Best New Bands » Flying Lotus 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 New Bands at Afropunk Fest Brooklyn 2016 http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-afropunk-fest-2016/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-afropunk-fest-2016/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:21:46 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=32678 Brooklyn – Every summer, since 2005, Afropunk Fest ascends on one of our favorite New York City boroughs: Brooklyn. The festival was named after James Spooner’s 2003 documentary Afro-Punk, and was created as a means to give people of color, but specifically black men and women, a safe space to build a community within the punk subculture. The

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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...
  2. 5 New Bands At FYF Fest – Day 1 Los Angeles – FYF Fest recovered from last year’s growing pains, giving festival-goers one of their most user-friendly events to date. Lines were relatively short, moving between the stages was quite a bit easier (though the walks are still a...
  3. 4 New Bands at Riot Fest 2015: Day 3 Chicago – The final day of Riot Fest was a beaut! The sun was shining, the mud was drying, the temps were rising, and the legendary Jimmy Cliff graced Douglas Park with his presence. (I know, right, Jimmy effin-cliff! His set was...
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  1. Album Review: Jesca Hoop, The House That Jack Built Though this is her third album, Jesca Hoop is still a relative unknown to many music listeners. What is known, and should who aren’t familiar should know, is that Hoop has hobnobbed with some of the biggest names in the...
  2. Album Review: Onuinu – Mirror Gazer It’s easy for a band or artist to find inspiration from a certain style of music, but how about creating an entirely new genre? That’s what Dorian Duvall did. Under the moniker Onuinu (pronounced on-you-in-you), the Portland-based multi-instrumentalist refers to...
  3. Album Review: Milk Music, Cruise Your Illusion In the heart of the grunge homeland, the great Pacific Northwest, grunge ain’t dead – it’s just evolved. Olympia, Washington’s Milk Music released its debut full-length album, Cruise Your Illusion, on April 2 and with it has channeled the Ghost...
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  1. Death Grips Sign to Epic, Offer New Video, Releasing Two Records in 2012 As a follow up to their critically acclaimed debut Ex Military, Death Grips will release two albums this year on Epic Records. The Money Store will be released April 24th and includes the new songs “Blackjack” and “Get Got”.   PREMIERE: “GET...
  2. Flying Lotus To Release New Album And Tour This Fall Flying Lotus will be releasing Until The Quiet Comes, the long-awaited follow-up to 2010′s Cosmogramma on October 2 on Warp Records. Composed, according to the rapper, as “a collage of mystical states, dreams, sleep and lullabies”, the new album has...
  3. T.R.I.P. with Ancient Sky at Death by Audio Tonight Ancient Sky Descend into the weekend tonight with psychedelic rock band Ancient Sky’s record release show for their latest LP, T.R.I.P.S., at Death by Audio. This album is certainly a trip, and I would expect their live show to be...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/more-cmj-2012-highlights-buke-and-gase-death-grips-and-flying-lotus/feed/ 0 The Gaslamp Killer Kills It At Red Bull Music Academy’s Show At Villain http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-gaslamp-killer-kills-it-at-red-bull-music-academys-show-at-villain/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-gaslamp-killer-kills-it-at-red-bull-music-academys-show-at-villain/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:32:23 +0000 This is one of the things that I love about Brooklyn – amazing art spaces hide in plain sight. During the day, it’s easy to pass what looks like another abandoned, empty warehouse with a garage door rolled down. Who knows what’s in there, if anything. Then at night, the door rolls up, a line

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  1. The Radio Dept. Kills at The Rock Shop’s One Year Anniversary Show Last night, The Rock Shop celebrated it’s one year anniversary. In the short time it’s been open, this 4th ave. hangout has made its way into the standard rotation of Brooklyn venues to see up-and-coming bands, ranking alongside Glasslands, Union...
  2. The Lumineers Transform Villain’s Into Their Own Concert Hall I am a true believer that music can change your mood for the better, and that’s exactly what happened this past Tuesday when I saw The Lumineers at Villan’s in Chicago. I was having “one of those days” when I...
  3. The Cribs’ In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull Now Streaming On Hype In two weeks, on May 15th, the Wakefield trio will release their fifth studio album, In The Belly of the Brazen Bull, via Wichita Records. Recorded between Abbey Road in London, Steve Albini’s EAR studio in Chicago, and David Fridmann’s Tarbox...
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  1. MusicFest Northwest Preview! Portland’s best music festival is back again! This will be year ten for MusicFest Northwest, the city-wide festival sponsored by the Rose City’s alternative weekly paper, Willamette Week. MFNW lets music fans run rampant through the city; all you need...
  2. Seattle’s Decibel Festival, a Preview Seven years ago music enthusiast Sean Horton founded the Decibel Festival in Seattle, bringing to life an exhibition of his passion. The identity of the festival was the electronic music scene and the effect of it, in a city that...
  3. Earshot Jazz Festival, a Preview A grand congregation featuring over 50 shows of the nations most acclaimed and promising jazz musicians will form in Seattle on October 15 and conclude 23 days later on November 7. The annual Earshot Jazz festival, established in 1984, has...
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  1. Maps & Atlases Set For International Tour and Album Release The Chicago-based math rock outfit, Maps & Atlases, recently announced a European and national tour set for this spring, in support of its upcoming full-length release, Beware and Be Grateful. The LP is the quartet’s sophomore effort, as well as...
  2. Dawes and Blitzen Trapper Release Free Tour Sampler EP for Upcoming Fall Tour 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...
  3. Video Preview: Fun. in the Studio for their New Album (Plus Fall Tour Dates Announced!) Breaking news, Nate Ruess fans!  Pop-rock trio fun. has a new album coming out next year and has recently released a video through Complex magazine previewing the currently untitled album.  The video features the band in the studio with producer...
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  3. Fresh Tracks for October 12th! Hand-selected by Kelly Montgomery The Moondoggies – It’s a Shame, It’s a Pity Here’s a standout song from the Seattle quartet’s second full-length album, out now on Hardly Art. The song builds up to a climactic stomping beat, complete with what sounds like a...
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