Chicago – Imagine packing your bags with the bare minimum and spending three months road-tripping across North America with some of your best friends. Now imagine yourself documenting your adventures and experiences through art. Sounds pretty darn amazing, right? Well, that’s exactly what L.A. indie-folk trio MAGIC GIANT has been doing. The group, comprised of
New York - German duo Milky Chance took the world by storm with the infectious song “Stolen Dance,” which went viral with over 254 million views on YouTube and over 273 million streams on Spotify. Milky Chance is comprised of singer and guitarist Clemens Rehbein and producer slash percussionist Philipp Dausch. In 2015, the two, along with guitarist and harmonica genius Antonio
New York – Experimental two-piece SOFI TUKKER has unveiled a new music video for the single “Drinkee” from the band’s upcoming debut EP called Soft Animals, to be released July 8th. New York-based musical duo consists of Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern. Best New Bands caught the two opening for fellow New Yorkers The Knocks, at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall. Sofi Tukker left
New York - South African rock band Civil Twilight released a haunting yet beautiful cover of Billy Idol’s ”Dancing With Myself.” The four-piece also announced an acoustic re-release of the band’s phenomenal third album Story of an Immigrant, via Wind-up Records on July 15th. Civil Twilight has been touring in support of the album the past month, including festivals performances
Los Angeles - Today, with much excitement, California’s own Bad Suns announced the release of sophomore album, Disappear Here. The indie rock band will unleash album number two on September 16, 2016, via Vagrant Records/BMG US. Fans can pre-order the album on iTunes and receive an instant download of the title track, “Disappear Here.” In a press release, frontman Christo Bowman spoke of
Chicago – On a beautiful Friday night in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, just a stone’s throw from Lake Michigan, excited fans walked the streets towards Park West to see twenty year-old U.K. singer-songwriter Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde, better known as Birdy, who has been touring in support of her third album Beautiful
New York – There’s a dilemma that every songwriter faces: whether to be so vague that the listener might superimpose their own life, or whether to get so specific that the listener tumbles into the plot. Of course, the latter approach can wind up getting a writer into trouble. Teeth & Tongue – the musical
Manchester, TN - As the second half of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival’s 15th anniversary edition began on Saturday morning, neither the merciless (and gradually building) heat and humidity nor the profound, almost tangible energy emanating from the thousands of festivalgoers showed any sign of halting. Despite a dramatic increase in temperature and a severe weather threat that prompted
London – There were many raised eyebrows in the summer of ’14 when founding lead guitarist Billy Bibby parted company with Catfish & The Bottlemen just as seven years of serious dues-paying were about to culminate in the release of subsequent hit album, The Balcony. Bibby seemed uncertain of his immediate plans beyond some song
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 eclectic lineups, visual and aural spectacle, and an altogether memorable experience. Whether you’re new to the