Buzz on December 31st, 2014

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What a year. Buzz Bands LA covered more than 450 Los Angeles artists in 2014, and if I glance at my computer-adjacent “to-do” list, it could have been more. If, y’know, there were 40 hours in a day. Below is the annual Buzz Bands LA Index, in which we’ve endeavored to compile links to all the substantive posts, listed alphabetically by band. (Some L.A. artists who appeared in festival coverage or just in photo galleries will not appear in this list).

Thanks to the music community at large and to our readers for following along. 2015 is going to be great.

A

7Horse (“Songs for a Voodoo Wedding”) – “A Friend in Weed”
Ablebody – “After Hours”
The Absolute (“Grow”) – “Grow”
Ab-Soul (“These Days …”) – “Stigmata” featuring Action Bronson and Asaad
The Acetates – “Hey Sister”
Act As If (“Steady”) – “Uh Huh,” “Steady”
The Active Set – “Shut ‘Em Down”
Afternoons (“Say Yes”) – “Say Yes” video
Daniel Ahearn (“The End of Romance” EP) – “Don’t Know What You’ve Lost”
Air Life – “Tell Me Anything,” “Tell Me Anything” video, “Every Now & Then” (featuring Senay Kenfe)
Allah-Las (“Worship the Sun”) – “No Werewolf” video, “Buffalo Nickel” video
Alyeska (“Alyeska” EP) – “Honest”
Amoureux (“Never Young As Tonight” EP) – “Never Young As Tonight,” “Lost the Plot”
Ana-Tole – “For a Night”
Archer Black (“Let It Burn” EP) – “Pins”
Army Navy (“The Wilderness Inside”) – “The Mistakes”
Audacity – “Mind Your Own Business”
Avid Dancer (“I Want to See You Dance” EP) – “I Want to See You Dance”

B

Babes (“Babes” EP) – “Die,” “Isn’t It Love” video, “Dad” video, “ATMO” video
Bad Suns (“Language & Perspective”) – “We Move Like the Ocean”
The Bad Years – “Common Mistake”
Banks (“Goddess”) – “Brain,” “Drowning,” “Beggin for Thread” video
Banta (“Banta” EP) – “Dark Charms”
Baron von Luxxury – “Hotel California”
Barrows (“Red Giant”) – “Beyond”
Baywood (“Everything We Know, All at Once”) – “Ride the Way We Came”
Beat Club (“Faces” EP) – “Faces”
Beck – KCRW show review
Bedouin (“Bedouin” EP) – “Bright Lights”
Beginners (“Beginners” EP) – “Who Knows”
Bell Gardens (“Slow Dawns for Lost Conclusions”) – “Darker Side of Sunshine,” “Take Us Away” video
The Belle Brigade (“Just Because”) – “Ashes,” “Likely to Use Something”
Big Black Delta (“Big Black Delta”) – “Huggin & Kissin” video
The Bixby Knolls (“Tomorrow Never Comes” EP) – “Tomorrow Never Comes”
Aloe Blacc (“Lift Your Spirit”) – “The Man”
Black English [fka NO] (“NO”) [originally released under the title “El Prado”] – “Leave the Door Wide Open,” “Leave the Door Wide Open” video
Black Hi-Lighter (“Looks and Lies”) – “Clear Blue Heaven”
The Black Ryder (“The Door Behind the Door”) – “Santaria”
The Black Tibetans – “You’re Cold”
Guy Blakeslee (“Ophelia Slowly”) – “Smile On”
Bleach Egg – “Sensitive Boy”
Nicky Blitz – “Alex”
Danny Bobbe (“Out of Reach” EP) – “Out of Reach”
Bodegas (“Hiatus”) – “Finna”
Bonfire Beach (“Bonfire Beach”) – “Spit U Out” video
The Boom Circuits (“If and Or”) – “The Cost”
Bootstraps (“Bootstraps”) – “Sleeping Giant”
BØRNS (“Candy” EP) – “10,000 Emerald Pools”
Bosey Masket – “Even Trade”
The Bots (“Sincerely Sorry” EP, “Pink Palms”) – “5:17” video, “All I Really Want”
Phoebe Bridgers (“Killer” EP) – “Whatever”
Brooklyn Pets (“Mega Idiot” EP) – “Electric Paws”
Buddy (“Last Call for the Quiet Life”) – “Weak Currents”
Avi Buffalo (“At Best Cuckold”) – “So What,” “So What” video
The Bulls – “Come Unwound”
Bunny Vincent – “Love Won’t Last” video
Busy Living – “Lie Better,” “LYD”

