Lauren Novik
See that pic of me? Yeah- that would be me running across 6th street in Austin to catch another great band at SXSW. You can pretty much find me running to catch a great show 24/7, 365. I’m bestnewbands.com’s Festivals Editor, and I’m here to keep you in the know, now, about the latest & greatest happening in the music scene! Feel free to cyberstalk me via my Twitter account to keep up with what’s lust at first listen, and what’s hear today- gone tomorrow. Rock & Roll.
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OH MY GOD- Where did you get that!? I pretty much shouted unintentionally at a woman working with Dane Rumble about her necklaces. I’d blame the heat for half losing my mind but it’s no secret I’m a serious silver fiend (hi my name is Lauren, and I have a problem.) She looked at me and said it came from Dane Rumble’s jewelry line (thank me l...
Avalanche City: A Folk/Rock Hybrid Of Epic Proportions!
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Thursday, 05 May 2011 16:00
It was oh, I don’t know, about a trillion degrees in L.A. yesterday. Literally, I tried to check in at Hell via Foursquare but sadly it wasn’t an option. Despite the heat wave that would make anyone want to do absolutely nothing but live in a refrigerator all day word on the street was that Avalanche City from New Zealand was in town hanging on...
Well we’ve officially sprung into Spring and at the end of this month, Sasquatch Festival! What better way to kick off Summer fest season that with the likes of Iron & Wine, (New!) Death Cab For Cutie, (New!) Foo Fighters, and a several other of my close personal faves!
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It’s not often I’d voluntarily drive an hour and a half to see a show or interview a band, I live in L.A. and already spend half my life contained in a car in gridlock style traffic- but Like A Storm was coming to town and sacrifices must be made in pursuit of good music. Three freeways and one long ass lecture from the GPS lady later and I was ...
It’s not often that I skulk around comic book stores anxiously waiting for them to open, but I was there at the crack of dawn to try and get my hands on the extremely graphic little novel Wire Hangers penned by Alan Robert bassist of Life of Agony. Literally the comic clerk must have thought I was either A) lost, or B) out of my damn mind- but th...
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