Best New Bands » Paul Simon 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: Crystal Fighters – Cave Rave http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-crystal-fighters-cave-rave/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-crystal-fighters-cave-rave/#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 17:02:18 +0000   Some albums encapsulate certain seasons and feelings, and Crystal Fighters’ sophomore effort, Cave Rave, does just that, begging to become the anthem of the summer, preferably during bonfires, road trips, and late night dance parties. The Spain-dwelling six-piece wrote the record during a two-month spell cooped up in the hills of Basque then headed

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  1. Crystal Fighters Tear Down The Echoplex Tuesday night marked my second venture to a Check Yo Ponytail 2 event, and just like my first experience, the night included energetic, electronic, dance-inducing acts, with Crystal Fighters as the headliner. Before this show, I honestly did not know...
  2. Crystal Fighters premiere a new video for “You & I” UK/Basque-based Crystal Fighters premiere a new video for “You & I”off forthcoming ‘Cave Rave’ LP due out May 28th. “You & I” draws the viewer in to a world where bohemian babes wade through tall grasses under a rainbow sky. Crystal Fighters’ signature romantic guitar plucking...
  3. What’s in a Name?- The Crystal Castles (II) Album Review When Crystal Castles was done crafting their second full-length album, they felt no need to come up with an original album name. The 14 hypnotic tracks speak for themselves, and the Canadian dance duo can self-title every single one of...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-crystal-fighters-cave-rave/feed/ 0 Harriet Ends Its Echo Residency With A Bang http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/harriet-ends-its-echo-residency-with-a-bang/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/harriet-ends-its-echo-residency-with-a-bang/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:45:15 +0000   One of my favorite things about the Los Angeles music scene is its residencies. Every month, a few magical venues host Monday (or in some cases, Tuesday) night residencies, in which one lucky (and well-deserving) local act is graced with the privilege of headlining once a week for a whole month (!!). During March,

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  1. Slang Chickens’ Monday night residency at The Echo: A must-hear for all Slang Chickens is the kind of band that makes you want to start a band. Taking a very generous definition of “alternative”, the SoCal quartet combines alt-country, punk, post rock, and pop in ways that seem to redefine the very...
  2. 10 Questions with Alex Casnoff of Harriet Chances are you haven’t heard of HARRIET or their recent single, “I Slept With All Your Mothers”, but Alex Casnoff, former member of Dawes is hoping that changes. He is a bit testy in the interview, but perhaps that is...
  3. Hunter Hunted Kicks Off March Bootleg Bar Residency With Body Parts And Aan   Los Angeles’ Bootleg Bar could not have chosen a better time to host a Monday night residency with Hunter Hunted. The Los Angeles-based duo of Dan Chang and Michael Garner made their television debut on Conan last week, and...
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  1. Album Review: RACES, Year of the Witch Los Angeles band RACES is hitting the scene with their first full-length album, Year of the Witch. Formed in 2009, RACES have distinguished themselves through their alternative, orchestral, rolling melodies and awesomely spastic moments of fuzzed-up, garage instrumentals. This LP...
  2. Album Review: Moving Units, Tension War EP 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...
  3. Album Review: Fleet Foxes’ Helpessness Blues A successful debut record can become both a blessing and a curse for an indie band that is trying to make a name for itself. A praised freshman effort is every musician’s dream, but with that comes an expectation to...
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  1. Jonquil: The Prettiest Flower In The Indie Bouquet Recipe for the perfect indie band: Start with beautiful voices that can sing the lowest lows and the highest highs. Stir in an assortment of instruments, most especially organs, harmonicas, trumpets and electronic keyboards. Add a dash of British flavor....
  2. Lost in the Trees: A Different Sound From A New Band “I’m just really drawn to the sound of big orchestra and different instruments, which has been around for a really long time,” says Ari Picker, the creative force behind Chapel Hill, NC based Lost in the Trees. “That’s the instrumentation...
  3. Q&A: Nick Goose As we reviewed last week, Nick Goose’s first solo EP is a winner. The Los Angeles-based musician brings his brand of indie-alt-rock to the table, blending material from his earlier bands with his own personal flavor. Bestnewbands.com chatted with the...
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  1. Words with Thousands: “What you hear is really what we are” photo by Victoria Holt I submitted some questions for the Seattle-based duo Thousands last week, and when I got guitarist/vocalist Kristian Garrard‘s responses I wanted to immediately write back with more questions for him and his counterpart Luke Bergman (The...
  2. Words with The Bewitched Hands of France photo by Melanie Elbaz French sextet The Bewitched Hands is a busy bunch. In addition to playing both CMJ and South by Southwest here in the US, they have plans to play several festivals in Europe over the summer. They recently...
  3. Steve Liriks Ponders MTV’s Politics, His Influences, and the Future of Hip Hop I saw Steve Liriks a few weeks ago at the MTV VMA L.A. Breakout Artist Showcase, where he was nominated along with two other local bands The Divine and It Boys (for the full article, click here). Though The Divine...
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  1. The music videos of Stoney Sharp A few years ago, my friend Chris was telling me about his life-long friend, Stoney Sharp, who had moved from Florida to LA and was making music videos. If you’re from Southern California (or probably New York), you’re well familiar...
  2. 20 Questions with John Shipe I want to publish interviews with bands and musicians I love here, but I am a terrible interviewer. As gifted as I am with writing in “spin,” I stink as a straight journalist. Having made my peace with that, I...
  3. Carney at Outside Lands, August 2008 I discovered recently that an interview I did with Carney at San Francisco’s Outside Lands last August was edited into a video blog they did for CrowdFire. I’d been wondering where the footage was, and now I know that it...
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