Best New Bands » arcade fire 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 A Q&A with The Static Jacks’ Henry Kaye http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/a-qa-with-the-static-jacks-henry-kaye/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/a-qa-with-the-static-jacks-henry-kaye/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:43:58 +0000 Our Artist of the Week a few weeks ago, The Static Jacks, recently came through NYC to play a couple CMJ shows before getting right back on the road again to start off their tour with The Wombats and The Postelles. While the band was in route to the first stop in DC, I caught

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  1. Interview with New Jersey’s The Static Jacks Photo by Michael Nika The Static Jacks is a punky, garage- and angst-laced quartet from New Jersey. Their upcoming album If You’re Young will be released August 30th, and is now available for pre-order here. I spoke to lead vocalist...
  2. Artist of the Week: The Static Jacks New Jersey’s The Static Jacks are climbing the steep steps to indie-rock acclaim.  Guitar-in-hand, the group breathes juvenile hellfire and wrestles across the barriers of punk, garage and soul on their full-length debut, If You’re Young, produced by Chris Shaw...
  3. Q&A: Joey Siara of The Henry Clay People It has been a busy year for The Henry Clay People. Like the great compromiser, the Los Angeles-based outfit has seen years of hard work pay off in 2010. With the release of its album, Somewhere on the Golden Coast,...
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  1. Benvenue’s Lead Singer Francis Talks Classics, Guilty Pleasures, and Changing Band Dynamics Benvenue is a hard rocking quartet from the Bay area that began with lead singer Francis Blay and guitarist Sid Slater on the football field of the University of California Berkeley. The group recently released an eleven track album entitled...
  2. Jeremy Messersmith Live @ The Mint – Saturday, July 17 2010 Last night hipsters from various Los Scandalous area-codes hightailed it to The Mint to watch singer/songrwriter Jeremy Messersmith grace the joint with folk-pop akin to Death Cab For Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, and embellished with just enough 1960’s retro-pop to actually...
  3. Concert Preview: Lady Danville Headlines a Sold Out Show at the Troubadour this Saturday Lady Danville, everyone’s favorite indie-rock-nerd-chic UCLA grads, returns to headline a sold out show at the Troubadour this Saturday, the 26th.  Lucky for me, I will be in attendance.  Lucky for you, this means a review will follow, so you...
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  1. Little Scream and The Antlers Awe and Daze at Music Hall of Williamsburg Last night was the first of two sold out shows for Little Scream and The Antlers in New York; this one at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. I had caught the very end of Little Scream, aka Laurel Sprengelmeyer’s...
  2. George Stanford Serenades The Music Box The Music Box (quickly becoming one of my fave venues) was aflutter last night, everyone waiting eagerly in anticipation for the grade A list lineup to get started.  Whereas most L.A. kids show up fashionably late to shows, intentionally choosing...
  3. The Music to Mend Fences Yesterday, I was able to talk on the phone with Christopher Mansfield, aka Fences. The Seattle-based singer-songwriter has put out some of my favorite records in the last two years: The Ultimate Puke EP and the Sara Quin (of Tegan...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/little-scream-keeps-music-fun/feed/ 0 The Nervous Wreckords: Yes, their music is as cool as their name http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/the-nervous-wreckords-yes-their-music-is-as-cool-as-their-name/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/the-nervous-wreckords-yes-their-music-is-as-cool-as-their-name/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:00:00 +0000 It seems like bands will do try just about anything to distinguish themselves and attract the attention of potential fans. But a precious few are able to naturally and instantly appeal to both the eyes and ears in such a way as to not only draw attention, but keep it. The Nervous Wreckords is one

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  1. Delta Spirit Rock The Music Box and A Conversation With Matthew Vasquez At 11 pm on Wednesday night at the Music Box on Hollywood Blvd., San Diego-natives Delta Spirit took to the stage for their largest headlining show to date in the City of Angels. Having recently sold out the El Rey...
  2. Q&A with Beats Antique: Spreading Music, Culture, and Sustainable Living Listening to Beats Antique is like immersing oneself into a musical melting pot of cultures. Combining Middle Eastern styles and other world music with dubstep, electronica, and roots music, Beats Antique sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before (Check out...
  3. Sarah Jaffe: On future plans and living in a town where she will never be cool 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...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/the-nervous-wreckords-yes-their-music-is-as-cool-as-their-name/feed/ 0 Fresh Tracks, hand-selected for you by Kelly Montgomery http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/fresh-tracks-hand-selected-for-you-by-kelly-montgomery/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/fresh-tracks-hand-selected-for-you-by-kelly-montgomery/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:00:00 +0000 Arcade Fire – Half Light II (No Celebration) This song is both a highlight of and a perfect introduction to The Suburbs. Disguised by the musically epic sounds (it is Arcade Fire, after all) are lyrics that tell of wasted time and societal destruction. Win Butler sings in despair, “Oh, this city’s changed so much/

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  1. The Weekend Playlist: Kelly Montgomery’s Summer Mix This weekend I share with you a playlist of songs that give me that warm, happy, what-a-perfect-day feeling. These are the songs that make me smile, close my eyes, and soak up the sun without a care in the world....
  2. LA, LA, LOLLA! It’s that time of year- the time when the hipster-chic and faux-hemian alike flock to Chicago for Lollapalooza from August 6-8, 2010!  If you haven’t had the chance to check out the entire lineup, rest assured this year’s music mayhem will...
  3. Arcade Fire is back with “The Suburbs” Loyal and obsessive Arcade Fire fans will have a reason to rejoice come August 3rd, when the indie heavyweights will release their first full-length album since 2007′s critically-adored Neon Bible. The new album is called The Suburbs, and it is...
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