10 New Bands to See at Pitchfork 2016

Pitchfork Music Festival - BEST NEW BANDS

Chicago – While for most people July triggers images of fireworks, American flags, grilling, and BBQ, for music festival junkees, this wonderful month ushers in thoughts of relaxing with a nice Goose Island beer, on the baseball field in Chicago’s Union Park, while listening to some of the best new bands around, at one of

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Watch Milky Chance’s Tour Documentary

Milky Chance

New York - German duo Milky Chance took the world by storm with the infectious song  “Stolen Dance,” which went viral with over 254 million views on YouTube and over 273 million streams on Spotify. Milky Chance is comprised of singer and guitarist Clemens Rehbein and producer slash percussionist Philipp Dausch. In 2015, the two, along with guitarist and harmonica genius Antonio

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Civil Twilight Debuts Ethereal Rendition of “Dancing With Myself”

Civil Twilight - Best New Bands

New York - South African rock band Civil Twilight released a haunting yet beautiful cover of Billy Idol’s ”Dancing With Myself.” The four-piece also announced an acoustic re-release of the band’s phenomenal third album Story of an Immigrant, via Wind-up Records on July 15th. Civil Twilight has been touring in support of the album the past month, including festivals performances

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Sunflower Bean Finds the Power in Three

Sunflower Bean by Corey Bell for Best New Bands

San Francisco – Three is a powerful number. Now, I’m no numerologist, so I can’t explain the scientific or divine properties these mundane and otherwise ordinary entities contain, though I do know that practically everything can be expressed in numbers, in some way. The number three seems to hold a certain degree of influence — in language, in mathematics,

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Glastonbury 2016: Day Four Coverage

Glastonbury by Maja Smiejkowska for Best New Bands

Somerset, UK – Sunday morning. Forgive me for starting with the weather once more. Thankfully, there had been no overnight rain at Glastonbury to speak of, yet ground conditions remained extremely muddy, and we were in for a largely overcast day with showers expected later. Of course, the weather is pretty fundamental to festivalgoers’ experiences, whether they are

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Glastonbury 2016: Day Three Coverage

Glastonbury by Maja Smiejkowska for Best New Bands

Somerset, UK - Those Glastonbury campers who were actually in bed rather than partying at Shangri La didn’t get a great night’s sleep, woken by heavy overnight rain drumming on tents, followed by more early morning precipitation. It hardly dampened spirits; though, the result of the EU referendum still weighed heavily. An opinion poll by The Times

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Glastonbury 2016: Day Two Coverage

Glastonbury by Maja Smiejkowska for Best New Bands

Somerset, UK – Glastonbury Festival kicked off for real on Friday after campers woke up to sunny intervals vying with overcast skies and a muddy terrain, though no worse than it was the day before. All the stages opened today so festival goers were hit with those “mission impossible” schedules. A high class problem. Talking of problems, this

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Glastonbury 2016: Day One Coverage

Glastonbury by Maja Smiejkowska for Best New Bands

Somerset, UK - 2016′s Glastonbury Festival opened its gates on Wednesday followed by tales of up to 12 hour queues to get onsite, along with the combination of rain and people on already well-watered land, turning the lush pastures of Worthy Farm into a familiar quagmire. The weather was kinder to early festival goers on Thursday but less so to those

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