Best New Bands » The Music Box 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 Go see Excision at The Music Box this Thursday in LA! http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/go-see-excision-at-the-music-box-this-thursday-in-la/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/go-see-excision-at-the-music-box-this-thursday-in-la/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:00:00 +0000 This Thursday I will be attending my first-ever LA dubstep show at The Music Box, and you should too! The headliner is Excision, whose song  “Swagga” with Datsik is the one you’ve most likely already heard (see video below). I think it’s a perfect title for the song and dubstep in general, as it sounds

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/go-see-excision-at-the-music-box-this-thursday-in-la/feed/ 0 No Joy, Best Coast, and Wavves hit the Hawthorne Theater in Portland http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/no-joy-best-coast-and-wavves-hit-the-hawthorne-theater-in-portland/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/no-joy-best-coast-and-wavves-hit-the-hawthorne-theater-in-portland/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 wavves rock out, courtesy their myspace Saturday, February 19th was no night for vocalists at the Hawthorne Theater in the South East corner of Portland, Oregon. With a line-up that consisted of No Joy, Best Coast, and Wavves, volume and reverb were key figures in nearly every song, drowning out lyrics that no one, including

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/no-joy-best-coast-and-wavves-hit-the-hawthorne-theater-in-portland/feed/ 0 Jesca Hoop Charms The Music Box http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/jesca-hoop-charms-the-music-box/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/jesca-hoop-charms-the-music-box/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:00:00 +0000 When I walked into Jesca Hoop’s dressing room at The Music Box, I felt at ease immediately. Perhaps it was the familiar, intoxicating scent of my favorite hairspray, or perhaps it was Jesca’s faded Andrew Bird tee. Or maybe it was the larger-than-life singer herself, whose unusually magnetic persona seemed to barely fit inside her

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