Best New Bands » Twitter 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 Ross Sea Party – Artist of the Week http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/the-ross-sea-party-artist-of-the-week/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/the-ross-sea-party-artist-of-the-week/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:40:46 +0000 The Ross Sea Party is a Los Angeles-based quintet whose indie rock manages to house both the wisdom of age and the carefree spirit of youth. I listened to each one of their songs listed on Facebook for all of five seconds each before deciding that I simply must know more about such an intriguing

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  1. Q&A: Brady Erickson of The Ross Sea Party   Having been together since 2009, The Ross Sea Party has been dazzling crowds in the City of Angels with their infectious brand of indie-rock. The quintent has recently been in the studio gearing up for the release of a...
  2. Introducing our first-ever Artist of the Week LA Font! LA Font is the kind of band that invites their audience to experience the full spectrum of emotions along with them at their live shows. At any given moment, the entire room could be experiencing heart-racing excitement, angsty adrenaline spikes...
  3. Letting Up Despite Great Faults – Artist of the Week Interview with Matt and Mike of Letting Up Despite Great Faults Letting Up Despite Great Faults is the musical brainchild of Mike Lee, a project that he describes as both inspired by and steeped in nostalgia. Upon listening, it’s hard...
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  1. Words and an impromptu in-home performance by Kris Orlowski I first met Seattle-based artist Kris Orlowski at the New Music Seminar back in February. We bonded instantly over the perilous state of the music industry and a shared affinity for sarcasm, and when I later visited his website I...
  2. Words with The Bewitched Hands of France photo by Melanie Elbaz French sextet The Bewitched Hands is a busy bunch. In addition to playing both CMJ and South by Southwest here in the US, they have plans to play several festivals in Europe over the summer. They recently...
  3. Words with Daniel Blue of Motopony: The new album, influences, and cruising Burning Man naked Motopony – King Of Diamonds Daniel Blue is equal parts open book and enigma. The artist-turned-fashion-designer-turned-musician didn’t get serious about music as a profession until he was in his late twenties, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to his...
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  1. Thurlow at Silverlake Lounge Thurlow is the musical project of Augustus Green and Jacqueline Caruso, husband and wife duo from Washington, D.C. that now resides in Los Angeles. They recently released an eight track EP called Training Wheels, now available for free download on...
  2. Go see Sarah Winters at Silverlake Lounge tonight! Tonight’s lineup at Silverlake Lounge promises to be a melting pot of delicious music. In addition to the quirky, throwback pop of The Parlour Suite and the new folk/alt country sounds of The Quick Hellos, the electro-acoustic duo Thurlow will...
  3. Words and an impromptu in-home performance by Kris Orlowski I first met Seattle-based artist Kris Orlowski at the New Music Seminar back in February. We bonded instantly over the perilous state of the music industry and a shared affinity for sarcasm, and when I later visited his website I...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/joining-the-army-navy-at-silverlake-lounge/feed/ 0 Words with Daniel Blue of Motopony: The new album, influences, and cruising Burning Man naked http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/words-with-daniel-blue-of-motopony-the-new-album-influences-and-cruising-burning-man-naked/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/words-with-daniel-blue-of-motopony-the-new-album-influences-and-cruising-burning-man-naked/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 12:00:00 +0000 Motopony – King Of Diamonds Daniel Blue is equal parts open book and enigma. The artist-turned-fashion-designer-turned-musician didn’t get serious about music as a profession until he was in his late twenties, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to his project Motopony‘s self-titled debut album. I was charmed by the first track “June“, but it

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  1. Words with Thousands: “What you hear is really what we are” photo by Victoria Holt I submitted some questions for the Seattle-based duo Thousands last week, and when I got guitarist/vocalist Kristian Garrard‘s responses I wanted to immediately write back with more questions for him and his counterpart Luke Bergman (The...
  2. Words with The Bewitched Hands of France photo by Melanie Elbaz French sextet The Bewitched Hands is a busy bunch. In addition to playing both CMJ and South by Southwest here in the US, they have plans to play several festivals in Europe over the summer. They recently...
  3. Steve Liriks Ponders MTV’s Politics, His Influences, and the Future of Hip Hop I saw Steve Liriks a few weeks ago at the MTV VMA L.A. Breakout Artist Showcase, where he was nominated along with two other local bands The Divine and It Boys (for the full article, click here). Though The Divine...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/words-with-daniel-blue-of-motopony-the-new-album-influences-and-cruising-burning-man-naked/feed/ 0 Kazai Rex at Silver Lake Jubilee http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/kazai-rex-at-silver-lake-jubilee/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/kazai-rex-at-silver-lake-jubilee/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 17:00:00 +0000 Going to a new festival can be a bit of a gamble, and going to a new festival to see a new band (well new to me, anyway) can be a recipe for disappointment. Saturday’s crowd at the Silver Lake Jubilee was relatively tame compared to the drunken hordes at last year’s Sunset Junction, and

