Best New Bands » Soft Moon 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 The Soft Moon Comes Home https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/soft-moon-comes-home/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/soft-moon-comes-home/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2016 08:04:14 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=28617 San Francisco – Multi-instrumentalist and delightful weirdo Luis Vasquez is no stranger to the fickle streets of Oakland, CA.  Vasquez’s musical invention—his noisy post-punk project The Soft Moon—recently played a couple of shows on his home turf in the Bay Area, the first of which was a headlining slot at Oakland’s New Parish, a smaller

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  1. The Soft Moon Showcase Their Intense Post-Punk Sound In LA Los Angeles – While The Soft Moon have previously released a pair of solid LPs since their founding in 2009, this year’s Deeper has found the Oakland-based post-punk band reaching ever larger audiences. This increased level of underground popularity was...
  2. The Soft Moon ‘Deeper’: Dark, Cold and Lean Los Angeles – Deeper is the third full-length for Oakland-based musician Luis Vasquez’s The Soft Moon, and it sees the one-man project expand upon its gothic rock-indebted sonic palette while still managing to streamline the song structures. Out March 31...
  3. Walk The Moon Entertain The Palladium Crowd Los Angeles – Last December, the Ohio dance-pop act Walk The Moon released their second major label album Talking Is Hard. Since the release, they’ve been popping up everywhere, including on late night variety shows such Jimmy Kimmel Live! and...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/soft-moon-comes-home/feed/ 0 The Soft Moon Showcase Their Intense Post-Punk Sound In LA https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/soft-moon-showcase-intense-post-punk-sound/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/soft-moon-showcase-intense-post-punk-sound/#comments Tue, 05 May 2015 18:42:28 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=24137 Los Angeles – While The Soft Moon have previously released a pair of solid LPs since their founding in 2009, this year’s Deeper has found the Oakland-based post-punk band reaching ever larger audiences. This increased level of underground popularity was quite evident as the Luis Vasquez-led trio powered through a captivating set in front of

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  1. The Soft Moon ‘Deeper’: Dark, Cold and Lean Los Angeles – Deeper is the third full-length for Oakland-based musician Luis Vasquez’s The Soft Moon, and it sees the one-man project expand upon its gothic rock-indebted sonic palette while still managing to streamline the song structures. Out March 31...
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