Best New Bands » Amazon 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 Sarah Jaffe: On future plans and living in a town where she will never be cool http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/sarah-jaffe-on-future-plans-and-living-in-a-town-where-she-will-never-be-cool/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/sarah-jaffe-on-future-plans-and-living-in-a-town-where-she-will-never-be-cool/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:00:00 +0000 It used to be that one couldn’t live in the relatively small town of Denton, Texas without having heard of local singer/songwriter Sarah Jaffe. But now, it’s difficult to find a person in the indie music world who hasn’t run across her instantly recognizeable brand of dusky folk in the last year or so. Her

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/sarah-jaffe-on-future-plans-and-living-in-a-town-where-she-will-never-be-cool/feed/ 1 Placing All Bets on Gamble House: A Q&A with Ben Becker http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/placing-bets-on-gamble-house-an-interview-with-ben-becker/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/placing-bets-on-gamble-house-an-interview-with-ben-becker/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:00:00 +0000 When I first heard Los Angeles group Gamble House’s music, I was vaguely reminded of the soft yet driving acoustic folk-pop of Grizzly Bear. But the group is so much more than just akin to an already-established band: what started as a one-man endeavor by Ben Becker (pictured third from left) has now blossomed into

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