Best New Bands » iTunes 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 Lady Danville Album Art Contest http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/lady-danville-album-art-contest/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/lady-danville-album-art-contest/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:33:49 +0000 GUYS. Everyone’s favorite down-to-earth, sweet-honey harmonizing Los Angeles band, Lady Danville (fresh off the release of their gorgeous new EP, Operating–listen below), is holding a album art design contest!  You, oh lucky one, get a chance to design the art for singles “Sophie Roux” and “Kids (MGMT Cover)” which are being released soon on iTunes. 

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  1. Concert Preview: Lady Danville Headlines a Sold Out Show at the Troubadour this Saturday Lady Danville, everyone’s favorite indie-rock-nerd-chic UCLA grads, returns to headline a sold out show at the Troubadour this Saturday, the 26th.  Lucky for me, I will be in attendance.  Lucky for you, this means a review will follow, so you...
  2. Concert Review: The Ladies Love Lady Danville Another night, another amazing concert. Let me just start by saying, I never cease to be blown away by the amount of talent abounding in the fine city of Los Angeles.  That said, I found myself once again at the...
  3. Lady Danville Returns to UCLA for Acoustic Coffee House Charity Benefit Show Last night, I made the quick jaunt up to the Covel Grand Ballroom on “The Hill” at UCLA (essentially, the heart of on-campus housing/dorm life/pajama-clad kids sipping coffee at 10 pm and giggling loudly) to see a concert held by...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/lady-danville-album-art-contest/feed/ 0 The Ross Sea Party – Artist of the Week http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/the-ross-sea-party-artist-of-the-week/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/the-ross-sea-party-artist-of-the-week/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:40:46 +0000 The Ross Sea Party is a Los Angeles-based quintet whose indie rock manages to house both the wisdom of age and the carefree spirit of youth. I listened to each one of their songs listed on Facebook for all of five seconds each before deciding that I simply must know more about such an intriguing

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  1. Q&A: Brady Erickson of The Ross Sea Party   Having been together since 2009, The Ross Sea Party has been dazzling crowds in the City of Angels with their infectious brand of indie-rock. The quintent has recently been in the studio gearing up for the release of a...
  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. Letting Up Despite Great Faults – Artist of the Week Interview with Matt and Mike of Letting Up Despite Great Faults Letting Up Despite Great Faults is the musical brainchild of Mike Lee, a project that he describes as both inspired by and steeped in nostalgia. Upon listening, it’s hard...
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  2. 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...
  3. Jeff Hershey and the Heartbeats – Artist of the Week Interview with Jeff Hershey Jeff Hershey might just be the savior of soul music. You might remember his band Jeff Hershey and the Heartbeats from a BestNewBands.com preview piece a few weeks ago, and their performance at The Troubadour proved...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/letting-up-despite-great-faults-artist-of-the-week/feed/ 0 Neon Hymns – Artist of the Week http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/neon-hymns-artist-of-the-week/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/neon-hymns-artist-of-the-week/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:23:27 +0000 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 a couple of our most popular installments. Enjoy. Introducing Neon Hymns, our fourth official Artist

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  1. OK SWEETHEART – Artist of the Week OK SWEETHEART–”Home” OK SWEETHEART is a modern band rooted in late 60′s pop, or what the band describes as “heartbreak pop”. Consisting of core members lead singer Erin Austin and Rob Gungor, the project also claims several BestNewBands.com alums as...
  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. Jeff Hershey and the Heartbeats – Artist of the Week Interview with Jeff Hershey Jeff Hershey might just be the savior of soul music. You might remember his band Jeff Hershey and the Heartbeats from a BestNewBands.com preview piece a few weeks ago, and their performance at The Troubadour proved...
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  1. Benvenue’s Lead Singer Francis Talks Classics, Guilty Pleasures, and Changing Band Dynamics Benvenue is a hard rocking quartet from the Bay area that began with lead singer Francis Blay and guitarist Sid Slater on the football field of the University of California Berkeley. The group recently released an eleven track album entitled...
  2. Jeremy Messersmith Live @ The Mint – Saturday, July 17 2010 Last night hipsters from various Los Scandalous area-codes hightailed it to The Mint to watch singer/songrwriter Jeremy Messersmith grace the joint with folk-pop akin to Death Cab For Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, and embellished with just enough 1960’s retro-pop to actually...
  3. Concert Preview: Lady Danville Headlines a Sold Out Show at the Troubadour this Saturday Lady Danville, everyone’s favorite indie-rock-nerd-chic UCLA grads, returns to headline a sold out show at the Troubadour this Saturday, the 26th.  Lucky for me, I will be in attendance.  Lucky for you, this means a review will follow, so you...
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  1. Fol Chen and Sister Crayon Light Up The Echo Last night, The Echo was for lovers. Couples held hands, sat in each other’s laps, and held each other up as they swayed to a melee of electronic and live sounds coming from the stage. It was the last night...
  2. Quick Change Artists El Ten Eleven and Sister Crayon at The Bootleg I caught El Ten Eleven back in Denton last winter, and I was amazed at how two people could create such a pleasant racket. I wondered: how can they walk around with all of that inside them? Are they constantly...
  3. “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...
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  3. 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...
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  3. 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...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/band-on-the-run-interview-with-ben-thornewill-of-jukebox-the-ghost/feed/ 0 Slang Chickens’ Monday night residency at The Echo: A must-hear for all http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/slang-chickens-monday-night-residency-at-the-echo-a-must-hear-for-all/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/slang-chickens-monday-night-residency-at-the-echo-a-must-hear-for-all/#comments Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:00:00 +0000 Slang Chickens is the kind of band that makes you want to start a band. Taking a very generous definition of “alternative”, the SoCal quartet combines alt-country, punk, post rock, and pop in ways that seem to redefine the very boundaries they are exploring. Last night at The Echo they began their February residency with

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  2. Hilly Eye Stand Out at Goodbye Blue Monday As far as venues like basements go, Goodbye Blue Monday is like someone’s lived-in basement that over time accumulated countless random thrift store knick knacks. A wall on one side of the stage is painted to look like it’s made...
  3. Turkuaz and Zongo Junction funk up the Echo Last night I saw something at The Echo that I had never seen before: the dance floor was being used as an actual dance floor! When I got there at 9:30pm, the small space usually reserved for stylish hipster crowds...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/slang-chickens-monday-night-residency-at-the-echo-a-must-hear-for-all/feed/ 0 Sarah Jaffe: On future plans and living in a town where she will never be cool http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/sarah-jaffe-on-future-plans-and-living-in-a-town-where-she-will-never-be-cool/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/sarah-jaffe-on-future-plans-and-living-in-a-town-where-she-will-never-be-cool/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:00:00 +0000 It used to be that one couldn’t live in the relatively small town of Denton, Texas without having heard of local singer/songwriter Sarah Jaffe. But now, it’s difficult to find a person in the indie music world who hasn’t run across her instantly recognizeable brand of dusky folk in the last year or so. Her

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