Best New Bands » AllahLas http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Austin Psych Fest Day Three: The Smoke Clears http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/austin-psych-fest-day-three-the-smoke-clears/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/austin-psych-fest-day-three-the-smoke-clears/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:31:53 +0000 The dust from the farm has been kicked up – everywhere folks have sun-kissed skin, hazy eyes, are dripping with sweat and wear crescent moon smiles. They are gabbing with new friends, drinking heavily, engaging in activities to no end with any sense of time. Sunday appeared to be the day everyone had waited for

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/austin-psych-fest-day-three-the-smoke-clears/feed/ 0 More Austin Psych Fest: We Don’t Ever Want To Leave http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/more-austin-psych-fest-we-don-t-ever-want-to-leave/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/more-austin-psych-fest-we-don-t-ever-want-to-leave/#comments Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:02:13 +0000 What can’t be said of Austin Psych Fest? It’s clear this outing of psychedelic proportions is of its own world – a world that inhabits creatures of color, of sound, of intellectual properties, and spew tag lines like get-me-another-expletive-beer/swig/toke while I bask in this Austin sun. Day two brought the rain – a monsoon that

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/more-austin-psych-fest-we-don-t-ever-want-to-leave/feed/ 0 Catching Up With One Of SXSW’s Best Bands: Allah-Las http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/catching-up-with-one-of-sxsw-s-best-bands-allah-las/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/catching-up-with-one-of-sxsw-s-best-bands-allah-las/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:29:35 +0000   During the moments I spent with Matthew Correia, Spencer Dunham, Miles Michaud and Pedrum Siadatian, the four members who make up LA’s blistering new talent the Allah-Las, one thing was for certain – the quartet like the Rolling Stones. A lot. “Why do I like the Stones so much? Where do I start,” Pedrum

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/preview-fyf-fest-2012/feed/ 0 Concert Preview: Allah-Las, Los Coyotes, and The Cosmic Telegraph Co. Play San Diego on Saturday the 16th! http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/concert-preview-allah-las-los-coyotes-and-the-cosmic-telegraph-co-play-san-diego-on-saturday-the-16th/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/concert-preview-allah-las-los-coyotes-and-the-cosmic-telegraph-co-play-san-diego-on-saturday-the-16th/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:59:13 +0000 If you’re in the San Diego area, or maybe escaping the LA doomsday that will ensue with the closing of the formidable 405, head on out to the Tin Can Alehouse on Saturday, July 16th for some awesome live music.  Playing that night is Los Coyotes, Allah-Las (who wowed me when I saw them open

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