Best New Bands » bandcamp 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 Q&A with Canada’s Jess Hill http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/qa-with-canadas-jess-hill/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/qa-with-canadas-jess-hill/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:20:20 +0000 Jess Hill “A Common Bird” Despite the song title above, Canada’s Jess Hill is a very uncommon bird indeed. For starters, she comes across as an old soul thriving in an increasingly modern world, and somehow she makes it look easy. Recombining traditional folk and blues elements to fit her unique artistic vision seems to

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  1. Three Up-and-Comers Worth Watching at Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party Seattle’s upcoming Capitol Hill Block Party is going to be fantastic. We looked at three of the headliners last Friday, and here, as promised, are three of the up-and-comers worth checking out. *** Kicking off the Capitol Hill Block Party...
  2. Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party, Part II This past weekend’s Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle featured some of the greatest and most acclaimed independent bands of the Northwest. The main stage gave us a glimpse of the ‘whose who’ in regional music, however neighboring it were...
  3. Twin Shadow’s George Lewis Jr. Talks Tours, Goals, and Painting Twin Shadow is the sort of indie pop that you can dance yourself silly to,  pondering the deeply intimate lyrics paired with lush synthetic melodies and strung out disco funk beats. Twin Shadow is essentially the brainchild of George Lewis,...
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  1. Blind Pilot heads out on Fall tour of the West! Portland indie-folksters Blind Pilot have just announced a brief fall tour, the last one, they say, until a new album is fully recorded. The charming sextet will head out on a tour of the west this fall, ironically skipping Portland....
  2. Meet Tim of Ivan & Alyosha Ivan & Alyosha is a four-piece that began as a solo project for Tim Wilson a few years ago, quickly growing to include Ryan Carbary, Tim Kim, and Pete Wilson. I was at first intrigued by the blend of americana...
  3. A Conversation With James Petralli of White Denim Sometimes a name can be an accurate way to describe a band. But with White Denim, it is not. Something as simple as, well, white denim, doesn’t do the band’s eclectic combination of garage rock, dub soul, alt-rock, country and...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/qa-with-alexei-of-blind-willies/feed/ 0 5 Minutes With Peter Squires of The Farthest Forests http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/5-minutes-with-peter-squires-of-the-farthest-forests/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/5-minutes-with-peter-squires-of-the-farthest-forests/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:00:00 +0000 The Farthest Forests, a two piece band featuring Anne Marple vocally and our old friend, Peter Squires, providing the music, were born of the lush woods and epic tides of the New England seacoast; two golden babies united musically by an artistic challenge: to write and record, Strange Wool, their first full-length album, in only

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  1. Peter Squires Makes Breaking Up Sound So Good For singer/songwriters, tales of love and revenge are the bread and butter for great songs. However, as cliché as these songs may be, sometimes heartbreak explores and refines a songwriter’s identity. This is the story behind Peter Squires’ Woe Is...
  2. Lost in the Trees: A Different Sound From A New Band “I’m just really drawn to the sound of big orchestra and different instruments, which has been around for a really long time,” says Ari Picker, the creative force behind Chapel Hill, NC based Lost in the Trees. “That’s the instrumentation...
  3. Show Preview: Peter Wolf Crier at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge Portlanders can enjoy a night of mellow indie-folk at one of the rose city’s best music venues this Friday. Head to the Doug Fir early for some dinner or to enjoy some of the great happy hour bar food. Walk...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/5-minutes-with-peter-squires-of-the-farthest-forests/feed/ 0 Words and a private performance with BnB’s March Artist in Residence Slang Chickens at SXSW http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/slang-chickens/words-and-a-private-performance-with-bnbs-march-artist-in-residence-slang-chickens-at-sxsw/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/slang-chickens/words-and-a-private-performance-with-bnbs-march-artist-in-residence-slang-chickens-at-sxsw/#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:00:00 +0000 Fans of Slang Chickens seem to go through a three part process upon discovering the band: first they’re intrigued by the name, then blown away by the crackling energy of their live performance, and then addicted to the way their songs manifest themselves in any number of ways. I find myself humming the chord changes

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  1. Introducing our Artists in Residence for March: Slang Chickens! Come fly with the Slang Chickens this month as they share with BestNewBands.com during the month that sees the end of their residency at the Echo and their time at a little festival we like to call SXSW. Did you...
  2. Slang Chickens’ Monday night residency at The Echo: A must-hear for all Slang Chickens is the kind of band that makes you want to start a band. Taking a very generous definition of “alternative”, the SoCal quartet combines alt-country, punk, post rock, and pop in ways that seem to redefine the very...
  3. At The Troubadour With BNB.com’s New Artist In Residence! Photo By Michael Beck There are certain bands I get consistently amped to see- and even though I can have the CD on for a week straight- still cannot wait to see them live.  Meet Fight From Above (Justin Miner,...
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  2. Here We Go Magic Talks Pigeons, Band Dynamics, and Why Festies Have More Fun Here We Go Magic is like an ambient/psych/folk/jam band. The mix of styles is diverse, and the group’s ability to create such a textured yet cohesive sound is like a salve for the eclectic at heart. In addition to extensive...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/scott-bartenhagen-talks-sxsw-radiohead-and-why-lyric-writing-is-the-bane-of-his-existence/feed/ 0 Album review: The Hope Trust’s Light Can’t Escape http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-the-hope-trusts-light-cant-escape/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-the-hope-trusts-light-cant-escape/#comments Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 The expanse between a freshman and sophomore album is perhaps the hardest distance for an artist to travel. The product of such a journey can delight or betray fans, and oftentimes does both. As it seems almost impossible to avoid comparing a band’s first and second bodies of work,  I approached the follow up to

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  1. Album Review of Jesca Hoop’s Hunting My Dress After I saw Jesca Hoop perform a few weeks ago at The Music Box in Hollywood, I couldn’t seem to get her voice out of my head (for the full BnB review and interview with Jesca, click here). What’s truly...
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