Best New Bands » Skaters 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 4 New Bands At Riot Fest – Day 2 https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/4-new-bands-riot-fest-day-2/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/4-new-bands-riot-fest-day-2/#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:50:46 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=18849 Chicago – For me, day two of Riot Fest got off to a rocky start. Between sleeping through my alarm and getting stuck in traffic, I was starting to wonder if I’d ever find my way to Humboldt Park. I missed The Picturebooks and Wavves, and as I walked towards the gates of Riot Fest,

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  1. SKATERS Launch Nationwide Tour with The Orwells Los Angeles – New York City band SKATERS are gearing up to hit the road for a national fall tour with The Orwells, kicking off Sept. 8 in Columbus, OH, and including stops in San Francisco, LA, Philadelphia, DC, and their hometown of NYC....
  2. 6 New Bands To See At LA’S FYF Fest This Weekend Los Angeles – Saturday mark’s FYF Fest’s 11th year and the much-anticipated LA festival has come a long way since its untamed and free debut. Each session has become inarguably more and more esteemed and this year’s lineup is a...
  3. FYF Fest: The High Musical Moments In Between The Mayhem Los Angeles — FYF Fest has officially blown up. The LA music festival that has been known as a calmer version of Coachella was not only overcrowded, but it was jam-packed with obstacles at every corner of downtown’s Exposition Park....
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/5-new-bands-see-riot-fest/feed/ 0 SKATERS Launch Nationwide Tour with The Orwells https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/skaters-launch-nationwide-tour-orwells/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/skaters-launch-nationwide-tour-orwells/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2014 18:57:06 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=18661 Los Angeles – New York City band SKATERS are gearing up to hit the road for a national fall tour with The Orwells, kicking off Sept. 8 in Columbus, OH, and including stops in San Francisco, LA, Philadelphia, DC, and their hometown of NYC. See below for a full list of tour dates. SKATERS have been hard at work

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  1. SKATERS Announce Spring Headlining Tour Burbank, CA - New York City’s very own SKATERS have announced that they will hit the road for a spring headlining tour presented by FILTER in support of their debut albumManhattan, which will be released by Warner Bros. Records on February 25th. Following appearances at SXSW...
  2. Skaters Brought A Juicy Taste Of The Big Apple To Bardot Los Angeles — For anyone in need of losing their mind, these Brooklynites can mash the brain up just right. Fresh off the release of their debut album, Manhattan, there is no doubt Skaters come from the streets of Brooklyn, New...
  3. SKATERS Capture all the Punk Energy of the City on Debut LP Manhattan New York – On Manhattan, the debut full length from Skaters, the band has honed a city into an album. Singer Michael Ian Cummings, drummer Noah Rubin, guitarist Joshua Hubbard, and bassist Dan Burke embody the kind of motion and energy...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/skaters-launch-nationwide-tour-orwells/feed/ 0 Skaters Brought A Juicy Taste Of The Big Apple To Bardot https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/skaters-brought-a-juicy-taste-of-the-big-apple-to-bardot/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/skaters-brought-a-juicy-taste-of-the-big-apple-to-bardot/#comments Fri, 30 May 2014 00:48:35 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/wp_bnb/?p=17250 Los Angeles — For anyone in need of losing their mind, these Brooklynites can mash the brain up just right. Fresh off the release of their debut album, Manhattan, there is no doubt Skaters come from the streets of Brooklyn, New York with songs about endless nights of debauchery in The City That Never Sleeps. Still,

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  1. Live Review: Skaters Los Angeles – There’s a fluid element to Skaters live show. They play really close together, even on a larger stage, and they move around each other in an accidental, random fashion. You expect it to run afoul… But it...
  2. Skaters Rocks Their Record Release at Bowery Ballroom New York – NYC-based melodic garage punk band Skaters played their album release show at Bowery Ballroom Monday, and it was nothing short of a riotous dance party. Skaters came out to the Ghost Busters theme song as a tribute to...
  3. SKATERS Capture all the Punk Energy of the City on Debut LP Manhattan New York – On Manhattan, the debut full length from Skaters, the band has honed a city into an album. Singer Michael Ian Cummings, drummer Noah Rubin, guitarist Joshua Hubbard, and bassist Dan Burke embody the kind of motion and energy...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/skaters-brought-a-juicy-taste-of-the-big-apple-to-bardot/feed/ 0 New Bands At SXSW – Day 1 Recap https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-at-sxsw-day-1-recap/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-at-sxsw-day-1-recap/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2014 03:13:51 +0000 Austin – I write this having just heard of the terrible tragedy that occurred last night outside The Mohawk in Austin, TX.  This is a bar I go to often to hear incredible live music and in fact, I spent most of the day there yesterday.  I speak for myself and the staff of BestNewBands.com

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  1. 5 New Bands We Want To See At SXSW – Part 2 New York – A week closer to SXSW and we’re back with our part 2 of New Bands We Want To See At SXSW. You know we can’t just stop at 5 artists to watch out for and pretend we...
  2. He’s My Brother She’s My Sister Announce their “Road To SXSW” Headlining Tour Following a successful headlining tour across the United States last month, He’s My Brother She’s My Sister are happy to announce their Road To SXSW Tour. The eclectic Los Angeles band featuring sibling vocalists and a tap dancing drummer will return to...
  3. Mixtape: More SXSW 2014 With Deap Vally, AIMES, PHOX And More New York – It’s already poppin’ down in Austin, and we’ve already shared our artists we’d like to see at SXSW, plus a bunch of preview tracks on the last mixtape, but we’re just going to keep right on going...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-at-sxsw-day-1-recap/feed/ 0 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...
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  3. SKATERS Capture all the Punk Energy of the City on Debut LP Manhattan New York – On Manhattan, the debut full length from Skaters, the band has honed a city into an album. Singer Michael Ian Cummings, drummer Noah Rubin, guitarist Joshua Hubbard, and bassist Dan Burke embody the kind of motion and energy...
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  1. Randomness and Fun with Skaters at Bowery Ballroom Skaters are those kids that crotchety old men like to shake their fist at and yell, “You PUNKS!” Or at least that’s how they look on stage. They sound like it too sometimes, but their version of punk is a...
  2. SKATERS Capture all the Punk Energy of the City on Debut LP Manhattan New York – On Manhattan, the debut full length from Skaters, the band has honed a city into an album. Singer Michael Ian Cummings, drummer Noah Rubin, guitarist Joshua Hubbard, and bassist Dan Burke embody the kind of motion and energy...
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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/skaters-rocks-their-record-release-at-bowery-ballroom/feed/ 0 SKATERS Capture all the Punk Energy of the City on Debut LP Manhattan https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/skaters-capture-all-the-punk-energy-of-the-city-on-debut-lp-manhattan/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/skaters-capture-all-the-punk-energy-of-the-city-on-debut-lp-manhattan/#comments Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:32:06 +0000 New York – On Manhattan, the debut full length from Skaters, the band has honed a city into an album. Singer Michael Ian Cummings, drummer Noah Rubin, guitarist Joshua Hubbard, and bassist Dan Burke embody the kind of motion and energy that only in NYC can it make sense the way it does. These punks are

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  2. Interview: Skaters Los Angeles – The new band Skaters, from New York City, actually doesn’t skate. “We’re musicians first and we don’t [want] to break our wrists,” lead singer Michael Ian Cummings told a Boston music blog earlier this year. “We chose...
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