Oooh Baby Baby!

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Georgia’s Baby Baby isn’t playing around with Money, released today. On the surface, this band looks and sounds like every wild party’s soundtrack: loud, guitar-driven rock with somewhat slurred lyrics. And it’s true that Baby Baby would make the perfect backdrop to a raucous college shindig, kegs and all.

Weekend Playlist – May 20, 2011

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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 13, 2011

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Start your weekend off right with music from artists featured this week on BestNewBands.com “The Dead Dog” – Portugal. The ManClaire Gallagher reviewed P.tM’s recent show at the House of Blues in Anaheim.

Beth Willis: Worth the Drive

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Perusing the concert listings for this weekend, I came across a name I recognized from my high school days. Beth Willis was a year or two ahead of me at Beaverton High School. I wouldn’t say we were friends. I knew her from the many drama productions I watched. She was an amazing singer and

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Weekend Playlist – May 6, 2011

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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.

Q & A with Mental Hygiene

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At Mental Hygiene’s first show in quite some time, I caught up with the ladies from Mental Hygiene and chatted with them about where they’d been and where they’re going. Liz Livengood: Hi I’m Liz with Best New Bands and I’m here with Mental Hygiene, I just watched their show at the Tonic Lounge. It

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The Extraordinaires: Oom-pop-tastic!

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‘Oom-pop’ comes alive in the latest album from The Extraordinaires, The Postcard EP.  What is Oom-pop? Think back to all those old movies and musicals, when circuses would travel from town to town. Remember the distant ‘oom-pah, oom-pah’ that echoed from afar as the troupe rolled into town? That’s what The Extraordinaires have created- the

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