Best New Bands » Daniel Burnett https://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 Punk Rock Show @ Seattle’s Chop Suey https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/punk-rock-show-seattles-chop-suey/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/punk-rock-show-seattles-chop-suey/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0000 Last night Chop Suey hosted a three-way display of underground punk rock, offering a varied presentation of the incarnations in the genre. All of the performing bands were born and bred in Seattle; emerging out of the garage and onto the luminous Chop Suey stage. Opening the night was Aurora Roarers, a thrash outfit that

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/punk-rock-show-seattles-chop-suey/feed/ 0 Sunday night at Seattle’s Chop Suey: The Rift and Irukandji https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/sunday-night-at-chop-suey-the-rift-and-irukandji/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/sunday-night-at-chop-suey-the-rift-and-irukandji/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0000 Last night a dynamic four set line-up rounded up the weekend at Chop Suey in Seattle. The evening’s entertainment provided contributions from hip-hop, rock, funk, blues and jazz; opened by funk-esque punk rock band The Rift. “We are looking for collaborations that are odd; untypical… [The Rift] are a live based band, not radio hits,”

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  1. The Horde and the Harem at Seattle’s Chop Suey A free concert was held last Wednesday at Chop Suey in Seattle; sponsored by Relentless and FILTER Magazine. The bustling venue quickly filled and the opening act, five-piece folk indie-rock band The Horde and the Harem, was greeted to a...
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  3. Outernational, the Punk Protégés Outernational, the five-piece punk rock band from New York, are currently touring with veteran British punkers GBH. I stumbled upon their Seattle performance of the tour at the Chop Suey without any prior knowledge of Outernational. Suffice to say I...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/sunday-night-at-chop-suey-the-rift-and-irukandji/feed/ 0 The Horde and the Harem at Seattle’s Chop Suey https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-horde-and-the-harem-at-seattles-chop-suey/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-horde-and-the-harem-at-seattles-chop-suey/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:00:00 +0000 A free concert was held last Wednesday at Chop Suey in Seattle; sponsored by Relentless and FILTER Magazine. The bustling venue quickly filled and the opening act, five-piece folk indie-rock band The Horde and the Harem, was greeted to a packed house. The young outfit has thus far produced two EPs and a slew of

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  1. Outernational, the Punk Protégés Outernational, the five-piece punk rock band from New York, are currently touring with veteran British punkers GBH. I stumbled upon their Seattle performance of the tour at the Chop Suey without any prior knowledge of Outernational. Suffice to say I...
  2. Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party, Part II This past weekend’s Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle featured some of the greatest and most acclaimed independent bands of the Northwest. The main stage gave us a glimpse of the ‘whose who’ in regional music, however neighboring it were...
  3. Black Breath, Keeping it Metal Seattle’s five-piece Black/Thrash Metal band Black Breath has recently announced their first European tour since forming in 2005. Their rush onto the international scene has a lot to do with the outstanding success of their 2008 EP Razor to Oblivion,...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-horde-and-the-harem-at-seattles-chop-suey/feed/ 0 Seattle’s 2010 Decibel Festival Round-Up https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/seattles-2010-decibel-festival-round-up/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/seattles-2010-decibel-festival-round-up/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 The 2010 Decibel festival concluded last night with an explosive finale at Neumos in Seattle. The festival ran on for five days, from the Opening Gala at Pravada Studios on Wednesday, to the final echoing footstep departing late night from Neumos. After seeing exponential growth since its 2003 inception; the festival this year provided over

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  3. Neumos, A Vibrant Highlight of Seattle Music Clubs Lying in the nexus of Capitol Hill’s most vibrant area is Neumos, a diverse club that hosts bands of both renown and obscurity. The Seattle club, Moe’s Mo Roc’n Café, was formed in 1992 and enjoyed eleven prosperous years until...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/seattles-2010-decibel-festival-round-up/feed/ 0 Seattle’s Decibel Festival, Animated by Beats Antique https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/seattles-decibel-festival-animated-by-beats-antique/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/seattles-decibel-festival-animated-by-beats-antique/#comments Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0000 One of the most highly anticipated shows of this year’s Decibel festival in Seattle awed a packed, sold-out crowd at the Motor Tavern last night. Beats Antique (performing for only the second time since their most recent release Blind Threshold) headlined the ‘Art of Rhythm’ showcase featuring an ensemble of experimental West Coast electronic music.

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/seattles-decibel-festival-animated-by-beats-antique/feed/ 0 Neumos, A Vibrant Highlight of Seattle Music Clubs https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/neumos-a-vibrant-highlight-of-seattle-music-clubs/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/neumos-a-vibrant-highlight-of-seattle-music-clubs/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0000 Lying in the nexus of Capitol Hill’s most vibrant area is Neumos, a diverse club that hosts bands of both renown and obscurity. The Seattle club, Moe’s Mo Roc’n Café, was formed in 1992 and enjoyed eleven prosperous years until 2003 when it was re-launched as Neumos (get it ‘New Moes’). Since then it has

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