Best New Bands » canada 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 Best New Bands from Austin Psych Fest: Suuns http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/best-new-bands-from-austin-psych-fest-suuns/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/best-new-bands-from-austin-psych-fest-suuns/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:41:11 +0000 In a town that generally still seems to be navigating the musical hangover of SXSW, Austin Psych Fest is a welcome respite for those who aren’t ready for the festival living to be over. Instead of the apparent relentless and overcrowded feel that dominates during the former, Austin Psych Fest is a niche experience for

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  1. Austin Psych Fest Day One: We May No Longer Be On Earth Austin is known for its uniqueness, but despite the gab that surrounds the lively city, strip it down to its roots, it is just a normal place. A normal place that constantly features brilliant musicians at unassuming bars, sells Lonestar...
  2. Get PSYCH-ed For Austin Psych Fest! So Spring Break is so five minutes ago which means it’s onto planning how you’ll be Spring-ing into the Summer festival season. Lucky for us Austin is getting us amped for the fourth annual Austin Psych Fest! Grab your closest...
  3. Suuns New Release is Mental   Earlier this week marked the release of Suuns’ second full-length release, Images Du Futur. The Montreal-based minimalist experimental drone band who has become known for their slow burning tension-filled compositions caught my attention when I saw them open for...
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  1. Album Review: Milk Music, Cruise Your Illusion In the heart of the grunge homeland, the great Pacific Northwest, grunge ain’t dead – it’s just evolved. Olympia, Washington’s Milk Music released its debut full-length album, Cruise Your Illusion, on April 2 and with it has channeled the Ghost...
  2. Album Review: Sleepy Sun, Spiny Hits Sleepy Sun‘s latest release, Spiny Hits, is the record I want to spend all my hazy summer days jamming to. This is the San Francisco-based quintet’s third album and for a new band, they certainly have the genre of psychedelic...
  3. Album Review: Memoryhouse – The Slideshow Effect After first only endeavoring to create a multimedia project pairing sound with images between composer Evan Abeele and photographer Denise Nouvion, becoming more of a band and releasing an EP, then doing the relentless touring thing for a few years,...
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  1. Parallels’ Visionaries: For Generations and Chromosomes X and Y Everytime I think I’ve lost interest in electro pop, a band like Parallels comes along and sucks me back into a world where perfect beats and sweeping synths rule supreme. There’s such a difference between good electronic dance music and...
  2. Album Review: White Arrows, Dry Land Is Not A Myth Ever since White Arrows released its Fireworks of the Sea EP this spring, the quintet’s full-length debut has been on my radar. The L.A.-based five-piece created its own brand of electro pop, incorporating calypso and tropical beats with soaring synthesizers...
  3. Album Review: Miike Snow, Happy To You If Miike Snow’s eponymous debut is this relatively new band’s introduction to indie-friendly electro-pop music, then this sophomore offering by Stockholm-based trio is their gate to top-40 success. For some this is a revelation, but if you found comfort in...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-parallels-xii/feed/ 0 TRUST Gets Dirty at The Echoplex http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/trust-gets-dirty-at-the-echoplex/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/trust-gets-dirty-at-the-echoplex/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:43:05 +0000 On Tuesday night, Los Angeles’ Echoplex transformed into a dance club hosted by the rapidly-ascenting promoter Check Yo Ponytail 2. The lineup was excellent, consisting of the lovely Danish Oh Land, the eccentric Blood Orange, and the dark sounds of TRUST. For those of you who have not heard TRUST before, picture a mix of

