Austin – SXSW starts this weekend, and it’s time for Austin to do what Austin does best: effuse about tech, gripe about traffic, and feast on live music. To the surprise of no one, this year’s sprawling lineup features lots of emerging talent. Here’s the short list of the new bands we’re most looking forward
Los Angeles – Despite the extended daylight and blisteringly warm weather outside, 2:54 preferred to keep things a little darker inside Los Angeles’ Echoplex. The band’s brooding yet melodic sound is best enjoyed with the lights turned way down and a healthy helping of machine-made fog flooding the stage. Led by the sister-duo of Colette
New York – The three piece electronic group that is Mansionair, has just hit a noteworthy break in their band’s career. The New York City based record label, Glassnote Entertainment Group, home to highly acclaimed artists that include the likes of: CHVRCHES, Mumford & Sons and Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear, among many notable others,
Nashville – The End is an intimate, favorite venue amongst the city’s natives. Attracting an array of different acts from young locals just starting out, to more seasoned musicians simply stopping by Nashville, The End is a preferred place to hear live music in Music City. However, it’s small, it’s gritty, and it’s dark. It’s
New York – In contrast with the title of his upcoming EP, Start Over, Nashville-based indie rocker, Julian Dente – known on stage by the moniker, YØUTH – is only just getting ready to really rev up his musical career. Following up a well received first single, ”Breathing Easy,” which reached nearly 100,000 plays on SoundCloud, the newest song now released from
Los Angeles – Evans The Death’s sound is an amalgam of influences from the past few decades, and the resulting product is a poppy, noisy set of tracks that are a logical addition to the seminal Slumberland Records’ discography. Led by the dynamic vocals of Katherine Whitaker and the songwriting of Dan Moss, Evans The
Jacco Gardner, the unexpected up-and-comer from Hoorn, Netherlands, has released a brand new music video for “Find Yourself” –the first single from his imminent second record, Hypnophobia. Though not his literal debut (Cabinet of Curiosities, 2013), Hypnophobia marks the artist’s first release with the reputable Polyvinyl. (Best New Bands picked Gardner as one of the “6 New Bands to See” during last year’s FYF
Los Angeles - Lower Dens, the indie rock quartet based out of Baltimore, MD, just released a second track titled, “Ondine,” from their upcoming third record, Escape from Evil. The album is due for U.S. street release on March 31 (March 30 in the rest of the world) via Ribbon Music. Lower Dens are Jana Hunter (lead vocals, guitar),
New York — Handsome Ghost, the hardly definable, “indie prom” band from Massachusetts, has just released their debut EP, Steps via Photo Finish/Republic Records. The six-track project is now available through digital retailers. This follow-up set to 2014′s well received “Blood Stutter” single, takes listeners on a sonic journey along the artistic vantage point of the band’s lead
Meg Myers, a fast-rising musician originally out of Tennessee, (last reported on by Best New Bands senior editor Sarah Hess as having put on a great show at 2014′s Lollapalooza,) is about to depart on a headlining tour that will begin at the end of the month and take her all the way into June and the starting