Best New Bands » Benjamin Booker 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 Benjamin Booker: Blues Meets Punk at Austin’s Mohawk http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/benjamin-booker-blues-meets-punk-austins-mohawk/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/benjamin-booker-blues-meets-punk-austins-mohawk/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2015 07:14:27 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=23951 Austin—Why do punk and blues make such great, timeless bedfellows? What synergy has kept Jack White, the Black Lips, and the Black Keys popular since the turn of the century? How, 15 years later, has Benjamin Booker made something new and thrilling in a subgenre that appeared to be all out of new frontiers? Whatever

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