Nashville – The End is an intimate, favorite venue amongst the city’s natives. Attracting an array of different acts from young locals just starting out, to more seasoned musicians simply stopping by Nashville, The End is a preferred place to hear live music in Music City. However, it’s small, it’s gritty, and it’s dark. It’s
New York – In contrast with the title of his upcoming EP, Start Over, Nashville-based indie rocker, Julian Dente – known on stage by the moniker, YØUTH – is only just getting ready to really rev up his musical career. Following up a well received first single, ”Breathing Easy,” which reached nearly 100,000 plays on SoundCloud, the newest song now released from
Los Angeles – Evans The Death’s sound is an amalgam of influences from the past few decades, and the resulting product is a poppy, noisy set of tracks that are a logical addition to the seminal Slumberland Records’ discography. Led by the dynamic vocals of Katherine Whitaker and the songwriting of Dan Moss, Evans The
Jacco Gardner, the unexpected up-and-comer from Hoorn, Netherlands, has released a brand new music video for “Find Yourself” –the first single from his imminent second record, Hypnophobia. Though not his literal debut (Cabinet of Curiosities, 2013), Hypnophobia marks the artist’s first release with the reputable Polyvinyl. (Best New Bands picked Gardner as one of the “6 New Bands to See” during last year’s FYF
Los Angeles - Lower Dens, the indie rock quartet based out of Baltimore, MD, just released a second track titled, “Ondine,” from their upcoming third record, Escape from Evil. The album is due for U.S. street release on March 31 (March 30 in the rest of the world) via Ribbon Music. Lower Dens are Jana Hunter (lead vocals, guitar),
New York — Handsome Ghost, the hardly definable, “indie prom” band from Massachusetts, has just released their debut EP, Steps via Photo Finish/Republic Records. The six-track project is now available through digital retailers. This follow-up set to 2014′s well received “Blood Stutter” single, takes listeners on a sonic journey along the artistic vantage point of the band’s lead
Meg Myers, a fast-rising musician originally out of Tennessee, (last reported on by Best New Bands senior editor Sarah Hess as having put on a great show at 2014′s Lollapalooza,) is about to depart on a headlining tour that will begin at the end of the month and take her all the way into June and the starting
Los Angeles – Orange County, California singer/songwriter Nic Hessler has a new perspective on music and well, life too. About four years ago, the Captured Tracks artist known at the time as Catwalk was sidelined after being diagnosed with Guillain–Barré Syndrome, a rare autoimmune disorder often mistaken for Multiple Sclerosis. After leaving him partially paralyzed
Los Angeles – Jordan Corso is the LA-based singer/songwriter known as Cotillon. And for his set at The Echo last Thursday, he was joined by Bret Leinen (bass), Michael Mederios (drums) and Zachary Miller (guitar). (They were the second of three acts to perform, as Eleanor Friedberger was the night’s headliner.) Cotillon is a perplexing
Chicago – “It’s always fun to play a sold-out show. It’s like, ‘That’s tight!’” Marlana Sheetz of Milo Greene earned a few laughs and plenty of applause from the Chicago crowd for her 90s-esque commentary Thursday night. Sheetz and the rest of Milo Greene – Robbie Arnett, Graham Fink, Andrew Heringer, and Curtis Marrero –