Best New Bands » Newbie Awards 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 BestNewBands.com Announces Its 2013 Newbie Awards Winners http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/bestnewbandscom-announces-its-2013-newbie-awards-winners/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/bestnewbandscom-announces-its-2013-newbie-awards-winners/#comments Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:00:00 +0000 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:

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  2. Catching Up With The 2012 Newbie Awards Winners 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...
  3. 2013 Best New Album Nominees: Who Grabs The Newbie? There’s something for everyone in our Best New Album of 2013 Newbie Awards nominees. Frankly, the diversity of our writers’ musical tastes made this category pretty wide open and it was thus hard to narrow the list down to a...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/bestnewbandscom-announces-its-2013-newbie-awards-winners/feed/ 5 Catching Up With The 2012 Newbie Awards Winners http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/catching-up-with-the-2012-newbie-awards-winners/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/catching-up-with-the-2012-newbie-awards-winners/#comments Wed, 20 Nov 2013 05:43:54 +0000 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

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  3. 2013 Best New Album Nominees: Who Grabs The Newbie? There’s something for everyone in our Best New Album of 2013 Newbie Awards nominees. Frankly, the diversity of our writers’ musical tastes made this category pretty wide open and it was thus hard to narrow the list down to a...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/catching-up-with-the-2012-newbie-awards-winners/feed/ 1 BestNewBands.com Announces Its 2013 Newbie Awards Nominees http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/bestnewbandscom-announces-its-2013-newbie-awards-nominees/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/bestnewbandscom-announces-its-2013-newbie-awards-nominees/#comments Mon, 18 Nov 2013 02:00:00 +0000 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

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  2. 2013 Best New Female Artist Nominees: From A To Z 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...
  3. 2013 Best New Band Nominees: Who’ll Wear The Crown? Our Best New Band of 2013 Newbie Awards nominees are nicely split among men and women (since one band includes both).  While there’s no underlying message there, for our writers it just meant that 2013 was another kickass year for...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/bestnewbandscom-announces-its-2013-newbie-awards-nominees/feed/ 0 2013 Best New Male Artist Nominees: What’s In A Name? http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/2013-best-new-male-artist-nominees-what-s-in-a-name/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/2013-best-new-male-artist-nominees-what-s-in-a-name/#comments Sat, 16 Nov 2013 02:00:00 +0000 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. Our six nominees (in alphabetical order):  VOTING’S CLOSED – WINNER ANNOUNCED SOON  

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/2013-best-new-female-artist-nominees-from-a-to-z/feed/ 1 Congratulations To Newbie Award Nominees Alabama Shakes, Frank Ocean and The Lumineers On Their Grammy Nods http://www.bestnewbands.com/newbie-awards/congratulations-to-newbie-nominees-alabama-shakes-frank-ocean-and-the-lumineers-on-their-grammy-nods/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/newbie-awards/congratulations-to-newbie-nominees-alabama-shakes-frank-ocean-and-the-lumineers-on-their-grammy-nods/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:45:40 +0000 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

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