Hot off of the release of Burst Apart, their second 'concept' album but fourth, full length LP, The Antlers will be taking the stage live and at home tonight at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York. ...

When Christopher Mansfield and his band, the group known as Fences, stepped out of the dressing room to perform at The Mercury Lounge in New York on Friday evening and walked on stage, it's as if it had been mere moments before that he'd tapped into the place that allowed him to create Fences, and the acoustic, indie folk songs that have helped h...

This Sunday evening, Chris Mansfield, aka the 27 year old singer/songwriter known as Fences, will be bringing his brand of indie melancholy to The Golden West Cafe. I interviewed Chris for BestNewBands.com last year (see the full interview here), and he had this to say about creating songs that have endings, “When I'm writing, I guess I intentio...

Ideals are a melting pot of all the things I like in my music: brooding vocals, haunting lyrics and an aggressive sound that accurately replicates a live show on their EPs. After I received a late night text from someone who heard an Ideals song on their Pandora station, I immediately checked out their tunes on YouTube. Subsequently, I became a b...

If I were to tell Kate Cooper or Damon Cox that I think they're the “next big thing,” they would shake their heads and change the subject. It's a part of their charm, but they also would rather genuinely not know. So far, the duo from Brisbane, Australia known as An Horse have toured with Death Cab for Cutie, Kaki King, The Appleseed Cast, Winter...