2019: The Buzz Bands LA Index of L.A. artists we covered
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As we zoom into 2020, we bring you a big picture overview of the more than 600 local artists we covered last year: The annual Buzz Bands LA Index of 2019, with links to our coverage of new music, shows and several festivals.
[Editor’s note: The artwork above has 35 images — 34 of artists and one wild-card. How many of the artists can you identify? Yeah, we like hard puzzles …]
For easy reference, here are other lists of music and visuals that were Popular With Us in 2019:
■ Buzzbands.LA’s Albums of the Year
■ Buzzbands.LA’s Favorite Videos of the Year
■ Buzzbands.LA’s Favorite 101 Songs of the Year
■ Buzzbands.LA’s Year in Photos
Index
8mm — ‘Supercrush’
100 gecs —‘Money Machine’
A
Aaron Jacobs — Live at Genius Loci fest
Active Child — ‘All Eyes on You’
Adam Melchor — ‘Plan On You’
Adrianna Krikl — ‘Celestial’ and ‘Endless’
Affectionately — Live at the Echoplex
The Aggrolites — ‘REGGAE NOW!’ (full album)
Alain Whyte — ‘The Experiment’ (full EP & interview)
Alaska Reid — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3)
Albert Hammond, Jr. — Live at the Fonda Theatre
Albon — ‘Big Sur Theme’
Alexandra Savior — Live at the Teragram Ballroom
Alex Bloom — ‘Elevator’, ‘Cam Girl’
Alex Lilly — ‘2% Milk’ (full album & playlist), ‘Infantile’ (feat. Daedelus)
Alex Price — ‘Point of View’
Alice Wallace — ‘The Blue,’ ‘Desert Rose’ and ‘Santa Ana Winds’
Allah-Las — ‘Raspberry Jam’, ‘In the Air’, ‘Prazer Em Te Conhecer’
Allie Crow Buckley — ‘Cherry Stems’
All Things Blue — ‘Yellow Heart’, ‘Designed Inversions’
Almost Monday — ‘Broken People’
AMES — ‘Hold On’
Amo Amo — ‘When I Look at You’
Anderson .Paak — ‘Make It Better’, Live at Coachella (Day 1, Highlights)
Andrew Bird — ‘Sisyphus’
Andrew Rinehart — ‘Rose Gold’
Andy Clockwise — Live at Love You Down III at the Echo/Echoplex (Night 2), ‘This Town (Used to Be Great)’, ‘Money Power Sex & Fame’, Live at Festy Baby at the Lodge Room
Anna Ash — ‘Apologies’
Annabelle Maginnis — ‘Free Debris’, ‘Make It Last’ (see also CAPYAC), Live at Festy Baby at the Lodge Room
Annika Rose — ‘Fly to You’
ANIIML — ‘Ouch’, ‘Handle Me’
Antoine Diligent — ‘Nobody Loves U (WYL)’
AO — ‘Fall on Me’
A.O. Gerber — ‘Strangers’
Apex Manor — ‘Asked & Answered’
Ariana Grande — Live at Coachella (Day 3)
Ariel Beesley — ‘Palm Springs’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2), ‘Palm Springs’ (video), Live at Festy Baby at the Lodge Room
Ariel View — ‘Until My Lungs Are Cleared’ (album)
ASHRR — ‘All Yours All Mine’, ‘Made Up Your Mind’, ASHRR at the Bootleg Theater
Asian She — ‘Competitive Mourning’
Asi Fui — ‘Parallelogram’ (full album)
Astrid — ‘Over the Hill’
August Eve — ‘You Already Know’ and ‘Know Better’, ‘Ashes’
Automatic — ‘Too Much Money’ and ‘Calling It’, ‘Strange Conversations’, Live at the Hollywood Palladium
Ave Grave — ‘Oxbow Lakes’
Avi Buffalo — ‘Skeleton Painting’
Avid Dancer — ‘Feels’, ‘Landslide’ (feat. POP ETC)
Azam Ali — ‘Hope’
B
Bad Suns — ‘Hold Your Fire’ (+ interview)
Bandie — ‘It’s Getting Late’
Banks — Live at the Hollywood Palladium
Battle Tapes — ‘Weight of the World’
Beach Bums — ‘I Don’t Kno’
Beck — Live at McCabe’s, ‘Saw Lightning’, ‘Everlasting Nothing’
Beck Pete — ‘Muse’ (full EP)
Bedouine — ‘Bird’, ‘Echo Park’, Live at the Moroccan Lounge
Beef (Stella Mozgawa + Boomp Bip) — Live at Love You Down III at the Echo/Echoplex
