Best New Bands » Facebook 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 Artist of the Week Vol. 8: Kris Orlowski’s solo patio performance http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/kris-orlowski-artist-of-the-week/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/kris-orlowski-artist-of-the-week/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:50:35 +0000 You might remember Kris Orlowski from a BestNewBands.com feature back in May, when he performed for an audience at my home in Silverlake. He stopped by the house again on his way to San Diego last week, this time for a more intimate patio performance in my backyard. With humble beginnings as a solo singer/songwriter

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  1. Words and an impromptu in-home performance by Kris Orlowski I first met Seattle-based artist Kris Orlowski at the New Music Seminar back in February. We bonded instantly over the perilous state of the music industry and a shared affinity for sarcasm, and when I later visited his website I...
  2. 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...
  3. Neon Hymns – Artist of the Week Editors Note: Our Artist-Of-The-Week feature is on, a hopefully brief, hiatus. We plan to return to action by mid-October with a very special two part feature. Until then, we’re going to take a page from our television brethern and repeat...
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  1. Band on the Run: Interview with Ben Thornewill of Jukebox the Ghost Jukebox the Ghost has traveled many miles since they formed as a trio in Washington D.C. back in 2008. And I don’t just mean the metaphorical distance between their debut album and their recently released sophomore effort because it was...
  2. Miniature Tigers Interview: Bringing Modern Art Pop to Life Miniature Tigers are four busy cats. In addition to the nationwide tour they’ve embarked on in support of their second album Fortress (available here), the modern art/beauty pop foursome has received nods from the likes of Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly,...
  3. Interview with Elizabeth and the Catapult I admit, it was the name that originally piqued my interest in Elizabeth and the Catapult. But after listening to their Myspace page, I adored the group’s music as much as the thought-provoking moniker. When I got an opportunity for...
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  1. BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the Week of 7/4/11 Picked By: Claire Gallagher Who: The Crystal Antlers with Bleached, Bass Drum of Death, and Fidlar Where: The Echo, Los Angeles When: Monday, July 4th at 8:30pm (and every Monday in July) Cost: Free! Age Restrictions: 21+ *** pic by Philip Gadrow Picked By: Laurel Kathleen...
  2. BestNewBands.com’s Show Wish List: The shows we want to see this week & think you should, too The Bird and The Bee open for The Swell Season at The Hollywood Bowl this week. CALIFORNIA Los Angeles When:Monday, July 12th, 9pm Pacific Where: McWorld, 5011 W. Adams Blvd.; L.A. CA Who: David Liebe Hart & Adam Papagan, Three...
  3. LA Font Rocks The Echo! I showed up at the Echo last night- not entirely sure of what to expect, but ready to hear some good music.  LA Font did NOT disappoint when they graced the stage at ten sharp.  Think Nirvana meets the Fratellis...
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  1. Words and acoustic performance by The Californian The Californian is actually a quintet of Californians. Go figure! I met with four of the five members over the weekend at my house in Silverlake, and the first question I asked was about the name’s origin. We covered everything...
  2. Poolside interview with The Gromble The Gromble is pretty much everything you could want in a modern rock band: besides being proficient musicians and elegant, intelligent lyricists, they’re the kind of songwriters that know exactly how and when to satisfy and then exceed the listener’s...
  3. Band on the Run: Interview with Ben Thornewill of Jukebox the Ghost Jukebox the Ghost has traveled many miles since they formed as a trio in Washington D.C. back in 2008. And I don’t just mean the metaphorical distance between their debut album and their recently released sophomore effort because it was...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/interview-with-burial-at-sea/feed/ 0 Frankie of The Safes talks playing with family, their back catalog, and finding home on the road Updated! http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/interview-with-the-safes/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/interview-with-the-safes/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:14:59 +0000 “She’s So Sad” On The Safes‘ Facebook page, the Chicago-based trio describe themselves is described as “pop tunesmiths who play with punk rock intensity”(Go Metric). After a brief listen to the song and “She’s So Sad” above, it’s hard not to agree with them. Consisting of core members (and brothers) Frankie and Patrick O’Malley who

