Best New Bands » alternative folk-rock 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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  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 Eyes For Gertrude – Duo’s New LP Is Instantly Hummable http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/eyes-gertrude-duos-new-lp-instantly-hummable/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/eyes-gertrude-duos-new-lp-instantly-hummable/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2015 01:31:40 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=21673 London – With a band name inspired by writer Daphne du Maurier’s affair with actress Gertrude Lawrence, British female duo Eyes For Gertrude bring with it the promise that all might not be quite what it seems. Band mates Hannah Dean and Chantelle Pike appear respectively as ambivalent bride and groom on the cover of

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