Best New Bands » americana 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 The Lumineers Sell Out Madison Square Garden On First Day http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/lumineers-sell-madison-square-garden-first-day/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/lumineers-sell-madison-square-garden-first-day/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:05:45 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=33234 Los Angeles – Tickets for The Lumineers‘ first-ever arena tour are proving to be a hot commodity. Their February 2 show at Madison Square Garden sold out during its first day on-sale this past Saturday, October 1st. Singer Wesley Schultz, a New Jersey native, posted on the band’s website that playing Madison Square Garden holds a special

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  1. The Lumineers Cleopatra Hits No. 1 On The Billboard Top 200 Chart Los Angeles – The Lumineers‘ second album, Cleopatra, has hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, while their recently released single ‘Ophelia’ just set a record for the single week spin count at the AAA radio format (source...
  2. ALT-J Premiere Video for ‘Pusher’; Announce Tour Dates Los Angeles – Today, alt-J premiere the video for “Pusher” – the latest track to be lifted from their critically acclaimed album This Is All Yours. Created by renowned collective Division Paris and directed by Thomas Rhazi, the video focuses on a...
  3. Kat Dahlia’s Honest And Powerful ‘My Garden’ Portland – When Best New Bands spoke with Kat Dahlia last month, she was very eager to share her debut album with the world. Though it has been a while since her first single off the record, “Gangsta,” was released...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/lumineers-sell-madison-square-garden-first-day/feed/ 0 Jamestown Revival Announce New LP & Tour http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/jamestown-revival-announce-new-lp-tour/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/jamestown-revival-announce-new-lp-tour/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2016 18:08:43 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=32401 New York – Critically acclaimed Austin, TX indie-Americana band Jamestown Revival – Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance – announce the release date for their anxiously awaited second full-length album, The Education of A Wandering Man [Republic Records], available on October 7th. Starting today the album is available for pre-order at all digital retailers. Get it HERE. The pre-order includes instant grat downloads

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  1. Jamestown Revival Announce Fall North American Tour Dates Los Angeles – Jamestown Revival are excited to announce the details of their upcoming North American tour this fall. The band are playing coast-to-coast in many major markets, including the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on November 10, the...
  2. Jamestown Revival Announce December Tour Dates Jamestown Revival have announced a string of tour dates around the west coast this December. The band will be touring beginning on December 8 in San Diego at Lestats, before playing in Los Angeles on December 10 at the Troubadour. The tour continues with...
  3. Jamestown Revival Announce More Headlining Tour Dates Los Angeles – Jamestown Revival are excited to announce a run of headlining tour dates beginning in May. The band will be playing in major markets including Los Angeles (May 29 @ The Troubadour), San Francisco (June 01 @ Great American Music...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/jamestown-revival-announce-new-lp-tour/feed/ 0 Blitzen Trapper Release Mystery And Wonder EP http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/blitzen-trapper-release-mystery-wonder-ep/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/blitzen-trapper-release-mystery-wonder-ep/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:27:28 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=28330 Los Angeles – Just this past October, Blitzen Trapper released the studio album, All Across This Land to much critical acclaim with Entertainment Weekly hailing it  “bigger, synthier, warmer,” and Uncut Magazine claiming it was “an infectious country rocker that deserves to be an enormous hit.”  Following in the album’s footsteps, the band just released

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  1. Blitzen Trapper Share A Record Store Day Single Los Angeles – Portland, Oregon-based experimental country/folk band, Blitzen Trapper, are happy to be sharing a special live track, “Heart of Gold,” via SoundCloud. The Neil Young cover tune comes from the band’s limited-edition Record Store Day LP offering, Live Harvest. The quintet...
  2. Dawes and Blitzen Trapper Release Free Tour Sampler EP for Upcoming Fall Tour I find I encounter this issue frequently:  I am going to a concert, and I range from vaguely familiar with to wholeheartedly obsessed with one of the bands, and am completely clueless about the opener or headliner or co-headliner or...
  3. Album Review: Blitzen Trapper – American Goldwing There’s a feeling that I get when I listen to the new Blitzen Trapper, an inexplicable sense of warmth and home. American Goldwing is a quintessential rock album. It is all things to all people. At one point it feels...
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  1. Fraser A. Gorman Premieres New Video Featuring Courtney Barnett On Stereogum Los Angeles - Fraser A. Gorman’s beautifully offbeat, gloriously sun-baked debut LP, slow gum is hurtling our way this summer. (Out on June 29, 2015 via House Anxiety / Marathon Artists / Milk! Records). The new single from the rapidly ascending, Australian troubadour is...
  2. Fraser A. Gorman At The Bootleg Theater In Los Angeles Los Angeles – For someone that was essentially making his first ever live appearance in the United States, Fraser A. Gorman had an incredible sense of serenity on stage last Tuesday evening; he nailed every song in his set, even...
  3. Fraser A. Gorman’s New Album Is Almost Here! Los Angeles – 23-year-old, Australian singer-songwriter, Fraser A. Gorman, the up-and-comer who has turned plenty of ears and heads since appearing on the music scene only last October, is excited to finally announce the release of his debut album, Slow Gum. The record...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/fraser-gorman/feed/ 0 Shakey Graves Shines At The Ace Hotel In Los Angeles http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/shakey-graves-shines-ace-hotel-los-angeles/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/shakey-graves-shines-ace-hotel-los-angeles/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2015 07:16:00 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=27849 Los Angeles – If it seems like Shakey Graves (nee Alejandro Rose-Garcia) has a familiar face, that’s probably because he does. Getting his entertainment career started as an actor in film and television, he has transitioned to a rough-around-the-edges Americana singer-songwriter over the last few years. This has proven to be a smart decision for

