Best New Bands » Eugene 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 Omar Offendum: Connecting Cultures Through Street-Savvy Scholastics https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/omar-offendum-connecting-cultures-through-street-savvy-scholastics/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/omar-offendum-connecting-cultures-through-street-savvy-scholastics/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 20:00:00 +0000 Amazing things can happen when people from all walks of life come together for a common cause. I witnessed this firsthand Sunday night at the University of Oregon, where the Arab Student Union held its fifth annual Arabian Nights event at McArthur Court. The students managed to bring to the event world-renowned rapper Omar Offendum,

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  1. Don’t Ever Question Atmosphere’s Street-Savvy Style I have a confession to make: although Atmosphere, a Minneapolis-based act comprised of Sean “Slug” Daily and Anthony “Ant” Davis, has been around for more than a decade, I hadn’t listened to the group’s music until just a few days...
  2. Pollyn Performs at the Sunset Junction Street Fair in Los Angeles 8.21.10 I came across Pollyn when perusing the lineup for the Sunset Junction Street Fair. Held in Los Angeles Saturday August 21st through Sunday August 22nd, Sunset Junction features a full two days of artists, vendors, and bands (local, national, and...
  3. Street Drum Makes Some “Big Noise” At The Roxy! Street Drum Corps have been taking over the Roxy Tuesday nights and you know that feeling where you really want to forget all the nonsense in your own life and focus on something- ANYTHING- else?  This is the show for...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/omar-offendum-connecting-cultures-through-street-savvy-scholastics/feed/ 0 Mallard Madness Brings Big-Time Bands to Small-Town Students https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/mallard-madness-brings-big-time-bands-to-small-town-students/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/mallard-madness-brings-big-time-bands-to-small-town-students/#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 23:00:00 +0000 Very seldomly does anything newsworthy happen in a seemingly small town such as Eugene, Oregon. Well, I should take that back–this year saw local concerts by Gogol Bordello, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and even the legendary Elton John. (Oh, and our football team went to the national championship game, but that’s an aside.)

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  1. BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the Week of 5/2/11 Picked By: Monica Christoffels What: Mallard Madness, featuring Yeasayer, A-Trak and RJD2 Where: University of Oregon main campus, Eugene OR. The event schedule has a map of each activity’s location. When: May 4-8. Event schedule can be found here. Cost:...
  2. WOW Hall Welcomes Back Students With Electro-Dub Dance Party Now that fall term at the University of Oregon has started, Eugene’s WOW Hall is full, once again, of students not yet ready to leave summer behind. Club kids couldn’t complain, though, as last night’s sold-out show brought EOTO’s Dubstep...
  3. Yeasayer’s Fresh Tracks, Tour Dates a Lovely V-Day Gift Fresh from touring in Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, Yeasayer gifted fans early Monday morning with a little something to show their love: a new music video for “I Remember” from the Odd Blood LP, along with a couple free...
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  1. BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the Week of 2/28/11 Picked By: Laurel Johnston Who: Jukebox the Ghost Where: The Echo, Los Angeles, CA When: Tuesday, March 1st Doors open at 8pm Cost: $8 adv/$10 at the door Age Restrictions: All ages   *** Picked By: Monica Christoffels Who: Portugal....
  2. Friday Night at the WOW Hall: Lynx, Medium Troy and MarchFourth Marching Band &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...
  3. Q&A With Gogol Bordello: The Trans-Continental Sensation Mix hypnotic, Russian gypsy melodies with gritty, pirate-punk vocals, and you get an authentic, unique sound that could only come from Gogol Bordello. The eight-piece band is currently touring North America to promote its new album, Trans-Continental Hustle; the group...
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  1. BackStory: Stagger and Sway’s “Sam Bond’s Garage” In this BackStory feature, Mike Last of Eugene’s Stagger and Sway explains the story behind the band’s tribute to local bar Sam Bond’s Garage. This is a song about the intangible magic of our favorite places. It was inspired by...
  2. Staggering, Swaying at Sam Bond’s Garage? Blame It On the Beer At Sam Bond’s Garage, there are certain things one can always count on: a packed house, and stronger-than-you’d-suspect beer. Local musicians Stagger & Sway know this, and even penned an ode to the notorious Eugene bar that encaptures the weird...
  3. BNBTV Spotlight: The Sunshine Factory, “Twisted and Clover” BestNewBands.com Call me ignorant, but for some reason I don’t usually connect Mobile, Alabama with psychadelia—especially psychedelic rock. However, this might change thanks to The Sunshine Factory.  We have before us a dynamic trio somehow creating a simultaneously different and...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/bnbtv-spotlight-the-stagger-and-sway-sam-bonds-garage/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 Pepper Rabbit Hops Through Oregon and Washington with Ra Ra Riot https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/pepper-rabbit-hops-through-oregon-and-washington-with-ra-ra-riot/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/pepper-rabbit-hops-through-oregon-and-washington-with-ra-ra-riot/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Pepper Rabbit’s off to quite a busy 2011 so far: after releasing their debut album, Beauregard, late last year, the duo of Xander Singh and Luc Laurent has played a non-stop string of shows with the likes of Passion Pit, Freelance Whales and Miniature Tigers. I recently had the opportunity to interview Xander Singh –

