GUYS. Everyone’s favorite down-to-earth, sweet-honey harmonizing Los Angeles band, Lady Danville (fresh off the release of their gorgeous new EP, Operating–listen below), is holding a album art design contest! You, oh lucky one, get a chance to design the art for singles “Sophie Roux” and “Kids (MGMT Cover)” which are being released soon on iTunes.
Debut EP Full Hearts & Empty Rooms Out March 13th Announces SXSW Shows, LA Shows WIth Nic Harcourt Emma Louise is one of those people who were born to play music. She was the one who avoided math and science classes to teach herself guitar and write songs in the high school music room. It
Ideals were originally called It’s a Trap, which is a great name for Star Wars or Family Guy fan boys, but for everyone else leaves them wondering what the band might be referring to. As Ideals they’ve released a brand new seven song EP entitledLet Your Anger Leave You that is guitar centric, much more
British soul-singer Michael Kiwanuka is proud to announce the release of his newest EP, ‘Home Again,’ via Cherrytree/Interscope Records, on January 3rd 2012. The three-song EP will only be available digitally in the US. For full track-listing, see below. Following Michael’s introduction in 2011 with the ‘Tell Me A Tale’ and ‘I’m Getting Ready’ EPs
It’s not surprising if you haven’t heard of NO yet—the majority of the anthematic indie rock band’s friends hadn’t even heard of them until the last few months. That’s not to say the band is brand new; in fact, founders Bradley Carter and Sean Stentz started writing music under the moniker a year and a
Singer/songwriter/vocalist extraordinaire Jessie Baylin is coming out with a new record this January titled Little Spark. As a Thanksgiving treat to our loyal readers, we at BestNewBands.com have a special FREE EP that she recorded with Richard Swift in her house this past weekend. For those of you who don’t know Baylin, this is her
I find I encounter this issue frequently: I am going to a concert, and I range from vaguely familiar with to wholeheartedly obsessed with one of the bands, and am completely clueless about the opener or headliner or co-headliner or whatever other band. So here’s a novel idea–a tour sampler featuring glimpses of the bands
When we last left our friend, the affable Brit and the most ardent Arsenal supporter since Nick Hornby, Will Knox, he was playing a gig at the Hotel Café in Hollywood before heading back to New York to begin work on his latest project. In the interim, we caught up with Knox somewhere in North
Orange County-based piano songstress Emily Simonian’s is one of the better debut EPs you are going to hear. The singer/songwriter has been carefully crafting Pale Green for some time and the result is one of the early surprises of 2011. Simonian has one of the best natural voices out there. Her songwriting plays to her