Best New Bands » led zeppelin 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 Artist of the Week: Tame Impala https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/artist-of-the-week-tame-impala/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/artist-of-the-week-tame-impala/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:36:23 +0000 Heavy, fuzzy, psychedelic guitar rock can come from the darndest places. Whether it be the mighty Led Zeppelin, who defined the genre, to Black Sabbath, who obliterated it. Now, there’s a new band that can play a similar role, albeit 40 years later. They hail from Perth, Australia and are called Tame Impala. As we’ve

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  1. Tame Impala and The Amazing Dazzle The El Rey Tame Impala may be one of the most buzzworthy new bands of 2012. After releasing its lauded sophomore release, Lonerism, in October, the Australian quintet embarked on a sold-out North American tour and on Friday night, the iconic El Rey...
  2. Album Review: Tame Impala, Lonerism A breathy, rhythmic voice starts chanting, “I gotta be above it” with chugging drums following suit. Vocals introduce the melody; sounding like a life-changing revelation has just taken place. Grandiose synths interject, creating the feeling of lifting off into the...
  3. Artist of the Week: Of Monsters and Men Over the past few months, we’ve touted Icelanic indie/folk rockers Of Monsters of Men as one of our favorite new bands of 2012. So far, it looks like the band has not only heeded, but exceed the hype that’s come...
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  1. Album Review: Two Guns- Far Away Places After listening to Two Guns’ self-titled debut album, I was thoroughly impressed. Kevin Poush, the lead singer and guitarist, had such a melancholy affable tone on the first album, which was a bit reminiscent of Jeff Tweedy at his most...
  2. Album Review: Indians I was sitting in front of my new laptop today lamenting the death of Punk Rock…again. Punk has lived and died more times in the past twenty years than Paul McCartney during the Abbey Road years. Then I listened to...
  3. What’s in a Name?- The Crystal Castles (II) Album Review When Crystal Castles was done crafting their second full-length album, they felt no need to come up with an original album name. The 14 hypnotic tracks speak for themselves, and the Canadian dance duo can self-title every single one of...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-dreamers-of-the-ghetto-enemy-lover/feed/ 0 Q&A: Sand Section https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/qa-sand-section/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/qa-sand-section/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:46:42 +0000 Hermosa Beach’s Sand Section started off as a bunch of dudes jamming in high school to a full-fledged recording outfit. After playing gigs around the South Bay and Hollywood during these years, college came and the members went their separate ways, until their hankering for making music returned. Though the lineup has changed multiple times

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  1. Trenchtown Rock Comes to The South Bay Usually when bands move out west, it is for hopes of fortune and fame. But for Hermosa Beach-via-North Adams, Mich., outfit Trenchtown, they merely enjoyed the weather more than back home. “It took us a while (a span of over...
  2. Q&A: Matt Holliman of Sleepy Sun Recently, Sleepy Sun got a huge breakthrough when they were announced as the opener for one of the hottest names in indie rock, Austin’s The Black Angels. Though the tour isn’t going to commence until April, the band is doing...
  3. Beach Fossils Review: A Brooklyn trio’s lovely, lo-fi debut Beach Fossils‘ debut self-titled album sounds like a lazy, slow-motion day in the California sun. Despite the fact that I can think of several other recent indie releases that fit that description, this Brooklyn trio has something special going on....
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/qa-sand-section/feed/ 0 The Shivers: Give Me More! https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/the-shivers-give-me-more/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/the-shivers-give-me-more/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:00:00 +0000 The Shivers are the kind of band I feel like I should have heard about before now. Their Americana style of rock is so solid, it sounds like it could come from the ’70s (one of my favorite music decades). The Shivers’s latest album, More, released May 10, sounds like a jam session with greats

