Best New Bands » Greg Brodsky 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 5 New Bands We’re Excited To See On Tour This Spring https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/5-new-bands-excited-see-tour-spring/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/5-new-bands-excited-see-tour-spring/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2015 07:04:41 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=22754 New York – As the longest, coldest winter since the Ice Age comes to an end, we (in the Eastern and Northern parts of the U.S.) look forward to switching from layers of sweatshirts, scarves and coats to eventually just a long-sleeved T-shirt. Despite nature’s cruel sense of humor, Best New Bands decided to ignore

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  1. 8 New Bands We’re Excited To See at SXSW Austin – SXSW starts this weekend, and it’s time for Austin to do what Austin does best: effuse about tech, gripe about traffic, and feast on live music. To the surprise of no one, this year’s sprawling lineup features lots...
  2. Max Jury Announces Spring North American Tour Dates Los Angeles – Des Moines singer-songwriter Max Jury is excited to announce his Spring North American headlining tour dates today. The tour begins on April 9 in Minneapolis before heading throughout the Midwest and East Coast, including a show on April 15 at the...
  3. Courtney Barnett Begins U.S. Fall Tour   New York – Indie folk rocker Courtney Barnett and her band are beginning a month-long North American tour, co-headlining with avant-garde outfit San Fermin. Hot off the heels of a sold-out run of shows in her native Australia and...
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  1. Contest Rules and Terms Best New Bands’ Vance Joy Vinyl Contest Rules And Regulations I. NAME OF SPONSOR(S) BestNewBands.com and Atlantic Records II. ELIGIBILITY Sweepstakes are open to all legal U.S. residents except Rhode Island, age 18 years and older. Void where prohibited. Any...
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  3. Kongos Announce 2015 North American ‘Lunatic’ Tour  New York – Alt rockers Kongos will embark on a North American headline tour this coming January. Following up highly successful stints on the road in the U.S. with Kings of Leon, Young The Giant and Alice In Chains and...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/contest-rules-and-regulations/best-new-bands-meet-greet-kongos-contest-rules-regulations/feed/ 0 Best New Bands Announces 2014 Newbie Awards Winners https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/best-new-bands-announces-2014-newbie-awards-winners/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/best-new-bands-announces-2014-newbie-awards-winners/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2014 03:07:19 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=20725 New York – BestNewBands.com, a top destination for reviews, interviews and news about the world’s best emerging recording artists, has announced the winners of its 2014 Newbie Awards honoring the year’s best new Band, Male artist, Female artist, Album and Breakthrough Artist. Best New Album: The War On Drugs, Lost In The Dream Best New

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  1. Best New Bands Announces 2014 Newbie Awards Nominees New York – BestNewBands.com, a top destination for reviews, interviews and news about the world’s best emerging recording artists, has announced the nominees of its 2014 Newbie Awards honoring the year’s best new band, male artist, female artist and album—plus...
  2. BestNewBands.com Announces Its 2013 Newbie Awards Winners New York – BestNewBands.com has announced the winners of its 2013 Newbie Awards, to honor the year’s top new artists in a variety of categories, as determined by a poll of the site’s editorial staff and readers: Best New Band:...
  3. Catching Up With The 2012 Newbie Awards Winners We didn’t know what to expect when we asked our writers one year ago to nominate their favorite new artists of 2012 for our inaugural Newbie Awards.  In November, we identified the categories—New Band, Male, Female, Album and Song—and then...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/best-new-bands-announces-2014-newbie-awards-winners/feed/ 9 10 Picks For Record Store Day Black Friday 2014 https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/10-picks-record-store-day-black-friday-2014/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/10-picks-record-store-day-black-friday-2014/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:53:57 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=19761 New York – If you haven’t started your holiday shopping list yet, you’re in good company.  But the organizers of Record Store Day have just published their Black Friday list of goodies that labels will release exclusively to participating stores on November 28 to get you in the giving mood.  Best New Bands IDs ten

