Best New Bands » Drake 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 Ten Questions With Rita Ora http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/ten-questions-with-rita-ora/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/ten-questions-with-rita-ora/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:12:00 +0000 Having a hit record is tough, but topping your native land’s album chart on your first LP? That’s something even more remarkable. But that’s how it’s gone for Rita Ora. Discovered by Jay-Z and Roc Nation three years ago, the petit singer’s distinguishable vocals and catchy tunes have made her a fixture on pop radio

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-childish-gambino-camp/feed/ 0 Wale Gets Ambitious on His Latest Record http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/wale-gets-ambitious-on-his-latest-record/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/wale-gets-ambitious-on-his-latest-record/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:25:19 +0000 From his humble beginnings in the mid-aughts as a rising rapper from Washington, I’ve been on the Wale bandwagon and for full disclosure (and an interesting piece of history for those of you who care about these things), I did my first artist interview him just as he was on the precipice of breaking through,

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  2. Nick Foreman of Dust Congress on their latest album Open Your Eyes, the World is Shit When the sun is shining on your day off, it’s like a glorious pop song strewn with shimmering promises of long life and love. But not every day is a day off, and on a chilly Tuesday morning mid-January, you...
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