Best New Bands » lykke li 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 Sunday Preview: New Bands At Outside Lands http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/sunday-preview-new-bands-outside-lands/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/sunday-preview-new-bands-outside-lands/#comments Sat, 09 Aug 2014 18:27:48 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=18200 San Francisco – Outside Lands provides amazing food, countless libation options, and of course, a slew of new and exciting bands waiting to be discovered.  We’ll be there taking it all in and reporting back on the goings-on around Golden Gate Park during this annual celebration of music, food, and good times in the Bay

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  1. 3 Great New Bands To See On Friday At Outside Lands Photo By Jeff Kravitz San Francisco – Outside Lands, San Francisco’s great outdoor music and arts festival starts on Friday. 60,000 people show up at Golden Gate Park to see scores of bands and enjoy some of the best food...
  2. Outside Lands: New Bands We Liked On Sunday Music festivals are the Jackson Pollock paintings of the concert-going experience: both are messy, frustratingly incoherent and unmercifully overwhelming affairs.  Yet, under the right conditions or at a certain angle or with the help of questionable substances/chemicals/beverages flowing through the...
  3. 3 New Bands You Can’t Miss At Outside Lands San Francisco – We’re in the thick of festival season and this weekend brings one of the best festivals for new bands. Outside Lands offers a broad spectrum of acts from different genres over four main stages, while in addition...
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  1. Record Store Day Is This Saturday. Here Are Five Awesome Releases You Need To Pick Up. If you’re not one of the lucky ones going to Coachella, fear not, for Record Store Day 2012 is here. (Now that I think about it, even if you will be in the desert this weekend there’ll be a tent...
  2. Album Review: Of Monsters and Men, My Head Is An Animal Of Monsters and Men, a clever play on Of Mice and Men are a fun band. They exude fun, there’s really no better way to put it. They’ve been all over our site recently and with good reason. The group’s...
  3. 5 New Bands To See At Coachella Over the past week, we’ve showcased the best new bands to check out at Coachella. Instead of our usual Artist of the Week, we’ve decided to mix it up a bit in honor of one of the biggest festivals in...
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  1. Jonquil Added to Sold Out Snow Patrol Show In NYC “brainy pop music is having its day in the sun” - BBC Music   “I was so thrilled to come across Jonquil’s ‘Point of Go’… I recommend it highly.” - USA TODAY   Watch Jonquil’s Take Away Show performances of “It’s My...
  2. 5 Must-See Bands On The Coachella Undercard So you’re going to Coachella! If you’re anything like me, you’re probably stoked as a surfer staring at the perfect swell about seeing Radiohead live, but you’re praying they don’t imitate their latest release, The King of Limbs and leave...
  3. 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...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/new-bands-to-see-at-coachella-miike-snow/feed/ 0 11 Shots From Lollapalooza We Didn’t Have Room For The First Time http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/11-shots-from-lollapalooza-we-didnt-have-room-for-the-first-time/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/11-shots-from-lollapalooza-we-didnt-have-room-for-the-first-time/#comments Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:32:20 +0000 Our Daniela Montelongo spent three days shooting the fun at Lollapalooza. She sent back so many great shots, that we couldn’t use them all. So here are some of the great photos we didn’t have room for the first time. We’re at Outside Lands in San Francisco and The Wilderness Festival in the U.K. this

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  1. BESTNEWBANDS.COM GETS A LITTLE DIRTY WITH FOXES AT THE VIPER ROOM! There are very few times I get amped on an entire lineup- but last night Friday, July 30, 2010- The Viper Room in Los Angeles rocked my world.  Dirty Sweet (made up of Ryan, Nathan, Chris, Christian, and Jeremy) and...
  2. Dirty Penny Sticks It To The Man At The Viper Room on 7/20/10! The Viper Room in Los Angeles was complete insanity last night when kids suffering from the inevitable quarter-to-midlife crisis’ and everything in between came to rock, roll, and stick it to the man at the famous Sunset Strip locale. I mean,...
  3. Lollapalooza Lineup Announced- Let’s Get Amped! So since apparently I can’t live in the now- I only live in the future, set your delorean to 88mph’s and catch up because we all need to get amped for this year’s LOLLAPALOOZA!!!! Aside from strong and steady headliners...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/11-shots-from-lollapalooza-we-didnt-have-room-for-the-first-time/feed/ 0 Lollapalooza Day 2: My Morning Jacket – Lykke Li – The Pretty Reckless – Local Natives – The Drums – The Chain Gang Of 1974 – Black Lips http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/lollapalooza-day-2-my-morning-jacket-lykke-li-the-pretty-reckless-local-natives-the-drums-the-chain-gang-of-1974-black-lips/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/lollapalooza-day-2-my-morning-jacket-lykke-li-the-pretty-reckless-local-natives-the-drums-the-chain-gang-of-1974-black-lips/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:05:33 +0000 Looking awesome while playing good music was the common theme I noticed during my second day at Lollapalooza. I started it off by swinging by the Black Lips set. While I watched a bottle of Jameson be placed on the stage for the intended mid show consumption by the band for this early afternoon set

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  1. Wallpaper and The Chain Gang of 1974 Rock Pershing Square in Downtown LA Last night downtown Los Angeles was ablaze with the lights and sounds of Pershing Square, an outdoor venue home to a series of summer concerts. The grassy area surrounding the elevated stage was filled with all manner of folk and...
  2. Q and A with The Chain Gang of 1974 When I first saw The Chain Gang of 1974 (CGO1974), the product of producer Kamtin Mohager, I was absolutely blown away! This experience happened in October of 2010 when CGO1974 were opening up for Candy Claws at the Rickshaw Stop...
  3. The Chain Gang of 1974 Drops Heat with Wayward Fire   It is no surprise that Wayward Fire has been looping through my iPod over the past few days, as I am huge fan of the recent resurgence of lyrically driven electronic music. Multi-instrumentalist producer Kamtin Mohager (The Chain Gang...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/lollapalooza-day-2-my-morning-jacket-lykke-li-the-pretty-reckless-local-natives-the-drums-the-chain-gang-of-1974-black-lips/feed/ 0 The Weekend Playlist: Kelly Montgomery’s Summer Mix http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/the-weekend-playlist-kelly-montgomerys-summer-mix/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/the-weekend-playlist-kelly-montgomerys-summer-mix/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:00:00 +0000 This weekend I share with you a playlist of songs that give me that warm, happy, what-a-perfect-day feeling. These are the songs that make me smile, close my eyes, and soak up the sun without a care in the world. This playlist is meant for a day of lounging around and enjoying the summer with

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  2. Show Preview: The New Pornographers in Portland this Friday! The New Pornographers are a unique blend of big personalities and even bigger musical talent. Despite logic, the star-stacked group consistently makes catchy, chorus-heavy pop-rock tunes to please the indie masses. They have just released their fifth album, “Together,” which...
  3. Tonight: The Dance Party, chicks in bikinis For those that haven’t sampled the ’00′s response to the ’80s, tonight is the night for you, because The Dance Party is playing another show at Crazy Girls, which is something of a strip club, but it can hardly be...
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