Kick off your weekend with music from artists featured this week on BestNewBands.com. “Be My Girl” – The Smith Westerns Over the weekend, Leif Roswold caught The Smith Westerns at The Echo in L.A. The sold-out show attracted Hollywood hipsters as well as a few celebrities (hello, Alexander Skarsgard!). Leif wrote, “I was excited for
This past Friday night I got a chance to catch up with Lady Lamb the Beekeeper before her sound check for her show later that night at The Rock Shop, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. We met at the coffee house across the street from the venue, and it ended up feeling
Kick off your pre-Valentine’s (or Singles Awareness) Day weekend with songs from some of the artists we’ve featured this week. “There’s Nothing For Me Here” – Range Rover On Sunday, Liz Livengood caught up with this San Diego trio, and even posted this song as a free download at the bottom of her post.
Welcome to another weekend! Start it off right with music from the artists we’ve featured this week at BestNewBands.com. “Steel My Heart” – The Angry Orts Liz Livengood got a chance to sit down with The Angry Orts before their show at The Woods in Portland last Saturday. Read the rest of Liz’s post here.
Joan of Arc is one of the only bands that I will go out to catch live in this terrible weather New York is having right now. I managed to make it to Mercury Lounge, in the Lower East Side of the city, without falling on my face despite the ice-covered sidewalks and drizzling freezing
Joan of Arc has kind of been one of those bands that people either love or don’t really understand, and even people who love them may not completely understand. This is a band with a long history of varied and often complex sounding music, having released over a dozen albums, a couple EPs and a
When it starts to get super cold in New York is when it’s the perfect time to go to a concert and shake that chill off. Pianos is great for that, since it’s big enough to move but small enough to feel cozy. It became apparent the most of the people came to see Slowdance,
Pianos is a cool little music bar on the Lower East Side. The showroom is small enough to be cozy but large enough to be comfortable in case of a crowd, with great lighting and good sound for such an ad hoc venue. Surrounded by bars, late night burger joints (try Mikey’s!) and relatively cheap
photo credit – Kelly Knapp In our latest installment of the newly-revamped Weekend Playlist, we look back on some of the week’s posts, accompanied by music from our featured artists. Cameras – Matt and Kim:Last Saturday, Cervante Pope reviewed Sidewalks, the latest album from Matt and Kim. Cervante wrote, “The album opens with ‘Block After
I love when I realize a band I’ve just discovered is playing a show near me, so when I saw that Land of Talk was playing at Bowery Ballroom I thought, I know what I’m doing Saturday night! I arrived after the first opener had already started, and as I ascended the dark stairs I could