Best New Bands » Moon Taxi 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: Skaters, Young Magic, Hooray for the Riff Raff And More https://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-skaters-young-magic-hooray-for-the-riff-raff-and-more/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-skaters-young-magic-hooray-for-the-riff-raff-and-more/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:56:10 +0000 New York – With all the SXSW to-do snowballing, our eyes are opening wider on what’s going on in any music scene, so the coverage is expanded and varied, as well as new releases to get stoked on. Many of the artists on this mix will be at SXSW, so have listen and get in

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  1. Young Magic premieres new music video for ‘You With Air’ Young Magic presents the new music video for “You With Air” – a visual feast of surreal, noir landscapes. “It follows a transendental, medititave trip through the mind of a central character – a personal metamorphosis between black and white, male and...
  2. Interview: Isaac Emmanuel of Young Magic I discovered Young Magic almost one year ago when the collective’s first single, “You With Air/Sparkly” fatefully landed in my inbox. Needless to say, it was love at first listen. At the time, the only information I knew about this...
  3. Hurray For The Riff Raff – My Dearest Darkest Neighbor Why do the blues endure? Generation after generation, those sad songs are recycled. Hurray for the Riff Raff’s (mostly) covers album My Dearest Darkest Neighbor answers that question. The blues endure because the human condition knows loneliness, morbidity, abandonment, heartbreak, and so...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-skaters-young-magic-hooray-for-the-riff-raff-and-more/feed/ 0 Moon Taxi And Daniel Ellsworth At Subterranean https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/closing-out-dunn-dunn-fest-with-moon-taxi/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/closing-out-dunn-dunn-fest-with-moon-taxi/#comments Thu, 27 Feb 2014 02:00:00 +0000 Chicago – It was a frigid Saturday night, but people from around the Midwest didn’t mind standing in the continuously growing line outside of Subterranean for the sold out show. In between muffled voices, horns honking, and other city sounds, fans could be heard sharing their favorite Moon Taxi stories. A group of Chicago transplants

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  1. Album Review: Moon Taxi, Mountains Beaches Cities Mountains Beaches Cities is the latest album from Nashville darlings, Moon Taxi. They are one of the most buzzed about bands around town, probably because the five members started playing together while attending local college Belmont University. Many twenty-somethings in...
  2. Poor Moon Live at the Doug Fir J. Tillman said it best. After deciding to leave Fleet Foxes to explore his solo career as Dionysian alter ego Father John Misty, Tillman posted to his tumblr: “Farewell Fleet Fans and Friends. Back into the gaping maw of obscurity...
  3. Half Moon Run Live At Shepherd’s Bush Empire London – Half Moon Run travelled to London for the opening night of their hotly anticipated UK and Ireland tour.  After an explosive year for the band which saw some high profile festival appearances (SXSW, Glastonbury, Reading + Leeds) and...
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  1. Album Review: The Men, New Moon   I was very young in the ‘90s and wholly unattuned to the musical happenings of the decade in live time.  This definitely bums me out from time to time (because, as it happens, I adore the that decade), but...
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  3. Album Review: King Krule, 6 Feet Beneath the Moon The rise of King Krule, aka Archy Marshall (or Zoo Kid up until a few years ago) has been a steady build that left those in awe wondering if the scrawny UK teen could reach the full potential expected by...
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  1. A Hazy Night In Chicago with Sleepy Sun Make all the 4:20 drug references you want, but going to see new psychedelic rock band, Sleepy Sun, play on the drug user’s holiday was a great choice. While the crowd gathered at Chicago’s Subterranean, it was apparent that many...
  2. The Lumineers Take Evanston By Storm At this point in my life I have seen thousands of bands, ranging from the biggest in the world to new bands, and I’ve never seen a group of performers happier to be on a stage playing then The Lumineers....
  3. MIIKE SNOW To Perform On The Late Show With David Letterman Tomorrow Miike Snow will perform “Paddling Out” supporting their new album Happy to You.  Watch the show on CBS at 11:35 pm / 10:35 pm central. Photo (c) Daniela Montelongo...
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