Best New Bands » the smiths 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 Weekend Playlist – March 11, 2011 https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/weekend-playlist-march-11-2011/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/weekend-playlist-march-11-2011/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:00:00 +0000 Start your weekend off right with a selection of tunes from this week’s featured artists on BestNewBands.com. “The Dead Dog” – Portugal. The Man Monica Christoffels previewed Portugal. The Man’s set at the Snowball Music Festival in Colorado last weekend. Monica wrote, “Since forming PTM in 2004, and having lost and gained some band members

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  1. Weekend Playlist – March 4, 2011 Start your Friday off right with a selection of music from this week’s featured artists on BestNewBands.com “White Daisy Passing” – Rocky Votolato Laurel Kathleen caught the “truly gifted lyricist and vocalist” at the Troubador last Saturday. Laurel wrote, “Though...
  2. Weekend Playlist – Feb. 18, 2011 Kick off your weekend with music from artists featured this week on BestNewBands.com. “Be My Girl” – The Smith Westerns Over the weekend, Leif Roswold caught The Smith Westerns at The Echo in L.A. The sold-out show attracted Hollywood hipsters...
  3. Weekend Playlist – Jan. 28, 2011 Hello, BestNewBands.com readers! Ready for the weekend? Yeah, we are too. To aid you in your musical pre-funking, here’s a look (and listen) back on what we featured this week. “Livin’ The Dream (I’m On A Float)” – Super Mash...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/weekend-playlist-march-11-2011/feed/ 0 Album Review: The Albertans, “New Age” https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-the-albertans-new-age/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-the-albertans-new-age/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:00:00 +0000 The Albertans released their second full-length album, New Age, yesterday, and through my five back-to-back-to-back listens, I grooved and nodded and thought that these must be Sufjan Stevens‘ poppy, edgy siblings.   This Canadian quintet, formed by a fateful convening of the five Albertan-bred musicians in Vancouver, brings a sound more rock than pop, but

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  1. Album Review: Moving Units, Tension War EP Genre: Electronic/Rock   Sounds like: part Of Montreal, a bit of Franz Ferdinand maybe, and a whole lot of originality I enter Moving Units’ new EP, Tension War, with a somewhat tabula rasa mindset.  I know nothing of Moving Units outside...
  2. Live Tweeting From The Sufjan Stevens Concert! So, sometimes life gets in the way of- life- and since they have yet to perfect cloning the whole being in two places at once thing is next to impossible!  So, you might miss a concert or two, and if...
  3. An Album Review-Matt & Kim’s Sidewalks On Tuesday, Matt & Kim dropped their latest album, Sidewalks.  The CD is their third to hit the charts since last year’s Grand.  It is sad to say but Matt & Kim’s recent effort at music making has been hit...
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  1. BNBTV Spotlight: The Goondas, “Jackalope Jesus” BestNewBands.com Remember the days when rock n’ roll was really rock n’ roll? When it was largely feared by the masses, when reeling guitars caused echoing screams, and lead singers shook and convulsed on stage like madmen, scaring but captivating...
  2. BNBTV Spotlight: Verity in Stereo, “One Shot” BestNewBands.com Verity in Stereo. Hmm.  My first reaction is to look up the word ‘verity.’ verity |ˈveritē|: noun ( pl. -ties), a true principle or belief, esp. one of fundamental importance : the eternal verities. Now, “in Stereo”?  How about...
  3. BNBTV Spotlight: Applespacebar, “Simplify” BestNewBands.com With so much synth and experimental action gracing the alternative music scene recently, I relax a little to listen to a classic guitar-driven alternative rock band such as the oh-so-ironically-titled Applespacebar.  With sounds reminiscent of Jimmy Eat World and...
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  1. Moments with My Pet Saddle In a little coffee shop on the cool side of Costa Mesa, CA, Caleb (vocals, guitar) of My Pet Saddle, his girlfriend and I sat together on a sunny Saturday afternoon. After they ordered their food, I had a little...
  2. White Rabbits Have Nothing But Time I had the opportunity to sit down with three of White Rabbits: Alex Even, Matthew Clark and Brian Betancourt. The Brooklyn, New York six-piece, by way of Columbia, Missouri (including Stephen Patterson, Greg Roberts and Jamie Levinson) could fall into...
  3. Looking Up to Young The Giant After their killer set at UCLA’s Kerckhoff Grand Salon this past Thursday, I met up with Young the Giant to ask them a few questions.  This five piece band is comprised of Sameer Gadhia (vocals), Jacob Tilley (guitar), Eric Cannata...
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