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  1. Shakey Graves Announces Fall Headlining Tour Los Angeles – In the wake of breakout performances at Sasquatch and Bonnaroo and with sets at Newport Folk, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, and ACL still on deck, Shakey Graves’ non-stop tour schedule grows even further with the announcement of more...
  2. Shakey Graves Wins Emerging Artist Of The Year Award Los Angeles – Shakey Graves, the name musician Alejandro Rose-Garcia performs under, took home the Emerging Artist Of The Year award at Americana Music Association’s 14th Annual Honors & Awards,.  Shakey Graves also performed his song “Dearly Departed” at the ceremony....
  3. Shakey Graves Mesmerizes Manhattan New York – Friday night’s Shakey Graves performance in Manhattan was wonderful and wild, and welcomed the weekend with a bang. The indie musician played in support of the mega-beloved blues-rock outfit Tedeschi Trucks Band, and the turnout was awash...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/shakey-graves-shines-ace-hotel-los-angeles/feed/ 1 Les Hay Babies http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/les-hay-babies/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/les-hay-babies/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2015 07:08:28 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=27495 Austin – Despite its name, Americana music isn’t limited to the soundscapes and scenery surrounding amber waves of grain and purple mountains majesties. In fact, some of music’s most compelling country hybridizations come from beyond the border. Fans of Swedish folk groups First Aid Kit and The Tallest Man on Earth can attest to that.

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  1. Grave Babies Bring Their Meticulous Darkness to Portland Portland – Nothing screams Goth like Grave Babies. The eclectic four-piece stopped at Mississippi Studios in Portland Monday night in promotion of their upcoming album Holographic Violence due out July 24th. Their lo-fi, distorted sound has garnered them comparisons to...
  2. Meet Iceland’s Newest Export: Asgeir Chicago – What is it about Iceland? With a total population of only 300,000+, the Nordic island cranks out über talented musicians left and right, from Björk to Sigur Rós and now Asgeir. The 22-year-old singer-songwriter, born Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson,...
  3. Chris Marshall and The August Light – ‘Some Kind of Dream’ Berlin – Chris Marshall and The August Light’s new LP is out and it’s a welcome expansion of their previous work. Traditionally, Seattle has been known as the place on the West Coast to find the best emerging musical acts....
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  1. Dawes Unveils Their New Single New York – All Your Favorite Bands, the forthcoming new album from Dawes, the Los Angeles-based quartet, is slated for release on June 2. David Rawlings, of Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, TN, sat in the producer’s chair for this fourth installment...
  2. PINS Premiere Video And Announce Tour Dates New York - PINS have just released the new video for their single, “Young Girls!” Directed by Amy Watson, the video perfectly captures what it’s like to be bored in a dull town and searching for excitement. It features the four-piece band roaming the streets...
  3. alt-J Announce More Tour Dates -Share New Video New York – Leeds based band, alt-J, is proud to announce their largest North American show to date, at the Hollywood Bowl on October 15, 2015. The band will also play Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre on October 13,...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/dawes-release-new-video-launch-interactive-site-announce-tour-dates/feed/ 0 Nikki Lane is All or Nothin’ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/nikki-lane-nothin/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/nikki-lane-nothin/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2015 22:20:30 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=26916 Nashville – Nikki Lane means business on her second album. Joining up with Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys to produce All or Nothin, this singer/songwriter is showing her rebel side, her I don’t really give a shit what you think side. This album is 12 songs; songs of one night stands, bad attitudes, bad

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  1. Album Review: Nikki Lane – Walk of Shame Is Nancy Sinatra the tree from which all Indie female singers fall from? With Jenny Lewis, Neko Case, Caitlin Rose and now Nikki Lane that seems to be the case. Lane is making her debut on I Am Sound records...
  2. Nashville’s Night Beds’ Game Changing Single Brooklyn – If yours is the sort of sensibility to be seduced by tell-all compositions that are both lush and sparse, Night Beds could well be your next sonic obsession. Though the band has delivered a torturously miniscule cannon of...
  3. Humming House Delights With Latest Release, ‘Revelries’ Nashville – There’s so much to love about the local music scene here, from the traditional sounds to newer, fresher faces flocking to the city. This week, however, Music City natives Humming House have distinguished themselves outside of a local...
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  1. Houndmouth ‘Little Neon Limelight’: Americana in Good Hands New York – Houndmouth is from New Albany, Indiana, a history-rich town just across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. New Albany was a steamboat boomtown in the mid-19th century. Its most famous product is the Civil War-era steamship Robert...
  2. Colony House Rocks Nashville’s Marathon Music Works Nashville – Franklin, Tennessee natives Colony House delivered a hearty homecoming performance to local audiences this past Friday night at Marathon Music Works. The band returned to the south as a part of their tour alongside the South African alternative...
  3. 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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  1. The Soft Moon Showcase Their Intense Post-Punk Sound In LA Los Angeles – While The Soft Moon have previously released a pair of solid LPs since their founding in 2009, this year’s Deeper has found the Oakland-based post-punk band reaching ever larger audiences. This increased level of underground popularity was...
  2. Cult of Youth Continue to Cultivate Their Sound With ‘Final Days’ Los Angeles – Cult of Youth have just released their third full-length release for Sacred Bones this week.  Ominously titled Final Days, the record sees the five-piece band from Brooklyn reaching a full-realization of their evolving blend of post-punk and neo-folk. ...
  3. METZ Turn Lincoln Hall Punk Chicago – Lincoln Hall was packed with men and women donning leather jackets, and black skinny jeans. The music hall was a sea of long hair and tattoos. Not a usual sight for the Lincoln Park venue. But then again,...
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