Best New Bands » alt-folk 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 Life Is Good For MisterWives http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/life-good-misterwives/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/life-good-misterwives/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2015 07:34:22 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=23088 Seattle – Singer Mandy Lee couldn’t have known that her desire to have an 80’s cover band play for her birthday party back in 2012 would lead to national tours with established bands, sold-out shows, and hit singles featured on television shows and commercials. If she had, she, Etienne Bowler, William Hehir, Marc Campbell, and

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  1. MisterWives Electrify Nashville With A Sold-Out Set Nashville – With more than just a spring in their step, the upbeat indie-pop MisterWives played a sold-out set at the High Watt as a part of their 2015 spring tour. Their tour dates follow swiftly behind the release of...
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  3. MisterWives and Vinyl Theatre Heated Up Chicago Chicago – At 6 p.m. the line snaked down the block, around the corner, and coiled in a factory lot. A redline train whipped by, ushering in a chilling breeze. The temperature began to dip into the 40s. Kids were...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/life-good-misterwives/feed/ 3 Midwest Proud: Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers – ‘Terra Incognita’ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/midwest-proud-joe-hertler-rainbow-seekers-terra-incognita/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/midwest-proud-joe-hertler-rainbow-seekers-terra-incognita/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2015 01:11:41 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=21896 San Francisco – Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers hail from the peaceful middle of Michigan. Beginning in their college years, they toured through Michigan playing at their alma maters, local bars, festivals, and eventually making it all the way out to California. The band has always had a calm, folk feel to their music,

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  3. Seaway ‘All In My Head’ EP New York - Seaway is Canada’s contribution to this year’s class of pop rock bands. Although the band has been steadily releasing EPs since 2011, their 2013 debut full-length Hoser was the first of their releases to gain the band anything close to mainstream...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/midwest-proud-joe-hertler-rainbow-seekers-terra-incognita/feed/ 0 Dan Mangan ’s Fourth LP A Knockout Achievement http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/dan-mangan-s-fourth-lp-knockout-achievement/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/dan-mangan-s-fourth-lp-knockout-achievement/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2015 05:21:30 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=21230 New York – Vancouver-based Dan Mangan is about to release his fourth studio album, and the compilation is a breathtaking, full-bodied marvel. On his latest, Mangan maintains the hard-hitting alt-folk instrumentalism that peppered his previous work, and deepens with precision the philosophy-tinged lyricism his fans have come to expect. But this record is astoundingly experimentalist

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