Best New Bands » Jagwar Ma 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 Jagwar Ma’s ‘Every Now & Then’ is Quite the Ride https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/jagwar-ma-every-now-and-then/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/jagwar-ma-every-now-and-then/#comments Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:55:50 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=33571 San Francisco – “Can we be real?” OK, let’s be honest – how often is it, in the most honestly painful scope of reality, that someone actually asks this question of oneself?  Hmmm?  Would I be terribly cynical/naïve/clueless if I were to say…er…almost never? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Ok, broader inquiry: how often is

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/jagwar-ma-every-now-and-then/feed/ 0 Jagwar Ma Previews New LP at The Independent https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/jagwar-ma-previews-new-lp-independent/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/jagwar-ma-previews-new-lp-independent/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2016 20:53:07 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=32860 San Francisco – “Don’t worry, prosperity will knock on your door soon,” bassist Jack Freeman of Jagwar Ma happily read from a fortune cookie fortune during a lull early on in the band’s Wednesday night set, briskly followed by an impromptu reggae version of a few bars from Joy Division’s “Transmission,” cheerily delivered by frontman Gabriel Winterfield. Both of

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