C

Gary Calamar (“You Are What You Listen To” EP) – “She’s So Mid-Century”
Camcorder (“Presence” EP) – “Love Blisters”
The Canyon Rays (“West Coast Babes”) – “Teenage Bliss”
Carlton – “Drift”
Cassorla (“Amigos” EP) – “Lee” video, “The Right Way”
Castro – “Why Don’t You Find Out?”
Caught a Ghost (“Human Nature”) – “Connected” video, “Time Go” video, “Relentless”
The Chain Gang of 1974 (“Daydream Forever”) – “Sleepwalking”
Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf (“Circa 1990-1993”) – “My World Premiere”
Cherry Glazerr (“Haxel Princess”) – “White’s Not My Color This Evening” video
Jessica Childress (“Don’t Forget My Name” EP) – “I Quit” video
Charlie Clark (“Feel Something” EP) – “Don’t Let Me Down” video
Clipping (“Midcity”) – “Intro”
Clockwise (“Dancing World” EP) – “Dancing World” video
Cobalt Cranes (“Days in the Sun”) – “Flowers on Your Grave,” “Heavy Heart”
Eddie Cohn (“Guarantee Me Love”) – “Don’t Disappear Yet”
Cold War Kids (“Hold My Home”) – “All This Could Be Yours,” show review
Max Collins (“Honey From the Icebox”) – “Sports Bar” video
The Concepts (“Death by Way of Living”) – “Rising Sun/Eclipse”
The Controversy – “Queen of Chinatown”
Corners (“Maxed Out on Distractions”) – “Love Letters” video
Corsica Arts Club – “California I Follow,” “Untamed”
Criminal Hygiene (“Withdrawn” EP) – “Withdrawn,” “Raid,” “Sold in the City” video, “Turpentine”
Crook – “Fault”
Crooks on Tape (“Fingerprint”) – “If Feelings Mean a Thing”
The Crystal Method (“The Crystal Method”) – “Emulator”

D

DA & the Jones (“Sirens”) – “Could’ve Had It All”
Dark Waves (“Dark Waves” EP) – “The Heartbeat the Soul”
Bart Davenport (“Physical World”) – “Wearing the Changes”
Seven Davis Jr. (“P.A.R.T.Y.” EP) – “One”
Zella Day (“Zella Day” EP) – “Sweet Ophelia,” “Sweet Ophelia” video, “East of Eden”
De Lux (“Voyage”) – “Make Space”
The Dead Ships – “Golden Room” video, “Canyon”
Dead Times – “Every Moment”
Decorations – “Girls”
Deep Sea Diver (“Always Waiting” EP) – “One by One”
Dekades – “Red Trolley”
Robert DeLong (“Long Way Down” EP) – “Long Way Down”
Delta Spirit (“Into the Wide”) – “From Now On”
Rocco DeLuca (“Rocco DeLuca”) – “Colors of the Cold,” “Colors of the Cold” video
Deluka (“Bonds” EP) – “Home”
J. Dendê (“Brunette OST Vol. 2”) – “Bounce Back” (featuring Alina Bea)
Dengue Fever – “Rom Say Sok”
Detangler – “On the Edge”
The Devious Means (“Other Animals”) – “Rusty Little Scissors”
Madi Diaz (“Phantom”) – “The Other Side,” “Stay Together” video
Dignitary – “Demon Beside Me” video
Jez Dior (“The Funeral” EP) – “Clean Me Up”
Dirt Dress (“Revelations” EP) – “Twelve Pictures”
Distant Cousin (“Distant Cousin” EP) – “Together//Tonight”
Distant Cousins (“Distant Cousins” EP) – “On My Way” video
Dive Index (“Lost in the Pressure”) – “Counting Umbrellas”
Dizz1 (“Everyday Grind” EP) – “Everyday Grind” featuring Aloe Blacc
The Dollyrots (“Barefoot and Pregnant”) – “First World Anarchist”
Dorothy (“Dorothy” EP) – “After Midnight,” “Wild Fire,” “The Wicked Ones”
Dot Hacker (“How’s Your Process? (Work),” “How’s Your Process? (Play)”) – “Whatever You Want,” “Elevator,” “Somersault”
Draag (“Draag”) – “You’re My Boy Blue”
Dream Boys – “Positive Arguments”
The Dream Syndicate (“The Day Before Wine and Roses”) – “Sure Thing”
Drinking Flowers (“Shadow Show” EP) – “Rabbit Hole”
Dronen – “The Loss of All Things Real”
Drug Cabin (“Wiggle Room”) – “Wiggle Room”
Duniven (“Answers” EP) – “Many Skies Away”
Dutch Party – “Echo Girl”
DWNTWN (“DWNTWN” EP) – “Til Tomorrow,” “Til Tomorrow” video, “Missing You” video, “Heroine” video
Dzang (“XLO”) – “Sea Floor”