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  1. Here We Go Magic Talks Pigeons, Band Dynamics, and Why Festies Have More Fun Here We Go Magic is like an ambient/psych/folk/jam band. The mix of styles is diverse, and the group’s ability to create such a textured yet cohesive sound is like a salve for the eclectic at heart. In addition to extensive...
  2. Words with Adam Goldberg of The Goldberg Sisters (Updated!) Last week I reviewed The Goldberg Sisters‘ eponymous debut album, the recent musical venture of actor and filmmaker Adam Goldberg (for the full BestNewBands.com review please click here). The album was well-produced, creative, and accurately delivered on the project’s Facebook...
  3. BackStory: The Octopus Project’s “Catalog” This installment of BackStory features the story behind Austin, Texas’ The Octopus Project‘s song “Catalog.” And the photo of the band above was taken by Wiley Wiggins– and he directed the video below, too. He’s a man about the Austin...
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  1. Live Tweeting Tonight From Mini Mansions Show at The Bootleg!   Tonight I’ll be live blogging Mini Mansions‘ performance at The Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles. Last week I had the pleasure of reviewing their sophomore eponymous album (for the full BnB exclusive, click here) and I can’t seem to...
  2. Preview: Ana Tijoux & Nocando @ The Bootleg Theater Ana Tijoux will be playing LA’s Bootleg Theater on February 12 with Nocando. We’ve been following Ana for a while, and this is a show worth catching. When Cornell Wedge caught her in Washington DC last year, he had this...
  3. Joseph Arthur Kicks Off His Bootleg Residency! Living in Los Angeles you become inadvertently accustomed to the unusual.  I knew we were all in for something insane solely based on the various tricks and treats peppered across the Bootleg Theater’s stage.  After carefully assembling a large easel,...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/go-see-shana-halligan-at-the-bootleg-tonight/feed/ 0 Q&A with Alexei of Blind Willies http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/qa-with-alexei-of-blind-willies/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/qa-with-alexei-of-blind-willies/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:00:00 +0000 San Francisco’s Blind Willies is the kind of band whose music sharply divides listeners’ opinions almost instantly. While some might take that as a knock, I consider it a testament to the intensity and tenacity with which they explore their own boundaries. A heady mix of americana, blues, folk, and rock ‘n’ roll, their latest

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  1. Blind Pilot heads out on Fall tour of the West! Portland indie-folksters Blind Pilot have just announced a brief fall tour, the last one, they say, until a new album is fully recorded. The charming sextet will head out on a tour of the west this fall, ironically skipping Portland....
  2. Meet Tim of Ivan & Alyosha Ivan & Alyosha is a four-piece that began as a solo project for Tim Wilson a few years ago, quickly growing to include Ryan Carbary, Tim Kim, and Pete Wilson. I was at first intrigued by the blend of americana...
  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. “Everybody Knows” Jeremy Silver Rocked Hotel Cafe Last night Jeremy Silver rocked the Hotel Café with his CD release show, and the great turn out of fans, friends, and music fiends were not disappointed.  Silver waded his way through every track off his just-dropped “Everybody Knows” and...
  2. “Everybody Knows” Jeremy Silver Is An Artist To Keep On Your Radar! The music industry is insanely incestuous- artists collaborating with others and six degrees of seperation later you find out someone who’s produced an album you love is an insanely talented artist himself.  Case in point- L.A. Kids’ (Fight From Above)...
  3. Echo Lake Takes You On A Trip Bedroom-crafted tracks meet otherworldly vocals in an exciting new noise pop duo from England, Echo Lake. Echo Lake’s debut EP, Young Silence, is a dreamlike trip through strange worlds. One track can sound like you’re floating through the air on...
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  1. Alberta Cross’ Tuesday night residency at The Satellite Last night at The Satellite marked the third week of Alberta Cross‘ May Tuesday night residency. BestNewBands.com alums Chasing Kings performed right before the quintet, and I had a hard time discerning who the crowd was really there to see...
  2. Double Feature: The Parlotones at The Viper Room + Post Show Interview Walking into The Viper Room last night to see the much heard about and highly underrated (as of yet!) Parlotones- I had literally crossed into a whole other country, South Africa to be exact.  After parking in Siberia, Laurel Kathleen...
  3. Band on the Run: Interview with Ben Thornewill of Jukebox the Ghost Jukebox the Ghost has traveled many miles since they formed as a trio in Washington D.C. back in 2008. And I don’t just mean the metaphorical distance between their debut album and their recently released sophomore effort because it was...
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  1. Show Preview: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble at Natural History Museum Who’d think that a museum full of fossils four billion years old would host artists fresh from the underground? Yet Los Angeles’ Natural History Museum’s “First Fridays” series continues to juxtapose the two, making good on its claim of being...
  2. 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...
  3. Watch The Boxer Rebellion in Brooklyn, NY, Friday! After two impressive dates in NYC’s Mercury Lounge in 2011, and selling out the Bowery Ballroom just this week, it is strange to watch people take notice of The Boxer Rebellion‘s brand of international-alternative rock. After an appearance in Drew...
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