Best New Bands » Sunset Strip 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 Concert Review: St. Patrick’s Day at the Key Club with Phathom, Culprit, thatwasthen, and Bethpage Black http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/concert-review-st-patricks-day-at-the-key-club-with-phathom-culprit-thatwasthen-and-bethpage-black/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/concert-review-st-patricks-day-at-the-key-club-with-phathom-culprit-thatwasthen-and-bethpage-black/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:00:00 +0000 Ah, St. Patrick’s Day.  When the beer is green, the tattoo parlors are filled, and the spirit is rowdy.  This St. Patty’s Day, I headed down to the Key Club on the Sunset Strip to check out a showcase of some LA bands: Phathom, Culprit, thatwasthen, and Bethpage Black.  The crowd was surprisingly small, given

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  1. The Campus Cool: Dominant Legs, Young the Giant, and Best Coast Rock UCLA The UCLA campus was abuzz under the warm yellow lights lining brick pathways last night, and groups of students were thankful to crowd into the cozy Kerckhoff Grand Salon to escape the bitter wind.  Let me reemphasize cozy: through the...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/concert-preview-young-the-giant-with-we-barbarians-and-kittens-at-the-roxy/feed/ 0 Steel Panther Pours Some Sugar On Me http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/steel-panther-pours-some-sugar-on-me/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/steel-panther-pours-some-sugar-on-me/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:00:00 +0000 Steel Panther is a notorious Sunset Strip act- and the All-American pseudo-eighties icons may be rude and crude dudes- but they definitely know a thing or two about putting on a show! I saw them back in the day- in the era where Steel Panther (Michael Starr, Satchel, Lexxi Foxxx, Stix Zadinia) was still Metal

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