Best New Bands » moving units 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 Weekend Playlist – May 6, 2011 http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/weekend-playlist-may-6-2011/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/weekend-playlist-may-6-2011/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 14:00:00 +0000 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. Lauren wrote, “Well we’ve officially sprung into Spring and

Continue Reading →

The post Weekend Playlist – May 6, 2011 appeared first on Best New Bands.

Related posts:

  1. Weekend Playlist – Jan. 28, 2011 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...
  2. Weekend Playlist – Feb. 18, 2011 Kick off your weekend with music from artists featured this week on BestNewBands.com. “Be My Girl” – The Smith Westerns Over the weekend, Leif Roswold caught The Smith Westerns at The Echo in L.A. The sold-out show attracted Hollywood hipsters...
  3. Weekend Playlist – Jan. 14, 2011 Today’s Playlist includes a little bit of everything BestNewBands.com has featured this week, from folk to punk-rock to dubstep – everything your music-loving hearts could desire! Listen and enjoy… “Shoeshine” – Black Taxi In this weekend’s BackStory Bonus, the guys...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/weekend-playlist-may-6-2011/feed/ 0 Go see Crystal Stilits and Moving Units at the LA Natural History Museum this Friday! http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/go-see-crystal-stilits-and-moving-units-at-the-la-natural-history-museum-this-friday/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/go-see-crystal-stilits-and-moving-units-at-the-la-natural-history-museum-this-friday/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 14:00:00 +0000 Moving Units This Friday, Los Angeles-based Moving Units and Brooklyn’s Crystal Stilts will perform as part of the continuing “First Fridays” series of musical performances at The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Moving Units is a dramatic, glamorous synthrock band fresh from Coachella and a recent venture with TOMS shoes , while Crystal

Continue Reading →

The post Go see Crystal Stilits and Moving Units at the LA Natural History Museum this Friday! appeared first on Best New Bands.

Related posts:

  1. Show Preview: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble at Natural History Museum Who’d think that a museum full of fossils four billion years old would host artists fresh from the underground? Yet Los Angeles’ Natural History Museum’s “First Fridays” series continues to juxtapose the two, making good on its claim of being...
  2. Album Review: Moving Units, Tension War EP Genre: Electronic/Rock   Sounds like: part Of Montreal, a bit of Franz Ferdinand maybe, and a whole lot of originality I enter Moving Units’ new EP, Tension War, with a somewhat tabula rasa mindset.  I know nothing of Moving Units outside...
  3. Watch The Boxer Rebellion in Brooklyn, NY, Friday! After two impressive dates in NYC’s Mercury Lounge in 2011, and selling out the Bowery Ballroom just this week, it is strange to watch people take notice of The Boxer Rebellion‘s brand of international-alternative rock. After an appearance in Drew...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/go-see-crystal-stilits-and-moving-units-at-the-la-natural-history-museum-this-friday/feed/ 0 Weekend Playlist – Feb. 18, 2011 http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/weekend-playlist-feb-18-2011/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/weekend-playlist-feb-18-2011/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:00:00 +0000 Kick off your weekend with music from artists featured this week on BestNewBands.com. “Be My Girl” – The Smith Westerns Over the weekend, Leif Roswold caught The Smith Westerns at The Echo in L.A. The sold-out show attracted Hollywood hipsters as well as a few celebrities (hello, Alexander Skarsgard!). Leif wrote, “I was excited for

Continue Reading →

The post Weekend Playlist – Feb. 18, 2011 appeared first on Best New Bands.

Related posts:

  1. Weekend Playlist – Jan. 14, 2011 Today’s Playlist includes a little bit of everything BestNewBands.com has featured this week, from folk to punk-rock to dubstep – everything your music-loving hearts could desire! Listen and enjoy… “Shoeshine” – Black Taxi In this weekend’s BackStory Bonus, the guys...
  2. Weekend Playlist – Feb. 4, 2011 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...
  3. Weekend Playlist – Feb. 11, 2011 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,...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/weekend-playlist-feb-18-2011/feed/ 0 Album Review: Moving Units, Tension War EP http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-moving-units-tension-war-ep/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-moving-units-tension-war-ep/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Genre: Electronic/Rock   Sounds like: part Of Montreal, a bit of Franz Ferdinand maybe, and a whole lot of originality I enter Moving Units’ new EP, Tension War, with a somewhat tabula rasa mindset.  I know nothing of Moving Units outside of seeing them on the Coachella 2011 line-up (they play Friday, April 15th. Add that

Continue Reading →

The post Album Review: Moving Units, Tension War EP appeared first on Best New Bands.

Related posts:

  1. Album Review: “False Priest” by Of Montreal Whenever psychedelic pop sextet Of Montreal churns out a new album, it’s usually another fluid trip through ingenious musicianship, quirky transitions, and unbridled emotion. On their new album, False Priest, front men Kevin Barnes has constructed another rambunctious collection of...
  2. What’s in a Name?- The Crystal Castles (II) Album Review When Crystal Castles was done crafting their second full-length album, they felt no need to come up with an original album name. The 14 hypnotic tracks speak for themselves, and the Canadian dance duo can self-title every single one of...
  3. Album Review of Jesca Hoop’s Hunting My Dress After I saw Jesca Hoop perform a few weeks ago at The Music Box in Hollywood, I couldn’t seem to get her voice out of my head (for the full BnB review and interview with Jesca, click here). What’s truly...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-moving-units-tension-war-ep/feed/ 0