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  1. “Everybody Knows” Jeremy Silver Rocked Hotel Cafe Last night Jeremy Silver rocked the Hotel Café with his CD release show, and the great turn out of fans, friends, and music fiends were not disappointed.  Silver waded his way through every track off his just-dropped “Everybody Knows” and...
  2. “Everybody Knows” Jeremy Silver Is An Artist To Keep On Your Radar! The music industry is insanely incestuous- artists collaborating with others and six degrees of seperation later you find out someone who’s produced an album you love is an insanely talented artist himself.  Case in point- L.A. Kids’ (Fight From Above)...
  3. Echo Lake Takes You On A Trip Bedroom-crafted tracks meet otherworldly vocals in an exciting new noise pop duo from England, Echo Lake. Echo Lake’s debut EP, Young Silence, is a dreamlike trip through strange worlds. One track can sound like you’re floating through the air on...
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  1. Alberta Cross’ Tuesday night residency at The Satellite Last night at The Satellite marked the third week of Alberta Cross‘ May Tuesday night residency. BestNewBands.com alums Chasing Kings performed right before the quintet, and I had a hard time discerning who the crowd was really there to see...
  2. Double Feature: The Parlotones at The Viper Room + Post Show Interview Walking into The Viper Room last night to see the much heard about and highly underrated (as of yet!) Parlotones- I had literally crossed into a whole other country, South Africa to be exact.  After parking in Siberia, Laurel Kathleen...
  3. Band on the Run: Interview with Ben Thornewill of Jukebox the Ghost Jukebox the Ghost has traveled many miles since they formed as a trio in Washington D.C. back in 2008. And I don’t just mean the metaphorical distance between their debut album and their recently released sophomore effort because it was...
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  3. The Nervous Wreckords: Yes, their music is as cool as their name It seems like bands will do try just about anything to distinguish themselves and attract the attention of potential fans. But a precious few are able to naturally and instantly appeal to both the eyes and ears in such a...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/qa-with-uks-smoke-fairies/feed/ 0 Words with Thousands: “What you hear is really what we are” http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/words-with-thousandswhat-you-hear-is-really-what-we-are/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/words-with-thousandswhat-you-hear-is-really-what-we-are/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 20:00:00 +0000 photo by Victoria Holt I submitted some questions for the Seattle-based duo Thousands last week, and when I got guitarist/vocalist Kristian Garrard‘s responses I wanted to immediately write back with more questions for him and his counterpart Luke Bergman (The name wasn’t meant to be ironic? You’ve played on both a beach and in a

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  3. Words with Adam Goldberg of The Goldberg Sisters (Updated!) Last week I reviewed The Goldberg Sisters‘ eponymous debut album, the recent musical venture of actor and filmmaker Adam Goldberg (for the full BestNewBands.com review please click here). The album was well-produced, creative, and accurately delivered on the project’s Facebook...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/words-with-thousandswhat-you-hear-is-really-what-we-are/feed/ 0 Go see Crystal Stilits and Moving Units at the LA Natural History Museum this Friday! http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/go-see-crystal-stilits-and-moving-units-at-the-la-natural-history-museum-this-friday/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/go-see-crystal-stilits-and-moving-units-at-the-la-natural-history-museum-this-friday/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 14:00:00 +0000 Moving Units This Friday, Los Angeles-based Moving Units and Brooklyn’s Crystal Stilts will perform as part of the continuing “First Fridays” series of musical performances at The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Moving Units is a dramatic, glamorous synthrock band fresh from Coachella and a recent venture with TOMS shoes , while Crystal

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  1. Show Preview: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble at Natural History Museum Who’d think that a museum full of fossils four billion years old would host artists fresh from the underground? Yet Los Angeles’ Natural History Museum’s “First Fridays” series continues to juxtapose the two, making good on its claim of being...
  2. Album Review: Moving Units, Tension War EP Genre: Electronic/Rock   Sounds like: part Of Montreal, a bit of Franz Ferdinand maybe, and a whole lot of originality I enter Moving Units’ new EP, Tension War, with a somewhat tabula rasa mindset.  I know nothing of Moving Units outside...
  3. Watch The Boxer Rebellion in Brooklyn, NY, Friday! After two impressive dates in NYC’s Mercury Lounge in 2011, and selling out the Bowery Ballroom just this week, it is strange to watch people take notice of The Boxer Rebellion‘s brand of international-alternative rock. After an appearance in Drew...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/go-see-crystal-stilits-and-moving-units-at-the-la-natural-history-museum-this-friday/feed/ 0 Words and a private performance with BnB’s March Artist in Residence Slang Chickens at SXSW http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/slang-chickens/words-and-a-private-performance-with-bnbs-march-artist-in-residence-slang-chickens-at-sxsw/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/slang-chickens/words-and-a-private-performance-with-bnbs-march-artist-in-residence-slang-chickens-at-sxsw/#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:00:00 +0000 Fans of Slang Chickens seem to go through a three part process upon discovering the band: first they’re intrigued by the name, then blown away by the crackling energy of their live performance, and then addicted to the way their songs manifest themselves in any number of ways. I find myself humming the chord changes

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  1. Introducing our Artists in Residence for March: Slang Chickens! Come fly with the Slang Chickens this month as they share with BestNewBands.com during the month that sees the end of their residency at the Echo and their time at a little festival we like to call SXSW. Did you...
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  3. At The Troubadour With BNB.com’s New Artist In Residence! Photo By Michael Beck There are certain bands I get consistently amped to see- and even though I can have the CD on for a week straight- still cannot wait to see them live.  Meet Fight From Above (Justin Miner,...
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