Bellsaint — ‘Like Gold to Me’
Benten — ‘Without You’
Best Coast — ‘For the First Time’
Better Oblivion Community Center — Live at the Teragram Ballroom
BIIANCO — ‘Rice Krispies’
Big Search — ‘Here Comes the Night’, ‘Wire Walker’
Billie Eilish — ‘Bury a Friend’, Live at Coachella (Day 2, Highlights) Live at the Shrine Expo Hall, ‘Everything I Wanted’
Billy Changer — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 1)
Billy Hammer — ‘Glow’
Billy Morrison — Live at Above Ground at the Fonda Theatre
Bird Concerns — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 1)
Bishop Briggs — ‘Jekyll & Hide’
Blackpaw — Live at the Echo
The Black Watch — ‘Julie’ (feat. Julie Schulte), ‘Get Me Out of Echo Park’, ‘Crying All the Time’
Bleached — ‘Hard to Kill’, Live at the Moroccan Lounge
Blitz Vega — ‘Hey Christo’, ‘LA Vampire’
Bloodboy — ‘Punk Adjacent’ (full album)
Bloody Death Skull — Live at the Lodge Room
Bogan Via — ‘Tough to Kill’ (full album)
Bone Acre — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 1)
Bones UK — ‘Pretty Waste’, Live at the Echo
Bootstraps — ‘Evergreen’
Borrowed Beams of Light — ‘Rush Around the Sun’
Boy Willows — ‘Greyhound’
Brainstory — ‘Breathe’, ‘Beautyful Beauti’
Brass Box — ‘Rivers’
BREATHERRR — Live at the Teragram Ballroom
Brendan Eder — ‘East Pasadena’
Brian Whelan — Live at the Moroccan Lounge
Brian Wilson — Live at BeachLife Festival
Bristol to Memory — ‘Into You’
Broken Baby — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 1)
The Brothers Steve — ‘#1’ (album)
Butch Bastard — ‘I’m Not a Man’
C
The Cabin Fever — ‘B-L-S-H’ (Slomix) and ‘Exercise the Demon’ (full EP), ‘Window Pain’
Cannons — ‘Talk Talk’
CAPYAC & Annabelle Maginnis — ‘Little Toes’
The Caracals — ‘Dust & Honey’
Cartalk — ‘Noonday Devil’, ‘Wrestling’, ‘Sleep’
Cass McCombs — Live at the Fonda Theatre
Caught a Ghost — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3 Buzzbands.LA Stage), ‘House on Fire’
The Ceremonies — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2)
Changeling — ‘Holy Water’
Charlie Hickey — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 4)
Cheer Up Club — ‘Geezer’
Chela — ‘Delivery’
Chelsea Wolfe — ‘The Mother Road’, Live at Pasadena Daydream, ‘Deranged for Rock & Roll’
Cherry Glazerr — ‘Wasted Nun’, Live at the Troubadour, Live at FigFest
Childish Gambino — Live at Coachella (Day 1)
Christian Lee Hutson — ‘Northsiders’
Claude Fontaine — ‘Cry for Another’, ‘Hot Tears’, Live at Zebulon
Cliff Beach — ‘Save My Soul’
Club Oro — ‘Thank You, Come Again’
CMON — ‘Coo’
Coastal Clouds — ‘Comes From a Time’
Cody & the Blackouts — ‘Gold’
Cold War Kids — Live at Made in LA
Collapsing Scenery — Live at the Echo, ‘Bush Mama Blues’, Live at Festy Baby at the Lodge Room
The Colour Coast — ‘Now I’m an Ocean’
Colyer — Live at the Hi Hat
Coma Girls — ‘Crown’
Common Souls — ‘Honeydew’
Communicant — ‘Spotlight’, ‘Marie’
Compress Colide — ‘I Don’t Belong Here’
Cones — ‘Moonstone’, Live at the Bootleg Theater
Conscious Trap — ‘Westside’
Coquí — ‘The Pain’ and ‘Rewind’
Cory Becker — ‘Rivers’
Cory Wells — ‘Patience’ and ‘Lost’
Cosmo Gold — ‘Dark Matter’, Live at the Echo, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3 Buzzbands.LA Stage)
Cosmonauts — ‘Medio Litro’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3)
Cosmos & Creature — ‘The Wonder’
COULOU — ‘About You’
Cowgirls — ‘Loose Story’
