Best New Bands » experimental 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 Hot As Sun Discusses Their Debut Album And Playing With Foster The People http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/hot-as-sun-discusses-their-debut-album-and-playing-with-foster-the-people/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/hot-as-sun-discusses-their-debut-album-and-playing-with-foster-the-people/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:18:21 +0000 Some people just have music in their blood, and it’s safe to say that Jamie Jackson is one of those people. Ever since she can remember, she has been singing—whether it be to the radio or as part her church choir—but the chanteuse didn’t publicly share her gift with the world until later in life.

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  1. Love Echo Discusses Their View On “Genres” And Their New Album   Vocalist Vicki Glass and producer Vic Miranda have only been making music together for nine months, but in that short amount of time the two have managed to create some impressively sensual, emotive dream pop (if you want to...
  2. Deleted Scenes Release New Album, Young People’s Church of the Air Today is the day for Deleted Scenes’ much-awaited new album, Young People’s Church of the Air. We previewed their single “Bedbedbedbedbed” that came out a few months ago, which also now has a video to go with it, (see below)...
  3. Lucius Talk NY, Style and Debut Album Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe have known each other almost ten years. They met in college through dorm mates and have been singing together since 2003. “We were lucky,” Holly says. “Second or third year we were at Jess’s house...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/hot-as-sun-discusses-their-debut-album-and-playing-with-foster-the-people/feed/ 0 A Conversation With Conveyor’s Timothy John Masters http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-conveyor-s-timothy-john-masters/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-conveyor-s-timothy-john-masters/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:11:57 +0000 Timothy John Masters, Evan Michael Harfield, G Alan Busch Jr., and Ryan Pedron have all been making music for years, just not together. After moving from Gainesville, Florida to Brooklyn, New York for their own personal reasons, the four musicians reconnected in the Big Apple to experiment with new material, and thus, Conveyor was born.

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  1. A Conversation With Blonds Cari Rae and Jordy Asher are Blonds. The Florida-based duo has been garnering interest in the blogosphere since self-releasing its debut EP, Dark Roots, last November. Since then, the two-piece trekked up north to New York to work with famed...
  2. A Conversation With The Staves The UK-based folk trio, The Staves, has been making a name for itself at a feverish pace. Although the outfit, consisting of sisters Emily, Jessica, and Camilla Staveley-Taylor, has yet to release a full-length album, it has already been signed...
  3. A Conversation with Yukon Blonde’s Jeffrey Innes In one incarnation or another, Yukon Blonde (formerly known as Alphababy) has been around since 2005, and in those seven years, the Canadian band has released a handful of EPs and two LPs, including this year’s Tiger Talk. The band...
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  1. Album Review: Of Monsters and Men, My Head Is An Animal Of Monsters and Men, a clever play on Of Mice and Men are a fun band. They exude fun, there’s really no better way to put it. They’ve been all over our site recently and with good reason. The group’s...
  2. Panda Bear’s “Tomboy” Is Worth Noticing Panda Bear has a lot to live up to. One part of Animal Collective, a band that now commands the respect of millions after people ‘suddenly’ began paying attention to Merriweather Post Pavillion, and one part indie darling, Noah Lennox...
  3. North Carolina Duo Brings The EAR PWR On Their Second Album On their second album, North Carolina natives EAR PWR’s sophomore effort explores an expansive set of auditory contours and certain themes that are due to the growth in their songwriting. Devon Booze’s homemade synthesizers make their debut on the duo’s...
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  1. Pssst! White Arrows Has A Gift For You!   I’m pretty judgmental when it comes to covering the classics- say, I don’t know- a Fleetwood Mac or Bruce Springsteen track.  My main criteria is, if you’re bold enough to attempt the cover- you need to make it your...
  2. Meiko Showcases New Material In Austin Having caught up on my sleep from the whirlwind that was SXSW 2012, I’ve had the chance to look back on the memorable performances of new bands from the festival. One that especially stands out was Meiko’s show at The...
  3. BESTNEWBANDS.COM GETS ABDUCTED BY WHITE ARROWS Now, usually I refrain from accepting invitations to the back of a van with two dudes, but two things put me at ease.  One, the van was not in fact, windowless.  Two, J.P. Caballero and Mickey from White Arrows were...
