Shut Up And Celebrate: Walk The Moon Goes Platinum!

Walk The Moon live by Sarah Hess

New York - Walk The Moon’s number one smash hit, “Shut Up and Dance” has gone certified platinum! The popular track is currently number two on iTunes Top Songs Chart and number two on this week’s Billboard Digital Songs and Digital Tracks Charts.” It has also been streamed over 78 million times worldwide and is #11 on the

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Antemasque Rock at ‘Fauxchella’

Antemasque live by Corey Ball

San Francisco – Up in the Bay Area, we have a phenomenon of sorts—something that has popped up in the past couple of years—lovingly called “Fauxchella.”  Fauxchella represents the week-long run of concerts held in the Bay Area between the two weekends of the Coachella Music Festival that happens annually under the April sun of

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Mac DeMarco Releasing Mini-LP, ‘Another One’

Mac DeMarco

New York – Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Mac DeMarco is following up his last release, the widely successful Salad Days, with the announcement of Another One. This news comes nearly one year to the date of the last record. Another One was developed and recorded entirely by DeMarco over a very brief time between a hectic tour schedule at his new home in

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Doldrums Making Inner Angst Danceable

Doldrums

Brooklyn – Punk rock-electronica outfit Doldrums, led by Montreal-based artist Airick Woodhead, is fresh off the release of the follow-up to 2013’s debut Lesser Evil.  The Air Conditioned Nightmare (on Sub Pop Records), shares a similarly sunny title which is in fact borrowed off a Henry Miller novel that references the cultural vacuum and dystopia

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Jacco Gardner Streams New Album – “Hypnophobia!”

Jacco Gardner

Los Angeles – Baroque-pop artist, Jacco Gardner’s new album, Hypnophobia, is currently streaming in its entirety until its soon-to-arrive release date of May 5, 2015 on Polyvinyl. Check it out below! The hype for this record has led to plenty of excitement and intrigue, as is evident by the extensive interview Gardner gave to Best New Bands back

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Album Review: Speedy Ortiz – “Foil Deer”

Speedy Ortiz

Los Angeles – Speedy Ortiz’s Foil Deer kicks off with a measured, angular guitar riff that descends into discordant noise and then suddenly halts, allowing Sadie Dupuis’ attention-getting vocal work to take center stage for a few seconds. While the song, “Good Neck,” never makes it to the two-minute mark, serves as the perfect encapsulation

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Bleachers And Charli XCX Are Co-Headlining A Tour!

Charli XCX and Bleachers

New York - Charli XCX and Bleachers, both featured artists with Best New Bands, have announced today, that they will be teaming up for a co-headlining tour during the summer starting off this July in San Diego, CA. BØRNS will be supporting as well. Having starred together previously on Complex’s In-Ride Sessions: Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff Trade Remixes, Charli and

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