Best New Bands » Panda Bear 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: Animal Collective, Centipede Hz http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-animal-collective-centipede-hz/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-animal-collective-centipede-hz/#comments Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:18:32 +0000 What happens when a band hits its peak? In the case of Animal Collective, the answer is reverting back to the past. The most obvious indication of going back to the old days is the return of Deakin, the band’s keyboardist/percussionist/sample-maker/electronics whiz. As a quartet, the band agreed to move back to its hometown of

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  3. Top-5 Albums of 2011 – Kelly Knapp Editors Note: As a special for the last week of 2011, BestNewBands.com is running lists of our writer’s top-5 albums of 2011. Because it’s the end of the year and because we want to find out what our writers really...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/top-5-albums-of-2011-chris-castro/feed/ 0 Le Guess Who Announces 2011 Festival Lineup http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/le-guess-who-announces-2011-festival-lineup/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/le-guess-who-announces-2011-festival-lineup/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:40:34 +0000 From November 24 – November 27 2011 the fifth edition of music festival Le Guess Who? takes place in Utrecht, Holland. Le Guess Who? is located in the Utrecht city centre. Bands and artists perform throughout the city in different indoor locations like Tivoli Oudegracht, Tivoli de Helling, EKKO, dBs, Acu and RASA. Le Guess

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