Best New Bands » Cervante Pope 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 Broken Social Scene is the Best Live Show of 2010! http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/broken-social-scene-is-the-best-live-show-of-2010/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/broken-social-scene-is-the-best-live-show-of-2010/#comments Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:00:00 +0000 Congratulations, Broken Social Scene! After going on 10 years of music making and touring, BSS has won a little something for it-best live show of 2010. I honestly couldn’t agree more. Why? Because I have been blessed enough to experience all that is the gloriousness of Broken Social Scene live, and after all it took

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  1. Anthems of a 21 Year Old Girl: Broken Social Scene is Coming to Town! Canada never sounded so good. Or at least not in my years. Canada is home to awesome bands like The Luyas (check out my interview with Jessie of the Luyas HERE) and the dance crooners Death From Above 1979 but...
  2. Broken Social Scene at the Wiltern-I Felt Superconnected This past Tuesday, October 19th, Broken Social Scene played to a full house at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. As I entered the theater, I could feel the anticipation brewing in the air. I’ve been waiting to see Broken...
  3. Eux Autres: There’s Nothing Broken About This Bow Eux Autres, the San Francisco-based pop band, released their third album Broken Bow today. I listened to most of this album on a freezing, slushy day in Portland, but Eux Autres’s sunshine pop kept me warm. The first track, “Jamais,”...
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  1. Sitting Down with Pilot Whale In a studio warehouse in Orange, Ca, there dwells a band of brothers. Brothers set to do what no other band has ever done before…alright. You got me. Though that unnecessarily epic intro may not have been essential to this...
  2. What’s in a Name?- The Crystal Castles (II) Album Review When Crystal Castles was done crafting their second full-length album, they felt no need to come up with an original album name. The 14 hypnotic tracks speak for themselves, and the Canadian dance duo can self-title every single one of...
  3. Album Review: Minus the Bear’s “Omni” on Dangerbird Records Minus the Bear’s fourth studio album, Omni, is a groovy trek into synth-pop that packs a powerful electronic punch with a deadly rhythm section headed by Corey Murchy (bass) and Erin Tate (drums). Frontman/guitarist Jake Snyder lays down his signature...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/an-album-review-pilot-whale-s-new-recitals-to-attend/feed/ 0 Sitting Down with Pilot Whale http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/sitting-down-with-pilot-whale/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/sitting-down-with-pilot-whale/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:00:00 +0000 In a studio warehouse in Orange, Ca, there dwells a band of brothers. Brothers set to do what no other band has ever done before…alright. You got me. Though that unnecessarily epic intro may not have been essential to this piece it is quite true.  Meet Pilot Whale. A group of five guys that somehow

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  1. MGMT “Congratulate” Themselves When I heard that MGMT was releasing a new album, a sequence of memories suddenly flashed before my eyes. Memories of house parties in the summer, when someone would play “Kids” and send the whole lot of us bouncing off...
  2. Todd Prodanovich talks at length with Oakland’s James & Evander James & Evander are an electronic music production duo that create some incredibly lush synthesized landscapes for your listening pleasure. The group consists of Oakland’s very own Adam Myatt and Glenn Jackson, who met in college and decided to flex...
  3. Catching up with Active Child’s Patrick Grossi I first met Active Child’s Patrick Grossi while he was opening for Islands and Steel Phantoms at The Loft in Dallas in July. We chatted about how the tour was going, and he gave me a copy of his Curtis...
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  1. BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the Week of 8/9 Picked by: Alex Daniel Who: Crystal Castles Where: Stubb’s in Austin, Texas When: Wednesday, August 11 at 5 PM Cost: Free Age Restrictions: All Ages *** Picked by: Daniel Kohn Who: Avi Buffalo (opening for My Morning Jacket) Where: The...
  2. BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the week of 7/26 Picked by Todd Prodanovich Midnight Juggernauts with Baron von Luxxury @ The Echo in Los Angeles, Monday 7/26, 8:30pm for $10 (Ages:18+) These Australian electro-rockers blew me away with their debut album Dystopia, which became one of my all time...
  3. BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the Week of 8/2 Picked by: Daniel Burnett Who: Perfect Weather with Faucet and Goose Vargis Where: High Dive in Seattle, WA When: Monday, August 2 at 8 PM Cost: $6 Age Restrictions: 21+ Who: Edison Orange with God in Holy Hell Where: The...
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  1. Show Preview: The New Pornographers in Portland this Friday! The New Pornographers are a unique blend of big personalities and even bigger musical talent. Despite logic, the star-stacked group consistently makes catchy, chorus-heavy pop-rock tunes to please the indie masses. They have just released their fifth album, “Together,” which...
  2. Abe Vigoda This weekend my girlfriend and I are going to San Francisco to measure a bridge (not the whole bridge, I’ve been told over and over again). You might have heard of this bridge. It’s called “The Golden Gate Bridge” and...
  3. There is a password for a free show tonight by The Dance Party In case you missed their recent strip-club show, our darling gents The Dance Party are playing a show at the Viper Room tonight, and there’s a password to get in for the low-low price of free. This gives the event...
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  1. The Bloody Beetroots Unveil New Act at the House of Blues, San Diego What do you get when you combine the musical discipline of a classically trained composer with the black-leather-wearing, chain-smoking sensibilities of a hardcore punk rocker, and then hand him some DJ equipment and synthesizers just for kicks? What you get...
  2. Dirty Sweet @ Spaceland, 7/16/09 Well, it took almost exactly two years, but I have finally made it to a second Dirty Sweet show. I’d say that it was worth the wait, but honestly I wish I’d made it out to see them again sooner....
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