Best New Bands » Jared Christenson 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 Anand Wilder and Maxwell Kardon’s Break Line The Musical Brings Story Back https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/anand-wilder-maxwell-kardons-break-line-musical-brings-story-back/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/anand-wilder-maxwell-kardons-break-line-musical-brings-story-back/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2014 03:46:22 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/wp_bnb/?p=17760 Portland – Everybody loves an album with a back-story; Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago emerging from Justin Vernon’s three months of post-breakup solitude in a snow-bound Wisconsin cabin, and John Coltrane, kicked out of Miles Davis’ group as a junkie, experiencing a life saving spiritual awakening and setting it to tape in the form of A Love

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  1. Album Preview: I Break Horses – Chiaroscuro Nashville – Eighties inspired synth effects may be cool again, but that doesn’t make working with them any less challenging. I Break Horses’ new album Chiaroscuro is what happens when echoes of the eighties are resuscitated and used with abandon....
  2. Iska Dhaaf Have Quite the Story to Tell Chicago – The story goes like this: Nathan Quiroga and Benjamin Verdoes were both looking for something more. More than what their bands – Mad Rads and Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Bands – could provide. More depth. More growth. More...
  3. Album Review- Those Darlins, Blur The Line Nashville – Those Darlins have been causing a bit of a stir in Nashville lately. It’s not necessarily for the music on their new album, Blur The Line, so much as its risqué cover art that shows more Darlin flesh...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/anand-wilder-maxwell-kardons-break-line-musical-brings-story-back/feed/ 0 An Interview With Chris Scott of Bearcubbin’! https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/interview-chris-scott-bearcubbin/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/interview-chris-scott-bearcubbin/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2014 18:36:42 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/wp_bnb/?p=17658   Portland – Bearcubbin’! were picked as having one of the worst band names at SXSW, but don’t be deterred; this Portland trio plays some of the best instrumental math rock out there. Their latest LP, Girls With Fun Haircuts, is a big ‘ol chunk of pure unbridled fun. I like to imagine it’s what the Kool-Aid

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  1. Interview: Starsmith New York – Towering over you at over six feet, Finlay “Starsmith” Dow-Smith is hard to miss. His parted hair, pale skin and gangly walk make him fun to look at, but it’s his demeanor that catches you off guard....
  2. Interview: Cate Le Bon Los Angeles – Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon, known for her dark, quirky lyrical style and her vocal resemblance to Nico, took a few moments out of her busy touring schedule to answer some questions for BestNewBands.com.  BNB writer Brigit...
  3. We Talk With Chris Prudhomme of Painted Palms San Francisco – San Francisco-based buzz band Painted Palms have been tearing up the indie airwaves since the release of their debut LP,  Forever, earlier this year.  Now the pair of cousins are heading out on a month-long tour headlining across...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/interview-chris-scott-bearcubbin/feed/ 0 Album Review: Peter Matthew Bauer – Liberation! https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-peter-matthew-bauer-liberation/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-peter-matthew-bauer-liberation/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2014 04:50:54 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/wp_bnb/?p=17622 Portland – Let’s get the formalities out of the way: Peter Matthew Bauer played bass for The Walkmen. The indie rock stalwarts who, after thirteen years and seven studio albums, are now on “extreme hiatus” as Bauer phrases it. By all accounts the non-breakup was an amicable one, and no blood, bad or otherwise, has

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  1. Album Review: Matt Bauer, No Shape Can Hold Me Now I’m sad and slightly ashamed to admit that Matt Bauer hasn’t been on my musical radar in the past few years. Despite his release of two well-received albums (The Island Moved In The Storm and The Jessamine County Book Of...
  2. Album Review: The Walkmen, Heaven Believe it or not, The Walkmen celebrated its ten-year anniversary last spring. Over the past decade, the New York-based band has released six full-length records and garnered a devoted fan base, all while developing and perfecting the art of indie...
  3. Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen to release Solo Album New York – Former front man Hamilton Leithauser of the now-defunct group The Walkmen has just confirmed details of his first-ever solo venture. The album, to be entitled Black Hours, is scheduled for release in North America on May 6th...
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  1. Album Review: Angel Haze, Dirty Gold Seattle – When Angel Haze leaked her own album, she certainly got attention. It was an act of defiance when Island/Republic Records pushed back the album’s release until March 2014. She wasn’t too happy about that so went all rebel...
  2. Interview – Blue & Gold Brooklyn – Hiding out in the eye of NYC’s polar vortex early Saturday night, I phoned fellow Brooklyn-dwellers Blue & Gold for an interview. In the conversation that followed, band mates Chloe Raynes (guitar, vocals), Alex Kapelman (guitar, vocals), GG...
  3. Album Review: Fun. – Some Nights   The boys of fun.–lead singer/songwriter Nate Ruess, Jack Antonoff, and Andrew Dost–are back with their second studio album,  Some Nights, which drops today.  As a long time Nate Ruess fan, from his Format days, I feel qualified and obligated...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/white-hex-gold-nights/feed/ 0 The World Is a Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid to Die – Live https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-world-is-a-beautiful-place-and-i-am-no-longer-afraid-to-die-live/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-world-is-a-beautiful-place-and-i-am-no-longer-afraid-to-die-live/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2014 02:46:07 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/wp_bnb/?p=17586 Portland – Do you remember high school? Do you remember driving around the suburbs in your parents’ car with a cracked Taking Back Sunday or Bright Eyes jewel case baking in the sun on the dash? You were bursting with that new found feeling of being so sad it made you happy or so happy

