Best New Bands » Rebecca Haithcoat 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 Show Preview: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble at Natural History Museum http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/show-preview-miguel-atwood-ferguson-ensemble-at-natural-history-museum/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/show-preview-miguel-atwood-ferguson-ensemble-at-natural-history-museum/#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:00:00 +0000 Who’d think that a museum full of fossils four billion years old would host artists fresh from the underground? Yet Los Angeles’ Natural History Museum’s “First Fridays” series continues to juxtapose the two, making good on its claim of being an “authority on the ‘big picture’ of the planet, the natural, and the cultural world.”

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  1. Show Preview: Beach Fossils at Glasslands Yes, New York is covered in snow right now, but this Saturday night will sound like summer when Beach Fossils playGlasslands in Brooklyn. A Place to Bury Strangers, Caveman, Guards, ARMS, and Dreamers of the Ghetto round out the lineup, all starting at 7:30pm. Tickets are...
  2. Show Preview: Brad Mackeson, Redwood Son, and Glassbones at Portland’s Doug Fir This week we have a show preview for best-new-band-hunters in Portland, Oregon at the charming Doug Fir Lounge. Local PR company In Music We Trust hosts a local showcase at the Doug Fir each month and we think this week’s...
  3. Show Preview: Peter Wolf Crier at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge Portlanders can enjoy a night of mellow indie-folk at one of the rose city’s best music venues this Friday. Head to the Doug Fir early for some dinner or to enjoy some of the great happy hour bar food. Walk...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/show-preview-miguel-atwood-ferguson-ensemble-at-natural-history-museum/feed/ 0 Wallpaper., Serious About Having, and Making, Fun http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/wallpaper-serious-about-having-and-making-fun/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/wallpaper-serious-about-having-and-making-fun/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:00:00 +0000 Hipsters heart hip hop, especially when the artist in question is probably silently LOL’ing. Wallpaper., the electro-pop duo of producer/rapper/frontman Ricky Reed (aka UC Berkeley music composition graduate Eric Frederic) and drummer Arjun Singh, must be darlings of that community: They formed the group to satirize mainstream music and American pop culture. True to character—Reed,

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  1. Wallpaper and The Chain Gang of 1974 Rock Pershing Square in Downtown LA Last night downtown Los Angeles was ablaze with the lights and sounds of Pershing Square, an outdoor venue home to a series of summer concerts. The grassy area surrounding the elevated stage was filled with all manner of folk and...
  2. Fresh Tracks, Hand selected for you by: Wallpaper Eric Frederic of Oakland, California is otherwise known as the band Wallpaper. Frederic creates catchy club songs with a funky twist all his own. Anyone who is already a fan of the likes of Chromeo or Ratatat will surely fall...
  3. Cas Haley: Making a Connection at The Roxy Since moving to L.A., I’ve wondered about the lack of movement and social interaction in the audience at live shows. It seems that everyone comes as a couple or in a small group and sticks to themselves. Last night at...
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  1. And the Winner of the MTV VMA L.A. Breakout Artist Is….The Divine! Last night at The Music Box in Hollywood, three Los Angeles bands competed for the coveted title of ‘MTV VMA L.A. Breakout Artist’. The artists included rock/hip hop duo The Divine, power pop quintet It Boys (recently featured in an...
  2. 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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