E

Early Morning Rebel (“Life Boat” EP) – “War on Love,” “Shallow Breath” video
Eastern Conference Champions – “Mountaintops,” “Christmas Time”
The Echo and the Sound (“Its Execution” EP) – “Weapons of Influence”
Echocell (“Babylon” EP) – “Babylon”
The Eeries (“The Eeries” EP) – “Cool Kid”
EFG (Electric Flower Group) – “Singing Bridges” (demo), “Singing Bridges” (finished), “Singing Bridges” video
The Electrets (“Misfit” EP) – “Misfit”
Roy English – “Oxygen”

F

Failure (“Tree of Stars” EP) – “Come Crashing”
The Far West (“Any Day Now”) – “The Bright Side”
Father John Misty (“I Love You, Honeybear”) – “Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)” video
Fever the Ghost (“Crab in Honey” EP) – “Source,” “Calico” video
Figs Vision (“Mother”) – “Know to Run,” “Backwards” video
Fleurs (“Fleurs” EP) – “Start Again”
Florals (“Later Age” EP) – “Others”
Flybys (“Your Mother’s Love” EP) – “Your Mother’s Love”
Flying Lotus (“You’re Dead!”) – “Never Catch Me” (featuring Kendrick Lamar), “Never Catch Me” (featuring Kendrick Lamar) video
The Fontaines – “Paul Newman”
Fool’s Gold – “I’m in Love”
Forebear [fka Wise Cub] (“Forebear” EP) – “North Korea and the Five Stages of Grief”
Foster the People (“Supermodel”) – “Coming of Age” mural video, “Coming of Age” video, “Best Friend” video
Robert Francis (“Heaven”) – “Love Is a Chemical”
Francisco the Man (“Loose Ends”) – “Progress,” “Progress” video, “Big Ideas,” “It’s Not Your Fault”
Freedom Fry (“The Wilder Mile” EP) – “Home,” “The Wilder Mile” video, “Home” video, “Blackmailed” video
French Style Furs (“Is Exotic Bait”) – “All the Way Down”
The Futures League (“Don’t Be a Drag” EP) – “Women, Trials & Tribulations”)

G

The Galaxy Electric – “Calm Down”
Gallant (“Zebra” EP) – “Forfeit”
Gardens & Villa (“Dunes,” “Televisor” EP) – “Colony Glen,” “Love Affair”
Ghostel – “So Annoying”
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib (“Piñata”) – “Robes” featuring Earl Sweatshirt & Domo Genesis, “Harold’s” video
Girlpool (“Girlpool” EP) – “Blah Blah Blah”
Glasser (“Interiors”) – “Shape” video
Globelamp (“Star Dust”) – “Breathing Ritual” video, “Washington Moon”
GNTLMN – “Black Tongue”
Go Betty Go – “By Your Side”
Ross Golan – “The Wrong Man” review
John Gold (“You Only Live Forever” EP) – “Glow Stars”
Gold Star – “Sadie” video, “Get Down My Devil” video
The Golden Hippie – “Human Animal”
Goldroom (“Embrace” remixes) – “Embrace” video, show review, “Till Sunrise”
Rachel Goodrich & the Grrrls (“Baby, Now We’re Even” EP) – “MonstA Mash” video
Liam Gowing (“Drunk Sluts Forever”) – “The Perfect Parasite” video, “Purdizzy (On Saturday)” video
Great White Buffalo (“Fangs” EP) – “Off the Rails”
Holland Greco (“Volume One”) – “Stuck!”
Charlie Greene (“Charlie Greene”) – “Man on Fire”
Grizfolk (“From the Spark” EP) – “The Struggle” video
GRMLN (“Soon Away”) – “Jaded”
Groundislava (“Frozen Throne”) – “Feel the Heat”
The Growlers (“Chinese Fountain”) – “Big Toe,” “Chinese Fountain”
Guardian Ghost – “Sailor,” “Sailor” video
Guides – “Careful, I Was Every Sin”