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  1. Charli XCX – Life is Beautiful Interview Las Vegas – In a discount music bin in her hometown of Stevenage, a town and borough of Hertfordshire, England, a young Charlotte Aitchison nabs a punk rock mixtape. A Vibrators song, “Feel Alright,” immediately grabs a hold of her....
  2. Dynamo: Live At Ocean Way Nashville – When I think of a live album, I think of the screaming crowd, the distorted sound, the difficulty hearing. It’s unusual for me to enjoy these types of albums simply because I find it overwhelming and annoying. Dynamo...
  3. Manchester Orchestra Live In Austin Austin – I think we can all agree that inciting a mosh pit on a Tuesday night is impressive, regardless of the context. Let us all take a moment to applaud the southern-based rock band Manchester Orchestra for proving to us that...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-world-is-a-beautiful-place-and-i-am-no-longer-afraid-to-die-live/feed/ 0 Lee Bains III And The Glory Fires At Mississippi Studios https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/lee-bains-iii-and-the-glory-fires-at-mississippi-studios/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/lee-bains-iii-and-the-glory-fires-at-mississippi-studios/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:03:34 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/wp_bnb/?p=17577 Portland – Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires are getting acclaim for their liberal take on good ol’ Southern rock. Their second album Dereconstructed, released this past May on Sub Pop, is an expression of Lee Bain’s experiences as a born and raised Southerner who both loves the place he’s from and hates the ugly

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  1. Show Review: A B & The Sea at Portland’s Mississippi Studios San Francisco band A B & The Sea played an energetic short set at Portland’s Mississippi Studios Monday night. The band hopped on the small stage just a few minutes after 9 pm, calling keyboardist David Hunt, who was lagging,...
  2. Sophie Barker Live At Mississippi Studios In Portland Election night also marked the last stop on Sophie Barker’s West Coast tour at Mississippi Studios in Portland, OR. Amongst the cheers and boos in the next room, Barker and her band played a deliciously down tempo show for a...
  3. The Ascetic Junkies: Fun At Mississippi Studios Portland’s Mississippi Studios was packed last night for the Nicole Atkins/Cotton Jones show. People who showed up early enough to see The Ascetic Junkies open were the lucky ones, though. In spite of their austere-sounding name, The Ascetic Junkies play...
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  2. Glass Animals Debut LP ZABA Finds Contemporary Bliss in Calculated Madness San Francisco – In high school, I remember a few friends of mine and I had this crazy notion that we should start a band.  We failed, of course, but I couldn’t help thinking that other people must feel the...
  3. New Wave Rebellion Defines “Transmogrify” With Debut Album Nashville – Born out of the minds of Joshua Rawlings, Dylan Wayman, Stephan Gubanov, and Sebastian “Seabass” Barnum in 2012, New Wave Rebellion is more than thrilled to announce that their first album, Transmogrification, was released on March 31st. The...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/dub-thompson-9-songs/feed/ 0 Eagulls at Doug Fir Lounge https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/eagulls-at-doug-fir-lounge/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/eagulls-at-doug-fir-lounge/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2014 05:35:09 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/wp_bnb/?p=17309 Portland – Justified or not, Northern England has a reputation for heavy skies and stark industrial scenes. “Tramlines and slagheaps, pieces of machinery,” W.H. Auden once penned cheerily, describing his native region. As the saying goes in Southern England, “it’s grim up North.” Those supposedly gloomy climes above the Watford Gap have given rise to more than

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  1. Eagulls and Yvette Rocked Loud At Mercury Lounge New York – Eagulls just swooped back through NYC after a much buzzed about CMJ run (including by us), and played both Mercury Lounge in Manhattan and Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn. I believe I once again caught the tamer...
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  3. The Eagulls Are Already Turning Heads With Debut Album Nashville – Hailing from Leeds, England, The Eagulls are made up of five members: Mark Goldsworthy (guitar), Henry Ruddel (drums), Liam Matthews (bass), Tom Kelly (guitar) and George Mitchell (vocals). Even if you weren’t positive where this band originated, the...
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  1. Parquet Courts And Savages: Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL Brooklyn’s Parquet Courts set was a combination of poppy slacker rock frequently interrupted by sporadic punk riffs and completely necessary distorted feedback. The gentle head banging to two minute odes of intoxicated boredom stretched into fried out noise jams provided...
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