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  1. MEN’s “Talk About Body” Will Give You Something to Say Fans of Le Tigre looking to relive the beautiful madness of their electro-punk/riot grrl days may not know what to make of MEN‘s Talk About Body. JD Samson, who joined Le Tigre when Sadie Benning left the band, is the...
  2. Fan Modine: Dreamy Indie Pop Goodness Listening to Fan Modine’s new album Gratitude For The Shipper is like floating through a dreamlike landscape of sound. Lush lyrics intertwine with melodies made by trombones, keyboards and euphoniums. Gordon Zacharias’s distinct voice sings of light and stars and...
  3. Oooh Baby Baby! Georgia’s Baby Baby isn’t playing around with Money, released today. On the surface, this band looks and sounds like every wild party’s soundtrack: loud, guitar-driven rock with somewhat slurred lyrics. And it’s true that Baby Baby would make the perfect...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/the-shivers-give-me-more/feed/ 0 No Moment Like Today for The Anytime https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/any-place-and-anywhere-for-the-anytime/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/any-place-and-anywhere-for-the-anytime/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:00:00 +0000 I can admit that when I heard The Anytime‘s EP, Crave, I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I didn’t even know who they were before I was offered a copy of it. But I quickly learned that these four buddies out of Ames, Iowa are dedicated to making their special brand of hip-hop inspired

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  1. A moment with Star Anna and The Laughing Dogs Growing up halfway between Seattle and the middle of nowhere can have a profound effect on one’s life. In the case of Star Ann, it drove her to write and perform music. With melodic, aching vocals that’s as raw as...
  2. Interview with Trevor of Meridene: On Capturing Life in the Current US Meridene sounds like a beastly, high-energy version of The Shins:  a creature with an outer shell of post-modernist disillusionment and a soft underbelly of cautious hope. Their sophomore effort was just released a few days ago,  and they are currently...
  3. Young Galaxy: The Smartest Band You’ve Never Heard Of Young Galaxy are not just another dream-pop band. They’re not another Canadian indie-pop band, either. So what are they? Well, they are a consistently great and dedicated band that has suffered the highs and lows of the music industry. They...
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  1. Wolfmother demands a passion for guitar tone, meaningless lyrics I remember seeing a Wolfmother video about five years ago and thinking, that’s some kinda guitar tone. I’ll have to look into them. A couple weeks ago I saw that they had a new album out and thought, now I...
  2. Q&A: Brady Erickson of The Ross Sea Party   Having been together since 2009, The Ross Sea Party has been dazzling crowds in the City of Angels with their infectious brand of indie-rock. The quintent has recently been in the studio gearing up for the release of a...
  3. San Diego’s Transfer Make Their Own Fate Transfer first got on the radar of myself and many others as the opening act for Brandon Flowers, which you can read about HERE. I enjoyed the San Diego rock band very much, but I also a little embarrassed that...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/qa-leo-machado/feed/ 0 Talk About…Pop Music (with Van Go Lion) https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/talk-aboutpop-music-with-van-go-lion/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/talk-aboutpop-music-with-van-go-lion/#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:00:00 +0000 Van Go Lion, an exciting electropop duo from Portland, are in the process of recording their first full length album. Amy Paige and Josh Loerzel met a couple years back when Amy put an ad on Craigslist looking for a band to sing with. Pure pop perfection was born when Amy and Josh met, and

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  1. Land of Talk Rock the Bowery Ballroom 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...
  2. Q&A with Beats Antique: Spreading Music, Culture, and Sustainable Living Listening to Beats Antique is like immersing oneself into a musical melting pot of cultures. Combining Middle Eastern styles and other world music with dubstep, electronica, and roots music, Beats Antique sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before (Check out...
  3. Delta Spirit Rock The Music Box and A Conversation With Matthew Vasquez At 11 pm on Wednesday night at the Music Box on Hollywood Blvd., San Diego-natives Delta Spirit took to the stage for their largest headlining show to date in the City of Angels. Having recently sold out the El Rey...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/talk-aboutpop-music-with-van-go-lion/feed/ 0 Madeira Bring Other Genres To An Alt-Rock Party https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/madeira-bring-other-genres-to-an-alt-rock-party/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/madeira-bring-other-genres-to-an-alt-rock-party/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:00:00 +0000 Borrowing talent from New Hampshire and Texas before calling Florida home, Madeira is a young alternative-rock band hiding the experience of prior bands and a love for music under their hood. Tyler Duncan, Andrew Mack, Cameron Rhome and Skylar Martin have been honing their skills crafting infectious pop-rock, but also experimenting with elements of heavy