Criminal Hygiene —‘Hardly News’ and ‘Dangers of Convenience’ (+ interview), Live at the Teragram Ballroom
Crown Plaza — ‘Crown Plaza’ (full album)
Cryogeyser — ‘Leach’ and ‘Co-Star’
Cuco — ‘Hydrocodone’, ‘Feelings’
Cuesta Loeb — ‘Plug Into Me’ (full EP)
Cuffed Up — ‘Mother/Father’ and ‘Small Town Kid’
D
The Damed — ‘We Are the Proof’
Dancing Tongues — Live at the Hi Hat, ‘Shotgun’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 4)
Danny McGaw — ‘Let’s Go Get Ice Cream’
Dan Sadin — ‘Sucker’
Data Maps — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3 Buzzbands.LA Stage)
Dave Navarro — Live at Above Ground at the Fonda Theatre
David J — Live at the Grove in Anaheim
DAVIS — ‘Smash’
Dead-tones — Live at Lightning in a Bottle
deafmute + Emily Kokal — Live at Love You Down III at the Echo/Echoplex (Night 1)
Deap Lips (The Flaming Lips + Deap Vally) — ‘Hope Hell High’
Dear Boy — ‘Semester’, Live at the KROQ Locals Only Fest at the Teragram, Live at the Greek Theatre, Live at the El Rey Theatre
Death Valley Girls — Live at the Echo, ‘Dream Cleaver’, Live at the Lodge Room
Derde Verde — ‘Waking the Dream’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 1), ‘Have You Felt It?’
Desert Hearts Crew — Live at Desert Hearts fest
Devendra Banhart — ‘Abre Las Manos’ and ‘Kantori Ongaku’
Devo — Live at Desert Daze
DEYSSI (fka DAISY) — ‘Patience: Business Woman’
Diane Coffee — ‘Not Ready to Go’, ‘Like a Child Does’, Live at the Teragram Ballroom
Dielines — ‘Long Enough to End’
The Dils — Live at Alex’s Bar
The Dirty Diamond — ‘Going Through Changes’ (feat. Andra Day)
DJ Dan — Live at Lightning in a Bottle
Dol Ikara — ‘Obsidian Ritual’ (album)
The Dollyrots — ‘Oblivious’ and ‘In Your Face’
Donavon Frankenreiter — Live at Made in LA
Dorothy — Live at the Regent Theater
Draag — ‘Ghost Leak’
Drab Majesty — ‘Long Division’
Draemings — ‘Stranger Than Believing’, Live at the Echo
Dreamers — ‘Insomniac’, ‘Desensitize’
Dream Phases — ‘Frightened Man’
Drip Lines — ‘Griffith’ (full EP)
Drugdealer — ‘Fools’
Drum & Lace — ‘Outsider Complex Part 1’
The Dumes — ‘More Than Physical’
Dustrider — Live at Zebulon
E
Earth Arrow — Live at Open Arts & Music Fest
Edgar Everyone — Live at Festy Baby at the Lodge Room
Edith Crash — ‘Running’
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes — Live at the Greek Theatre
Eleni Mandell — ‘Be Together’
El Mañana — Live at the Echo
El Ten Eleven — Live at the Moroccan Lounge
EMAN8 — ‘Emanate’
Emma Ruth Rundle — Live at Pasadena Daydream
The Entrance Band — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 4)
Esbie Fonte — ‘Veins’, ‘Cobwebs’
EST — Live at Zebulon, ‘Every Echo’
Ethan Gruska — ‘Event Horizon’
Ever So Android — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 4)
F
Facial — Live at Love You Down III at the Echo/Echoplex (Night 1), Live at the Hi Hat, ‘Don’t Take the Fremont Bridge’
Failure — Live at the Fonda Theatre
Farah Shea — ‘Back to the Basics’
FEELS — ‘Post Earth’, Live at the Echo, Live at the Teragram Ballroom
Fellow Robot — ‘Promises’
Fell Runner — ‘Come Home’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 4)
FIDLAR — ‘By Myself”, ‘Almost Free’ (album & interview)
Field Medic — ‘Henna Tattoo’
Fig’s Vision — ‘Return of the Mystic’ and ‘Boy Pressure’, Live at the Echo
Film School — ‘Influencer’
Fime — Live at the Echoplex
Finneas — Live at the Troubadour, ‘Shelter’, Live at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