H

Habits (“Unselves in Arrival”) – “Splendor of the Panic”
Haim (“Days Are Gone”) – “If I Could Change Your Mind” video, “My Song 5” featuring A$AP Ferg video
Harlan – “Freeway”
Harriet – “Burbank” video, “Ten Steps” video
Mayer Hawthorne (“Where Does This Door Go”) – “The Stars Are Ours” video
Lili Haydn (“LiliLand”) – “My My, Cross the Line,” “My My, Cross the Line” video
Heaps n Heaps (“Like No One’s Around” EP) – “Berlin”
Jason Heath & the Greedy Souls (“Packed for Exile”) – “God’s Name in Vain” video
Heathers (“I Know” EP) – “Brassneck”
Henri (“It’s Like This, It’s Like That” remixes EP) – “It’s Like This, It’s Like That”
Hi Ho Silver Oh – “What I Am Doing”
Charlie Hickey (“Odds” EP) – “Odds”
Hidden Speaker (“Bitter Year, Better Year” EP) – “Vapor Hair,” “Bitcoin Vapejuice Blues”
Hobart W Fink (“Back and Forth Forever”) – “Final Fantasy 7” video, “So Many Losers” video, “The Fight/We Lie” video
Holychild – “Running Behind”
Honeyhoney – “Punk Kid”
HOTT MT – “Kat Kastle”
A House for Lions (“Hills So High”) – “Ordinary Life” video
Howls (“Howls”) – “Fool,” “Fool” video
Hundred Waters (“The Moon Rang Like a Bell”) – “Out Alee” video

I

The Icarus Line (“Slave Vows”) – “Don’t Let Me Save Your Soul”
Illustrated (“Define Me” EP) – “Tidal Wave”
Imaginary Persons – “Never Broken”
Imperial Mammoth (“Gold Confetti”) – “Little Earthquakes”
In the Valley Below (“The Belt”) – “Hymnal” video
Incan Abraham (“Tolerance”) – “Concorde,” “All You Want,” “Concorde” video (GoPro cut)
Indian School (“The Cruelest Kind”) – “Rob Your House”
IO Echo (and Tokimonsta) – “Heartbreaker”
Irontom – “I’m Better”, “The Minista” video
Jag Sun – “Modern Dinosaur”

J

James Supercave (“The Afternoon” EP) – “The Right Thing”
Jamestown Revival (“Utah”) – “California (Cast Iron Soul)”, show review, “California (Cast Iron Soul)” video
Jammy and the Smack (“Back to Your Old Ways”) – “King of the Last Minute”
The Janks (“Living in Denial” EP) – “Living in Denial”
Jeffertitti’s Nile (“The Electric Hour”) – “Blue Spirit Blues,” “The Electric Hour” album
Joel Jerome (“Psychedelic Thriftstore Folk”) – “Psychedelic Thriftstore Folk” album
Zola Jesus (“Taiga”) – “Dangerous Days,” “Dangerous Days” video
Jesus Sons (“Jesus Sons”) – “Who’s Around,” “All These Furs” video
Annabel Jones – “Magnetic”
Paris Jones (“March” EP) – “The Cold War”
Jutty Ranx (“I See You” EP) – “I See You” video

K

Kan Wakan (“Moving On”) – “Forever Found” video, “Like I Need You,” “Mont Blanc,” “Like I Need You” video, “Are We Saying Goodbye” video, show review
Karen O – show review
KAV (“The Man With No Shadow”) – “Dance in a Panic”
Kera and the Lesbians (“Year 23” EP) – “Snakes,” “Snakes” video
Kêta – “Wooden Horses”
Hanni El Khatib (“Moonlight”) – “Moonlight”
Kiev (“Falling Bough Wisdom Teeth”) – “Be Gone Dull Cage” video
Killer Mike (“R.A.P. Music”) – “Ghetto Gospel” video
The King’s English (“Feel Me” EP) – “Mary Jane”
Kissing Cousins (“In With Them” EP) – “Cover Me” video, “In With Them”
Kitten (“Kitten”) – “Why I Wait”
Matt Kivel (“Days of Being Wild”) – “Open Road,” “End of Adventure” video
Kiven (“Kiven”) – “In the Fire”
Koga (“Not Much Is Going on Today” EP) – “Mountains of Evil”
KP – “Never On”

