New Bands at Treasure Island 2016

Treasure Island Music Festival 2016 by Corey Bell for Best New Bands

San Francisco – Every October, for ten years, concert fans in the Bay Area have been flocking to the Treasure Island Music Festival, a small oasis located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay promising a weekend filled with music and celebration. Plagued by several last-minute artist cancellations and a very rough period of

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6 New Bands at Outside Lands 2016 Day 1

Outside Lands by Corey Bell for BEST NEW BANDS

San Francisco – The ninth annual Outside Lands Music Festival kicked off this Friday in the misty glens of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The sparse early afternoon crowds swiftly grew to massive proportions as the day progressed, and the areas around the festival’s four stages quickly filled with attendees keen to catch some of the most renowned acts

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Artist of the Week: Carter Tanton

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Carter Tanton‘s Freeclouds out on Western Vinyl, is the long overdue follow-up to his former band Tulsa’s 2007 EP I Was Submerged. Tulsa spent two years writing and recording their follow-up to the EP, but it was never released due to label and legal struggles. That didn’t stop the singer/songwriter though. He soldiered on by

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