Best New Bands » album 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 Zola Jesus Celebrates New LP ‘Taiga’ In San Francisco https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/zola-jesus-celebrates-new-lp-taiga-san-francisco/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/zola-jesus-celebrates-new-lp-taiga-san-francisco/#comments Sat, 11 Oct 2014 01:12:02 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=19518 San Francisco – Singer-songwriter Nika Roza Danilova—aka Zola Jesus—kicked off her 2014 tour at this city’s delightfully kitschy supper club/music venue Bimbo’s 365 the other night, supporting her brand new (and fifth) studio album, Taiga.  Bimbo’s is somewhat of a unique venue, boasting candlelit tables pasted amongst platforms rising up from the dance floor. Taiga

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  1. Zola Jesus Unleashes Maps Remix, Tour Dates On Sale Now New York  - Zola Jesus unveils a transcendent remix of “Dangerous Days” from Northampton based musician (and Mute label-mate) James Chapman aka Maps. The original track received critical acclaim, being lauded as “an elegant synth-pop banger” by Spin, receiving Best New Track on Pitchfork, and cracking...
  2. Catch Zola Jesus at Bowery Ballroom this Saturday Zola Jesus is headlining Bowery Ballroom this Saturday, April 23rd. Support acts are Naked on the Vague and Cult of Youth. Zola Jesus’ dark and haunting electronic sounds are seeping into all underground radar, and all my friends who saw...
  3. Temples And Wampire Live In San Francisco San Francisco – The air was electric at The Fillmore the other night, as UK psych outfit Temples celebrated the midpoint of their West Coast tour with their touring partners Wampire, an indie rock group hailing from Portland, Oregon.  Having...
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  1. Album Review: Matthew Dear, Beams In nine years, Matthew Dear has shown many incarnations, from DJ to producer to pop artist, but it wasn’t until his latest release that the co-founder of both Ghostly International and its offshoot Spectral Sound revealed the most important person...
  2. Matthew Dear Gets Sweaty with Eagle Rock Matthew Dear is a man who wears many hats. At once, a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop artist, and a band leader, the New York-based producer, and co-founder of both Ghostly International and its offshoot Spectral Sound, knows...
  3. SXSW Highlights: The Weeks And Lucius As the sun began to set on Austin yesterday, a few things were made very clear: 1.     Beer was not running low 2.     Music was getting louder 3.     People were showing up in insurmountable proportions At times, it seemed a...
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  1. Wall’s Shoestring EP Out Today Big Picnic Records is excited to release WALL’s EP, Shoestring, out today. You can stream the minimal, lush 5-song EP here.  In conjunction with the release, WALL recently wrapped her first string of US appearances, enchanting audiences with her fragile vocals...
  2. Ticket Giveaway: WALL At Bootleg Bar, 3/8   It’s a fact that good things come out of UK, and it looks like the newest future shining star is WALL. The young producer is releasing her debut EP, Shoestring, in the U.S. on April 2 via Black Cab...
  3. Album Review: Blonds, The Bad Ones Cari Rae and Jordy Asher’s music outfit, Blonds, gets compared to groups like Tennis and Cults. Why? Because they are a boy and a girl making pop music. These are not bad comparisons by any means, but Rae and Asher’s...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-wall-shoestring-ep/feed/ 0 Listen To The Exclusive Stream Of The Hectors’ Debut Album, Her Dark Majesty https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/listen-to-the-exclusive-stream-of-the-hectors-debut-album-her-dark-majesty/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/listen-to-the-exclusive-stream-of-the-hectors-debut-album-her-dark-majesty/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:26:27 +0000   We generally premiere MP3s and music videos on BestNewBands.com, but today we are ecstatic to present you loyal readers with an exclusive full stream of The Hectors’ debut full-length, Her Dark Majesty. With a split 7” single and 5-song EP already under their belts, the Los Angeles-based indie rockers have built up a good

