Best New Bands » blues 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 Hurray For The Riff Raff – My Dearest Darkest Neighbor http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/hurray-for-the-riff-raff-my-dearest-darkest-neighbor/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/hurray-for-the-riff-raff-my-dearest-darkest-neighbor/#comments Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:39:00 +0000 Why do the blues endure? Generation after generation, those sad songs are recycled. Hurray for the Riff Raff’s (mostly) covers album My Dearest Darkest Neighbor answers that question. The blues endure because the human condition knows loneliness, morbidity, abandonment, heartbreak, and so on.  The vulnerable songs covered on the album honor these phenomena. It does this by

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  1. SXSW: Lianne La Havas And Hurray For The Riff Raff   Austin is warm, it’s sunny and the music is still flooding with a vigor you can’t compare to anything. Everyone is moving by foot whether to catch the next unofficial showcase or the last minute surprise performer. There was...
  2. Three Cheers for Louisiana’s Hurray for the Riff Raff Hurray for the Riff Raff are not your average folk band, and the story of how they came to be is certainly everything but. Alynda Lee Segarra was a 17 year-old girl fascinated by punk rock and the world outside...
  3. Album Review: Pyyramids, Brightest Darkest Day What happens when Tim Nordwind of OK Go and Drea Smith of He Say/She Say bond over post-punk and ‘80s Manchester bands? The lucid and dreamlike originality of the unlikely combination is an indie-pop outfit emerging under the moniker of PYYRAMIDS....
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  1. An Album Review: Pilot Whale’s New Recitals to Attend Last week I sat down with Pilot Whale and saw the course of song perfection.  Though the album was created before the band got the process down pat, I jumped at the chance to give the whole album a listen...
  2. Audacity’s Kyle Gibson Discusses Orange County, Touring And Their Upcoming Album If the guys in Audacity know one thing, it’s how to have fun. The Orange County bred punk rockers have been playing music together since Elementary school, and though they have grown up since then, they still focus on having...
  3. Album Review: Nikki Lane – Walk of Shame Is Nancy Sinatra the tree from which all Indie female singers fall from? With Jenny Lewis, Neko Case, Caitlin Rose and now Nikki Lane that seems to be the case. Lane is making her debut on I Am Sound records...
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  1. A Conversation With The Staves The UK-based folk trio, The Staves, has been making a name for itself at a feverish pace. Although the outfit, consisting of sisters Emily, Jessica, and Camilla Staveley-Taylor, has yet to release a full-length album, it has already been signed...
  2. A Conversation with Ume’s Lauren Larson So much amazing music comes out of Austin, TX and it looks like the city’s next up-and-comers are the shoegazing trio Ume. Led by the talented singer/guitarist Lauren Larson, the band named after a Japanese plum blossom has made a...
  3. A Conversation with Alcoholic Faith Mission’s Thorben Seierø Jensen In 2006, high school friends Thorben Seierø Jensen and Sune Sølund formed Alcoholic Faith Mission after stumbling upon Brooklyn’s Apostolic Faith Mission and joking around about swapping the “Apostolic” with “Alcoholic,” because alcoholics have faith in booze like the devout...
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  3. A Hazy Night In Chicago with Sleepy Sun Make all the 4:20 drug references you want, but going to see new psychedelic rock band, Sleepy Sun, play on the drug user’s holiday was a great choice. While the crowd gathered at Chicago’s Subterranean, it was apparent that many...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/cory-chisel-rocks-the-empty-bottle-after-conquering-chicago-during-the-day/feed/ 0 NYC’s Catalpa Festival Announces Additional Artists: Girl Talk, Matt & Kim, Cold War Kids, Hercules And Love Affair, Matisyahu, Dirty Heads, The Sheepdogs, Hook N’ Sling and Many More. http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/nycs-catalpa-festival-announces-additional-artists-girl-talk-matt-kim-cold-war-kids-hercules-and-love-affair-matisyahu-dirty-heads-the-sheepdogs-hook-n-sling-and-many-more/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/nycs-catalpa-festival-announces-additional-artists-girl-talk-matt-kim-cold-war-kids-hercules-and-love-affair-matisyahu-dirty-heads-the-sheepdogs-hook-n-sling-and-many-more/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:05:51 +0000 Lineup Already Includes: The Black Keys, TV On The Radio, Umphreys McGee, AraabMUZIK, Snoop Dogg (performing Doggystyle the album with special guests). July 28th + 29th on Randall’s Island, Further artist announcements coming May 21st. The inaugural Catalpa Festival is striving to be a pioneering New York festival, unique in its programming, atmosphere and aesthetic.

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  2. Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival Announces 2012 Lineup February 14, 2012, New York, NY — Superfly Presents and A.C. Entertainment are excited to announce the initial lineup for the 2012 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The 11th annual four-day camping and music festival will be held on June...
  3. Hey, Parlotones Fans! Want to meet the band? We’ve got the hook up! South African rock darlings (and former BestNewBands.com Artists in Residence) The Parlotones are touring the United States, and we want to help YOU meet the band and see a show for free! This February and March, BestNewBands.com will be giving...
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