Kevin Bronson on February 25th, 2013

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The lean and mean riff that announces “Thanks for Nothing,” the opening song on Great White Buffalo’s new self-titled EP, could be the answer to that question Black Rebel Motorcycle Club posed way back when. Part first-album Kings of Leon, a little bit Surfer Blood and recalling Canadian indie-rockers the Stills, Great White Buffalo follows up last year’s four-song “Tightrope” EP with a half dozen taut rockers made with producer Phil Allen. If the L.A. quartet of singer-guitarist Graham Bockmiller, lead guitarist Stephen Johnson, bassist Paul Hiller and drummer Rich Carrillo have designs on making noise in the just-raw-enough, muscular fashion your alt-rock favorites of the past did, they are off to a very good start. Play loud.

||| Download: “Thanks for Nothing”

||| Also: Get the whole EP on a name-your-price basis on Bandcamp.

||| Live: Great White Buffalo plays March 27 at Harvard & Stone.