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  1. Stream Dirty Projectors Upcoming Album “Swing Lo Magellan” Since its lauded 2009 release, Bit Orca, Dirty Projectors have left its fans nervously twiddling their thumbs in anticipation for a follow-up. After announcing that they were, in fact, working on their sixth album, the Brooklyn-based experimental indie rockers have...
  2. Album Review: Expensive Looks – Dark Matters Over the past few years, musicians and producers have blended into one entity. With the rise of the “chillwave” genre, more musicians have turned to producing synthetic beats and recycling bits and pieces of old tunes to create new music,...
  3. The Lumineers Tour Begins Tonight – Debut Album Out April 3rd The Lumineers Tour Begins Tonight in San Diego Multiple Dates Already Sold Out Stream Self-Titled Debut Album Now To Be Released April 3 on Dualtone Following a stellar showing at SXSW, Denver-based trio The Lumineers begin their tour tonight in...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/listen-to-the-exclusive-stream-of-the-hectors-debut-album-her-dark-majesty/feed/ 0 The Helio Sequence Announce New Album And Tour Dates https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/the-helio-sequence-announce-new-album-and-tour-dates/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/the-helio-sequence-announce-new-album-and-tour-dates/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:04:18 +0000 It’s been a quiet few years for Portland, Oregon-based duo The Helio Sequence. The two-piece, comprised of singer/guitarist Brandon Summers and drummer Benjamin Weikel, have released four studio LPs, the last being 2008’s Keep Your Eyes Ahead. In the four years since the electro-folk-pop outfit’s last album, the guys have kept a low profile, but

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  1. Milo Greene Announce Headlining Tour + Album! Though the band has yet to release a proper album, Milo Greene has been busy nestling into the niche it made itself beside fellow Los Angeles psych/folkers Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros and Local Natives. The quintet has already...
  2. Heartless Bastards Announce Fall Headlining Tour Dates Heartless Bastards have confirmed a run of September tour dates, in addition to their previously announced summer tour. The 8-date tour, in support of the band’s recently released record Arrow, (Partisan Records), begins at Thirsty Hippo in Hattiesburg, MS on September...
  3. ALO Announce Spring / Summer Tour Dates New album Sounds Like This to be released May 8, 2012 ALO have announced an initial run of US tour dates this spring in support of the group’s forthcoming album Sounds Like This, to be released May 8, 2012 on Brushfire...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/the-helio-sequence-announce-new-album-and-tour-dates/feed/ 0 Stream Dirty Projectors Upcoming Album “Swing Lo Magellan” https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/stream-dirty-projectors-upcoming-album-swing-lo-magellan/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/stream-dirty-projectors-upcoming-album-swing-lo-magellan/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:09:57 +0000 Since its lauded 2009 release, Bit Orca, Dirty Projectors have left its fans nervously twiddling their thumbs in anticipation for a follow-up. After announcing that they were, in fact, working on their sixth album, the Brooklyn-based experimental indie rockers have been gradually releasing tracks to keep up the hype around one of the summer’s most

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  1. Dirty Projectors “Bitte Orca”: A Nod to the Kaleidoscope Melodiously off-beat. That’s the oxymoron that describes the 8th LP, Bitte Orca, released by Dirty Projectors in June of 2009. Leadman Dave Longstreth is not so lead in this album, lending his hauntingly boyish voice to only a couple songs,...
  2. Behind the Nostalgic Sounds of Dirty Beaches Dirty Beaches, the one-man band of Alex Zhang Hungtai, is quite possibly one of the most intriguing artists that I’ve recently come across. There’s something mysterious in his music that sounds like nostalgic echoes from decades ago. After I caught...
  3. Maps & Atlases Release “Fever” Off Upcoming LP Barsuk Records is excited to debut “Fever”, the new single off the upcoming Maps & Atlases full-length Beware & Be Grateful, out April 17th. Maps & Atlases will embark on a headlining tour this spring in support of the sophomore...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/stream-dirty-projectors-upcoming-album-swing-lo-magellan/feed/ 0 Ramona Falls’ Sophomore LP ‘Prophet’ Out Now https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/ramona-falls-sophomore-lp-prophet-out-now/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/ramona-falls-sophomore-lp-prophet-out-now/#comments Thu, 31 May 2012 22:25:47 +0000 Like most of us, Brent Knopf watches a lot of YouTube videos, only he’s not watching kittens playing piano. Rather, his tastes err on the more experimental side of things—like people who attempt perpetual motion machines using magnets. “I love that they’re trying to harness an endless supply of energy,” says the Ramona Falls frontman,

