So Saint Motel brought the dead back to life for the third consecutive year in a row- and they definitely did it with a bang! The undead were swarming around downtown’s Hotel Alexandria anxiously awaiting this year’s coveted pre-valentine’s day event, displaying it’s not enough to give one’s heart- it’s better if you eat it
New Orleans has been the hub of some of the greatest music in American history. From it’s days as the hub of jazz in the twentieth century to bounce hip-hop to it’s continuing post-Katrina revival as shown in the HBO show, Treme, different sounds have come to represent the soundtrack of this great city. Empress
A larger version of this poster can be viewed at The Portland Mercury Music fans of the Pacific Northwest are in for a treat this Memorial Day weekend, as the 10th anniversary of the Sasquatch! Music Festival in Gorge, Washington promises a myriad of musical legends, as well as your favorite indie bands. Sasquatch! will
Listening to the alt-country duo The Civil Wars’ debut album put me through the emotional wringer. Joy Williams and John Paul White write and perform heart-wrenching duets full of breathy vocals accompanied by sparse acoustic instruments. With voices like theirs that harmonize so beautifully, that’s all they really need. The subject matter of the songs-
Hello, BestNewBands.com readers! Ready for the weekend? Yeah, we are too. To aid you in your musical pre-funking, here’s a look (and listen) back on what we featured this week. “Livin’ The Dream (I’m On A Float)” – Super Mash Bros. Kristina Villarini caught the mash-up artists at Irving Plaza in New York this weekend,
Pepper Rabbit’s off to quite a busy 2011 so far: after releasing their debut album, Beauregard, late last year, the duo of Xander Singh and Luc Laurent has played a non-stop string of shows with the likes of Passion Pit, Freelance Whales and Miniature Tigers. I recently had the opportunity to interview Xander Singh –
Following their show at UCLA, I sat down with Lady Danville’s keyboardist Michael Garner to learn a little more about the band. We chatted about their hometown of Danville, California, the goofiness of Ben Folds, celebrity doppelgangers, a particularly inspiring mysterious-hippie-kindergarten teacher, and the ups and downs of going on the road. An amicable and
Today’s Playlist includes a little bit of everything BestNewBands.com has featured this week, from folk to punk-rock to dubstep – everything your music-loving hearts could desire! Listen and enjoy… “Shoeshine” – Black Taxi In this weekend’s BackStory Bonus, the guys of Black Taxi tell us about their single, “Shoeshine.” “Shoeshine is a song written by
If you can count on anything when at a music fest, you can count on one week of zero sleep, a little insanity, and a whole lot of chaos. You’re assaulted for five long days with various CD’s, millions of artists your inner musical masochist couldn’t be happier. After surviving a music fest North of
In March of 2008, Sam Humans and The Heliogoats stayed in a rental house together while performing at SXSW. The two acts formed a bond and decided to work on a project together. The result is a ten song split EP, Live Free & Let Loose. Sam Humans, formerly Modernstate, opens the EP with “Hate