Best New Bands » Will Jukes 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 Dawes Matures With “All Your Favorite Bands” https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/dawes-matures-favorite-bands/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/dawes-matures-favorite-bands/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2015 03:38:05 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=24960 Austin – Dawes are six years and four albums deep into their career now that All Your Favorite Bands is out (as of June 2nd). They’re still a young band, but not exactly a new one. All Your Favorite Bands seems like a good place to take stock. What have they done since emerging from

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  1. Dawes Unveils Their New Single New York – All Your Favorite Bands, the forthcoming new album from Dawes, the Los Angeles-based quartet, is slated for release on June 2. David Rawlings, of Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, TN, sat in the producer’s chair for this fourth installment...
  2. Dawes Delivers On The Late Show With David Letterman! New York - Four piece rock band, Dawes, performed in the Ed Sullivan Theater at David Letterman’s request, this past Wednesday, April 22, to play their song, “Things Happen.” This is the first track from the quartet’s highly anticipated, upcoming full-length record titled, All...
  3. Colleen Green Matures With ‘I Want To Grow Up’ Los Angeles – Poor Colleen Green – she tries so hard to become a more mature, responsible and secure person.  The title of her second record for Hardly Art, I Want To Grow Up, says it all.  But even by...
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  1. Just In Time For Summer, Peach Kelli Pop – III Los Angeles – Just in time for summer, Peach Kelli Pop is back with a third full length release, aptly titled III.  Bursting at the seams with over-caffeinated punk tempos and sugar sweet pop melodies and harmonies, on the surface...
  2. METZ Release Their Follow-Up: II Los Angeles – On one hand, the rise of METZ in the modern underground music scene is perplexing; the influence of electronic and pop music has slowly whittled down the number of acts that flaunt angular guitar riffs and liberal use...
  3. Cult of Youth Continue to Cultivate Their Sound With ‘Final Days’ Los Angeles – Cult of Youth have just released their third full-length release for Sacred Bones this week.  Ominously titled Final Days, the record sees the five-piece band from Brooklyn reaching a full-realization of their evolving blend of post-punk and neo-folk. ...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/communions-find-balance-new-ep/feed/ 0 Wolf Alice Takes Austin Back to the 90’s https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/wolf-alice-takes-austin-back-90s/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/wolf-alice-takes-austin-back-90s/#comments Wed, 27 May 2015 07:39:18 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=24776 Austin – North London’s Wolf Alice supposedly has roots as a folk band, but you would never guess it hearing their Holy Mountain set in Austin last Friday. The setlist was front loaded with the group’s loudest indie/hard rock hybrids, songs like “Fluffy” and “She”, carefully engineered with lengthy instrumental breaks for relieving head-thrashing urges.

