Best New Bands » synth pop 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 Prinze George Brings Shimmering Synthpop to LA https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/prinze-george/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/prinze-george/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2016 07:58:02 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=33711 Los Angeles - Let’s get something out of the way: Prinze George is one of the best new acts of 2016. Agreed? Good! Maryland synth-pop trio Prinze George made its LA debut at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. The three-piece was the opening act for up and coming New York duo Lewis Del Mar, at the sold

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  1. George Ezra ’s ‘Voyage’ Docks In Los Angeles Los Angeles – On Friday night at The Forum bluesy folk-rock musician George Ezra opened for pop sensation Sam Smith. While both artists are from England (Ezra from Hertford, Smith from London), their musical styles are enormously different. Smith gave...
  2. Låpsley Brings Her Remarkable Voice and Humor to San Fran San Francisco – Young talent always amazes me. To see an artist as young as the U.K.’s newest wunderkind Holly Fletcher – who operates under the moniker Låpsley (her middle name stylized with an accented “å” for aesthetic reasons, also a nod...
  3. Lenka Brings Her Quirky Pop-Folk Flair to Seattle Seattle – A crowd of Seattleites gathered to see Lenka at Barboza. Having recently released her new album The Bright Side (Skipalong/Hickory Records), the Australian singer-songwriter is touring the United States to promote the record. Like the album, her live show...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/prinze-george/feed/ 1 Stay In Touch With Brothertiger https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/stay-touch-brothertiger/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/stay-touch-brothertiger/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2015 07:33:31 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=28111 Los Angeles – John Jagos began experimenting with making electronic music while attending Ohio University in 2009. After adopting the name, Brothertiger, he released his fanciful synth-laden debut EP Vision Tunnels. Since then, Jagos has released the critically praised LPs, Golden Years (2012) and Future Splendors (2013). With his recent move to Brooklyn, New York,

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  1. Albert Hammond Jr. Shares New Song “Losing Touch” via Sharable SoundCloud Stream New York – Albert Hammond Jr. is pleased to offer his new song ”Losing Touch” through a sharable SoundCloud stream. Preceded by “Born Slippy”, “Losing Touch” is the second song Hammond Jr. has released from his forthcoming solo album, Momentary Masters, out 7/31...
  2. Don’t Touch That Dial! Little Envy’s Core Debut New York – Joseph de los Reyes (vocals/drums) and Koosh Saxena (guitar/keyboard/vocals) make up San Francisco’s Little Envy. The duo released their debut self-titled album this week on South X Sea Records, which they recorded with Sam Pura at Panda...
  3. Night Beds Releases Sophomore LP “Ivywild” Los Angeles - Night Beds is the musical project of Colorado Springs native Winston Yellen. In 2013, the twenty-six year-old singer/songwriter crafted his faultless debut album, Country Sleep. He scored much recognition for Country Sleep’s towering vocals and arduous take on...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/stay-touch-brothertiger/feed/ 0 Small Black Find New Dimensions on ‘Best Blues’ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/small-black-find-new-dimensions-best-blues/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/small-black-find-new-dimensions-best-blues/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2015 01:04:49 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=27624 Los Angeles – Small Black may be the most underrated band in indie rock. After crafting two terrific LPs, can the band’s new LP Best Blues finally serve as their breakthrough record? Let’s back track for a moment. On their debut, New Chain, the Brooklyn quartet fell into the genre of chillwave. With lo-fi production

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  1. Benjamin Booker: Blues Meets Punk at Austin’s Mohawk Austin—Why do punk and blues make such great, timeless bedfellows? What synergy has kept Jack White, the Black Lips, and the Black Keys popular since the turn of the century? How, 15 years later, has Benjamin Booker made something new...
  2. Hozier At Home In The Land Of The Blues Chicago – Andrew Hozier-Byrne, the Irishman who has been melting hearts and turning concert halls into places of musical worship, played a sold-out show at the Riviera Theatre this past Wednesday night. The 24-year-old blues lover creates fantastic indie rock...
  3. Getting Down with Black Pistol Fire Chicago – Every festival brings a barrage of talented up and coming acts just waiting to be discovered by the masses, and of course music journalists, too. In preparation for Lollapalooza 2015, I did my homework, combing through the the...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/small-black-find-new-dimensions-best-blues/feed/ 0 Neon Indian Illuminates San Francisco’s Newest Venue, The Social Hall https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/neon-indian-illuminates-san-franciscos-newest-venue-social-hall/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/neon-indian-illuminates-san-franciscos-newest-venue-social-hall/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2015 03:42:40 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=27403 San Francisco – As one of the first pioneers of the recently popularized genre of chillwave, Alan Palomo’s Neon Indian has been a steady source of entertainment, mixing glitchy electronic beats with catchy hooks and airy, heavily reverberated vocals.  Neon Indian’s next LP VEGA INTL. Night School—released next month via Mom + Pop—is perhaps his

