Best New Bands » california 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 Best New Bands Does Desert Daze https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/best-new-bands-does-desert-daze/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/best-new-bands-does-desert-daze/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2016 23:12:56 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=33450 Joshua Tree, California – “Pretty much everything about this festival is unprofessional.” That was the easiest way to reflect upon Desert Daze 2016, as we walked back to our camp Sunday night following the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s closing set. This is in no way meant as a criticism either. Desert Daze was described as the “no rules

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  1. New Bands to See at Desert Daze 2016 New York – This weekend ushers in California’s 5th annual Desert Daze in Joshua Tree, where for three days, from October 14-16, festivalgoers from around the world will experience “what music festivals once were, while illuminating the future of what music...
  2. 7 New Bands We Loved At Bonnaroo Day 1 Manchester, TN – Well here we are again: another sunny weekend full of blistering heat and multitudes of glorious debauchery to be witnessed down at Great Stage Park in Manchester. The annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in south central Tennessee always promises...
  3. 4 New Bands to See at Bumbershoot Seattle – Though the Pacific Northwest skies are darkening earlier, the forecast predicts a sunny, temperate Labor Day weekend – perfect for the thousands of music lovers flocking to Seattle Center to attend the annual Bumbershoot music and arts festival....
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  1. Album Review: Ty Segall, Sleeper At this point, the name Ty Segall has become almost synonymous with prolific. Just last year, he released three albums and started 2013 by announcing yet another project – Fuzz – that’s set to release its debut album in September....
  2. Night Beats and Ty Segall Bring Psychedelic Colors to the Black Lodge Another weekend passes and to no shock of mine, I found myself at the Black Lodge yet again. This time it was for Seattle based band, Night Beats, who graced its hometown with what I feel I can now say...
  3. Mixtape 32: Lord Huron, Ms Mr, Fuzz And More It was a good week for music this past few days. Kristen talked to Ben Schneider from Lord Huron, who struck her as “a thoughtful and well spoken individual with an uncanny aura of passion and intelligence,” and who regaled her...
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  1. Wavves @ Soho on 8/16 As word on the street would have you believe, Nathan Williams and his band Wavves are completely ridiculous. Last night when Williams and his band mates took to the stage at Soho in Santa Barbara, hilarity immediately ensued. It took...
  2. Album Review: The White Buffalo – Once Upon A Time In The West After releasing multiple EPs over the years and several months of anxiously waiting, The White Buffalo’s full-length, Once Upon A Time In The West, is finally available for mass consumption. Released today through Unison Music Group, and although it’s only...
  3. No Joy, Best Coast, and Wavves hit the Hawthorne Theater in Portland wavves rock out, courtesy their myspace Saturday, February 19th was no night for vocalists at the Hawthorne Theater in the South East corner of Portland, Oregon. With a line-up that consisted of No Joy, Best Coast, and Wavves, volume and...
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  1. Q&A: The White Buffalo The White Buffalo, aka Jake Smith, represents an authentic homage to the times of hard touring, hard drinking artists who truly lived what they sang about. Currently on tour with reggae artist, Mishka, The White Buffalo is supporting the upcoming...
  2. Artist of the Week: The White Buffalo Centuries ago Native Americans told stories of the mysterious and elusive white buffalo. It was said to be sacred and on the rare occasion (1 in 10 million buffalo or bison are white) one was seen it was thought to...
  3. What’s New With Young Buffalo It’s been a few months since BestNewBands.com caught up with Young Buffalo. Since Daniel’s Q&A with now former member Alex Von Hardberger, they’ve hit some bumps and had some changes of plan, but also released a new track and have...
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  1. Q&A: Brady Erickson of The Ross Sea Party   Having been together since 2009, The Ross Sea Party has been dazzling crowds in the City of Angels with their infectious brand of indie-rock. The quintent has recently been in the studio gearing up for the release of a...
  2. A Conversation With James Petralli of White Denim Sometimes a name can be an accurate way to describe a band. But with White Denim, it is not. Something as simple as, well, white denim, doesn’t do the band’s eclectic combination of garage rock, dub soul, alt-rock, country and...
  3. Q&A: Joey Siara of The Henry Clay People It has been a busy year for The Henry Clay People. Like the great compromiser, the Los Angeles-based outfit has seen years of hard work pay off in 2010. With the release of its album, Somewhere on the Golden Coast,...
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  1. Lady Danville Returns to UCLA for Acoustic Coffee House Charity Benefit Show Last night, I made the quick jaunt up to the Covel Grand Ballroom on “The Hill” at UCLA (essentially, the heart of on-campus housing/dorm life/pajama-clad kids sipping coffee at 10 pm and giggling loudly) to see a concert held by...
  2. An Interview with the Enlightened Youth of Dominant Legs In the wake of their etherial set at UCLA, I got to catch up with Dominant Legs in a particularly collegiate courtyard outside of UCLA’s Kerckhoff Grand Salon.  They were a curious pair to see.  Ryan Lynch, the guitarist, is...
  3. A Conversation With Alejandra Deheza of School Of Seven Bells 2010 has been a successful year for School of Seven Bells. The band released its sophomore effort, Disconnect From Desire, on July 13 on Vagrant Records/Ghostly International in the U.S. The band consists of Benjamin Curtis and identical twins Alejandra...
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