Kick off your pre-Valentine’s (or Singles Awareness) Day weekend with songs from some of the artists we’ve featured this week. “There’s Nothing For Me Here” – Range Rover On Sunday, Liz Livengood caught up with this San Diego trio, and even posted this song as a free download at the bottom of her post.
Smart, jazzy piano-driven pop is The Sound Of Growing Up. Justin Kao’s Boston band releases its debut EP today, Drifting, a short yet powerful collection of songs filled with punchy vocals, ukelele and horns. The sound is simple, and yet the simplicity is the beauty. It’s honest and bare, kind of like we all are
The boys of San Diego’s Range Rover took a moment out of their time working on their debut album to answer some of my burning questions about their eclectic sound, their multi-layered tracks and their musical process. Also in this post: A new song, “There’s Nothing For Me Here” for your listening enjoyment. Look for
Welcome to another weekend! Start it off right with music from the artists we’ve featured this week at BestNewBands.com. “Steel My Heart” – The Angry Orts Liz Livengood got a chance to sit down with The Angry Orts before their show at The Woods in Portland last Saturday. Read the rest of Liz’s post here.
Listening to the alt-country duo The Civil Wars’ debut album put me through the emotional wringer. Joy Williams and John Paul White write and perform heart-wrenching duets full of breathy vocals accompanied by sparse acoustic instruments. With voices like theirs that harmonize so beautifully, that’s all they really need. The subject matter of the songs-
Hello, BestNewBands.com readers! Ready for the weekend? Yeah, we are too. To aid you in your musical pre-funking, here’s a look (and listen) back on what we featured this week. “Livin’ The Dream (I’m On A Float)” – Super Mash Bros. Kristina Villarini caught the mash-up artists at Irving Plaza in New York this weekend,
Range Rover, a trio of teens from San Diego, CA are hard at work on their sample-filled, experimental synth pop debut album. You hear ‘sample’ and you think “oh no, another DJ record,” right? Wrong. Range Rover is unabashedly original, incorporating the weirdest noises into densely layered mini-symphonies that please the mind for their pure
Yesterday I caught up with Madison, who recently released installment one of four of her EP series, The Noise Some People Make. As mentioned before, Madison left her studies of neurology and psychology to pursue her pop ambitions. The coolest thing about Madison is that she is writing, recording and producing her records on her
Happy Friday! It felt like it would never get here, huh? Before you start your weekend, listen to the latest compilation of music from the artists we’ve featured last week on BestNewBands.com. “Hook, Line & Sinner” – Texas in July Lauren Novik started the weekend off by interviewing metal-based Texas in July. Here’s some of
Van Go Lion, an exciting electropop duo from Portland, are in the process of recording their first full length album. Amy Paige and Josh Loerzel met a couple years back when Amy put an ad on Craigslist looking for a band to sing with. Pure pop perfection was born when Amy and Josh met, and