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  1. Neon Indian and Janelle Monáe Shake Things Down in San Francisco Let me start by declaring the obvious: SF Weekly’s All Shook Down Music Festival was a great idea. Being a San Diego native, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the time I spent in a haze, wandering down music...
  2. Phoenix and Neon Indian to Play the SB Bowl on 9/19 When I first “discovered” Phoenix (actually, more like when I found out that I was the last one of my friends to realize how awesome they are), I was awestruck. It was like the feeling that you get when you...
  3. Neon Indian Kicks Off New Tour What is the Neon Indian? Contrary to popular belief, it’s not one of the tall sparkly blue people from Avatar.  It’s the five-piece psychedelic pop band lead by Alan Palomo, and their debut album Psychic Chasms might be one of...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/neon-indian-illuminates-san-franciscos-newest-venue-social-hall/feed/ 2 Night Beds Releases Sophomore LP “Ivywild” https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/night-beds-releases-2nd-lp-ivywild/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/night-beds-releases-2nd-lp-ivywild/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:55:34 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=26426 Los Angeles - Night Beds is the musical project of Colorado Springs native Winston Yellen. In 2013, the twenty-six year-old singer/songwriter crafted his faultless debut album, Country Sleep. He scored much recognition for Country Sleep’s towering vocals and arduous take on alt country. While the effort was quite memorable and beautiful, Night Beds has experimented down

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  1. Nashville’s Night Beds’ Game Changing Single Brooklyn – If yours is the sort of sensibility to be seduced by tell-all compositions that are both lush and sparse, Night Beds could well be your next sonic obsession. Though the band has delivered a torturously miniscule cannon of...
  2. Crow Moses Releases Sophomore Album New York – Alt-country maverick Crow Moses is barreling back into view after a release respite, and this Chicagoan soloist’s sophomore effort is a Zen-inducing indie treasure. Horse Heaven Hills is slated to surface as an independent release on September...
  3. Pyramid Releases His New EP – Night Tales New York – French electronica producer Pyramid is set to release his new EP Night Tales June 8th on Kitsune.  Initially garnering attention in 2011 when his remix of Daft Punk’s “Something About Us” reached #1 on Hype Machine, the...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/night-beds-releases-2nd-lp-ivywild/feed/ 0 Purity Ring Prep For U.S. Tour And Release Remixes! https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/purity-ring-prep-u-s-tour-release-remixes/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/purity-ring-prep-u-s-tour-release-remixes/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2015 20:31:50 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=23510 New York – Next month, on May 8, 2015, synth-pop pair, Purity Ring, will depart on a headlining U.S. tour, beginning with an intimate concert at The Fonda in Los Angeles, CA –the tickets for which sold-out in record time. Purity Ring’s popularity is undeniable, as two other shows on the band’s agenda are also nearly sold-out

