Best New Bands » Nirvana 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 Japandroids Destroy San Francisco http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/japandroids-destroy-san-francisco/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/japandroids-destroy-san-francisco/#comments Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:33:53 +0000 The Independent in San Francisco holds 500 people. It is the premier small venue in the Bay Area. On Thursday, Vancouver sent their premier small band and the two converged in a symbiotic mind meld that turned San Francisco into a place where degenerates, punkers and drunkards were one. I knew Japandroids had a phenomenal

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