Fitz & the Tantrums — ‘123456’, Live at the Forum
The Flesheaters — Live at the Echoplex
Florist — ‘M’ and ‘Emily, Alone’ (album)
The Flusters — ‘Time Traveler’ and ‘Little Mexico’
Flying Lotus — ‘Fire Is Coming’ (feat. David Lynch), ‘More’ (feat. Anderson .Paak), Live at Desert Daze
Fogust — ‘All of the Light’
Follies & Vices — ‘Don’t Hold Back’
Forever X2 — ‘Mad For Me’
Formerly Alien — ‘Different’ and ‘Rest of My Life’
Foxygen — ‘Livin’ a Lie’
Frankie and the Witchfingers — Live at the Teragram Ballroom
Freedom Fry — 12 EPs
French Vanilla — ‘All the Time’, ‘Real or Not’ and ‘How Am I Not Myself?’ (full album)
The Frights — Live at Coachella (Day 1)
Froth — ‘Laurel’, Live at Desert Daze
Funeral Party — Live at Just Like Heaven fest
Future Feats — Live at the Hollywood Palladium, ‘Runaway’
G
G&D (Georgia Anne Muldrow & Dudley Perkins) — ‘Where I’m From’
Gallant — ‘Sharpest Edges’
The Garden — Live at Coachella (Day 2)
Gardens & Villa — Live at Love You Down III at the Echo/Echoplex (Night 1)
Geena Fontanella — ‘Trip’
Geographer — ‘Summer of My Discontentment’, ‘New Jersey’ (full EP), ‘Just Wanna Dance’
Giant Killer Bats — ‘Static’
Girl Friday — ‘Decoration/Currency’
Glossies — ‘Never Die (Never Die)’
Go Betty Go — Live at the Regent Theater
Golden Daze — ‘Took a Fall’
Goldensuns — Live at Love You Down III at Echo/Echoplex (Night 1), ‘Shook’, ‘Easy Love’
Gold Wash — ‘Flat Earth Surf Club’ (full album)
Good Talk — ‘Crazy’
The Gooms — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3)
Goon — ‘Check Engine Light’, Live at the Echo, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 1)
GospelbeacH — ‘Dark Angel’
Gothic Tropic — ‘Drunk On a Rhythm’
Grady — ‘When I Get There’, ‘Lemon Sun’
Grand Canyon — ‘Standing in the Shadows’ and ‘Le Grand Cañon’ (full album)
The Graylings — ‘Hummingbird’
Grayson — ‘Cherry Pits’ and ‘Head to Head’ (full album)
Greer — Live at Just Like Heaven fest, Live at the Fonda Theatre
Greg Dulli — ‘Pantomina’
The Growlers — ‘Natural Affair’
Guards — ‘Beacon’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3), ‘You Got Me’
Gus Seyffert — ‘Hold On’
Gypsum — ‘Kaleidoscope’
H
Half Wolf — ‘Pretty Lonely’ and ‘Cigarette Smoke’
Haim — ‘Summer Girl’, Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Hammered Satin — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 4)
Hana Vu — ‘At the Party’
Hand Habits — ‘Can’t Calm Down’, Live at the Fonda Theatre
Hank Fontaine — ‘Bad Love’, ‘Zebulon’
Harley Cortez — ‘The Dreamers’
Harmony Horizon — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2)
Hawk Percival and Friends — ‘Low’ and ‘Night Moods’
HEALTH — Live at the Teragram Ballroom
Hello Forever — ‘Some Faith’
Henry Pope — Live at Genius Loci fest
The Herbert Bail Orchestra — ‘History’s Made at Night’
Highlands — ‘Dr. Ron’
High School Jacob — ‘Can’t Get Enough’
Holy Wars — ‘Legend’, Live at the Echo
Honey Child — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3), Live at the Satellite
The Horseheads — Live at Alex’s Bar
HOTT MT — ‘Angel’ and ‘Earth on Heaven’ (full album)
HUNNY — ‘Saturday Night’ (feat. Bleached)
Hurt Valley — ‘Glacial Pace’ (full album)
I
If Climbing — ‘Than I Was Before’ and ‘The Good Parts’
Illuminati Hotties — ‘I Wanna Keep Yr Dog’, Live at the Moroccan Lounge, ‘ppl plzr’
Indiana Bradley — ‘Under the Night’
Indigo Skyship — ‘Psychic Fish’
In.Drip. — ‘Titles’
