Start your Friday off right with a selection of music from this week’s featured artists on BestNewBands.com “Get What You Want, Get What You Need” – The Ascetic Junkies Liz Livengood caught up with a few members of this Portland-based band after their show at The Woods last weekend. Here’s some of the interview in
Maybe the crowd, a crew of mostly sweet-faced, postpubescent hip(hop)sters, had a hard day at college. Maybe the acts’ bourbon-and-coke styles just happened not to coalesce as expected. Maybe it was just one of those Wednesdays. But Troubadour‘s billing last night of DaVinci, The 87 Stick Up Kids, Free the Robots, and Freddie Gibbs with
Remember 2007? Wiz Khalifa could’ve been the name of a magician for all most people knew, Kid Cudi really was a lonely stoner, and you still checked your MySpace. If you’d been friends on there with Brooklyn rapper Saigon, you’d know that his debut album, The Greatest Story Never Told, has been ready since the
People get antsy, if not downright angry, when they can’t easily categorize an artist. Gilbere Forte’ has those people close to crawling out of their skins. The Philadelphia-based rapper (singer, songwriter, producer) realizes this, devoting a post on his blog to the questions surrounding him. “Who am I? Where did I come from? What lane
Stalley is from Massillon, Ohio. If you know what to listen for, you can hear the small town talking in Lincoln Way Nights (Intelligent Trunk Music), his latest mixtape: There’s the hollow clanging of the wooden wind chimes on the front porch in “Assassin,” the bittersweet letter to his hometown/girlfriend in “Milq n’ Honey,” and
Despite the cheers that erupted from the antsy Key Club crowd, Kendrick Lamar walked onstage last night like the underdog fighter in a championship boxing match. Planting himself squarely in the center of the stage, he bowed his head, raised one fist and began the song he claims best explains him, “The Heart Pt. 2.”
Kick off your pre-Valentine’s (or Singles Awareness) Day weekend with songs from some of the artists we’ve featured this week. “There’s Nothing For Me Here” – Range Rover On Sunday, Liz Livengood caught up with this San Diego trio, and even posted this song as a free download at the bottom of her post.
Getting a stamp of approval from music snob ?uestlove, who has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of rare and radio-friendly cuts, is like getting a gold star. Bay Area rapper and producer Trackademicks, who’s part of a collective known as the “Honor Roll,” was heralded by The Roots’ drummer as being one of his favorite producers. Even
Welcome to another weekend! Start it off right with music from the artists we’ve featured this week at BestNewBands.com. “Steel My Heart” – The Angry Orts Liz Livengood got a chance to sit down with The Angry Orts before their show at The Woods in Portland last Saturday. Read the rest of Liz’s post here.
Leslie Hall looks like a life-sized strawberry Laffy Taffy. Maybe it’s just wishful thinking: If it weren’t so dirty, D4L’s kid-in-a-candy-shop rhyme “Laffy Taffy” would be a natural riff for the rapper “born to give the gift of jams.” Ames, Iowa, her hometown, isn’t the first place that comes to mind when you think of