Best New Bands » San Francisco concerts 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 Everest Rises Above At The Independent https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/everest-rises-above-at-the-independent/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/everest-rises-above-at-the-independent/#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:47:20 +0000 Mount Everest stands 29,929 feet at its highest peak. It is the most impressive and tallest mountain on Earth. Through its confines runs the border between Nepal and China, two countries of contrasting vision and thoughts on life. Every year many try to conquer the great mountain so that they may say they were once

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  1. Album Review: Everest, Ownerless Every decade there seems to be that band that makes you wonder why they didn’t make it big. In the ‘60s it was the Seeds (download “Pushin’ Too Hard” right now and I’ll give you a pass for not knowing...
  2. Artist of the Week: Everest Everest is one of those bands that you need to know, even though you probably don’t. Those in the in-crowd, as in, those are music junkies and are familiar with terrific music, have known about the Los Angeles rockers for...
  3. Everest’s Russell Pollard On The New Album And Touring With Neil Young Having featured them as our Artist of the Week and really digging their latest album, Ownerless, we felt it the time was right to chat with one of our favorite new bands, Everest. We caught up with singer Russell Pollard...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/everest-rises-above-at-the-independent/feed/ 0 Young Empires Blow Out Thee Parkside https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/young-empires-blow-out-thee-parkside/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/young-empires-blow-out-thee-parkside/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:35:29 +0000 Young Empires recently caught my attention with the release of their groundbreaking Facebook Connect video for “White Doves.” The interactive video incredibly adds images of you and your friends into the video (watch here). The Toronto-based band is comprised of bassist Jake Palahnuk, guitarist Robert Aaron Ellingson, vocalist/keyboardist Matthew Vlahovich and drummer Taylor Hill. Their

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  1. BackStory: Empires’ “Bang” Photo by Jen Hopper In this episode of BackStory, Sean Van Vleet of Empires tells us the story behind their song “Bang.” Bang came more naturally than most songs I’ve written. I remember hanging out in a buddy’s garage listening...
  2. Female Groups Hold Their Own at FYF: Featuring School of Seven Bells, Warpaint, and The Blow School of Seven Bells There’s no doubt that the music industry is dominated by the male gender, but successful female bands have been increasing in numbers and popularity. For instance, one of the most buzzed about groups, School of Seven...
  3. Brendan Benson And Young Hines Light Up The Independent One of the things that gets me amped for a show is the opening act. We all go for the headliners, but we feel like we discover the opening acts. With a few exceptions, Bruce Springsteen doesn’t have an opening...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/young-empires-blow-out-thee-parkside/feed/ 0 San Francisco’s The Mother Hips Delight Hometown Crowd https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/san-franciscos-the-mother-hips-delight-hometown-crowd/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/san-franciscos-the-mother-hips-delight-hometown-crowd/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2012 05:25:54 +0000 I was there too early, before the doors opened. I was a little more stoned that I should’ve been, more than I wanted to be, the shit I’ve been smoking is deathly powerful and I still haven’t grasped that yet. The scene became downright surreal as the Mother Hips, fronted by Tim Bluhm, Nicki Bluhm’s

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  1. Catching Up With Nicki Bluhm Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers were founded in San Francisco in 2008 by Bluhm, her husband Tim Bluhm (The Mother Hips) and longtime friend Deren Ney. They were soon joined by bassist Steve Adams (ALO), Dave Mulligan on rhythm guitar...
  2. Nicki Bluhm Puts A Spell on San Francisco In the middle of her set at the Independent in San Francisco, Thursday night, Nicki Bluhm removed the green sweater she was wearing over a black backless shirt and began to belt out Linda Ronstadt’s country hit “You’re No Good”...
  3. Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Doldrums and Field Mouse at Glasslands I went to this show with the plan to specifically watch and review the Brooklyn-based dream pop outfit Field Mouse, but they went on earlier than I anticipated, and for some reason Glasslands was unusually slow to get people in...
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  1. Album Review: Japandroids, Celebration Rock This has been weird year for music. Rap is pretty much dead and this hybrid of hip-hop and pop has formed. Indie rock is more mainstream than what used to be alternative, which is now pretty much dead as well....
  2. Nicki Bluhm Puts A Spell on San Francisco In the middle of her set at the Independent in San Francisco, Thursday night, Nicki Bluhm removed the green sweater she was wearing over a black backless shirt and began to belt out Linda Ronstadt’s country hit “You’re No Good”...
  3. Delta Spirit Leads A Spiritual Revival In San Francisco The floor was shaking, hands were raised to the sky and the man on the microphone was pontificating emphatically as sweat rolled down his furrowed brow. Was I in the Abyssinian Baptist Church celebrating a revival? I might as well have...
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  1. Imagine Dragons Wow The Independent in San Francisco Years from now, when Las Vegas-based Imagine Dragons are playing to sold out arenas and aren’t considered a new band; fans will look back on nights like Tuesday at the Independent in San Francisco and wonder why they weren’t there....
  2. Black Marble Opens at Light Asylum’s Fierce Record Release Show Black Marble sounds exactly like what their name implies: cold and dark. Their show at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge this past Thursday showed the duo of Chris Stewart and Ty Kube invoking post punk and no wave styles...
  3. Delta Spirit Leads A Spiritual Revival In San Francisco The floor was shaking, hands were raised to the sky and the man on the microphone was pontificating emphatically as sweat rolled down his furrowed brow. Was I in the Abyssinian Baptist Church celebrating a revival? I might as well have...
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