L

LA Font – “Diving Man Remixed,” “Teen Bazooka”
La Sera (“Hour of the Dawn”) – “Running Wild”
Lady Low – “Baby Baby,” “Baby Baby” video
Kendrick Lamar – “i”
Le Noire – “Fire”
The LeBarons (“Oh, It Must Be Christmastime!” EP) – “It Must Be Christmastime”
The Legendary House Cats (“First Light” EP) – “This Time”
Letts – “Charles de Gaulle”
Jenny Lewis (“The Voyager”) – “Completely Not Me,” “Just One of the Guys,” “The Voyager,” “Just One of the Guys” video
Lieutenant – “Belle Epoque”
Life Leone – “I Can’t Say No”
Line & Circle (“Line & Circle” EP) – “Mine Is Mine,” “Wounded Desire”
Linus Young (“Category 5”) – “Sister”
Liphemra – “Bloodwork” featuring MED, “Bandaid”
J Litt (“Too J Litt to Quit” EP) – “Heaven”
Little Brutes – “Carefully”
The Living Sisters (“Harmony Is Real: Songs for a Happy Holiday”) – “Kadoka, South Dakota” video
Livingmore (“Livingmore” EP) – “Nothing Else”
Taylor Locke – “Running Away From Love” video
The Lonely Wild – “Holidays”
Los Angeles Police Department (“Los Angeles Police Department”) – “She Came Through (Again)” video, “Enough Is Enough” video
Dustin Lovelis – “Off the Rails”
The Luxembourg Signal (“The Luxembourg Signal”) – “Distant Drive”

M

Machineheart – “Circles”
Made in Heights (“Made in Heights”) – “All the Places”
Magic Bronson (“Wildlife”) – “Shivers,” “Fences,” “Fences” video, “Wildlife” album
Magic Giant – “Glass Heart”
Magic Wands – “On the Telephone”
Maniac (“Demimonde”) – “Live Like Bats”
Mansions on the Moon (“Mansions on the Moon”) – “Don’t Tell”
Mariachi El Bronx (“Mariachi El Bronx (III)”) – “New Beat”
Maudlin Strangers – “Overdose,” “Stay Young”
May McDonough & Company (“Bullyboywithaglasseye”) – “Wrap Around Porch”
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness (“Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness”) – “Cecilia and the Satellite” video
Jake McMullen – “Always”
Mean Dream (“Mean Dream” EP) – “Full of Holes”
Meiko (“Dear You”) – “Be Mine”
The Mercy Beat – “Sweet”
Midnight Cities (“Ignite” EP) – “Slow Down Girl”
Midnight Faces (“The Fire Is Gone”) – “Over Again”
Blake Mills (“Heigh Ho”) – “If I’m Unworthy”
Milo Bloom – “Summer Nights”
Milo Greene (“Control”) – “White Lies,” “Lie to Me,” “Parents’ House”
Mini Mansions – “Death Is a Girl”
Minnow (“Trembles & Temperance”) – “Indian Summer”
Mirror Days (“Solstice” EP) – “Window,” “Close to Real”
Mirror Talk (“Infatuation” EP, “1997” EP) – “Don’t” video, “1997”
Mndsgn (“Breatharian”) – “Kikhabits”
Modern Time Machines – “Loveletters” video
Moke Hill (“Moke Hill” EP) – “Gold Country,” “Future”
Monogem – “Wait and See”
Moonchild (“Please Rewind”) – “The Truth” video
Moons of Mars – “Holiday”
Kevin Morby (“Harlem River”) – “If You Leave and If You Marry” video
The Moth & the Flame (“&” EP) – “Winsome” video, “How We Woke Up” video
Mount Saint – “Criminal”
The Mowgli’s – “Through the Dark”
Moxi – “Save Me,” “Hold Me”
MTG [fka Mind the Gap] (“Youth” EP) – “Move”
The Muffs (“Whoop Dee Doo”) – “Weird Boy Next Door”
Meg Myers (“Make a Shadow” EP) – “Go”
Mystery Skulls (“Forever”) – “Ghost” video, “Number 1” (featuring Brandy and Nile Rodgers), “Ghost” video (animated)
Mystic Braves (“Desert Island”) – “Born Without a Heart”

