Best New Bands » Courtney Barnett 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 Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile Announce ‘Lotta Sea Lice’ LP & Tour http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/courtney-barnett-kurt-vile-announce-lotta-sea-lice-lp-tour-dates/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/courtney-barnett-kurt-vile-announce-lotta-sea-lice-lp-tour-dates/#comments Thu, 31 Aug 2017 01:16:59 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34738 New York – Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, two of the most acclaimed and gifted songwriters of our generation, have joined forces to release a collaboration as unique and unusual as their talents. The new album Lotta Sea Lice will be released October 13th. Lotta Sea Lice is a conversation between friends, documented in raw, unvarnished song, brimming with

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  3. Courtney Barnett Announces North American Tour Dates Brooklyn – Courtney Barnett spent the summer zipping across North America, playing several major music festivals, bringing her standout rock and roll show to audiences across the country. Barnett and her band The Courtney Barnett’s stole the show and played...
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  2. Courtney Barnett Plays Ellen and Streams Her Album Courtney Barnett’s full-length debut album, Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit is out next Tuesday, via Mom+Pop Music. Anxious fervor has been growing in the months and weeks leading up to the release and things have only reached a...
  3. Courtney Barnett Announces Debut LP Out 3/24 on Mom + Pop Melbourne, Australia’s Courtney Barnett, singer-songwriter, guitar virtuoso, visual artist and label owner whose 2013 release The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas set the music world alight, is releasing her debut LP Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit on...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/courtney-barnett/feed/ 1 Courtney Barnett To Release Jack White Produced 7″ & Special Edition Album http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/courtney-barnett-release-jack-white-produced-7-special-edition-album/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/courtney-barnett-release-jack-white-produced-7-special-edition-album/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:46:46 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=27534 New York – To commemorate what is already shaping up to be an incredible 2015, Courtney Barnett will be releasing not only a stunning repackage of her breakthrough debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, but also a special brand new 7″ single produced by Jack White for his Third Man

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/here-is-record-store-day-2015-preview/feed/ 0 Courtney Barnett ’s First LP Is A Paradigm Of Passion And Ennui http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/courtney-barnett-s-first-lp-paradigm-passion-ennui/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/courtney-barnett-s-first-lp-paradigm-passion-ennui/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:24:11 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=22841 BROOKLYN – In but a few short years, Australia’s Courtney Barnett has become iconic within the indie under-culture for achieving the nearly unattainable: worldwide visibility and lore in an impossible-to-crack field. This paramount alt-rocker just released her first full-length record, Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, out this week via Milk!/Mom

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