Best New Bands » electro 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 Co-Presents DWNTWN April Residency At Los Angele’s Central SAPC http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/bestnewbandscom-co-presents-dwntwn-april-residency-at-los-angele-s-central-sapc/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/bestnewbandscom-co-presents-dwntwn-april-residency-at-los-angele-s-central-sapc/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:59:53 +0000 It’s almost May—the flowers are in bloom and spring has officially sprung—and what better way to celebrate the sun than with a Tuesday night residency at Central SAPC featuring the sparkling, synth-heavy sounds of DWNTWN? The Los Angeles-based dream pop trio has set up shop in the intimate Santa Monica venue for the month of

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  1. Hunter Hunted Kicks Off March Bootleg Bar Residency With Body Parts And Aan   Los Angeles’ Bootleg Bar could not have chosen a better time to host a Monday night residency with Hunter Hunted. The Los Angeles-based duo of Dan Chang and Michael Garner made their television debut on Conan last week, and...
  2. Harriet Ends Its Echo Residency With A Bang   One of my favorite things about the Los Angeles music scene is its residencies. Every month, a few magical venues host Monday (or in some cases, Tuesday) night residencies, in which one lucky (and well-deserving) local act is graced...
  3. Liam Finn’s New York Residency Starts This Monday! Liam Finn‘s New York residency, or ‘Murmuration’ as he is calling it, starts this Monday. Liam will be performing at The Rock Shop in Brooklyn every Monday in what promises to be a fun, unpredictable and highly entertaining month of...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/bestnewbandscom-co-presents-dwntwn-april-residency-at-los-angele-s-central-sapc/feed/ 0 Crystal Castles Get Dark With (III) http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/crystal-castles-get-dark-with-iii/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/crystal-castles-get-dark-with-iii/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:22:11 +0000 It’s been two and a half years since Crystal Castles released their sophomore album, and in that time it sounds like Ethan Kath and Alice Glass have matured a bit. Known for their arcade-like electronics and bratty punk rock mentality, the Toronto-based duo decided to simplify things a bit the third time around. Kath did

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  1. What’s in a Name?- The Crystal Castles (II) Album Review When Crystal Castles was done crafting their second full-length album, they felt no need to come up with an original album name. The 14 hypnotic tracks speak for themselves, and the Canadian dance duo can self-title every single one of...
  2. The Suuns and Crystal Castles take Portland’s Roseland Theater The tone for last night’s show at the Roseland Theater in Downtown Portland, OR was set the moment that Suuns took the stage. Wasting no time in getting started, the four-piece was hard at work with their pounding synths and...
  3. Album Review: Expensive Looks – Dark Matters Over the past few years, musicians and producers have blended into one entity. With the rise of the “chillwave” genre, more musicians have turned to producing synthetic beats and recycling bits and pieces of old tunes to create new music,...
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  1. Introducing our first-ever Artist of the Week LA Font! LA Font is the kind of band that invites their audience to experience the full spectrum of emotions along with them at their live shows. At any given moment, the entire room could be experiencing heart-racing excitement, angsty adrenaline spikes...
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  3. Introducing Monophon Introducing a band we met thanks to our friends at restorm.com: Monophon is a band from the eastern part of Switzerland that has been called the dreamy Swiss answer to MGMT. The band released their first single “Protection” in March...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/introducing-thomas-azier/feed/ 0 Divine Fits Play Their First Show In Los Angeles http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/divine-fits-play-their-first-show-in-los-angeles/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/divine-fits-play-their-first-show-in-los-angeles/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:26:05 +0000 Since the announcement back in May that Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs’ Dan Boeckner and New Bomb Turks’ Sam Brown formed a band, Divine Fits have been on everybody’s radar and rightfully so. Though its members are highly influential in the indie music world, this is not your typical “supergroup,” and that was proven

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  1. The Joy Formidable Play Los Angeles’ Mayan Theater March 14 UK-based trio The Joy Formidable has spent a lot of time on the road since it released its critically acclaimed 2011 debut LP, The Big Roar. And by looking at the group’s sold out shows in San Francisco, Boston, and...
  2. Fitz and the Tantrums Play Two Sold Out Shows at The Regency Los Angeles-based Fitz and the Tantrums are a band that has quickly jumped onto the music radar following their 2008 debut. Hearing their sound may have you wondering if you had recently taken a trip Back to the Future with...
  3. And the Winner of the MTV VMA L.A. Breakout Artist Is….The Divine! Last night at The Music Box in Hollywood, three Los Angeles bands competed for the coveted title of ‘MTV VMA L.A. Breakout Artist’. The artists included rock/hip hop duo The Divine, power pop quintet It Boys (recently featured in an...
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  1. Album Review: Parallels, XII Canada seems to be the breeding ground for crunchy electro pop these days, and Toronto-based Parallels may be one of the groups that helped start it all. The synthpop trio formed in 2008, when Cameron Findlay, the former drummer of...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-sharliza-jelita-strange-things/feed/ 0 The Helio Sequence Announce New Album And Tour Dates http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/the-helio-sequence-announce-new-album-and-tour-dates/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/the-helio-sequence-announce-new-album-and-tour-dates/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:04:18 +0000 It’s been a quiet few years for Portland, Oregon-based duo The Helio Sequence. The two-piece, comprised of singer/guitarist Brandon Summers and drummer Benjamin Weikel, have released four studio LPs, the last being 2008’s Keep Your Eyes Ahead. In the four years since the electro-folk-pop outfit’s last album, the guys have kept a low profile, but

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  1. Milo Greene Announce Headlining Tour + Album! Though the band has yet to release a proper album, Milo Greene has been busy nestling into the niche it made itself beside fellow Los Angeles psych/folkers Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros and Local Natives. The quintet has already...
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