Best New Bands » Delta Spirit 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 BestNewBands.com’s Weekly Mixtape for 11/19/12 http://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/bestnewbandscoms-weekly-mixtape-for-11-19-12/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/bestnewbandscoms-weekly-mixtape-for-11-19-12/#comments Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:46:11 +0000 This is the first installment of our new weekly mixtape feature. We’ll be putting together mixtapes, highlighting bands we covered during the previous week and other fresh tracks we discovered during the week. We’ll also be including some photos of the bands we’re talking about and links to their sites and to our original articles.

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/bestnewbandscoms-weekly-mixtape-for-11-19-12/feed/ 0 Delta Spirit And FIDLAR Put On Clinic On How To Rock At The Wiltern http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/delta-spirit-and-fidlar-put-on-clinic-on-how-to-rock-at-the-wiltern/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/delta-spirit-and-fidlar-put-on-clinic-on-how-to-rock-at-the-wiltern/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:36:48 +0000 Thursday night in Los Angeles was unlike any we’d seen in a while: it rained. Yes, the presses stopped and everything stood still, literally. Except that is live music. Fans in the City of Angels had a smorgasbord of choices: Cat Power, Titus Andronicus and Delta Spirit. I chose the latter. The Wiltern was the

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