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  1. Wolves Of London: Wolf Alice At Brooklyn Night Bazaar Brooklyn – The biggest cliché in band names during the 2000s was ‘wolf.’ For a while, it seemed like if a band didn’t have an extraneous consonant, they had some reference to wolves doing something wolves don’t normally do: Wolf...
  2. Whirr Overcomes Bad Weather at Austin’s Mohawk Austin – There’s a very narrow window in the spring when an outdoor show in Austin is pleasant, and April falls right in the middle of it. Too bad that’s also the rainy season. Whirr, though, is an exception: the...
  3. Benjamin Booker: Blues Meets Punk at Austin’s Mohawk Austin—Why do punk and blues make such great, timeless bedfellows? What synergy has kept Jack White, the Black Lips, and the Black Keys popular since the turn of the century? How, 15 years later, has Benjamin Booker made something new...
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  1. Win 2 tickets to see Mystery Skulls Friday at The Echoplex! Los Angeles – (Publisher’s Note: We have a winner.) Mystery Skulls is playing The Echoplex in Los Angeles this Friday and Best New Bands has two tickets to give away. Touring in support of his breakthrough debut album Forever, Mystery Skulls...
  2. Mystery Skulls Comes Home To Stubb’s Austin – Officially, Mystery Skulls is a product of Los Angeles. It’s where he calls home, and it’s where his career has taken off. But he was proud to tout his Texas upbringing to a packed house at Stubb’s last...
  3. Interview: Jukebox The Ghost San Francisco- Washington D.C. Based indie pop band Jukebox the Ghost consists of only three guys, Ben Thornewill (vocals/keyboard), Tommy Siegel (vocals/guitar), and Jesse Kristin (drums.) This power pop indie band has just released their fourth album, the self-titled Jukebox...
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  1. Capital Cities Made Chicago Dance Chicago – On Friday night, Capital Cities started a massive dance party inside The Riviera that lasted well into the night. The LA electro-pop band has been performing with CHERUB and Night Terrors of 1927 on an epic North American tour sponsored...
  2. Mystery Skulls Comes Home To Stubb’s Austin – Officially, Mystery Skulls is a product of Los Angeles. It’s where he calls home, and it’s where his career has taken off. But he was proud to tout his Texas upbringing to a packed house at Stubb’s last...
  3. Max Frost Plays Hometown Show For ACL Late Night Austin—For someone signed to Atlantic Records, Max Frost still feels a lot like a local artist. His debut EP, Low High Low, couldn’t carry him out from under the shadow of his breakout single, “White Lies.” Add to that the...
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  1. The Home of House Music Embraces Clean Bandit Chicago – It may have been a Wednesday night, but Chicagoans were ready to get down and party with electronic outfit Clean Bandit like it was a Saturday. Although, there was a slight snag in the plan; the U.K. foursome...
  2. Hozier At Home In The Land Of The Blues Chicago – Andrew Hozier-Byrne, the Irishman who has been melting hearts and turning concert halls into places of musical worship, played a sold-out show at the Riviera Theatre this past Wednesday night. The 24-year-old blues lover creates fantastic indie rock...
  3. White Mystery and Twin Peaks Rock Chicago’s Rogers Park Chicago – If you haven’t heard, Chicagoans love a good street festival. There’s nothing better than taking in some people watching over a nice cold beer while listening to some of your favorite local bands just blocks from your home....
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  1. Benjamin Booker Finds His Voice   Los Angeles- Sometimes it’s failure that sets us on the track that we need to be on. For Benjamin Booker the inability to score a job in journalism out of college was the impetus for his now budding musical...
  2. Benjamin Booker Tears Up Seattle’s Tractor Tavern Seattle – In the annals of rock ‘n’ roll history are the fabled stories of artists getting a little too, shall we say, loosened up backstage before a performance.  Alcohol seems to be the norm for a road tour, with...
  3. Whirr Overcomes Bad Weather at Austin’s Mohawk Austin – There’s a very narrow window in the spring when an outdoor show in Austin is pleasant, and April falls right in the middle of it. Too bad that’s also the rainy season. Whirr, though, is an exception: the...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/benjamin-booker-blues-meets-punk-austins-mohawk/feed/ 0 Whirr Overcomes Bad Weather at Austin’s Mohawk https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/whirrs-thunderous-sound-overcomes-bad-weather-austins-mohawk/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/whirrs-thunderous-sound-overcomes-bad-weather-austins-mohawk/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2015 07:48:30 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=23799 Austin – There’s a very narrow window in the spring when an outdoor show in Austin is pleasant, and April falls right in the middle of it. Too bad that’s also the rainy season. Whirr, though, is an exception: the hangover of a vicious April squall on Saturday night created just the right atmosphere for

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  1. You Blew It! Offer Real Emo At Mohawk Austin – It was a minor tragedy when, sometime between ’05 and ’08, emo was scorned into early retirement. The label was nebulous in the first place, applied to any rock music with enough juvenile male pathos. On that basis...
  2. Yip Deceiver at Austin’s Mohawk Austin - Yip Deceiver doesn’t have much star power…yet. Even piggybacking off their status as Of Montreal alumni.  Last year’s debut record Medallius was no instant breakout, good as it was. So, maybe those in attendance at their set at the...
  3. Charli XCX Previews ‘Sucker’ In Austin Austin – This headline guarantees Charli XCX a spot on a pink card in some future edition of Trivial Pursuit. More immediately, it seems like a looming, hilarious instance of the career-launching/overshadowing single—“Creep” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” come to...
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  1. How To Do It Right: Until The Ribbon Breaks – A Lesson Unlearnt Chicago – U.K. band Until The Ribbon Breaks is about to unveil their highly anticipated debut full-length, A Lesson Unlearnt (Kobalt), in the U.S. Music critics fell in love with UTRB when the trio released their The Other Ones EP...
  2. Until The Ribbon Breaks Give Chicagoans What They Needed Chicago – Yo New York, I’ma let you finish but you ain’t got nothing on Chicago when it comes to blizzards! Twenty inches of snow? Check. Below freezing temps? Check. Letting winter disrupt our lives? No dice! Monday night was...
  3. Breaking It Down With Until The Ribbon Breaks ’ Pete Lawrie Winfield Chicago – If you’re an avid YouTuber, chances are you’ve seen Until The Ribbon Breaks ’ amazing, self-made music videos. If not, you’ve got some YouTubing to do! The U.K. band started as Pete Lawrie Winfield’s solo project a little over...
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  2. Jib Kidder Offers Psychedelic Indie Pop On ‘Teaspoon To The Ocean’ New York – Jib Kidder’s bandcamp bio reads “no genre, no hometown, hard to pin down since Y2K.” This is true: Sean Schuster-Craig has lived all over the country (grew up in Georgia, spent time in the Midwest and on...
  3. Springtime Carnivore Blossoms At Great American Music Hall San Francisco – This week saw the very beginning of an extensive tour in which indie mainstays The Dodos share the stage with Bay Area newcomers Springtime Carnivore.  Springtime Carnivore is the ‘nom de tune’ of Greta Morgan, a circus...
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