Start your weekend off with a selection of music by artists featured this week on BestNewBands.com. “Outside the City” – Young Galaxy Kelly Knapp caught this stellar act at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn last weekend. Kelly wrote, “Young Galaxy’s set was pretty entrancing in a danceable way. This was a band with original synth
It was four years ago when Lee Moretti’s awesome red hair and I first crossed paths. She was a bassist for New York-based band The Upwelling, but parted ways with them, before she and I crossed paths again when she joined San Francisco alternative rock band Third Eye Blind occasionally as an additional guitar player
On Friday evening, jam band fans from across the boroughs (and state) found the Brooklyn Bowl in Willamsburg and celebrated music. More specifically, they gave their ears to the evening to a pair of very capable hosts: Florida’s The Heavy Pets and New York’s own Fever Train. The Heavy Pets, who are favorites in the
Politics is not a topic we cover very often at BestNewBands.com, but today I am going to change that. From governments in the Middle East to the American Midwest, it seems like everything around us is changing – and not in ways that benefit the general public. Whether you want to organize a rally or
Respected in the rock scene in their own right, Walt Lafty and Nick Perri (who played together in Silvertide) know what it is to rock out. After parting ways to conquer the musical world, they reunited with drummer Shane Rozum to form Sinai. I talked to Walt about this crazy industry, the effect of the
Start your weekend off with a selection of music from artists featured this week on BestNewBands.com “Heat Wave” – Princess Pangolin In this week’s BackStory installment, Julie Carpenter of Princess Pangolin shares the story behind “Heat Wave.” This song started with the pizzicato violin riff…I started playing that and humming the melody. It was one
Last week, for the first time, in New York’s Bowery Ballroom, I watched MEN in costumes dance. I watched MEN sing. I watched MEN jam. Wait, I paid to watch dudes? I kid, of course (and to the readers, I apologize, I usually try to avoid bad puns). The Brooklyn-based disco-funk dance trio, fronted by
Welcome to the horror show, starring seven-piece Norwegian film enthusiasts, Tôg. Fronted by Lars Christian Olsen, the mysterious and enigmatic maestro cites philosophy, as much an inspiration as other music. Moody and infectious with some elements of house, the act will be playing five shows at SXSW in Austin, before playing the Northeast of the
Last night, South Africa’s and BestNewBands.com’s favorite sons (and former Artists in Residence) The Parlotones played the sold-out Mercury Lounge in New York City for an early show. I checked in early for The Parlotones’ soundcheck, examination of their new merch (a black and red Parlotones t-shirt!) and I got to say hello to the
Last month, I reviewed the debut album by Brooklyn-based, electronically-rooted but every other genre but country-fused band MEN, which you can read HERE. Talk About Body is a very accomplished debut for a trio of individuals who have an accomplished musical lineage. JD Samson, of celebrated band Le Tigre has created a robsut combination of