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  1. Austin’s StumbleDrunk Breaks New Ground On Old Rock Austin, Texas’ StumbleDrunk is a rock ‘em, sock ‘em, all-American rock n’ roll band. Derek Pope, brothers Carter and Tucker Francis, Josh Massey and Wayne Zingery drink to excess and jam even more excessively. In preparation of the physical release...
  2. MeTalkPretty: Powerful and Ready to Rock MeTalkPretty has a hard-edged sound and a powerhouse female vocalist to rival any rock band I know. Their debut EP “We Are Strangers” is now available on iTunes and the band will release their first full-length album this fall. Vocalist...
  3. Delta Spirit Rock The Music Box and A Conversation With Matthew Vasquez At 11 pm on Wednesday night at the Music Box on Hollywood Blvd., San Diego-natives Delta Spirit took to the stage for their largest headlining show to date in the City of Angels. Having recently sold out the El Rey...
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  1. Fiction Plane: Non-Fiction Take-Off Fiction Plane played last night, November 15th 2010, at the Mercury Lounge in NYC and it was beautiful. They have a sound reminiscent of Stereophonics but imagine Sting taking over for band front-man Kelly Jones. That’s both a compliment and...
  2. The Morning Benders: The Draw of the Quartet I love The Beatles. Of course, I’m echoing a sentiment that is literally regurgitated by everyone and anyone. However, rather than chew on the already chewed beauty of a timeless sound, how do you take something ageless and make it...
  3. Weekend Playlist: November 19, 2010 photo credit: Liz Livengood Here are some tracks to relive a few of BNB’s musical happenings this week. “Fake Out (Glass Ghost Remix)” – Bear in Heaven“When We’re Dancing” – Twin Shadow On Monday, we released our weekly list of...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/back-by-popular-demand-fiction-plane/feed/ 0 BNBTV Spotlight: The Goondas, “Jackalope Jesus” https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/bnbtv-spotlight-the-goondas-jackalope-jesus/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/bnbtv-spotlight-the-goondas-jackalope-jesus/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:00:00 +0000 BestNewBands.com Remember the days when rock n’ roll was really rock n’ roll? When it was largely feared by the masses, when reeling guitars caused echoing screams, and lead singers shook and convulsed on stage like madmen, scaring but captivating mindblown audiences?  Before bands like Linkin Park turned everyone around you into a Hot-Topic-frequenting idiot

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  1. BNBTV Spotlight: thatwasthen, “This Is War” BestNewBands.com   So I press play on this video, and I’m watching…and I’m watching and I’m thinking…this looks familiar…really familiar.  Oh ya! I was totally at this concert.  And now it makes sense why there were so many people videoing...
  2. BNBTV Spotlight: Applespacebar, “Simplify” BestNewBands.com With so much synth and experimental action gracing the alternative music scene recently, I relax a little to listen to a classic guitar-driven alternative rock band such as the oh-so-ironically-titled Applespacebar.  With sounds reminiscent of Jimmy Eat World and...
  3. BNBTV Spotlight: Verity in Stereo, “One Shot” BestNewBands.com Verity in Stereo. Hmm.  My first reaction is to look up the word ‘verity.’ verity |ˈveritē|: noun ( pl. -ties), a true principle or belief, esp. one of fundamental importance : the eternal verities. Now, “in Stereo”?  How about...
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