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  1. Get PSYCH-ed For Austin Psych Fest! So Spring Break is so five minutes ago which means it’s onto planning how you’ll be Spring-ing into the Summer festival season. Lucky for us Austin is getting us amped for the fourth annual Austin Psych Fest! Grab your closest...
  2. Festival Alert: FMLY Fest ‘Tis the season to be merry, and what better way to do so than rock out to some of the country’s best new bands. FMLY Fest is the third annual installment of the organization’s self-proclaimed “biggest, wildest, friendliest D.I.T. (do-it-together)...
  3. Live Review: Yawn impresses at The Empty Bottle in Chicago I’m a huge believer that the crowd is a main factor in live shows, however on certain special nights in certain venues bands can help bring you into their bubble where the sound is the only thing encompassing you. That...
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  1. New Tour Announcements from Matthew Dear, Bear In Heaven, Starfucker, and Deer Tick Matthew Dear U.S. Tour 10.14 Chicago, IL – Metro 10.15 Hamilton, Ontario – Red Mill Theatre 10.16 Toronto, Ontario – Wrongbar 10.18 Montreal, Quebec – Belmont 10.19 Boston, MA – Great Scott 10.20 New York, NY – CMJ 10.21 Philadelphia,...
  2. Delta Spirit Rock The Music Box and A Conversation With Matthew Vasquez At 11 pm on Wednesday night at the Music Box on Hollywood Blvd., San Diego-natives Delta Spirit took to the stage for their largest headlining show to date in the City of Angels. Having recently sold out the El Rey...
  3. A Sweaty Heavy Jam with JEFF the Brotherhood at Death by Audio JEFF the Brotherhood packed the sweaty punkers into Death by Audio to full capacity last night, where hell broke loose in the most reverb- and beer-soaked way. Right when the band played the first note, there was a clear and...
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  1. Focusing in on Deleted Scenes Before their show at The Rock Shop a couple weeks ago (that I reviewed here), I sat down with three of the guys from Deleted Scenes and picked their brains on what they think makes a good song, possible interpretations,...
  2. New Track: Deleted Scenes’ “Bedbedbedbedbed” “Bedbedbedbedbed,” the first single off Deleted Scenes’ forthcoming full-length Young People’s Church of the Air, which comes out in September. It’s an infectious broken love song, communicated through frontman Dan Scheuerman’s staccato lyrics, and driven by a double-kick drum groove...
  3. Deleted Scenes Close the Night at The Rock Shop Last night I found myself back at The Rock Shop in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. This venue has a great vibe to it, as well as tasty bar food upstairs to grab between sets downstairs. I had...
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  1. Hard Fest? More like Suck Fest. (Updated) Well, I don’t feel stupid anymore about buying tickets to San Diego’s Street Scene after already buying tickets to see Chromeo at Hard Fest/Hard Summer in LA. Why? Because Hard Summer didn’t happen. I drove to LA tonight with high...
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  3. The Big 4 Fest Is Over- Countdown To Sonisphere Begins! Blood spilling out of every orifice of a man’s body would seem like a welcome invitation to hit the emergency room full speed ahead- not behavior deserving of a high-five and a beer. Of course being that we were at...
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  1. Album Review: Moving Units, Tension War EP Genre: Electronic/Rock   Sounds like: part Of Montreal, a bit of Franz Ferdinand maybe, and a whole lot of originality I enter Moving Units’ new EP, Tension War, with a somewhat tabula rasa mindset.  I know nothing of Moving Units outside...
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  3. A Conversation With James Petralli of White Denim Sometimes a name can be an accurate way to describe a band. But with White Denim, it is not. Something as simple as, well, white denim, doesn’t do the band’s eclectic combination of garage rock, dub soul, alt-rock, country and...
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  1. North Carolina’s Troop 41 are Soldiers of the Game Billed as the “next big thing to come out of the Carolinas” Troop 41 are Tristian Brown (T-Breezy), Lelynd Darkes (Lil Lee), and Dakare Wilder (Lil Inferno). The trio met in 2005 during middle school in Raleigh, North Carolina and...
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