Best New Bands » Wavves 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 5 Of The Best New Bands At Lollapalooza http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/5-of-the-best-new-bands-at-lollapalooza/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/5-of-the-best-new-bands-at-lollapalooza/#comments Sun, 04 Aug 2013 13:53:34 +0000 “Jesus loves you… No he doesn’t!” Cue fuzz distortion as Nathan Williams orchestrates the rowdiness with “Paranoid” off Wavves’ latest album “Afraid of Heights”. It was all killer no filler with Wavves, rarely stopping to chat or even tune, preferring an ambush of their punk catalog, including, “Post Acid”, “Sail to the Sun”, and, “Idiot”. Bodies were

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  1. New Bands At Lollapalooza 2013: Sunday Palma Violets: 1:00pm, Bud Light Stage These lads from Lambeth, London have been labeled the next big thing across the pond, so it only should be a matter of time until Palma Violets strike a similar match with us Yankees....
  2. Album Review: Palma Violets, 180 Apparently before Palma Violets’ debut album 180 was released, the London band received a lot of hype in its homeland. They won NME’s Best New Band award and were nominated for the BBC’s Sound of 2013 award.  Now that the...
  3. Early Photos From Lollapalooza 2012 – Friday The Friday afternoon crowd. Sharon Van Etten Dr. Dog The Head And The Heart...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/5-of-the-best-new-bands-at-lollapalooza/feed/ 0 New Bands At Lollapalooza 2013: Sunday http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-at-lollapalooza-2013-sunday/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-at-lollapalooza-2013-sunday/#comments Sat, 03 Aug 2013 22:46:16 +0000 Palma Violets: 1:00pm, Bud Light Stage These lads from Lambeth, London have been labeled the next big thing across the pond, so it only should be a matter of time until Palma Violets strike a similar match with us Yankees. They certainly did their best kicking off day three for the sun dried tomato faced

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  1. Album Review: Palma Violets, 180 Apparently before Palma Violets’ debut album 180 was released, the London band received a lot of hype in its homeland. They won NME’s Best New Band award and were nominated for the BBC’s Sound of 2013 award.  Now that the...
  2. Palma Violets Rage Hard at Shea Stadium Palma Violets took Shea Stadium by storm last weekend. Shea is known for their DIY all ages shows, that can get plenty crazy, and this London psych punkers went for it full force. They were getting talked about fiercely before...
  3. The 2013 New Music Seminar opens in New York Sunday The 2013 New Music Seminar opens in New York Sunday night and runs through Tuesday, the fifth year since the conference was resurrected in 2009, after its original 16-year run ended in 1995.  As with its original incarnation, the event...
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  1. Wavves @ Soho on 8/16 As word on the street would have you believe, Nathan Williams and his band Wavves are completely ridiculous. Last night when Williams and his band mates took to the stage at Soho in Santa Barbara, hilarity immediately ensued. It took...
  2. Album Review: The White Buffalo – Once Upon A Time In The West After releasing multiple EPs over the years and several months of anxiously waiting, The White Buffalo’s full-length, Once Upon A Time In The West, is finally available for mass consumption. Released today through Unison Music Group, and although it’s only...
  3. No Joy, Best Coast, and Wavves hit the Hawthorne Theater in Portland 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...
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  1. Weekend Playlist – Best Songs of 2010 photo credit: Sherene Hilal Before we count down to 2011, we’re picking out some of the best songs of 2010. Which was your favorite? Vote now for your favorite song of 2010! “Rope” – ArpLine In an interview with Sherene...
  2. Weekend Playlist – Best Artists of 2010 photo credit: Lauren Novik 2010’s slowly coming to an end, and at BNB we’re counting it down with a Best of 2010 Awards list. For this week’s playlist, here are songs from some of the nominees for Best Artist. “Janglin”...
  3. BestNewBands.com Weekend Playlist: November 5, 2010 At BestNewBands.com, we’re trying something new for our Weekend Playlist. Instead of a themed selection of handpicked tracks, we’ll be compiling all the songs and artists we featured this week on the site. Here are some stand-out songs showcased this...
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  1. BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the Week of 8/23 Picked by: Michael Rincon Who: Young the Giant w/ White Apple Tree Where: The Casbah, San Diego, Ca. When: Monday, Aug. 23rd, 8pm Cost: $12 Age Restrictions:21+ ***   Picked By: Laurel Johnston Don Chani and Lion Head: Ripping Up Reggae...
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  3. BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the Week of 8/16 Picked By: Michael Rincon Who:Tokyo Police Club with Freelance Whales Where: Neumos in Seattle, WA When: Monday, August 16 at 8 PM Cost: $15 Adv. Age Restrictions: 21+ *** Picked By: Todd Prodanovich Who: Wavves with Birdfeeder and Char-man Where: Soho in...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/wavves-soho-on-8-16/feed/ 0 Aterciopelados @ Soho, Santa Barbara, 8/14 http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/aterciopelados-soho-santa-barbara-8-14/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/aterciopelados-soho-santa-barbara-8-14/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0000 Aterciopelados are a few things: a band that hails from Columbia, musicians who fuse North American and South American musical styles seamlessly, a band that has been doing it for almost 20 years, and a group I know almost nothing about. I saw the flyer for their show and noticed that it was being put

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