Best New Bands » Letting Up Despite Great Faults 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 Ha Ha Tonka Bring a Piece of the South to Bootleg Bar https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/ha-ha-tonka-bring-a-piece-of-the-south-to-bootleg-bar/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/ha-ha-tonka-bring-a-piece-of-the-south-to-bootleg-bar/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:21:42 +0000 Before Friday night’s show at Los Angeles’ Bootleg Bar, I had never heard of Ha Ha Tonka. I had never heard the name. I had never heard the music. Hell, I didn’t even know the namesake was a state park in southern Missouri. The Springfield, Missouri-based quartet headlined the show, and to be quite honest,

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  1. Grouplove Plays FREE Residency at LA’s Bootleg Theater January 3, 10, 17 If Grouplove isn’t a band you’re familiar with now, chances are you will be come 2011. Although the LA-based quintet’s self-titled debut EP has not even been released yet (it comes out January 25!), the five-piece that met during a...
  2. 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...
  3. Preview: Ana Tijoux & Nocando @ The Bootleg Theater Ana Tijoux will be playing LA’s Bootleg Theater on February 12 with Nocando. We’ve been following Ana for a while, and this is a show worth catching. When Cornell Wedge caught her in Washington DC last year, he had this...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/ha-ha-tonka-bring-a-piece-of-the-south-to-bootleg-bar/feed/ 0 Festival Preview: SXSW has just announced another round of bands https://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/festival-preview-sxsw-has-just-announced-another-round-of-bands/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/festival-preview-sxsw-has-just-announced-another-round-of-bands/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:41:47 +0000 SXSW is getting closer! As their web site says: ‘The list of invited acts is growing by each day’. The list is already huge and they’re still adding bands. There’s a lot of new faces (Bruce Springsteen notwithstanding – but Yay Bruce). They already booked BestNewBands.com favorites Grace  Potter + The Nocturnals (shown above), Letting

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/festival-preview-sxsw-has-just-announced-another-round-of-bands/feed/ 0 BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the Week of 8/1/11 https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/bestnewbandscoms-concert-picks-for-the-week-of-8-1-11/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/bestnewbandscoms-concert-picks-for-the-week-of-8-1-11/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:19:07 +0000 Picked By: Jesse Diener-Bennett Who: Dan Deacon w/ So Percussion Where: Le Poisson Rouge, NYC When: Monday, August 1st at 7pm Cost: $15 Age Restrictions: All Ages *** Picked By: Laurel Kathleen Who: Active Child/Letting Up Despite Great Faults Where: The Echo, Los Angeles, CA When: Monday, August 1st, doors open at 8:30pm Cost: FREE Age

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  2. BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the Week of 7/18/11 Picked By: Daniel Kohn Who: Theophilus London Where: The Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA When: Monday, July 18th at 8pm Cost: SOLD OUT Age Restrictions: All Ages *** Pic by Johnny Leather Picked By: Jesse Diener-Bennett Who: Shilpa Ray Where: Zebulon,...
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