Best New Bands » The Decemberists 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 Top-5 Albums of 2011 – Katrina Nattress http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/top-5-albums-of-2011-katrina-nattress/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/top-5-albums-of-2011-katrina-nattress/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:53:29 +0000 Editor’s Note: As a special for the last week of 2011, BestNewBands.com is running lists of our writer’s top-5 albums of 2011. Because it’s the end of the year and because we want to find out what our writers really like, these albums are not restricted to “New” bands. Here are Katrina Nattress’s top albums

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/top-5-albums-of-2011-matt-de-mello/feed/ 0 The Extraordinaires: Oom-pop-tastic! http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/the-extraordinaires-oom-pop-tastic/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/the-extraordinaires-oom-pop-tastic/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:00:00 +0000 ‘Oom-pop’ comes alive in the latest album from The Extraordinaires, The Postcard EP.  What is Oom-pop? Think back to all those old movies and musicals, when circuses would travel from town to town. Remember the distant ‘oom-pah, oom-pah’ that echoed from afar as the troupe rolled into town? That’s what The Extraordinaires have created- the

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