Start your weekend off with a selection of music by artists featured this week on BestNewBands.com.

“Outside the City” - Young Galaxy

Kelly Knapp caught this stellar act at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn last weekend.

Kelly wrote, “Young Galaxy’s set was pretty entrancing in a danceable way. This was a band with original synth beats, intriguing rhythms with tempos speeding up to bursting breakdowns in the songs. McCandless and Ramsay trade off vocals - his being dreamy and melodic, and hers somewhat low and menacing. They balance each other out with these qualities, and it’s an interesting paradox their music has of somehow being haunting yet comforting at the same time.

“They also manage to throw in some socially aware commentary in their lyrics. In ‘Outside the City,’ off their debut self-titled album, McCandless makes the observation, ‘You know, it looks to me / That I am you and you are me.’ Maybe that really is what the power of the cosmos in a young galaxy sounds like – an aware and communal notion of noticing the details. The crowd had a communal call for an encore, but Ramsay came back to tell us ‘That’s all we have right now. We’ll come back with more next time!’”

Read the rest of Kelly’s review here.

Picked By: Kelly Knapp

Who: The Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour

Where: Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY

When: Monday, March 21 at 9pm

Cost: SOLD OUT

Age Restriction: all ages

Start your Friday off right with a selection of music from this week’s featured artists on BestNewBands.com

“Get What You Want, Get What You Need” - The Ascetic Junkies

Liz Livengood caught up with a few members of this Portland-based band after their show at The Woods last weekend. Here’s some of the interview in a video from BestNewBands.com’s YouTube channel.

Read the rest of Liz’s interview here.

Last night, Delicate Steve and Akron/Family took to the stage of a sold-out Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY. The room was an eclectic mix of hipsters, music aficionados and indie-rock fans (sometimes as the same person). Delicate Steve, or the 23-year-old virtuoso also known as Steve Marion, recently burst onto the scene with the impressive (mostly) instrumental debut: Wondervisions, and Akron/Family have just released a highly energetic roller-coaster of a record (a title of which you should just look up. Trust me.)

Steve released the LP in February and has garnered all kinds of praise for it: from SPIN and NPR to the New York Times. He recently discussed the motivation for his song, “Butterfly” in our BackStory feature, which you can read HERE.