Best New Bands » The Gaslamp Killer 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 The Gaslamp Killer Kills It At Red Bull Music Academy’s Show At Villain http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-gaslamp-killer-kills-it-at-red-bull-music-academys-show-at-villain/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-gaslamp-killer-kills-it-at-red-bull-music-academys-show-at-villain/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:32:23 +0000 This is one of the things that I love about Brooklyn – amazing art spaces hide in plain sight. During the day, it’s easy to pass what looks like another abandoned, empty warehouse with a garage door rolled down. Who knows what’s in there, if anything. Then at night, the door rolls up, a line

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-gaslamp-killer-kills-it-at-red-bull-music-academys-show-at-villain/feed/ 0 The New Music Seminar’s 100 “Artists on the Verge”: Where NMS & BestNewBands.com Agree http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/the-new-music-seminars-100-artists-on-the-verge-where-nms-bestnewbandscom-agree/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/the-new-music-seminars-100-artists-on-the-verge-where-nms-bestnewbandscom-agree/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:00:00 +0000 The New Music Seminar, which BestNewBands.com will be attending next week, announced their list of the Top 100 Artists on the Verge this week, and there are a lot of familiar names on it. Here’s some of how NMS chooses bands for the list: The NMS Artist on the Verge Top 100 is compiled based

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