N

Nacosta (“Under the Half Moon”) – “Aberlina”
The Neighbourhood – “#icanteven” (featuring French Montana)
The New Division (“Together We Shine”) – “Stockholm,” “Honest” (featuring Starflyer 59)
The New Electric Sound (“The New Electric Sound”) – “Suitcase”
Nico Vega (“Lead to Light”) – “I Believe”
Night Club (“Black Leather Heart” EP) – “She Wants to Play With Fire” video
Night Terrors of 1927 (“Guilty Pleas” EP, “Anything to Anyone” EP) – “Dust and Bones” video, “Always Take You Back,” “When You Were Mine” (featuring Tegan and Sara)
Nightmare and the Cat (“Simple”) – “Undercover,” “Desert Heir”
Noah and the MegaFauna (“The Pale Blue Dot”) – “Fanfare”
The North (“Disengage”) – “Say What You Will”
Northern American – “Elysian”

O

OFF! (“Wasted Years”) – “Hypnotized” video, “Over Our Heads” video
Okapi Sun (“Techno Prisoners”) – “Johnny Kiss”
Oliver Future – “The Gold Sparrow” video
Mikey Omega (“Wasted Potential”) – “Snow Bunnies”
Open Mike Eagle (“Dark Comedy”) – “Dark Comedy Morning Show”
Ozma (“Boomtown”) – “Nervous”

P

PAPA – “I’m Not Sorry”
Parade of Lights (“Golden” EP) – “Golden”
PARIS – “My Flesh”
Pastel – “Ode to a Toughened Woman”
Patrolled By Radar (“Cool Your Jets”) – “Lost Cause”
Paw City (“Panic Test” EP) – “The Catalyst”
The Peach Kings (“Mojo Thunder” EP) – “Hold On,” “Mojo Thunder” video
Linda Perhacs (“The Soul of All Natural Things”) – “Prisms of Glass” video
Jarell Perry – “Blow”
Phantoms – “Broken Halo”
PhoenixBlood – “Hollow Man”
Pigeon John (“Encino Man”) – “Champagne on My Shoes” video
Ariel Pink (“Pom Pom”) – “Put Your Number in My Phone”
Pisces (“Pisces”) – “Winter Horse,” “Being With You” video, “Pisces” album
The Pocket Rockets (“The Pocket Rockets” EP) – “MDNGHT”
Henry Pope (“Waiting” EP) – “Swayback”
Popheart – “Stare”
Pretty Little Demons (“Unknown Species”) – “Unknown Species” video
Princess Reason (“Stark City” EP) – “Stark City”
Pr0files (“Luxury” EP) – “Luxury,” “Forgive”
Public School – “Don’t Wake Me Up”
Joe Purdy (“Eagle Rock Fire”) – “Eagle Rock Fire” album
Pyramid Vritra (“Indra”) – “Tea & Lemonade”

R

Rainbow Jackson (“Perpetual Summer” EP) – “Nightcrawler”
RÁJ – “Let Me Love You”
Ranger (“Songs for Leaving/Songs for Other Things”) – “Promises” video
Rare Darling – “We’ve Got Time”
The Raskins (“The Raskins”) – “We Had It All” video
Raw Fabrics (“Gold Handcuffs” EP) – “Down the Drain”
Ray & Remora (“1994” EP) – “Gold Soundz,” “Gold Soundz” video
The Rebel Light – “Strangers”
Bhavana Reddy (“Tangled in Emotions” EP) – “Stuck in a Valley”
The Reflections – “Out of My Hands”
Repeater (“Repeater”) – “Lonely,” “Lonely” video
Roll the Tanks (“Broke Til Midnight”) – “Goodnight Jimmy Lee”
Arrica Rose & the …’s (“Wavefunction”) – “Love You Like That,” “The Shallow End” video
Roses (“Dreamlover” EP) – “Florence Girls”
Rose’s Pawn Shop (“Gravity Well”) – “What Were You Waiting For”
Lawrence Rothman – “#1 All Time Low” video
The Rozzes – “Leave Without Me”
Run River North (“Run River North”) – “Fight to Keep” video
Run Things – “Dumb in the Sun,” “Dumb in the Sun” video
Emma Ruth Rundle (“Some Heavy Ocean”) – “Shadows of My Name”