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  1. New Bands Highlight Record Store Day’s Black Friday Releases New York – No turkeys here; just a Thanksgiving feast.  For the fourth year, Record Store Day will help the more than 700 independently owned record stores in the U.S. (and thousands more internationally) by kicking off the holiday shopping...
  2. Ready, Set, Shop…It’s Record Store Day: Black Friday Edition!   New York – While the Black Friday shopping experience has become as big a part of the Thanksgiving ritual for some as Thursday’s turkey feast itself, 2013 marks just the fourth year that Record Store Day has organized it’s own holiday event for the...
  3. Record Store Day – Special Releases By New Bands New York – Record Store Day is just a week away! Marked as a day of record store culture celebration, and when hundreds of artists release special vinyls, CDs, and cassettes, rarities and splits, to remind us why physical stores...
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  1. 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...
  2. New Music Seminar’s Class Of 2014: Top 100 Artists On The Verge New York – New Music Seminar today announced this year’s Artist on the Verge “Class of 2014” – a list of 100 trailblazing acts, with the opportunity to perform as part of this year’s event, June 8-10 in New York...
  3. Tom Silverman, CEO of Tommy Boy Records, Talks New Music Seminar Tom Silverman, CEO of Tommy Boy Records, is hard at work on this summer’s New Music Seminar, which is coming up in July in New York City. He took a moment this week to talk to BlueComet.TV about the purpose...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/new-music-seminar-returns-nyc-june-8-10-bestnewbands-com-discount-offer/feed/ 0 Hurray For The Riff Raff https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/hurray-for-the-riff-raff-2/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/hurray-for-the-riff-raff-2/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2014 08:47:45 +0000 New York – Let’s get this part out of the way first.  It’s not a matter of “will” Hurray For The Riff Raff become a household name.  It’s a matter of “when.”  Seriously, Alynda Lee Segarra is that talented and poised and primed for stardom. I don’t know about you, but I’m not aware of

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  1. Hurray for the Riff Raff – Small Town Heroes Nashville – Alynda Lee Segarra has become something of a poster child for the roots music renaissance growing out of New Orleans. She has collaborated with many of the local musicians and attested to the supportive artistic community within the...
  2. SXSW: Lianne La Havas And Hurray For The Riff Raff   Austin is warm, it’s sunny and the music is still flooding with a vigor you can’t compare to anything. Everyone is moving by foot whether to catch the next unofficial showcase or the last minute surprise performer. There was...
  3. Three Cheers for Louisiana’s Hurray for the Riff Raff Hurray for the Riff Raff are not your average folk band, and the story of how they came to be is certainly everything but. Alynda Lee Segarra was a 17 year-old girl fascinated by punk rock and the world outside...
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  3. Tom Silverman talks New Music Seminar & offers YOU 50% off registration! I sat down today to catch up with Tom Silverman, CEO of Tommy Boy Records and founder of the New Music Seminar. I talked to him about the Seminar last year, learning about the event’s history, and today we talked...
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  1. Grouplove Premiere ‘Shark Attack’ Video, Announce ’14 U.S. Tour New York – Grouplove have released a video for “Shark Attack,” the second single off their recent album, Spreading Rumours (Atlantic).  The clip was directed by Cameron Duddy, who also directed the video for “Ways To Go,” the LP’s first...
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  1. BestNewBands.com Announces Its 2013 Newbie Awards Nominees Whew…the sound you just heard wasn’t a sigh.  It was simply us catching our breath after tabulating the votes from our writers for the nominees of our second annual Newbie Awards, honoring the top new band, female, male and album of...
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  3. 2013 Best New Album Nominees: Who Grabs The Newbie? There’s something for everyone in our Best New Album of 2013 Newbie Awards nominees. Frankly, the diversity of our writers’ musical tastes made this category pretty wide open and it was thus hard to narrow the list down to a...
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  2. Static Jacks Premiere “Wallflowers” Video – Announce Fall Tour Dates Static Jacks have unveiled a new video for “Wallflowers” from the forthcoming In Blue LP. On making the video the band explains: “We wanted to make an old school music video that told a story which is pretty different from what most...
  3. Simian Mobile Disco Premiere New Video – U.S. Announce Tour UK electronic duo Simian Mobile Disco are set to release A Form Of Change next Tuesday, October 2 on Wichita Records. The 4-song EP comes from the same recording sessions as their critically praised albumUnpatterns, released earlier this year. The collection is...
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