Best New Bands » Night Moves 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 Night Moves Brings Twin Cities Spirit to the City by the Bay http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/night-moves-rickshaw-stop/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/night-moves-rickshaw-stop/#comments Wed, 18 May 2016 00:04:10 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=30864 San Francisco — I am constantly astounded at the sheer size of the United States. Most of the time, we aren’t really thinking about the big picture, just catching a glimpse of a map of the nation on weather reports here and there. We usually think about this country in terms of its fifty individual parts. When you’ve

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  1. Night Moves Talks ‘Pennied Days’ Los Angeles - This past March, Minneapolis-based psych-country group Night Moves proudly returned, after nearly four years, with sophomore LP Pennied Days (Domino Recording Co.), which features the songs “Denise, Don’t Wanna See You Cry” and “Carl Sagan.” On this latest effort, principal members...
  2. Night Moves Return With Magical ‘Pennied Days’ Los Angeles – The Minneapolis based group Night Moves triumphantly return, after nearly four years, with sophomore LP Pennied Days (Domino Recording Co.). The band’s first record, 2012′s Colored Emotions, was a collection of poppy, 70s vibrancy. It was nostalgic yet distinctive. It heavily wore...
  3. Petite Noir Made the Night Beautiful at Rickshaw Stop San Fransisco – “Life is beautiful.” This is a sentiment that floods the minds and hearts of bright-eyed optimists all over the world. Everything is relative, obviously, so there isn’t really any objective way to assess the quality of consciousness and existence....
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/night-moves-rickshaw-stop/feed/ 0 Night Moves Talks ‘Pennied Days’ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/night-moves-talks-pennied-days/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/night-moves-talks-pennied-days/#comments Mon, 09 May 2016 06:58:59 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=30676 Los Angeles - This past March, Minneapolis-based psych-country group Night Moves proudly returned, after nearly four years, with sophomore LP Pennied Days (Domino Recording Co.), which features the songs “Denise, Don’t Wanna See You Cry” and “Carl Sagan.” On this latest effort, principal members John Pelant (vocals, guitar) and Micky Alfano (bass) display a penchant for 70s and 80s rock.

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  1. Night Moves Return With Magical ‘Pennied Days’ Los Angeles – The Minneapolis based group Night Moves triumphantly return, after nearly four years, with sophomore LP Pennied Days (Domino Recording Co.). The band’s first record, 2012′s Colored Emotions, was a collection of poppy, 70s vibrancy. It was nostalgic yet distinctive. It heavily wore...
  2. Alex Casnoff of Harriet Talks American Appetite Chicago – L.A. indie rock band Harriet recently released the fabulous debut album American Appetite via Harvest Records. The album was produced by Sean O’Brien (The National) and Tony Berg (The Replacements) and “touches on themes of money, greed, power, and...
  3. Cult of Youth Continue to Cultivate Their Sound With ‘Final Days’ Los Angeles – Cult of Youth have just released their third full-length release for Sacred Bones this week.  Ominously titled Final Days, the record sees the five-piece band from Brooklyn reaching a full-realization of their evolving blend of post-punk and neo-folk. ...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/night-moves-talks-pennied-days/feed/ 0 Night Moves Return With Magical ‘Pennied Days’ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/night-moves-pennied-days-magical/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/night-moves-pennied-days-magical/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:17:51 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=29394 Los Angeles – The Minneapolis based group Night Moves triumphantly return, after nearly four years, with sophomore LP Pennied Days (Domino Recording Co.). The band’s first record, 2012′s Colored Emotions, was a collection of poppy, 70s vibrancy. It was nostalgic yet distinctive. It heavily wore its influence on its sleeves. On this latest effort, principal members John Pelant (vocals, guitar) and

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  2. Cult of Youth Continue to Cultivate Their Sound With ‘Final Days’ Los Angeles – Cult of Youth have just released their third full-length release for Sacred Bones this week.  Ominously titled Final Days, the record sees the five-piece band from Brooklyn reaching a full-realization of their evolving blend of post-punk and neo-folk. ...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/night-moves-pennied-days-magical/feed/ 1 Featured Artist: Night Moves http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/featured-artist-night-moves/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/featured-artist-night-moves/#comments Wed, 07 Aug 2013 08:20:49 +0000 It is the year 2009 and the Americana rock group known as Night Moves enters into existence. Joined together by guitarist and vocalist John Pelant, multi-instrumentalist Mark Ritsema and bassist Micky Alfano, this glittering trio who first met at Southwest High School in Minneapolis, struck indie-gold with their debut album Colored Emotions. Between early musical

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  2. Night Moves’ John Pelant Discusses Signing With Domino And How The Band Was Not Named After The Bob Seger Song With the amount of music constantly spewing from the Internet, it is rare to self-release an album and have it land in the hands of a major label, but Minneapolis-based freak folk rockers Night Moves were able to drop a...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/featured-artist-night-moves/feed/ 0 Night Moves On The Go in Austin http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/night-moves-on-the-go-in-austin/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/night-moves-on-the-go-in-austin/#comments Mon, 22 Jul 2013 04:06:42 +0000 Let us ask… 1. What would happen if Bob Dylan met MGMT? 2. Would we like this union or it is just too shocking to dream up? 3. Will we ever be prepared for the precarious alliance? Folks, it has happened. And we dig it. The result henceforth comes – the blessed odyssey of Night

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