In the past year, LA based (but Oregon raised) ZZ Ward released a mix tape, an EP and a full-length album. 2012 was a pretty busy year for her and it’s already paid off; she’s been lauded as quite the new sensation with her soulful hip-hop fusion. With the latest installment in Ward’s prolific 2012 releases, studio album Til The Casket Drops, Ward has taken to the road on a two-month nationwide tour. She recently made a stop in…

  Vocalist Vicki Glass and producer Vic Miranda have only been making music together for nine months, but in that short amount of time the two have managed to create some impressively sensual, emotive dream pop (if you want to put a label on it) and recently released their debut album, I Promise You Always The Sky, under the moniker Love Echo. Last month, I had the privilege to premiere the album’s first single, “Control,” and I recently had the…

Southern California has birthed a number of psychedelic surf-tinged outfits over the years, and the latest group to fit this mold is Blackfeet Braves. Sharing a love of sixties pysch-pop and garage rock, the SoCal quartet uses lo-fi recording techniques, reverbed guitars and vocals to create spiraling, hazy tracks that are both mind-melting and hopelessly catchy. Though the band has been playing music together for two years, 2013 looks to be the year for these Braves to break out of…

Country music … get ready for another Davidson to take over the town in 2013. Sarah Davidson – the wife of BMI’s 2011 and 2012 Songwriter of the Year, Dallas Davidson – has quietly been working under the radar on new music, and is ready for her chance in the spotlight. Beauty aside, Davidson is a powerhouse vocalist that will impress even the toughest critics around, as she is the complete package. BestNewBands recently caught up with Davidson, and we…