New York – Haim will be headlining a North American tour next spring to support their debut album on Columbia, Days Are Gone. And this weekend, sisters Este, Danielle and Alana are the musical guests on Saturday Night Live, alongside host Josh Hutcherson (Chasing Fire). The SoCal trio recently received two nominations in BestNewBands.com’s 2013 Newbie Awards: for Best New Band and Best
Los Angeles – Chicago five-piece The Orwells are excited to announce a tour with The Arctic Monkeys beginning in January of next year. The band recently finished a tour with their friends in FIDLAR that took them around the country, including an especially wild show at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom. The band also revealed that they
This weeks installment of 5 New Songs We Like takes you through a myriad of musical styles. Whether its ghostly grooves of Warpaint, the coffee house folk of Fossil Collective, the euphoric pop of Claire, the ambient R&B of Autre Ne Veut & Fennesz, or the triumphant soundscapes of Tycho, you are bound to find
Jamestown Revival have announced a string of tour dates around the west coast this December. The band will be touring beginning on December 8 in San Diego at Lestats, before playing in Los Angeles on December 10 at the Troubadour. The tour continues with dates in San Francisco, Seattle, and other cities, before ending on December 21 in Denver at the
Oxford, England-based Glass Animals have just released a self-titled EP–their first–on Harvest Records in the U.S. Vocalist-producer Dave Bayley’s hypnotic sound is immediately apparent on lead track, “Psylla.” (That’s a word we don’t recognize but a quick online search identified it as “a genus of sap-sucking insects.” Much about Glass Animals is still a mystery
Los Angeles – A$AP Ferg is under the weather. The Turnt x Burnt tour is Ferg’s first as a headliner. He’s brought his A$AP Mob cohorts (minus Rocky) with him on the road and tonight’s sell out at the Glasshouse is exactly the midway point of their cross-country trek. 14 shows remain and sold out houses have been the norm. Ferg’s tour manager
Austin – Twenty One Pilots has cultivated a reputation for putting on enthralling live shows, and on Saturday, this reputation was put to the test. Consisting of vocalist/pianist Tyler Joseph and drummer/keyboardist Josh Dun, the young duo managed to sell out their show at Emo’s, which is certainly no small achievement for a new band. However, they refused
We didn’t know what to expect when we asked our writers one year ago to nominate their favorite new artists of 2012 for our inaugural Newbie Awards. In November, we identified the categories—New Band, Male, Female, Album and Song—and then waited for the nominations to come in. The diversity of the artists blew us away…after
Los Angeles – Lost in the fiery Nirvana Bleach era fuzz of Derek Watson’s guitar Isabel Almeida, vocals, points her finger toward the exposed ceiling. Pink hair falls in her face as she grips the microphone tightly. In the closing moments of the grungtastic “Acid Head” her blood-curdling wail has gotten everybody’s attention. Hunters is
Whew…the sound you just heard wasn’t a sigh. It was simply us catching our breath after tabulating the votes from our writers for the nominees of our second annual Newbie Awards, honoring the top new band, female, male and album of 2013. While there were some names that we fully expected to see—and did—there were others that