BestNewBands.com Take a pinch of Death Cab for Cutie’s honest but evocative lyrical style. Add a dash of Ben Lee-sounding vocals. Combine with a vintage Tom Petty feel, and mix with a hint of folk-country twang. Sprinkle with a warm sense of community. Your tasty result? Eugene, Oregon’s The Stagger and Sway. With this video,
A larger version of this poster can be viewed at The Portland Mercury Music fans of the Pacific Northwest are in for a treat this Memorial Day weekend, as the 10th anniversary of the Sasquatch! Music Festival in Gorge, Washington promises a myriad of musical legends, as well as your favorite indie bands. Sasquatch! will
Following their show at UCLA, I sat down with Lady Danville’s keyboardist Michael Garner to learn a little more about the band. We chatted about their hometown of Danville, California, the goofiness of Ben Folds, celebrity doppelgangers, a particularly inspiring mysterious-hippie-kindergarten teacher, and the ups and downs of going on the road. An amicable and
Last night, I made the quick jaunt up to the Covel Grand Ballroom on “The Hill” at UCLA (essentially, the heart of on-campus housing/dorm life/pajama-clad kids sipping coffee at 10 pm and giggling loudly) to see a concert held by student organizations. This charity event concert, called Acoustic Coffee House 2011, featured a bunch of
In March of 2008, Sam Humans and The Heliogoats stayed in a rental house together while performing at SXSW. The two acts formed a bond and decided to work on a project together. The result is a ten song split EP, Live Free & Let Loose. Sam Humans, formerly Modernstate, opens the EP with “Hate
The Fiction Plane show I covered last month at Mercury Lounge was out of this world, and everyone seemed to agree. So it was only a natural next step to get to know the band a little better and figure out what that intangible is that makes them such a special trio. I was able
Let’s explore for a second the commonalities of an up-and-coming rap or hip-hop artist: Growing up in or around a large city? Check. Eclectic musical taste? Check. Began writing or freestyling since their early years? Check. Hoodie Allen meets all of the the criteria and then, there’s that non-musical elephant in the room: He graduated