Best New Bands » Car Seat Headrest 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 Foxygen Gets Melodramatic – A Week In Review https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/foxygen-gets-melodramatic/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/foxygen-gets-melodramatic/#comments Wed, 15 Mar 2017 01:57:24 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=34179 London – Continuing Best New Band’s weekly round-up, we preview some new music that has taken our fancy over the past seven days. Foxygen, the eclectic LA-based duo of Sam France and Jonathan Rado, has a new video for the surprisingly brief “Upon A Hill”, a track off the band’s latest album, Hang. The piece

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/foxygen-gets-melodramatic/feed/ 1 10 Albums You Might Have Missed In 2016 https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/10-albums-might-missed-2016/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/10-albums-might-missed-2016/#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2016 08:38:04 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=33998 London – It’s surprising quite how quickly the season of goodwill is upon us. Time, of course, marches on with the same precise regularity as it does week in week out yet the sense that days are accelerating away from you is never more keenly felt than in the run-up to Christmas. OK, you made

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  1. 10 Albums You Might Have Missed In 2014 London – Let’s face it; there is just so much music out there. If you are privileged enough to get to write about music, one trick friends then play on you is to try to find new bands you’ve never...
  2. Top-5 Albums of 2011 – Katrina Nattress Editor’s Note: As a special for the last week of 2011, BestNewBands.com is running lists of our writer’s top-5 albums of 2011. Because it’s the end of the year and because we want to find out what our writers really...
  3. Daniela Montelongo’s Top Albums of 2012 As part of our year-end wrapup of new bands, the staff has put together their top moments of 2012 and are sharing them with you, enjoy! 5. Mutt- Cory Branan I have always thought of Cory as my favorite storyteller...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/10-albums-might-missed-2016/feed/ 3 6 New Bands to Catch at Capitol Hill Block Party https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/6-new-bands-catch-capitol-hill-block-party/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/6-new-bands-catch-capitol-hill-block-party/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2016 06:41:30 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=32156 Seattle — Now in its 20th year, Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party kicks off on July 22 and runs through July 24. Featuring headliners Odesza, CHVRCHES, and Washed Out, and a diverse lineup of indie pop, electronica, hip hop, funk, and more, CHBP asserts itself as one of the premier summer music festivals of the

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  1. 4 New Bands At Day One Of Capitol Hill Block Party Seattle – Streets are closed, rainbow sidewalks are slowly becoming littered with cigarette butts and coffee cups, and a certain Seattle recreation is being enjoyed…yes, the annual Capitol Hill Block Party is in full swing. For three days, Seattle’s Capitol...
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  3. New Bands At Capitol Hill Block Party – Sunday Edition Seattle – Hacky sack circles, animal onesies, bubble machines, and electrical fires…just another typical day at the neighborhood block party. After two stellar days of music Friday and Saturday, Sunday closed out the annual Capitol Hill Block Party with blowout...
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