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  1. Saint Motel Announces Debut Album, “Voyeur,” Tour Dates And Free Download of Single “1997″ After a long wait, BestNewBands.com faves Saint Motel have finally unleashed news that we’ve been anticipating for some time: details about the release of their debut album. Titled Voyeur, the record set to be released on July 10 and the...
  2. Album Review: CORY BRANAN, Mutt Cory Branan has been a household name in my family for the past several years and, with his newest album release MUTT out May 22nd on Bloodshot Records, I have never been as proud to call myself a fan. I...
  3. Artist of the Week: Silversun Pickups For the past half-decade, Silversun Pickups have brought their brand of fuzzed out, droned guitar rock to the masses. The quartet has been one of the best new bands to come from the indie hotbed of Silver Lake in Los...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/ramona-falls-sophomore-lp-prophet-out-now/feed/ 0 Artist of the Week: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/artist-of-the-week-edward-sharpe-and-the-magnetic-zeros/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/artist-of-the-week-edward-sharpe-and-the-magnetic-zeros/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 18:29:32 +0000 It’s been a long strange trip for Alexander Ebert. Before he formed the much buzzed about new band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, he was the frontman for Ima Robot. But after the band dissolved, nobody would have thought that Ebert would not only reemerge, but also come back with a band that was

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  1. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Woo The Greek It’s hard to believe that a mere two-and-a-half years ago I was watching Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros play at Portland’s small Holocene club. I had been following Alex Ebert’s other band, Ima Robot, for years, so when I...
  2. Zeroing in on Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros It all began with a psychedelic story. Edward Sharpe was a character that Alex Ebert developed during his stint in a 12 step addiction program. In an interview with Paste magazine, Ebert explained that the story was about this Jesus-esque...
  3. Artist of the Week: Silversun Pickups For the past half-decade, Silversun Pickups have brought their brand of fuzzed out, droned guitar rock to the masses. The quartet has been one of the best new bands to come from the indie hotbed of Silver Lake in Los...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/artist-of-the-week-edward-sharpe-and-the-magnetic-zeros/feed/ 0 Milo Greene Announce Headlining Tour + Album! https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/milo-greene-announce-headlining-tour-album/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/milo-greene-announce-headlining-tour-album/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:24:29 +0000 Though the band has yet to release a proper album, Milo Greene has been busy nestling into the niche it made itself beside fellow Los Angeles psych/folkers Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros and Local Natives. The quintet has already won over the hearts of many in its hometown of LA, and it’s on the

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  1. 1776 Announce Debut LP, Spring Tour With The Dandy Warhols Self Titled Album Out June 5th on Beat The World Records / The End Records 1776 are a rock band from the small logging town of Longview, Washington. They are Nigel Ledgerwood, Christopher Cook, Mitchell Rupe, and Zach Whiton. For...
  2. Suckers’ Candy Salad Out TODAY Now Streaming On Vice/Noisey Spring Tour Starts Next Week, With Support From Frenchkiss Labelmates Young Man & Devin Suckers’ sophomore LP, Candy Salad, is out TODAY via Frenchkiss Records. Go grab yourself a copy over at  iTunesnow! If you can’t wait for...
  3. Sleeper Agent and Ben Kweller Rule the El Rey Alright, I’m gonna come out and say it: Sleeper Agent is hot.  They’ve recently released their first kick-ass album, Celebrasion, they just played Coachella, they’re in the middle of touring their sweet Kentucky faces off, and, thanks to the band’s...
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  2. Check out Gold Motel’s New Single, “Leave You in Love” Maybe you were one of the lucky ones to see Gold Motel play at Lollapalooza this past Sunday, maybe you weren’t.  Either way, you can hear their newest sunny-sweet pop hook, “Leave You in Love” right here.  This new single...
  3. Kitsuné Announces Inaugural American Compilation for May 22nd Release For the first time ever the Parisian clothing and music emporium has compiled an eclectic selection of fresh new faces on the North American front with Kitsuné America. After booming in Japan, expanding in South East Asia and steadily developing in...
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