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  1. Words and Music with Pepper Rabbit Several hours before they rocked The Echo, I got a chance to sit down with Pepper Rabbit and chat about the recent release of their debut album Beauregard, their next album, and their currently hectic schedule. I was first introduced to...
  2. Pepper Rabbit’s “Beauregard”: This Week’s Pleasant Surprise I didn’t know what to expect when I dove into Pepper Rabbit’s new release, Beauregard. I didn’t think I was familiar with the band, but I guess by association I was expecting them to sound something like Pepper, so I...
  3. Highwater: Rising to the Top of Oregon’s Alternative Scene photo taken by Carolyn Taylor “Left-coast mountain punk-grass” is how Highwater, a Portland- and Eugene-based band, describes its sound. If you’re unfamiliar with that particular genre of music, you’re not alone: Highwater’s tunes are as unique as the men who...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/pepper-rabbit-hops-through-oregon-and-washington-with-ra-ra-riot/feed/ 0 Revolutionary Reggae with Cornflower, Alcyon Massive and Indubious https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/revolutionary-reggae-with-cornflower-alcyon-massive-and-indubious/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/revolutionary-reggae-with-cornflower-alcyon-massive-and-indubious/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Spencer “Skip Wicked” Burton of Indubious Society is a funny thing: from birth we’re immersed into an unspoken set of rules and standards. We come to understand what’s socially acceptable, from how we style our hair to what we wear to the set of core values and traditions we believe we should uphold. And yet,

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  1. Easy Star All Stars: Reggae for Reggae Lovers and Haters Last night I traveled to beautiful downtown Santa Barbara to see the Easy Star All Stars perform with Cas Haley at the Soho Restauarant and Music Club (check out my review of Cas live at The Roxy here). Easy Star...
  2. BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the Week of 1/17/11 Picked By: Jesse Diener-Bennett Who: Broken Social Scene Where: Terminal 5, NYC When: Tuesday, Jan. 18th at 8:00 Cost: $11 advance, $13 day of show Age Restrictions: 21+ ***   Picked By: Claire Gallagher and Daniel Kohn Who: Atlantic/Pacific and The Pierces Where: Hotel...
  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/live-reviews/revolutionary-reggae-with-cornflower-alcyon-massive-and-indubious/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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  1. New Tour Announcements from Matthew Dear, Bear In Heaven, Starfucker, and Deer Tick Matthew Dear U.S. Tour 10.14 Chicago, IL – Metro 10.15 Hamilton, Ontario – Red Mill Theatre 10.16 Toronto, Ontario – Wrongbar 10.18 Montreal, Quebec – Belmont 10.19 Boston, MA – Great Scott 10.20 New York, NY – CMJ 10.21 Philadelphia,...
  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. 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 Staggering, Swaying at Sam Bond’s Garage? Blame It On the Beer https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/staggering-swaying-at-sam-bonds-garage-blame-it-on-the-beer/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/staggering-swaying-at-sam-bonds-garage-blame-it-on-the-beer/#comments Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 At Sam Bond’s Garage, there are certain things one can always count on: a packed house, and stronger-than-you’d-suspect beer. Local musicians Stagger & Sway know this, and even penned an ode to the notorious Eugene bar that encaptures the weird quirks that make Sam Bond’s special. Now, I’d consider myself a Monday-night bingo and Tuesday-night

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  1. From Bluegrass to Bingo, Sam Bond’s Garage Has It All photo credit: Esquire.com On Monday nights, when most other bars are sound asleep, Sam Bond’s Garage can hardly contain its patrons. The large, wooden room reverberates with animated chatter as people grab drinks and, if they’re lucky, a place to...
  2. Need rehearsal space? Try a parking garage Last night after a shoot on the UC Irvine campus, I was met with the distant promise of blistering guitar licks and the steady pulse of drums echoing across the campus. I pictured college kids jamming in some social center,...
  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/live-reviews/staggering-swaying-at-sam-bonds-garage-blame-it-on-the-beer/feed/ 0 A Very Happy New Year With Medium Troy https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/a-very-happy-new-year-with-medium-troy/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/a-very-happy-new-year-with-medium-troy/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:00:00 +0000 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 Gogol Bordello and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, while the boys of Troy have

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  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 2010′s Last Weekend Playlist As we welcome the new year, BestNewBands.com would like to take one last look at the magical, music-filled year that was 2010. photo credit: Jesse Diener-Bennett “Babies” – Via Audio Jesse Diener-Bennett caught Via Audio in concert earlier this month,...
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