Though it may be the dead of winter, it is always summer in Pacific Air’s book. Hailing from Southern California, the brotherly dream-pop duo of Ryan and Taylor Lawhon manage to bottle up all of the sun, luxury and lust for life of their home and export it into sparkling, chiming, weightless songs. The video for the two-piece’s first single, “Float,” couldn’t be a better visual representation of the band’s music. Beginning with a tan, blond model gingerly diving into…

Though Oceanography’s roots seem to be planted in gothic Americana, there is one thing founder Brian Kelly wants to make clear: this is not a folk outfit. He’s not just some guy singing and playing guitar. And after hearing tracks off the band’s newest EP, Parachutes of Plenty, this sentiment is made abundantly clear. Though guitar is the music’s driving force, it creates large, anthemic soundscapes while Kelly wails in his gravelly, Springsteen-esque voice. Today, we are proud to premiere…

We don’t usually feature videos on BestNewBands.com unless they are brand-spankin’-new, but we decided to make an exception for thatwasthen’s “Angel Gabrielle.” Though the video was released only earlier this month, it has already garnered an impressive 39,000+ views (and counting) on YouTube. And rightfully so. The band self-produced and self-directed the video near Malibu, CA at the end of 2012—all in one take. Though the concept is modest—the camera doesn’t move for the whole 4 and-a-half minutes and features…

Leave it to a guy/girl duo to create a new type of seductive, lucid dream pop. Love Echo has self-described its music as “post-dreampop, post-chillwave, post-electroindiepop, post-post-twee, post traumatic stress disorder,” and oddly enough, that’s not far off. Consisting of producer Vic Miranda and vocalist Vicki Glass, the two-piece strives to make goosebump-inducing music and may have managed just that in its latest single, “Control.” Today, we are excited to premiere this latest offering, which appears on the collective’s forthcoming…