Best New Bands » Sean Hayes 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 Artist of the Week: Sean Hayes http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/artist-of-the-week-sean-hayes/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/artist-of-the-week-sean-hayes/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:36:09 +0000 Sometimes it takes a while to capture people’s attention. This goes for any profession, but especially in music. Such is the case of troubadour Sean Hayes. The 42-year-old musician had been toiling in musical obscurity, flying below the radar, yet building a following of dedicated fans who enjoy his brand of folk-meets-indie-meets soul. Hayes has

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/artist-of-the-week-sean-hayes/feed/ 0 Album Review: Sean Hayes, Before We Turn To Dust http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-sean-hayes-before-we-turn-to-dust/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-sean-hayes-before-we-turn-to-dust/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:10:22 +0000 A couple of years ago there was an album; really it was a collaboration that was supposed to be super-secret. It was a bootleg for a while, but that was most likely a huge marketing ploy to sell more records (I’m dubious of everything). That record was called Dark Night of the Soul, a collaboration

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/alabama-shakes-trampled-by-turtles-and-father-john-misty-highlight-outside-lands/feed/ 1 Sean Hayes Is Doing Things No Other Artist Is Doing http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/sean-hayes-is-doing-things-no-other-artist-is-doing/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/sean-hayes-is-doing-things-no-other-artist-is-doing/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2012 05:56:19 +0000 Saturday started off with a soulful mix of blues, r & b and old fashioned rock n’ roll. Sean Hayes, whose new album comes out September 11, entered the stage in a white suit that was a cross between “Imagine” John Lennon and “Hungry Like the Wolf” Duran Duran. He even had a white brimmed

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