With just a few weeks left to go, the Madison Square Gardeners took us on the road, and behind the scenes as they get ready to rock at this year’s SXSW! The Brooklyn-based sextet will be playing two night’s at this year’s southby, and we can’t wait to catch them live! Can’t wait a couple
The New Music Seminar, which BestNewBands.com will be attending next week, announced their list of the Top 100 Artists on the Verge this week, and there are a lot of familiar names on it. Here’s some of how NMS chooses bands for the list: The NMS Artist on the Verge Top 100 is compiled based
On my way to see Sugar & Gold last night at The Bootleg Theater, I caught the tail end of Yip Deceiver‘s set. The keyboardist was Nicholas Dobbratz of Sugar & Gold, and the guitarist and lead vocalist was Davey Pierce. You might recognize either or both of them from their work touring with of
Tristen is by no means new to BestNewBands.com. I spoke with her last October, and we discussed the impending release of her debut album Charlatans at the Garden Gate (for the full BestNewBands.com exclusive interview, please click here). Her song “Baby Drugs” ranked #5 on our list of Top Ten Songs of 2010, and we
Brandi Emma is a singer/songwriter from Silverlake, but you might also know her as Emma Burgess, In 2007, she released her first solo album Swim to considerable buzz, then tinkering with other musical projects before returning to her birth name and her current endeavor. With a return to her birth name and EP Photographic Memory
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 across her instantly recognizeable brand of dusky folk in the last year or so. Her
Thurlow is the musical project of Augustus Green and Jacqueline Caruso, husband and wife duo from Washington, D.C. that now resides in Los Angeles. They recently released an eight track EP called Training Wheels, now available for free download on their Bandcamp page. The first track “The Hour Glass,” was recently chosen for the compilation
The voting in our six Best Of polls ends today, so get your votes in NOW! Here are links to the six polls: Best Artist: http://bestnewbands.com/bands/item/950-bestnewbandscoms-year-end-best-of-best-artist-of-2010 Best Album: http://bestnewbands.com/albums/item/947-bestnewbandscoms-year-end-best-of-best-album-of-2010 Best Song: http://bestnewbands.com/songs/item/944-bestnewbandscoms-year-end-best-of-best-song-of-2010 Best Video: http://bestnewbands.com/videos/item/927-bestnewbandscoms-year-end-best-of-best-video-of-2010 Best Live Show: http://bestnewbands.com/shows/item/932-bestnewbandscoms-year-end-best-of-best-concert/event-of-2010 Best Venue: http://bestnewbands.com/venues/item/938-bestnewbandscoms-year-end-best-of-best-venue-of-2010 Results will go up in a couple of weeks, with interviews with our
Pat the White is the moniker of Patrick Leblanc, a French Canadian blues artist whose album Strange Fascination I’ve recently become enamored with. Released in late October of this year, Pat the White‘s latest album is just as intrguing as the notion of a southern rock, blues and jam band emerging from French Canada. It’s
The South by Southwest music festival in Austin is one of the best festivals to catch new artists and mingle with fellow indie music lovers while still enjoying all of the civilized comforts a major city has to offer. Or so I’ve been told. Though I lived in Texas for the last five years, I’ve