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 Gary Clark Jr. Announces New North American Tour Dates http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/gary-clark-jr-announces-new-north-american-tour-dates/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/gary-clark-jr-announces-new-north-american-tour-dates/#comments Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:27:11 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34233 Los Angeles – Gary Clark Jr., Grammy-award-winning guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, has announced new dates for his spring/summer tour. The tour kicks off May 2, in his hometown of Austin, TX, and will take him across North America through the end of September. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 31. The tour also includes

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  1. Gary Clark Jr. Announces 2nd Studio Album and Tour Burbank – Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and virtuoso guitarist Gary Clark Jr. will release his second full-length studio album, entitled The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, on September 11th via Warner Bros. Records. It will be available for pre-order from participating digital retailers beginning today, July...
  2. Max Jury Announces Spring North American Tour Dates Los Angeles – Des Moines singer-songwriter Max Jury is excited to announce his Spring North American headlining tour dates today. The tour begins on April 9 in Minneapolis before heading throughout the Midwest and East Coast, including a show on April 15 at the...
  3. Trixie Whitley Announces North American Tour Dates New York – Just home from a European tour, singer-songwriter Trixie Whitley has now announced North American tour dates in support of her highly anticipated new album, Porta Bohemica, due out February 5. The tour starts in Boston on March...
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  1. Hozier At Home In The Land Of The Blues Chicago – Andrew Hozier-Byrne, the Irishman who has been melting hearts and turning concert halls into places of musical worship, played a sold-out show at the Riviera Theatre this past Wednesday night. The 24-year-old blues lover creates fantastic indie rock...
  2. Braids Bring an Early Dose of Summer Chicago – Monday night marked the last show till the end of summer at The Riviera Theatre. The humidity seeped through the ornate walls. Sweat dripped down faces. But the heat didn’t seem to bother fans one bit. Flocks of...
  3. Benjamin Booker: Blues Meets Punk at Austin’s Mohawk 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...
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  1. Gary Clark Jr. Announces 2nd Studio Album and Tour Burbank – Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and virtuoso guitarist Gary Clark Jr. will release his second full-length studio album, entitled The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, on September 11th via Warner Bros. Records. It will be available for pre-order from participating digital retailers beginning today, July...
  2. Gary Clark Jr. Live: A Must-Have For Your Music Collection Chicago – Grammy Award winner Gary Clark Jr. brings his live performances to an even wider audience with Gary Clark Jr. Live, out this week on Warner Bros. Records. The release features two-discs filled with electrified originals, like “Blak and...
  3. Gary Clark Jr. Announces Album Release Date As we highlighted this week in our Artist of the Week profile, Gary Clark Jr. has an album that’s been a long time coming, but it finally has a firm release date. Though it’s yet to be titled, the long-anticipated...
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  1. Interview: Andrija Spicanovic of VVHILE Berlin – Founded in 2011 by Andrija Spicanovic and Stevan Cirovic, VVHILE is a punk rock band that has done what many bands in their native Serbia have managed to do as of late, escape the boundaries of their small...
  2. The Madden Brothers – Greetings From California New York – Since the early nineties, the Madden Brothers have played in the pop punk band Good Charlotte. Their side project, The Madden Brothers, began taking shape in 2011, but it wasn’t until this week that they released Greetings...
  3. Interview: Jukebox The Ghost San Francisco- Washington D.C. Based indie pop band Jukebox the Ghost consists of only three guys, Ben Thornewill (vocals/keyboard), Tommy Siegel (vocals/guitar), and Jesse Kristin (drums.) This power pop indie band has just released their fourth album, the self-titled Jukebox...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/interview-my-brothers-and-i/feed/ 0 Danielle Miraglia Explores The Paradox Of Egotism http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/danielle-miraglia-explores-paradox-egotism/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/danielle-miraglia-explores-paradox-egotism/#comments Mon, 04 May 2015 07:31:37 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=24083 Brooklyn – Danielle Miraglia is a Massachusetts-bred soloist whose blues-brewed work packs a philosophic punch. Masterfully, Miraglia’s harmonica-laced ballades chronicle both the artist’s temperament and the status of the masses. With her latest release, Glory Junkies, Miraglia holds a mirror up to modern day tendencies and, altruistically, offers a calming musical conduit to counter the

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  1. Kate Lynne Logan: ‘It Can Be Pretty Magical Sometimes’ Seattle – We’ve had our eyes on rising local musician, Kate Lynne Logan. She captures the spirit of the Pacific Northwest with her enchanting vocals and Americana style of guitar playing. She has the ability to produce alternative country music...
  2. Featured Artist: Arielle Los Angeles – Imagine growing up with the musical pedigree of Arielle; singing since age five with Peninsula Girls Chorus, learning piano, trumpet and guitar by the tender age of 10. By that age, most kids’ biggest accomplishment is memorizing...
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  3. Whirr Overcomes Bad Weather at Austin’s Mohawk Austin – There’s a very narrow window in the spring when an outdoor show in Austin is pleasant, and April falls right in the middle of it. Too bad that’s also the rainy season. Whirr, though, is an exception: the...
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  2. George Ezra – Just 21, Achieving International Success Beyond ‘Budapest’ Austin – Is there a blues revival underway? Probably not. More accurately, if you can’t hear the Muddy Waters influence in artists who claim blues as a source of inspiration, nobody should blame you. In the music of Angel Olsen...
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  2. Jesse Marchant – A One-Man Show Chicago – Over the past month, Jesse Marchant has been surfing U.S. highways in his Audi station wagon, drifting from one city to the next, putting on a one-man show, with songs new and old. Thursday night Jesse Marchant found...
  3. The Tallest Man On Earth Celebrates His Album Release At The Wiltern Two years ago, I saw Kristian Matsson (a.k.a. The Tallest Man On Earth) for the first time in Portland’s swanky Doug Fir Lounge. He was supporting his sophomore album, The Wild Hunt, and though I was only familiar with a...
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