New York – BestNewBands.com has announced the winners of its 2013 Newbie Awards, to honor the year’s top new artists in a variety of categories, as determined by a poll of the site’s editorial staff and readers: Best New Band: Chvrches Best New Male Artist: Shakey Graves Best New Female Artist: Lorde Best New Album:
We didn’t know what to expect when we asked our writers one year ago to nominate their favorite new artists of 2012 for our inaugural Newbie Awards. In November, we identified the categories—New Band, Male, Female, Album and Song—and then waited for the nominations to come in. The diversity of the artists blew us away…after
Whew…the sound you just heard wasn’t a sigh. It was simply us catching our breath after tabulating the votes from our writers for the nominees of our second annual Newbie Awards, honoring the top new band, female, male and album of 2013. While there were some names that we fully expected to see—and did—there were others that
BestNewBands.com’s Best New Male Artist of 2013 Newbie Awards nominees reveals the tremendous musical diversity that’s being embraced today. Note to those hoping to establish themselves in 2014…get a stage name. And it apparently doesn’t hurt if you’re still in your teens.
It was a big year for young female singers and performers to establish themselves. BestNewBands.com’s Best New Female Artist of 2013 Newbie Awards nominees include a teenager and a pair of 21-year-olds and range, quite literally, from A-Z across a wide range of musical genres. Not surprisingly, many noteworthy performers received votes from our panel
On the heels of last night’s Grammy Awards announcement, we’d like to congratulate our Newbie Award nominees Alabama Shakes, Frank Ocean and The Lumineers for being recognized by the RIAA. In addition to the praise these artists received, let’s not forget the accomplishments by Lianne La Havas and Michael Kiwanuka, both of whom were finalists
Happy Monday! Allow us to help you start your week with our Mixtape #3, featuring tracks from all our Best Song nominees in the Newbie Awards, plus tracks from last week’s live review of Saskatchewan and Vensaire at Glasslands in Brooklyn, and Katrina’s favorite track from The Babies’ new album, which she reviewed. Bonus track:
We have announced the nominees for our inaugural Newbie Awards. The nominees were selected by our editorial staff. Leading the way with three nominations each among the five categories are Alabama Shakes and Divine Fits. Gary Clark, Jr., The Lumineers and Frank Ocean each have two. You can vote for your favorites via Facebook and
This year has been one of the best years for emerging female artists in recent memory. With hundreds of albums released and countless live shows, the choices were plentiful and there were many worthy of inclusion. However, with so many great choices, we could only pick five as finalists. The 2012 nominees for Best New
This year has been one of the best years for emerging bands in recent memories. With hundreds of albums released and countless live shows, the choices were plentiful and there were many bands worthy of inclusion. However, with so many great choices, we could only pick six bands as finalists. That being said, the 2012