Best New Bands » dubstep 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 Crystal Fighters Tear Down The Echoplex https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/crystal-fighters-tear-down-the-echoplex/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/crystal-fighters-tear-down-the-echoplex/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2012 05:11:20 +0000 Tuesday night marked my second venture to a Check Yo Ponytail 2 event, and just like my first experience, the night included energetic, electronic, dance-inducing acts, with Crystal Fighters as the headliner. Before this show, I honestly did not know much about the London-via-Spain electronic five-piece, but as soon as the performance ended, I rectified

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  1. Delta Spirit Leads A Spiritual Revival In San Francisco The floor was shaking, hands were raised to the sky and the man on the microphone was pontificating emphatically as sweat rolled down his furrowed brow. Was I in the Abyssinian Baptist Church celebrating a revival? I might as well have...
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  3. 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...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/crystal-fighters-tear-down-the-echoplex/feed/ 0 Healing The Nation Starts With You… and Zion and The Grouch https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/healing-the-nation-starts-with-you-and-zion-and-the-grouch/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/healing-the-nation-starts-with-you-and-zion-and-the-grouch/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:30:51 +0000 One characteristic of human culture is our need to classify and categorize things, mostly to distinguish or separate them from one another. Political beliefs, societal norms and religious dictations draw lines between who is our friend and who is our enemy. If we never question why such boundaries exist, we could remain at an ideological

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  1. Zion I and The Grouch Heal, Inspire a Nation on New Album History has shown us that certain social, economic and cultural issues will never go away. As America’s military budget exceeds the combined amount of the next ten countries, we wonder if there will ever be world peace. As civil rights...
  2. How the Grouch Will Steal Your Wednesday Are you looking for a Christmas celebration unlike your run of the mill unwrapping of gifts? Well, Grouch can help you with that. Tomorrow, the “How the Grouch Stole Christmas” Tour will be coming to the Independent in San Francisco....
  3. BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the Week of 3/21/11 Picked By: Kelly Knapp Who: The Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour Where: Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY When: Monday, March 21 at 9pm Cost: SOLD OUT Age Restriction: all ages     *** Picked By: Monica Christoffels Who: Luka Nelson and the Promise of the...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/healing-the-nation-starts-with-you-and-zion-and-the-grouch/feed/ 0 Friday Night at the WOW Hall: Lynx, Medium Troy and MarchFourth Marching Band https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/friday-night-at-the-wow-hall-lynx-medium-troy-and-march-fourth-marching-band/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/friday-night-at-the-wow-hall-lynx-medium-troy-and-march-fourth-marching-band/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:00:00 +0000 &quo Friday night is tantalizing close, but for some small-town residents the options for celebrating the coming of the weekend can be very limited. Fortunately for those in Eugene, the historic WOW Hall has some great entertainment lined up: the lively, triple-threat lineup of Lynx, Medium Troy and MarchFourth Marching Band. Opening the show will

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  1. BestNewBands.com’s Best Artist of 2010 is…. Medium Troy! This Eugene, Oregon-based band first hit the scene in the fall of 2006. Since then, Medium Troy has taken their signature “bohemian dub” sound all across the west coast, most recently on a few dates of the Vans Warped Tour...
  2. A Very Happy New Year With Medium Troy 2010 was quite the year for Medium Troy – and for me as well. I first met MT this summer at the Oregon Country Fair; the band was my first interview for BestNewBands.com. Since then, I’ve interviewed artists such as...
  3. Medium Troy: Toppling the West Coast’s Indie Scene Medium Troy at the Whiteaker Block Party in August Hometown pride can make people do strange things: root for teams that lose every season, eat at the same diner every day, and ground future generations into family-upheld traditions. What distinguishes...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/friday-night-at-the-wow-hall-lynx-medium-troy-and-march-fourth-marching-band/feed/ 0 Let Ana Sia Take You On a Global, Glitch-Pop Tour https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/let-ana-sia-take-you-on-a-global-glitch-pop-tour/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/let-ana-sia-take-you-on-a-global-glitch-pop-tour/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:00:00 +0000 Times are tough right now, and when budgets tighten the first to go are the travel expenses. Fortunately for the cash-strapped, there is one easy way to experience the world without emptying your bank account: listen to Ana Sia’s blend of “global-slut psy-pop” music.The San Francisco-based DJ mixes “grimey glitch and dirty dubstep,” as her

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  3. The Surf Roots Tour: Currently Working its Way Through the Pacific Northwest Eugene, OR certainly missed a great show last night. The Surf Roots Tour, featuring Tamarama, The Green, Stranger and Anuhea, stopped at the WOW Hall, but only 25 or so people came to see it. A small audience didn’t affect...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/let-ana-sia-take-you-on-a-global-glitch-pop-tour/feed/ 0 BestNewBands.com’s Best Artist of 2010 is…. Medium Troy! https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/bestnewbandscoms-best-artist-of-2010-is-medium-troy/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/bestnewbandscoms-best-artist-of-2010-is-medium-troy/#comments Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:00:00 +0000 This Eugene, Oregon-based band first hit the scene in the fall of 2006. Since then, Medium Troy has taken their signature “bohemian dub” sound all across the west coast, most recently on a few dates of the Vans Warped Tour earlier this summer. Undoubtedly, though, MT’s biggest fans are at home, where they’ve been voted

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  2. BestNewBands.com’s YEAR END BEST OF: Best Artist of 2010 It’s the end of the year, and at BestNewBands.com, that means that our staff have compiled their favorites for the year, and we’d like YOU to choose the top ten in each category. This week, we’ll be asking you to...
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