Best New Bands » Texas 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 StumbleDrunk Brightens Up Your Monday Evenings https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/stumbledrunk-brightens-up-your-monday-evenings/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/stumbledrunk-brightens-up-your-monday-evenings/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 21:00:00 +0000 Former artists-in-residence and friends of BestNewBands.com StumbleDrunk have built a tremendous amount of buzz based on quite a few things, including their popular live gigs in Texas. What first attracted me to their sound was their commitment to to high-octane, American rock n’ roll. With that being said, it’s surprising and exciting that StumbleDrunk’s debut

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/stumbledrunk-brightens-up-your-monday-evenings/feed/ 0 The BestNewBands.com Team is on the ground in Austin NOW! https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/the-bestnewbandscom-team-is-on-the-ground-in-austin-now/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/the-bestnewbandscom-team-is-on-the-ground-in-austin-now/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:10:18 +0000 It’s all happening! Lauren and Laurel are on the ground at SXSW, and the reports will start coming in today. Follow all the action on their Twitter accounts, and here on BestNewBands.com- Twitter.com/LaurenNovik, Twitter.com/LaurelKathleen, and Twitter.com/BestNewBandscom!

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  2. Austin’s StumbleDrunk Breaks New Ground On Old Rock Austin, Texas’ StumbleDrunk is a rock ‘em, sock ‘em, all-American rock n’ roll band. Derek Pope, brothers Carter and Tucker Francis, Josh Massey and Wayne Zingery drink to excess and jam even more excessively. In preparation of the physical release...
  3. BestNewBands.com’s Concert Picks for the Week of 1/3/2011 Picked by Jesse Diener-Bennett, Laurel Kathleen, & Lauren Novik Who: Grouplove w/Guards Where: Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles, CA When: Monday Jan. 3rd, 9:30pm Cost: Free! Age Restrictions: 21+   From Laurel Kathleen: This January, catch one of Los Angeles’ hottest...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/previews/the-bestnewbandscom-team-is-on-the-ground-in-austin-now/feed/ 0 Artists in Residence installment #2 from StumbleDrunk https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/stumbledrunk/artists-in-residence-installment-2-from-stumbledrunk/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/stumbledrunk/artists-in-residence-installment-2-from-stumbledrunk/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:30:00 +0000 It’s week two of StumbleDrunk’s stint as Artists in Residence, and they’ve got something special for you….

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/qa-amy-wallace/feed/ 0 Traffique’s Endless Weekend Mixtape https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/traffique-s-endless-weekend-mixtape/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/traffique-s-endless-weekend-mixtape/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:00:00 +0000 Red Hunter’s music has always existed off the beaten path. He got his start in Austin playing an apocalyptic brand of lo-fi folk tunes under the name Peter and the Wolf. Soon, he assembled a ragtag crew of musicians, which he called the “Junk Orchestra,” to flesh out his minimalist arrangements with strings, horns, and

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