Coast headlining tour”), Chris Porterfield, Tom Wincek, and Shane Leonard played with stunning authenticity and emotion at the Ballard venue. “We’re just doing this together, alongside each other, us
Los Angeles – Local four-piece indie pop act, Smallpools, lit up the faces of those in attendance for their show on Wednesday night at the Henry Fonda Theatre. Their fully charged performance was thrilling and left much of the crowd desiring more. Fortunately between songs the band announced that their full-length debut record would be
New York – Australia’s goodbyemotel played a hometown show of sorts Wednesday night at the Bowery Electric. Originally from Melbourne, the band has relocated to New York. Now a hybrid of both cities, the band comprises of Aussies Tom Marks, David Schmidt, and Scott Pioro, Rochester’s Paul Amorese and Australian-Swede Gustaf Sjödin Enström. The band
Los Angeles – On Tuesday evening, singer-songwriter Max Jury brought his soulful sounds to a full house at The Satellite in Silver Lake. Opening for Brooklyn-based folk-rock band Streets of Laredo, this young musician from Iowa and his two band mates filled the room with earnest lyricism, tight instrumental chemistry and sweet vocal harmonies. Blurring
Seattle – New Jersey two-piece band Dads made a stop under the Space Needle. Earlier this year they delivered their 90s emo revival sound on their latest album I’ll Be The Tornado. Best New Bands spoke with vocalist and drummer John Bradley and guitarist/vocalist Scott Sharinger last month about the album, coming into adulthood, and