Best New Bands » mixtapes 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 Mixtape 29: Of Monsters And Men, A Place To Bury Strangers And More https://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-29-of-monsters-and-men-a-place-to-bury-strangers-and-more/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-29-of-monsters-and-men-a-place-to-bury-strangers-and-more/#comments Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:36:41 +0000 I caught an amazing show from A Place to Bury Strangers and Iceage that almost cracked my bones. (Sidenote about APTBS’s soundcloud soundwave for “I Lost You:” maybe it’s my dirty mind me, but it’s quite phallic, like a…solid shooting rocket of sound. Totally why I chose that song for the mix. Whoops.) Bambara opened

Continue Reading →

The post Mixtape 29: Of Monsters And Men, A Place To Bury Strangers And More appeared first on Best New Bands.

Related posts:

  1. Album Review: A Place to Bury Strangers, Worship A Place to Bury Strangers release their third full length Worship today on Dead Oceans, and if you already know them, it’s what you want to hear. If you don’t, it’s an accurate representation of what the band is all...
  2. A Place To Bury Strangers Announce UK Tour After releasing their third album “Worship” on Dead Oceans, A Place To Bury Strangers have announced they will be bringing their ear-splitting, mind-blowing show back to the U.K.. Full dates are: SEPT 12 – BRIGHTON, KOMEDIA SEPT 13 – CAMBRIDGE,...
  3. Northside Fest Day 1: Bennio Qwerty, A Place to Bury Strangers, and Iceage Northside Music Festival has commenced in northern Brooklyn, and it’s bigger and heavier than ever. Last night was the first night of the music portion, and I already feel like I barely made it out alive. But then again, I...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-29-of-monsters-and-men-a-place-to-bury-strangers-and-more/feed/ 0 Mixtape #15: Harper Simon, Cuckoo Chaos, Haerts and more https://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-15-harper-simon-cuckoo-chaos-haerts-and-more/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-15-harper-simon-cuckoo-chaos-haerts-and-more/#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:31:48 +0000 In the wake of the impending SXSW tidal wave, we’ve been inundated with a musical deluge of all varieties. While treading water just enough to be able to breathe, this mixtape was created with the standout tracks that have floated by the past week. Many of which are by artists who will be at SXSW,

Continue Reading →

The post Mixtape #15: Harper Simon, Cuckoo Chaos, Haerts and more appeared first on Best New Bands.

Related posts:

  1. Mixtape #12: Gotye, Jim James, Dead Ghosts, Cuckoo Chaos and more Last week was a bit of a big deal due to the Grammys, which is an awards ceremony that some people may have watched like we did. We couldn’t help but point out out favorite highlights, which just so happened...
  2. Harper Simon, Jenny O. and The Living Sisters Throw it Down at The Satellite Monday nights at The Satellite in Silver Lake have long been a bastion for newer and up-and-coming bands to showcase their talents. These free month-long residencies (throughout the city for that matter) allow for musicians to hone their craft and...
  3. Deeper Into Cuckoo Chaos Before their very first show ever in New York at Bowery Ballroom, I spent some time with a few of the Cuckoo Chaos gents; mainly guitarist (one of the three guitarists in the band) Jackson Milgaten and drummer Dave Mead....
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-15-harper-simon-cuckoo-chaos-haerts-and-more/feed/ 0 Mixtape #14 – Capital Cities, Lewis Watson, Small Black and more https://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-14-capital-cities-lewis-watson-small-black-and-more/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-14-capital-cities-lewis-watson-small-black-and-more/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:19:43 +0000 , In this past week’s musical news roundup otherwise known as BestNewBands.com Mixtape #14, Capital Cities were our most recent featured artist; an eclectic electronic duo who found their sound by experimenting for their day job of creating music for commercials. One of those experiments includes this very danceable re-make of “Nothing Compares 2 U.”

Continue Reading →

The post Mixtape #14 – Capital Cities, Lewis Watson, Small Black and more appeared first on Best New Bands.

Related posts:

  1. Lewis Watson Announces NEW EP + “Into The Wild” Video Out Now! Lewis Watson will release The Wild EP, his third of a series of EPs via Warner Music, on April 2, 2013. The London-based songwriter is known to create music that emanates warmth and optimism and has quickly gained a massive international fanbase...
  2. Featured Artist: Capital Cities For the better part of the 21st Century, Craigslist has been used an abundance of things, both good and bad. As the modern day classifieds section, people looking for jobs, furniture and even bandmates can be had on the popular...
  3. MIXTAPE #5 This is an especially good one. It’ll help you get a groove on, rock out, and also chill out, man. This past week I saw Slam Donahue live at Glasslands, so I had to give them another shout. Zach caught...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-14-capital-cities-lewis-watson-small-black-and-more/feed/ 0 Mixtape Review: Dropxlife – Further https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/mixtape-review-dropxlife-further/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/mixtape-review-dropxlife-further/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:20:44 +0000 The web has been blowing up over Dropxlife’s new mixtape, Furthur, and the hype is well deserved.  The Weeknd affiliate’s mixtape is an easy-walking, slow-talking slice of instrumental R&B.  The sound is slow motion with heavily treated vocal snippets bouncing off walls of bass jelly. Dropxlife is a member of the XO crew along with

Continue Reading →

The post Mixtape Review: Dropxlife – Further appeared first on Best New Bands.

Related posts:

  1. Album Review: The Weeknd – Echoes of Silence The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, is brilliant.  We all know that, so let’s not bother arguing.  But what made the act so amusing at first was how much it sounded like they didn’t want to be heard.  House of Balloons...
  2. Traffique’s Endless Weekend Mixtape Red Hunter’s music has always existed off the beaten path. He got his start in Austin playing an apocalyptic brand of lo-fi folk tunes under the name Peter and the Wolf. Soon, he assembled a ragtag crew of musicians, which...
  3. Album Review: Dan Vickrey -Tender Mercies Listening to Counting Crows guitarist Dan Vickrey’ side project, Tender Mercies, I was immediately drawn to their Gram Parsons-esque sounds. There is a definable twang that alt-country has pushed in the past few decades in an attempt to get back...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/mixtape-review-dropxlife-further/feed/ 0 Wale Gets Ambitious on His Latest Record https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/wale-gets-ambitious-on-his-latest-record/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/wale-gets-ambitious-on-his-latest-record/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:25:19 +0000 From his humble beginnings in the mid-aughts as a rising rapper from Washington, I’ve been on the Wale bandwagon and for full disclosure (and an interesting piece of history for those of you who care about these things), I did my first artist interview him just as he was on the precipice of breaking through,

Continue Reading →

The post Wale Gets Ambitious on His Latest Record appeared first on Best New Bands.

Related posts:

  1. Zoe Boekbinder Releases her Second Solo Record, Darling Specimens Zoe Boekbinder has always been a creative, free spirit. Born on a farm in Ontario, Canada, Boekbinder’s family packed up its belongings and took off to America in a big red truck towing a trailer when she was four years...
  2. Nick Foreman of Dust Congress on their latest album Open Your Eyes, the World is Shit When the sun is shining on your day off, it’s like a glorious pop song strewn with shimmering promises of long life and love. But not every day is a day off, and on a chilly Tuesday morning mid-January, you...
  3. Ocotea: Georgia Anne Muldrow’s Latest Album By Alter-Ego Jyoti Not many albums have the potential to make such significant waves in the genres of blues, soul, jazz, and trip hop like that of Georgia Anne Muldrow. Her latestes album as her apparent alter-ego Jyoti is her latest expedition through...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/wale-gets-ambitious-on-his-latest-record/feed/ 1