Best New Bands » Glass Animals 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 Treasure Island 2016 http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-treasure-island-2016/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-treasure-island-2016/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:40:27 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=33491 San Francisco – Every October, for ten years, concert fans in the Bay Area have been flocking to the Treasure Island Music Festival, a small oasis located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay promising a weekend filled with music and celebration. Plagued by several last-minute artist cancellations and a very rough period of

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  1. 6 New Bands to See at Treasure Island 2016 San Francisco – Well, it was a good run, but you can’t outrun the cruel hand of overdevelopment forever, it seems. That’s right folks: after ten years the Treasure Island Music Festival—billed as “the Festival in the Bay”—will be celebrating...
  2. 5 New Bands At Treasure Island – Day 1 San Francisco – Ah, Treasure Island Music Festival.  It’s such a glorious event: beautiful weather, no overlapping sets, minimal panic-inducing crowd swarms.  The annual two-day event is a great festival for locals, due to its conveniently close-to-everything location smack dab...
  3. 5 New Bands At Treasure Island Music Festival – Day 2 San Francisco – Sunday at Treasure Island 2015 started out much sunnier than the previous day, but the wind was constantly blowing throughout the day.  It was a much stronger breeze than Saturday’s, so much so that I could’ve sworn I...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-treasure-island-2016/feed/ 1 6 New Bands to See at Treasure Island 2016 http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/treasure-island-2016/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/treasure-island-2016/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2016 01:31:16 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=33384 San Francisco – Well, it was a good run, but you can’t outrun the cruel hand of overdevelopment forever, it seems. That’s right folks: after ten years the Treasure Island Music Festival—billed as “the Festival in the Bay”—will be celebrating its last installment on the island that gave this festival its name. For those who

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  1. 6 New Bands At Treasure Island Music Festival – Preview San Francisco – Well, it’s that time of year again: it’s fall in the Bay Area (at last!) and while a very dramatic El Niño is on its way to (hopefully) dump a ton of rain on the Golden State,...
  2. Recap: 4 New Bands At Treasure Island Festival San Francisco – This year’s Treasure Island Music Festival boasted one of the most interesting lineups of the year, promising sets from a lot of seasoned veterans across a multitude of genres, including OutKast, Massive Attack, TV on the Radio,...
  3. 5 New Bands At Treasure Island – Day 1 San Francisco – Ah, Treasure Island Music Festival.  It’s such a glorious event: beautiful weather, no overlapping sets, minimal panic-inducing crowd swarms.  The annual two-day event is a great festival for locals, due to its conveniently close-to-everything location smack dab...
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  1. Glass Animals at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland Portland – Glass Animals appeared on stage Tuesday night at Crystal Ballroom bathed in purple smoke and encouraged by a young and eager crowd. The band is known for their bouncy, danceable electronic music, gaining attention ever since their 2012...
  2. Glass Animals Shatter Their Own Audience Record At Emo’s Austin – One of the bands to watch in the upcoming year, Glass Animals is a force to be reckoned with. Outstanding on both their recorded album and in their live performance in Austin this past Wednesday, the group is...
  3. Glass Animals Debut LP ZABA Finds Contemporary Bliss in Calculated Madness San Francisco – In high school, I remember a few friends of mine and I had this crazy notion that we should start a band.  We failed, of course, but I couldn’t help thinking that other people must feel the...
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  2. 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...
  3. 4 New Bands Dazzle At Fun Fun Fun Day 1 Austin – Fun Fun Fun Fest definitely front-loaded its lineup. The five bands I wrote about played on Friday, along with Alt-J (who Best New Bands reviewed earlier this month), 2 Chainz, Dinosaur Jr., Death From Above 1979, Judas Priest,...
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  2. Live Review: Lord Huron At The Crystal Ballroom In Portland Portland – Lord Huron has fans. Thursday night’s sold-out show at the Crystal Ballroom only proved that fact. The venue was packed to the brim as they waited in anticipation, and as the band stepped on stage, the crowd clapped...
  3. England’s Glass Animals Release Self-Titled Debut EP Oxford, England-based Glass Animals have just released a self-titled EP–their first–on Harvest Records in the U.S.  Vocalist-producer Dave Bayley’s hypnotic sound is immediately apparent on lead track, “Psylla.”  (That’s a word we don’t recognize but a quick online search identified...
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  2. UK’s Glass Animals Slink Through The Shadows In San Francisco San Francisco – While the rest of the country was preparing for our annual celebration of independence from Great Britain, the City by the Bay was preparing for the UK’s own Glass Animals to invade and showcase their talents as...
  3. Glass Animals Rework Kanye West’s ‘Love Lockdown’ Bristol, UK - Glass Animals are pleased to unveil their reworking of Kanye West’s ‘Love Lockdown’. Having premiered the track live on Australia’s Triple J earlier this year, the band received an ecstatic reaction to it during their Glastonbury performance last month,...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/glass-animals-rework-kanye-wests-love-lockdown/feed/ 0 UK’s Glass Animals Slink Through The Shadows In San Francisco http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/uks-glass-animals-slink-through-the-shadows-in-san-francisco/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/uks-glass-animals-slink-through-the-shadows-in-san-francisco/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2014 20:53:38 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/wp_bnb/?p=17675 San Francisco – While the rest of the country was preparing for our annual celebration of independence from Great Britain, the City by the Bay was preparing for the UK’s own Glass Animals to invade and showcase their talents as Oxford’s new “it” band. After a promising set by San Francisco’s own electronic folk group

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  3. Glass Towers Make Their American Debut At The Bootleg Los Angeles – There’s always something magical about the first time in doing anything. This past Saturday, Australian rock band Glass Towers made their live American debut at the Bootleg Bar in Los Angeles. The excitement was palpable, making for...
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  2. Caged Animals Releases 2nd Album, Commences Tour Brooklyn-based songwriter Vincent Cacchione, who records as Caged Animals, has just released the group’s second album, In The Land Of Giants, on Lucky Number Music.  His band will support the effort with an 18-city US club tour this month with...
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