Best New Bands » grunge 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 Album Review: Milk Music, Cruise Your Illusion http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-milk-music-cruise-your-illusion/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-milk-music-cruise-your-illusion/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:29:38 +0000 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 of Northwest Grunge Past (along with a few others genre ghosts, actually). Up until this

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-milk-music-cruise-your-illusion/feed/ 0 Sleeper Agent and Ben Kweller Rule the El Rey http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/sleeper-agent-and-ben-kweller-rule-the-el-rey/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/sleeper-agent-and-ben-kweller-rule-the-el-rey/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:14:05 +0000 Alright, I’m gonna come out and say it: Sleeper Agent is hot.  They’ve recently released their first kick-ass album, Celebrasion, they just played Coachella, they’re in the middle of touring their sweet Kentucky faces off, and, thanks to the band’s ruthless energy, they make it seem pretty effortless.  Now that that’s out, I have another

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  1. Sleeper Agent Wakes Up the Bootleg Driving to the Bootleg Theater last night, I was yawning the whole way there.  School had just started, and I had spent the past two hours reading Shakespeare (seriously…).  I was in serious need of a pick me up, and,...
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  3. 1776 Announce Debut LP, Spring Tour With The Dandy Warhols Self Titled Album Out June 5th on Beat The World Records / The End Records 1776 are a rock band from the small logging town of Longview, Washington. They are Nigel Ledgerwood, Christopher Cook, Mitchell Rupe, and Zach Whiton. For...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/sleeper-agent-and-ben-kweller-rule-the-el-rey/feed/ 0 The Young Evils Give The Hotel Cafe A Taste of Seattle http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-young-evils-give-the-hotel-cafe-a-taste-of-seattle/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-young-evils-give-the-hotel-cafe-a-taste-of-seattle/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:55:40 +0000 When we last checked in with Seattle’s The Young Evils, we were in rainy Wisconsin for PJ20 and they were opening for bands like Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age, The Strokes, Liam Finn, Joseph Arthur and others.  At the time they were a relatively new band, at least to the masses, the quintet

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