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 more than 700 independently owned record stores in the U.S. (and thousands more internationally). But
New York – Haim will be headlining a North American tour next spring to support their debut album on Columbia, Days Are Gone. And this weekend, sisters Este, Danielle and Alana are the musical guests on Saturday Night Live, alongside host Josh Hutcherson (Chasing Fire). The SoCal trio recently received two nominations in BestNewBands.com’s 2013 Newbie Awards: for Best New Band and Best
Oxford, England-based Glass Animals have just released a self-titled EP–their first–on Harvest Records in the U.S. Vocalist-producer Dave Bayley’s hypnotic sound is immediately apparent on lead track, “Psylla.” (That’s a word we don’t recognize but a quick online search identified it as “a genus of sap-sucking insects.” Much about Glass Animals is still a mystery
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 waited for the nominations to come in. The diversity of the artists blew us away…after
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 2013. While there were some names that we fully expected to see—and did—there were others that
Our Best New Band of 2013 Newbie Awards nominees are nicely split among men and women (since one band includes both). While there’s no underlying message there, for our writers it just meant that 2013 was another kickass year for new bands.
BestNewBands.com’s Best New Male Artist of 2013 Newbie Awards nominees reveals the tremendous musical diversity that’s being embraced today. Note to those hoping to establish themselves in 2014…get a stage name. And it apparently doesn’t hurt if you’re still in your teens.
It was a big year for young female singers and performers to establish themselves. BestNewBands.com’s Best New Female Artist of 2013 Newbie Awards nominees include a teenager and a pair of 21-year-olds and range, quite literally, from A-Z across a wide range of musical genres. Not surprisingly, many noteworthy performers received votes from our panel
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 manageable number. We anticipate the final voting margin to be this close.
New York – Jean-Philip Grobler’s synth pop outfit, St. Lucia, has announced their 2014 headlining tour to promote their recently released, unabashedly upbeat, full-length debut, When The Night (Columbia Records). The Jan.-Feb. itinerary includes three sold-out dates at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom and Music Hall of Williamsburg (where a fourth show has been added).