Daniel Kohn

Daniel Kohn

Ever since he first heard the opening chords to "Smells Like Teen Spirit," at the age of 11, Daniel Kohn has been hooked on music. Born in New York City, raised in the music hotbed of Long Island and currently residing in Los Angeles, Kohn has been writing since high school, when he realized he could get CDs for free. He's a sucker for '90s music, especially that from Seattle. Like a small minority of Americans, he likes football of the European variety, especially Liverpool. When he's not chasing down bands, you can find him at your local pub with a pint of Carlsberg, usually at ungodly hours cheering on his beloved Reds. 

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Artist of the Week: A$AP Rocky

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Tuesday, 22 January 2013 10:10am
Like any other genre, if a rapper wants to break big, they need to get a swell of underground support through mixtapes or his/her crew, then get noticed, then capitalize on the buzz and finally parlay that into big money. Last year around this time, people were talking about Black Hippy and Kendrick Lamar, and look what he accomplished in 2012: o...

Album Review: Rival Sons, Head Down

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Friday, 18 January 2013 8:25am
As we highlighted last week in our Artist of the Week section, Long Beach, Calif.-natives Rival Sons are on the cusp of something big. Granted, they already are big internationally in Europe and even Canada, which is what makes their latest album, Head Down, so important to their career Stateside. Needless to say, after giving this a couple of li...

Artist of the Week: Criminal Hygiene

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Monday, 14 January 2013 9:06pm
Over the past few years, actually nearly a decade if you were really, truly deeply entrenched in the scene, indie skater-punk music has flourished in Los Angeles, making it one of the major music hubs for the genre. One of the cooler new bands to emerge in the past year and a half from the city’s east side is Criminal Hygiene. The band formed ov...

Haim's "Send Me Down" Remixed By Dan Lissvik

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Monday, 14 January 2013 10:47am
We warned you two weeks ago, but Los Angeles sister trio Haim is on the cusp of big things. Their blend of indie, pop and a strong knowledge of harmony has made them blog and fan faves. Today, they released on Soundcloud a remix of "Send Me Down," which was done by Dan Lissvik. The song sounds like it would have been at home in the New York club...

Alt-J To Add Larger Venues To Their Spring Tour

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Thursday, 10 January 2013 10:51am
BestNewBands.com faves Alt-J have had a big 2012 and beginning of 2013, which outlined yesterday when we said they were nominated for 3 Brit Awards, including British Breakthrough Act, British Album of the Year, and British Group of the Year. The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards and the British equiva...