Best New Bands » Dum Dum Girls 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 10 Albums You Might Have Missed In 2014 http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/10-albums-might-missed-2014/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/10-albums-might-missed-2014/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2014 07:55:11 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=20902 London – Let’s face it; there is just so much music out there. If you are privileged enough to get to write about music, one trick friends then play on you is to try to find new bands you’ve never come across. “You mean you really haven’t heard Mall Flood?!?” Partly this is to catch

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  3. PVRIS ’ ‘White Noise’ LP A Dynamic Debut Seattle – Boston trio PVRIS will be releasing their debut album, White Noise, this Tuesday, November 4, the follow-up to their acoustic EP that was released in April. Since then, this band has been unstoppable. In June, they signed to Rise Records, a label...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/10-albums-might-missed-2014/feed/ 3 5 New Bands At Fun Fun Fun Fest – Day 2 http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/5-new-bands-fun-fun-fun-fest-day-2/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/5-new-bands-fun-fun-fun-fest-day-2/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2014 04:16:43 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=20202 Austin – By Saturday morning Fun Fun Fun Fest had gotten the gates under control, by which I mean it was elbow-to-elbow in the festival grounds.  I can only assume things got weird in the designated make out area. Very few people seemed to mind. Saturday featured some great sets, including Twin Peaks’ daytime set.

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  1. 4 New Bands Worth Seeing At Fun Fun Fun Fest Austin – Everyone recovered from ACL? Cool. It’s time for Fun Fun Fun Fest. Austin’s third-favorite festival starts this Friday, November 7, and while the name is trying a little hard, the lineup is enticing. The headliners are a mix...
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  1. Outside Lands: New Bands We Liked On Sunday Music festivals are the Jackson Pollock paintings of the concert-going experience: both are messy, frustratingly incoherent and unmercifully overwhelming affairs.  Yet, under the right conditions or at a certain angle or with the help of questionable substances/chemicals/beverages flowing through the...
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  3. Courtney Barnett At The Knitting Factory Brooklyn – Saturday night in Williamsburg boasted a wonderfully vibrant backdrop for culture-seekers, who snaked through the thawing streets of the borough in search of something major. Those of us who landed at The Knitting Factory were the lucky ones....
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