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  1. That Voice: Synthpop Duo Purity Ring – ‘Another Eternity’ New York – Last year, electronic pop iconoclast Grimes released a track called “Go” that she had written for Rihanna. It was a weird moment that showed how all perceived boundaries between seemingly incompatible musical worlds are artificial. Here was...
  2. Christine And The Queens Prep For SXSW, EP And Tour New York – French artist, Héloïse Letissier, better known by her musical project, Christine and the Queens, will be making her American live debut at SXSW and follow with a batch of U.S. shows. The indie pop singer-songwriter is getting ready...
  3. James Bay Announces First North American Headline Tour New York – In support of his full-length debut album Chaos And The Calm [Republic Records] out March 24 (pre-order here), James Bay will embark on a North American headline tour this spring. The tour starts April 27 at Mod Club in Toronto, ON Canada, plays major markets...
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  1. Magic Man Casts A Spell On Chicago Chicago – The Boston-based Magic Man had already begun to play “Waves” when lead singer Alex Caplow came energetically skipping out on stage. His enthusiasm held strong all night, leaping feverishly around, tossing himself into the audience, and whipping his...
  2. Slow Magic: The Nicest Producer You’ll Never Get to Meet Austin – The artist known as Slow Magic has so far kept his name and personal life hidden beneath his neon zebra mask and tattered scarf. The costume has gotten a lot of attention in the last three years, while...
  3. Slow Magic at Holy Mountain Austin – Warning: don’t go to a Slow Magic show expecting to stand around. Also, probably don’t wear your favorite flannel. The zebra-masked producer stopped at Austin’s Holy Mountain recently, for an early date of his first headlining tour.  The...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/magic-man-magic-deception-el-rey/feed/ 0 ‘Everything’s Coming Up Roses’ For Synth Duo Night Terrors of 1927 https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/everythings-coming-roses-synth-duo-night-terrors-1927/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/everythings-coming-roses-synth-duo-night-terrors-1927/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2015 01:22:39 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=21279 Los Angeles – The duo comprising synth-pop band, Night Terrors of 1927, formulate an interesting pair. Blake Sennett (guitarist) was a member of the successful indie rock band Rilo Kiley and The Elected. Jarrod Gorbel (vocals) was the singer of The Honorary Title. The two guys met in 2010 through mutual friends with no intentions

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  1. Daydreaming With Night Terrors Of 1927’s Jarrod Gorbel Chicago – When Blake Sennett and Jarrod Gorbel began making music together in 2012, they had no intention of forming a band. They had been left broken and bruised from previous musical projects – Gorbel in The Honorary Title and...
  2. The Night Terrors Of 1927 Delight Seattle Seattle – The indie electro-pop rockers of The Night Terrors of 1927, alongside headliners Magic Man, played to a sold-out crowd at The Crocodile Café, where the all-ages audience danced and sang along all night. The Night Terrors of 1927,...
  3. Capital Cities Made Chicago Dance Chicago – On Friday night, Capital Cities started a massive dance party inside The Riviera that lasted well into the night. The LA electro-pop band has been performing with CHERUB and Night Terrors of 1927 on an epic North American tour sponsored...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/everythings-coming-roses-synth-duo-night-terrors-1927/feed/ 1 Great Good Fine Ok ’s Lead Singer Speaks On The Band’s Rapid Assent https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/great-good-fine-oks-lead-singer-speaks-bands-rapid-assent/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/great-good-fine-oks-lead-singer-speaks-bands-rapid-assent/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2015 04:53:06 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=21259 New York – Great Good Fine Ok is a magnanimous duo out of Brooklyn that’s been making waves in the blogosphere at breakneck speed. The act is Jon Sandler and Luke Moellman and, together, the two draw on the R&B savants of yesteryear to concoct a singular spin on synth pop. Put simply, this band’s

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  2. Tennis Aces Their Great American Music Hall Set San Francisco – Nuptial Denver indie pop duo Tennis delighted a sold-out crowd at Great American Music Hall with a solid set consisting of old favorites and new classics.  The band—whose principal members consist of married couple Alaina Moore (vocals,...
  3. Malaysian Singer Yuna Is Making Her Mark In The States Yunalis Zarai, better known as Yuna, is one busy singer/songwriter who is a relative new comer to fans in the States. Her shows are filled with appearances by celebrities like Nicole Richie, Dave Chappelle and rapper Theophilus London, unusual for...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/great-good-fine-oks-lead-singer-speaks-bands-rapid-assent/feed/ 1 Milo Greene Vocalists Are In ‘Control’ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/milo-greene-vocalists-control/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/milo-greene-vocalists-control/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:03:35 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=21221 Los Angeles – Milo Greene is an LA-based indie pop quintet with not a single member with that name.  (The band created the fictitious character years’ ago to help them approach concert promoters). The group, which includes Robbie Arnett, Graham Fink, Andrew Heringer, Curtis Marrero, and Marlana Sheetz, have changed course with their sophomore album,

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  2. Album Review: Milo Greene Milo Greene is not a real person. He is a fictitious manager/booking agent that three struggling musicians and college classmates created to help effectively promote their individual endeavors. Those three friends were Andrew Heringer, Robbie Arnett and Marlana Sheetz, and...
  3. Milo Greene Announce Headlining Tour + Album! Though the band has yet to release a proper album, Milo Greene has been busy nestling into the niche it made itself beside fellow Los Angeles psych/folkers Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros and Local Natives. The quintet has already...
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