S

Saint Motel (“My Type” EP) – “My Type” video
Johanna Samuels (“Double Bind”) – “From Above You”
Scavenger Hunt (“Scavenger Hunt” EP) – “Bones”
Sea Wolf (“Song Spells, No. 1: Cedarsmoke”) – “Cedarsmoke/Young Bodies”
Seagoat – “Comfort Girl”
Seahaven (“Reverie Lagoon: Music for Escapism Only”) – “Flesh”
Seasons – “Used to Be Alive”
Sego (“Wicket Youth” EP) – “Wicket Youth,” “20 Years Tall” video
Mike Sempert (“Mid Dream”) – “Oceans of Rock and Roll,” “Finest Line” video
Seven Saturdays (“Seven Saturdays”) – “XXX” featuring Rachel Stolte video, “Fields” featuring Terra Lopez
Sex Helicopter (“Great” EP) – “Everything As It Should Be”
Shilo Gold – “One Life”
Shines (“Shines” EP) – “Finding Eden”
The Shoe (“I’m Okay”) – “His Gorgeousness”
The Shrine (“Bless Off”) – “Nothing Forever”
Silversun Pickups (“The Singles Collection”) – “Cannibal,” “Cannibal” video
The Singles (“Look How Fast a Heart Can Break”) – “Inamorata” video
SirenXX – “I Think I Like You”
Slow White – “Ocean Song”
Smallpools – “Karaoke”
Xander Smith (“Outside”) – “Say Anything”
Smoke Season (“Hot Coals Cold Souls” EP) – “Badlands,” “Badlands” video, “Opaque” video
Sneakout [fka Victory] – “The Art of Hanging On”
Soft Swells (“Floodlights”) – “Floodlights”
Solai (“Solai” EP) – “Islands in the Sun”
Some Go Haunting – “Me & You”
SomeKindaWonderful (“SomeKindaWonderful”) – “Reverse”
Son of Stan (“Georgia” EP) – “The Lady That’s Around Me”
Sophie and the Bom Boms (“The Shmixtape” EP) – “Can’t Say Yes”
Spaceships (“Spaceships” EP) – “Good Gradez”
Spectacular Spectacular – “Orange Juice”
Spelles – “Bird in a Cage”
Springtime Carnivore (“Springtime Carnivore”) – “Sun Went Black”
StaG (“Difference”) – “I Think I’ll Shout,” “It Worked for Him”
Vince Staples (“Hell Can Wait” EP) – “Fire” video
Jesse Jo Stark (“Down Your Drain” EP) – “Baby Love”
Strange Babes – “Holiday”
Strangeheart (“A Common Theme”) – “Twice the Man”
Stranger Kings (“Stranger Kings”) – “Lay Low”
Street Joy – “Same As Me,” “Wrong Cloud”
Sullen Ray (“Blue Minor”) – “Without You”
Sumeau (“Sumeau”) – “Hey You”
Moses Sumney (“Mid-City Island” EP) – “Man on the Moon”
Superhumanoids – “Come Say Hello”
Susan (“Just Call It” EP) – “Just Call It”
Sweet Bump It (“First Slice” EP) – “Dauphine”
SZA (“Z”) – “Babylon”

