Best New Bands » kentucky 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 Featured Artist: Houndmouth http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/featured-artist-houndmouth/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/featured-artist-houndmouth/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:51:11 +0000 There’s a new breed of Americana that recently has sold itself as a genre to stick. Years ago we were lauding bands like The Felice Brothers and The Avett Brothers as innovative strikers-out from convention and inventors of classically beautiful music. Luckily, creation in this vein hasn’t ended there. Can you remember when you first

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/featured-artist-houndmouth/feed/ 1 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,...
  2. Grace Woodroofe on the Fire Within Emerging from the white water rapids of independent music like an old soul, is blues songwriter Grace Woodroofe. In a relatively short time, she’s been able to channel some of the most classic and substantial influences into finding the substance within...
  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 Sleeper Agent Wakes Up the Bootleg http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/sleeper-agent-wakes-up-the-bootleg/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/sleeper-agent-wakes-up-the-bootleg/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:33:16 +0000 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, fortunately, that’s exactly what I got. Walking into the old warehouse venue I could already

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  2. Races and Duniven Play Bardot in Hollywood Bardot–a Los Angeles club tucked into Hollywood’s dense layout–is swanky.  Swanky like an old-school mansion with dark weaving hallways, swanky like tentatively walking in on some exclusive party, unsure of where you belong.  Old friends met and chatted holding colorful...
  3. Natalie of Agent Ribbons talks tours, songwriting, and getting banned from the UK Agent Ribbons is a two- and sometimes three-piece all female band that defies categorization with the style and flair of true artists.  They’ve been described by themselves and others as garage, cabaret, baroque pop, and vaudevillian punk, but none of...
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