Best New Bands » Shura 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 Shura Rouses Nostalgia with ‘Nothing’s Real’ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/shura-nothings-real/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/shura-nothings-real/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2016 04:36:47 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=31893 San Francisco – Nostalgia is a tricky thing. It’s one of the more complex emotions we feel as humans, as it embodies a yearning for the past that combines the happiness of memory with a strong sense of melancholy. It inflicts the sting of the passage of time and the futility of being unable to recapture or relive

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  1. New Bands at Primavera – Shura and NAO Barcelona—Once again, Barcelona’s Primavera Sound offered up the best and the brightest of the industry on the second day of its 16th edition.  Aside from powerhouse acts like Radiohead, The Last Shadow Puppets, and The Avalanches, a few newer bands...
  2. Shura Live At The Independent San Francisco – “I’m kind of obsessed with Kurt Cobain,” laughed Aleksandra Denton, the gentle, cooing presence behind Shura, the newest Manchester export that virtually takes the physical form of the future of music.  Shura graced the stage of San...
  3. Shura Plays Hollywood Los Angeles – Last week at a “secret” club in the heart of the Fairfax District, United Kingdom-based songwriter and producer Shura showcased her dramatic electronic-based dream pop. The venue (which has no signage, but is known as Community and...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/shura-nothings-real/feed/ 0 New Bands to See at Glastonbury Festival 2016 http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/10-new-bands-see-glastonbury-festival-2016/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/10-new-bands-see-glastonbury-festival-2016/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:25:53 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=31430 London – Having condensed this year’s Glastonbury Festival line-up to a mere 36 A4 pages of 10-point type, the red pen quickly runs out as you mark down all those must-see acts from tempting newcomers to sure-fire headliners. Mindful that your name isn’t Marty McFly, or the good Doctor for that matter, the process of scheduling who

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  1. Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Competition: Final 8 London – Best New Bands’ Tony Hardy was one of forty U.K. based music writers invited by Glastonbury Festival to decide on a long list of 120 acts from thousands of entries to the 2016 Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Competition. Once the...
  2. Glastonbury Festival Announces The Winners Of The Emerging Talent Competition London – The annual Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Competition, supported by PRS for Music and the PRS for Music Foundation, reached its climax on Saturday evening in the Somerset village of Pilton, close to the actual festival site. As a first round...
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  2. 2 More New Bands At Primavera Barcelona – Perfection is not something one comes across…ever.  Obviously the notion of true flawlessness is subjective and differs from person to person, but as a seasoned veteran of festival culture (going on twelve years), the Primavera Sound festival in...
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