Best New Bands » AltJ 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 Six of the Best New Bands At Coachella This Weekend https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/six-of-the-best-new-bands-at-coachella-this-weekend/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/six-of-the-best-new-bands-at-coachella-this-weekend/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:01:02 +0000 Last weekend’s edition of Coachella featured everything you could hope for in a festival. There was heat, wind, dust and oh yeah, some great music as well. Between the babes and the bros, everyone seemed to have a good time taking in the sights and sounds of the desert. As weekend two is upon us,

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  1. 5 More New Bands To Check Out At Coachella Over the past week, we’ve showcased the best new bands to check out at Coachella. Like last week, we’ve dedicated our Artist of the Week feature will again take a look at some of our favorite new bands to play...
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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/six-of-the-best-new-bands-at-coachella-this-weekend/feed/ 0 Best New Bands At SXSW: Alt-J, Lucius, On An On and The Weeks https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/best-new-bands-at-sxsw-alt-j-lucius-on-an-on-and-the-weeks/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/best-new-bands-at-sxsw-alt-j-lucius-on-an-on-and-the-weeks/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:09:06 +0000 Publisher’s Note: So many bands. So little time. Kristen Blanton, a newly minted Austin resident, spent most of her week going from concert to concert and interview to interview. She’s exhausted, poor kid. So, I’ve taken the liberty of selecting some of the best new bands we saw there for this recap. The words are

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  1. 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...
  2. More From SXSW: Alt-J, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Vacationer and ON AN ON Everyone is sunburned. The streets of downtown Austin are congested. Yet bands are chatting with their fans, their fans meeting other fans, making friends, sharing beers, it’s a beautiful sight. SXSW perpetuates a synthesis of good music and good people....
  3. SXSW: Shakey Graves, Great Peacock, Ivan and Alyosha, The Lonely Wild As Saturday arrived, we could feel tension of the end approaching. All the friends we’d made bouncing from showcase to showcase were about to go home – off to start recording, back to real jobs on Monday, back on the...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/best-new-bands-at-sxsw-alt-j-lucius-on-an-on-and-the-weeks/feed/ 0 More From SXSW: Alt-J, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Vacationer and ON AN ON https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/more-from-sxsw-alt-j-aaron-lee-tasjan-vacationer-and-on-an-on/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/more-from-sxsw-alt-j-aaron-lee-tasjan-vacationer-and-on-an-on/#comments Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:41:53 +0000 Everyone is sunburned. The streets of downtown Austin are congested. Yet bands are chatting with their fans, their fans meeting other fans, making friends, sharing beers, it’s a beautiful sight. SXSW perpetuates a synthesis of good music and good people. Here at South By, you really can’t have one without the other. Friday’s lineup of

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  1. SXSW – Early Highlights SXSW is electric – everywhere and we do mean each street, bar, corner, park, coffee shop, parking lot and grocery store is bursting at the seams with people indulging in good music. With the worlds best new bands taking to...
  2. SXSW: Lianne La Havas And Hurray For The Riff Raff   Austin is warm, it’s sunny and the music is still flooding with a vigor you can’t compare to anything. Everyone is moving by foot whether to catch the next unofficial showcase or the last minute surprise performer. There was...
  3. Of Monsters and Men Win Over SXSW Having spent the majority of my time at SXSW indoors checking out new bands, I was elated to head to Stubbs BBQ‘s outdoor area to catch the new band Of Monsters and Men.  Having never been there, I had no idea...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/more-from-sxsw-alt-j-aaron-lee-tasjan-vacationer-and-on-an-on/feed/ 1 Preview – St Jerome’s Laneway Festival – Singapore https://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/preview-st-jeromes-laneway-festival-singapore/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/preview-st-jeromes-laneway-festival-singapore/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:48:17 +0000 St Jerome’s Laneway Festival – the quintessential Indie Rock Festival - will return to Singapore for a third successive yearon January 26th. This year the festival’s moving to Singapore’s iconic landmark, The Meadow at Gardens By The Bay. It’s a great lineup, as always, with great mix of known and soon to be known bands, including some of

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  1. Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits I’m not even going to bother going into the “supergroup” thing (oops) and instead recognize that Divine Fits is a well-balanced band comprised of dudes that have their own successful projects, and who combined the best aspects into something of...
  2. Divine Fits Play Their First Show In Los Angeles Since the announcement back in May that Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs’ Dan Boeckner and New Bomb Turks’ Sam Brown formed a band, Divine Fits have been on everybody’s radar and rightfully so. Though its members are highly influential...
  3. Handsome Furs are Unleashed at Slims The Montreal based husband and wife duo of indie electronic rockers Handsome Furs – Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade) and Alexei Perry – made a stop in San Francisco last night. The show at Slims was a part of a tour...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/preview-st-jeromes-laneway-festival-singapore/feed/ 0 Alt-J Nominated for The U.K.’s Mercury Prize https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/alt-j-nominated-for-the-uks-mercury-prize/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/alt-j-nominated-for-the-uks-mercury-prize/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:42:12 +0000 UK-based band Alt-J are honored to announce their nomination for this year’s Mercury Prize, the annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. Past winners of the Mercury Prize include PJ Harvey, Portishead, Pulp, Arctic Monkeys, and The xx. This year’s nominees include albums from Michael Kiwanuka, Ben Howard,

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  1. Asobi Seksu Trance Out Mercury Lounge On the warmest night so far this year, Asobi Seksu played a sold out show at Mercury Lounge. This night’s lineup consisted of all bands representing New York, mainly Brooklyn (what up!). The opener, Elika, is an electro pop duo...
  2. Alt-J (∆) is Musical Change for the Better There was a distinct moment when Alt-J took the stage this past Tuesday night at Glasslands. Simultaneously there was a heightened air of excitement and energy, coupled with an extremely odorous aroma – the kind left hanging in the air...
  3. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Premiere “We Almost Lost Detroit” Video Today, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. premiere their brand new video for “We Almost Lost Detroit” via a dual premiere with Stereogum and Vimeo, where the video is featured on the homepage. The video for the Gil Scott-Heron cover, which is...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/alt-j-nominated-for-the-uks-mercury-prize/feed/ 0 Alt-J (∆) is Musical Change for the Better https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/alt-j-is-musical-change-for-the-better/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/alt-j-is-musical-change-for-the-better/#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:17:59 +0000 There was a distinct moment when Alt-J took the stage this past Tuesday night at Glasslands. Simultaneously there was a heightened air of excitement and energy, coupled with an extremely odorous aroma – the kind left hanging in the air after a rowdy punk show.  While my nostrils were momentarily accosted, I knew Alt-J was

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  1. Quick Change Artists El Ten Eleven and Sister Crayon at The Bootleg I caught El Ten Eleven back in Denton last winter, and I was amazed at how two people could create such a pleasant racket. I wondered: how can they walk around with all of that inside them? Are they constantly...
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