Los Angeles – As another year kicks off, there are a lot of great new bands (and solo artists) coming to our attention. So many in fact, it’s easy to miss some really amazing music. So, we decided to try and put a list together to help us keep track of it all. We know
Nashville – Saintseneca’s show at The High Watt was one of the best I’ve stumbled into since I saw A.A. Bondy on a whim in 2010. I hadn’t heard from this band beforehand, but the vocal choruses on their 2011 album were enough to get me in the door. Lucky me. Saintseneca is a four-piece
Los Angeles – Fifteen miles off of a dirt road in the dusty nowheres of Walker County, Texas Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance found their calling. Jamestown Revival was born on a back porch and bred in Austin before relocating to Los Angeles. Their heartfelt Southern style and hints of Longhorn twang harkens to sounds
New York – There was so much good music released last year that this is by no means definitive, but more of a recap of some of the either fresh at the time or just fresh to our ears tracks that we jammed out to on a BestNewBands.com mixtape, and are still jamming out to,
New York – They’ve been a band for about three years now, but they sound and play like they’ve already known what they like way before that, and they like some good stuff. Potty Mouth formed when singer/guitarist Abby Weems was still a junior at a high school in Amherst, MA, and lead guitarist Phoebe,
Austin – “I love you, but please stop yelling my name.” The bashful words of one-man act Shakey Graves were uttered with the unmistakable tint of a blush and an awkward grasp on the microphone stand, as a young (and slightly intoxicated) female fan cried “Shakeyyyyyy!” over and over. It was nice to know that
New York – For those of us experiencing below-freezing temperatures for much of this winter, what gets us through these cold weather months are the dates we’re marking on the calendar for the vast and diverse number of acts that are touring this winter. Helping us get from January to February to spring break in
Nashville – A Foreign Fields show seemed appropriate to go see as an Arctic front moved across the country, leaving Nashville unusually cold. Their atmospheric music is fit for staring at the stars on a frozen night. Like staring at the sky, Foreign Fields’ music makes the human seem small against the washes of sound. Reverberating
Seattle – Big Ups is a four-piece band from New York whose name is ideally indicative of the group’s future. Unlike the band name, however, Eighteen Hours of Static is not so literal and cannot fill almost an entire day with loud, senseless feedback – what a relief. The band’s debut full-length album will be released January 13 via
New York – To commemorate our descent into holidaze, on behalf of BestNewBands.com I threw another showcase/party at Matchless on December 18. Thanks to more of the best new and emerging local bands being part of it, it turned out to be a great nearing the end of the year note to mark how far