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  1. Album Review: Trust—TRST There is no question that the ‘80s are making a comeback. It seems like the majority of recent buzz bands pull to the decade of sweet pop and crunchy synthesizers for inspiration, making keyboards a necessity for most modern acts....
  2. Parenthetical Girls Charm The Echoplex I saw my Portland darlings, Parenthetical Girls, open for British sensations Los Campesinos! last Saturday night at Los Angeles’ Echoplex.  If you are familiar with the Brit poppers, then you probably know how devoted their fans are, and you also...
  3. Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr Dazzles the Echoplex Did you know that Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr has played more times in LA than any other city? I didn’t either, but members Joshua Epstein and Daniel Zott shared that fun fact with the overwhelmingly large audience at Los Angeles’...
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  1. Weekend Preview: Hollerado at The Satellite LA Hollerado sent us their newsletter to let us know that they just finished an epic three week tour with none other than THE GANG OF FOUR and are celebrating by playing a show this Saturday at The Satellite (formerly Spaceland) in...
  2. Alberta Cross’ Tuesday night residency at The Satellite Last night at The Satellite marked the third week of Alberta Cross‘ May Tuesday night residency. BestNewBands.com alums Chasing Kings performed right before the quintet, and I had a hard time discerning who the crowd was really there to see...
  3. Miniature Tigers at The Satellite: Losing fans one mediocre performance at a time When I spoke to the lead singer of  Miniature Tigers last fall (for the full BestNewBands.com article please click here), I didn’t know a whole lot about the quartet. I was charmed by their tracks “Mansion of Misery” and “Bullfighter...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/moonface-entrances-the-satellite/feed/ 0 Zoe Boekbinder Releases her Second Solo Record, Darling Specimens http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/zoe-boekbinder-releases-her-second-solo-record-darling-specimens/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/zoe-boekbinder-releases-her-second-solo-record-darling-specimens/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:52:07 +0000 Zoe Boekbinder has always been a creative, free spirit. Born on a farm in Ontario, Canada, Boekbinder’s family packed up its belongings and took off to America in a big red truck towing a trailer when she was four years old. After six long months of driving across the western part of the United States,

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  1. Go see Oh Darling at The Satellite in LA Saturday! This Saturday, April 30th, indulge your inner indie girl with Oh Darling‘s record release party at The Satellite in Los Angeles. The album is called Brave New Sound and I was instantly hooked by the first two tracks “Prettiest Thing”...
  2. Nadler’s Third Solo LP Shows Great Promise As we discussed last week, Marissa Nadler is on the rise. The Boston-based singer/songwriter is releasing her third album, which is self-titled, independently. The album kicks off with “In Your Lair, Bear,” which is six minutes of skeletal chords and...
  3. Nick Goose Offers A Promising Solo Start A veteran of the Los Angeles music scene, Nick Goose has finally taken off on his own, releasing his first solo EP, Change Please. It’s not just a clever title for an album. In this case, it’s an artist taking...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/zoe-boekbinder-releases-her-second-solo-record-darling-specimens/feed/ 0 An Interview with Toronto’s The Apollo Effect http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/an-interview-with-torontos-the-apollo-effect/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/an-interview-with-torontos-the-apollo-effect/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 17:00:00 +0000 The Apollo Effect came on to my radar when they uploaded their video for “The Honeymoon is Over” (posted below) to BNBTV.  Their sound is a little bit of 80s glam, a little 90s-Brit angst, and maybe a little 2000s era post-grunge/pop-punk.  Basically, the band sounds a bit like if The Killers’ Hot Fuss-era Brandon

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  2. An Interview with an Unknown Name in Mainstream Rock: THE HUSH (Photo from The Hush’s Facebook Page) The Hush is a Los Angeles based band with a modern rock edge backed by killer vocals and a big dose of drama.  They boast an accessible, upbeat sound along the lines of Queen...
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  1. Album Review: Moving Units, Tension War EP Genre: Electronic/Rock   Sounds like: part Of Montreal, a bit of Franz Ferdinand maybe, and a whole lot of originality I enter Moving Units’ new EP, Tension War, with a somewhat tabula rasa mindset.  I know nothing of Moving Units outside...
  2. Live Tweeting From The Sufjan Stevens Concert! So, sometimes life gets in the way of- life- and since they have yet to perfect cloning the whole being in two places at once thing is next to impossible!  So, you might miss a concert or two, and if...
  3. An Album Review-Matt & Kim’s Sidewalks On Tuesday, Matt & Kim dropped their latest album, Sidewalks.  The CD is their third to hit the charts since last year’s Grand.  It is sad to say but Matt & Kim’s recent effort at music making has been hit...
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