Start your weekend off right with music from artists featured this week on BestNewBands.com! “Say Goodbye” – Falcon Liz Livengood reviewed the band’s self-released album, Disappear.
Weekend Playlist – May 20, 2011
The Antlers Will Burst Apart In Brooklyn Tonight
Hot off of the release of Burst Apart, their second ‘concept’ album but fourth, full length LP, The Antlers will be taking the stage live and at home tonight at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York.
Fences Fills The Mercury Lounge With Beauty
When Christopher Mansfield and his band, the group known as Fences, stepped out of the dressing room to perform at The Mercury Lounge in New York on Friday evening and walked on stage, it’s as if it had been mere moments before that he’d tapped into the place that allowed him to create Fences, and
Baltimore, Get Ready for Fences
This Sunday evening, Chris Mansfield, aka the 27 year old singer/songwriter known as Fences, will be bringing his brand of indie melancholy to The Golden West Cafe. I interviewed Chris for BestNewBands.com last year (see the full interview here), and he had this to say about creating songs that have endings, “When I’m writing, I
Ideals: A Cocktail for Your Ears
Ideals are a melting pot of all the things I like in my music: brooding vocals, haunting lyrics and an aggressive sound that accurately replicates a live show on their EPs. After I received a late night text from someone who heard an Ideals song on their Pandora station, I immediately checked out their tunes
Weekend Playlist – May 6, 2011
Start your weekend off right with music from artist featured this week on BestNewBands.com “You Oughta Know” – Das Racist “Coming or Going” – White Arrows Lauren Novik highlighted the upcoming tenth anniversary of Sasquatch! Music Festival, which is held annually at The Gorge in WA.
An Horse: They’re Just Happy To Be Here
If I were to tell Kate Cooper or Damon Cox that I think they’re the “next big thing,” they would shake their heads and change the subject. It’s a part of their charm, but they also would rather genuinely not know. So far, the duo from Brisbane, Australia known as An Horse have toured with
BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the Week of 5/2/11
Picked By: Monica Christoffels What: Mallard Madness, featuring Yeasayer, A-Trak and RJD2 Where: University of Oregon main campus, Eugene OR. The event schedule has a map of each activity’s location. When: May 4-8. Event schedule can be found here. Cost: Free Age Restrictions: All ages
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s “Belong” Puts Them In Another League
Today, Brooklyn’s The Pains of Being Pure at Heart return with Belong, their second full-length effort. The band, who found critical success with whimsical and subtle guitar-led indie pop songs like “Higher Than Stars” and “Come Saturday” seem to have found their stride in this record, which is airy and open but maintains the whispery
The Sounds’ “Something To Die For,” Is Not
Few bands can do 80′s New Wave within the last decade better than The Sounds. It’s just one of those things that is kind of known within the music industry. The Swedish band’s brand of uber-catchy rock/pop, headed by vocalist Maja Ivarsson, have made the band incredibly popular and commercially viable since 1999 when they