T

Tall Tales and the Silver Lining (“Besides” EP) – “It Don’t Worry Me,” “Unknown Forces”
Tapioca & the Flea – “Take It Slow” video
Tashaki Miyaki – “Cool Runnings”
Taste Nasa – “I’d Like to Be Your Girl”
Tennis System (“Technicolour Blind”) – “Memories & Broken Dreams”
Terraplane Sun – “The Stone”
Terry Malts (“Insides” EP) – “Let You In”
TÊTE – “Good Luck”
Thurz (“Designer” EP) – “21”
Tien (“Invitation” EP) – “Peaceful, Patient,” “This Ain’t Home” video
Tijuana Panthers (“Wayne Interest”) – “Cherry Street,” “Four Horsemen” video, “Nobo” video, “Torpedo” video
Tiny Hearts (“Stay” EP) – “Stay”
Tiny Stills (“Falling Is Like Flying”) – “15-17 Months” video
Mia Doi Todd (“Floresta”) – “Cais” video
Together Pangea (“Badillac”) – “Badillac,” “Offer” video, “Badillac” video
T.O.L.D. (“Heaven” EP) – “Lucifer’s Eyes”
Torches (“Endlessly Repeating” EP) – “Staring,” “Endlessly Repeating,” “The Freak”
Tower – “Can’t Vibe”
Toy Bombs – “Radio”
TÃœLIPS – “Hotspur” video, “Maybe Baby”
Gavin Turek – “Remember,” “Pride”
Two Sheds – “It’s Okay”
The Two Tens (“Volume 1” EP, “Volume 2” EP) – “Scene,” “Sweet As Pie” video

U

United Ghosts (“Dear Electric Sun” EP) – “Out of Love”
Until the Ribbon Breaks (“A Lesson Unlearnt”) – “A Taste of Silver” video

V

Valley Queen – “Carnival”
Vanaprasta – “NYF,” “Flash Flood Warning”
Vertical Scratchers (“Daughter of Everything”) – “These Plains”
Vicious Kicks – “Workaholic”
Gina Villalobos (“Sola”) – “Everything I Want”
The Vim Dicta (“Von Tango” EP) – “Point Blank” video
Vow (“Make Me Yours” EP) – “Planks,” “Charm” video
VUM (“Psychotropic Jukebox”) – “We’re Going” video

W

Charlie Wadhams (“Out at the Bar”) – “Replaced” video
Butch Walker (“Afraid of Ghosts”) – “Chrissie Hynde,” “Bed on Fire” video
WALLA (“Gangsters of Suburbia” EP) – “Gangsters of Suburbia,” “The Kids Are Alright” video
Warpaint (“Warpaint”) – “Disco/Very” and “Keep It Healthy” video
Wartime Recitals (“Wartime Recitals” EP) – “Bad Dances,” “Bears”
Washing Machines (“Quick Fix” EP) – “Big Cyst”
Nick Waterhouse (“Holly”) – “This Is a Game,” “This Is a Game” video
Wax Children (“Angst” EP) – “Wild Gloom”
WAZ (“Lights Go Down” EP) – “Lights Go Down”
Ryn Weaver (“Promises” EP) – “OctaHate” video, “OctaHate” (Ghost Loft Meets Twice As Nice remix)
Western Scene – “See What You Want To”
Wet & Reckless (“Oh, You Pretty Things!” soundtrack) – “Oh, You Pretty Things!” web series
White Arrows (“In Bardo”) – “Leave It Alone,” “I Want a Taste,” “We Can’t Ever Die”
White Dove – “Caroline” video
White Fence (“For the Recently Found Innocent”) – show review
White Sea (“In Cold Blood”) – “Prague,” “Future Husbands Past Lives”
Wild Awake (“Wild Awake” EP) – “Early Bird”
The Wild Reeds (“Blind and Brave”) – “Blind and Brave”
Wildcat! Wildcat! (“No Moon at All”) – “Hero,” “Holloway (Hey Love),” live at the El Rey
Wildling – “Change Your Mind”
Devon Williams (“Gilding the Lily”) – “Will You Let Go of My Heart?”
Willow Willow – “I Will Never Tire of You”
Jonathan Wilson (“Fanfare”) – Saturdays Off the 405 gallery
Wistappear (“Ride It Out” EP) – “Ride It Out”
Henry Wolfe (“Encino” EP) – “Encino” video, “Encino” EP
Wrabel (“Sideways” EP) – “Sideways”
Wrongchilde (“Gold Blooded”) – “Falling in Love (Will Kill You)”
Wunder Wunder (“Everything Infinite”) – “Midnight Hours”

X

Xu Xu Fang – “Noir State Beach” video, “Friend to the Unknown” video

Y

Y LUV (“I Don’t Get Infinity” EP) – “Jacques Cousteau”
YACHT (“Where Does This Disco?” EP) – “Where Does This Disco?,” “Terminal Beach”
yOya – “Fool’s Gold,” “Fool’s Gold” video
Yuna (“Nocturnal”) – “Falling” video

Photo of Cold War Kids at the Regent Theater by Michelle Shiers