Best New Bands » of montreal 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 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

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  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...
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  2. BNBTV Spotlight: Gold Motel, “Safe in LA” BestNewBands.com In the wake of featuring The Goondas on BNBTV Spotlight, I stumbled easily from link to link on to a ton of bands playing on the Minneapolis/Minnesota music scene.  One of these bands was the glowing Gold Motel (actually...
  3. BNBTV Spotlight: thatwasthen, “Storymaker” BestNewBands.com In my opinion, it is a pretty unanimous sentiment that every audiophile’s favorite pastime is the good ol’, all-American car concert.  What sense of pride cometh when you finally get the hang of driving with your knee, enabling you...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/bnbtv-spotlight-phantom-tails-all-good-things/feed/ 0 Emil Hewitt, Both Halves of Emil & Friends http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/emil-hewitt-both-halves-of-emil-friends/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/emil-hewitt-both-halves-of-emil-friends/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Most of the time, Emil & Friends is just the genre-bending, time-traveling, pop-rock-electro-folk “produsingermusicianista” Emil Hewitt. Whatever he is, Hewitt’s production is spotless, and his melodies mellifluous. He has created an enthusiastic fan base, a fantastic EP, and a music video in which he rides a horse through Boston dressed in superhero tights. I got

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