Best New Bands » James Taylor 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 Concert Review: Dawes Plays L.A.’s Orpheum Theater http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/concert-review-dawes-plays-las-orpheum-theater/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/concert-review-dawes-plays-las-orpheum-theater/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:00:00 +0000 On Saturday night, I got the chance to see a band called Dawes open up for Brett Dennen at the Orpheum Theater.  Walking in downtown L.A. to the brightly-lit theater, I realized there really was a world beyond the seemingly impenetrable haze of the city’s skyline, and I found myself excited to have discovered this—like

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/concert-review-dawes-plays-las-orpheum-theater/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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