Young Fathers Are Streaming a Snappy New Single!

Young Fathers

Los Angeles - Young Fathers, the tightly knit trio based out of Scotland, have put a new single up on the web, in anticipation of their new album, White Men Are Black Men Too. Following the release of first single, “Rain or Shine,” the record’s newest single is titled, “Shame.” The freshly launched track is streaming now on

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The Knocks Are Making Some Noise with a New Music Video

Mick Jenkins live

New York – New York City natives, The Knocks, known separately as Ben “DJ B-Roc” Ruttner and James “JPatt” Patterson, are getting closer and closer to the release of their next EP, So Classic. The extended play will be released April 7, via Big Beat Records/Neon Gold. Mike Del Rio took the helm on executive production and his own

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Handsome Ghost Steps Out of the Box with Their Debut EP

Handsome Ghost by Meredith Truax

New York — Handsome Ghost, the hardly definable, “indie prom” band from Massachusetts, has just released their debut EP, Steps via Photo Finish/Republic Records. The six-track project is now available through digital retailers. This follow-up set to 2014′s well received “Blood Stutter” single, takes listeners on a sonic journey along the artistic vantage point of the band’s lead

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Meg Myers Tour and Debut Album Coming Soon

Meg Myers

Meg Myers, a fast-rising musician originally out of Tennessee, (last reported on by Best New Bands senior editor Sarah Hess as having put on a great show at 2014′s Lollapalooza,) is about to depart on a headlining tour that will begin at the end of the month and take her all the way into June and the starting

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Nic Hessler Transforms On ‘Soft Connections’

Nic Hessler

Los Angeles – Orange County, California singer/songwriter Nic Hessler has a new perspective on music and well, life too. About four years ago, the Captured Tracks artist known at the time as Catwalk was sidelined after being diagnosed with Guillain–Barré Syndrome, a rare autoimmune disorder often mistaken for Multiple Sclerosis. After leaving him partially paralyzed

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Cotillon Blend Different Sounds At The Echo

Cotillon live by David Buchan

Los Angeles – Jordan Corso is the LA-based singer/songwriter known as Cotillon. And for his set at The Echo last Thursday, he was joined by Bret Leinen (bass), Michael Mederios (drums) and Zachary Miller (guitar). (They were the second of three acts to perform, as Eleanor Friedberger was the night’s headliner.) Cotillon is a perplexing

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Milo Greene is Tight…Aight?

Milo Greene live by Sarah Hess

Chicago – “It’s always fun to play a sold-out show. It’s like, ‘That’s tight!’” Marlana Sheetz of Milo Greene earned a few laughs and plenty of applause from the Chicago crowd for her 90s-esque commentary Thursday night. Sheetz and the rest of Milo Greene – Robbie Arnett, Graham Fink, Andrew Heringer, and Curtis Marrero –

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