Inner Wave — ‘Mushroom’ and ‘Wya’ (full EP), Live at the Fonda Theatre
Internet Trash — ‘FCKD UP’ (feat. Gothic Tropic)
Ionna Gika — Live at the Shrine Auditorium
Irene Diaz — ‘Another Observer’
Iress — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2)
Isla June — ‘Knew You When’
Isle & Fever — ‘Room to Breathe’ and ‘Enuff’
Itasca — ‘Bess’s Dance’
J
The Jacks — ‘Walk Away’
Jack Symes — ‘Songs for Moms’ (full album)
Jagged Baptist Club — ‘Running on Synthetic’, ‘Reptile Super Show’ (full album), Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3 Buzzbands.LA Stage)
Jail Weddings — ‘I Must Keep My Woman Happy’, Live at the Satellite
Jake Troth — ‘All Over the World’
James Henry Jr. — ‘Take Me Down Easy’
James Supercave — ‘Fools’, ‘Poor George’
Jamestown Revivial — ‘Crazy World (Judgment Day)’
Jamie Drake — ‘To My Love’
Jane Holiday — ‘Pocket Dial’
Janelane — Live at Happy Sundays fest
Jason Nutter & Jessika von Rabbit, ‘Joshua Tree’
Jasper Bones — Live at Made in LA
Jay Som — ‘Superbike’, Live at the Echoplex
Jeffertitti’s Nile – Live at Love You Down III at the Echo/Echoplex (Night 2)
Jelani Aryeh — ‘Union Station’
JEMS — ‘JEMS’ (full album)
Jen Awad, ‘On the Low’, Live at Open Arts & Music Fest
Jenna Putnam — ‘Hold Still’
Jennylee — Live at Love You Down III at the Echo/Echoplex (Night 1)
Jenny Lewis — ‘Red Bull & Hennessy’, ‘Wasted Youth’, Live at the Hollywood Palladium, ‘Rabbit Hole’
Jeremy Jones — ‘Intention’
Jesika von Rabbit — ‘Blue Christmas’
Jess Cornelius — Live at the Bootleg Theater
Jessi Williams & Coyote — ‘Roam, Little Gypsy, Roam’
Jess Joy — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3)
Jimmy Sweet — ‘The Pills’
JJUUJJUU — Live at Desert Daze (Day 2, Day 3)
Joe Pea — Live at Genius Loci fest
Joel Jerome — ‘There’s Nothing Here to Bother You Anymore’
Johnathan Rice — ‘Below the Deck’
Jorge Elbrecht — Live at the Echoplex
Joyce Manor — Live at the Hollywood Palladium
JR Slayer — ‘Half Lyfe’ and ‘There Is Nothing Else Around Me’, Live at the Hi Hat
JUGGS — ‘Super Cool Time’ and ‘As If’
Juiceboxxx — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2)
Junaco — ‘Awry’ (full EP)
Justin Jay — Live at Genius Loci fest
Justus Proffit — ‘Hole’, ‘Shadow of the Cross’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2)
K
Karmic — ‘Little Lucille’
Kate Clover — ‘Channel One’, Live at the Lodge Room
Kat Leon — ‘This Is How the World Ends’
Kenan Bell — ‘Hi’
KERA — ‘Vitamin T’, ‘Bright Future Ahead’ (feat. Devendra Bandhart)
Keuning — ‘The Queen’s Finest’
Kevin — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3), Live at Happy Sundays fest
Kevin Morby — Live at the Theatre at Ace Hotel
KidEyes — ‘Alive’
Kid Nobody — ‘Ms. Stress’
Kiev — Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Interview, ‘Willing Eyes’
Kilo Kish — Live at Open Arts & Music Fest
KillRadio — ‘Good for Nothing’
Kills Birds — ‘Kills Birds’ (album), Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2), interview, Live at the Bootleg Theater, Live at Desert Daze
Kingsbury — ‘U Take It Back’
King Shelter — ‘Paradigm’
Kitten — Live at the KROQ Locals Only Fest at the Teragram, ‘Memphis’
KO — ‘Mood’
KOLARS — Live at the Lodge Room
Kyle Crane — ‘Crane Like the Bird’ (album & interview)
Kyle Krone — ‘Higher’
L
La Bouquet — ‘Sad People Dancing’
L.A. Takedown — ‘The Swimmer’
The Last — Live at Alex’s Bar
Lauren Early — ‘Out of Style’
Lauren Rocket — ‘Sharks’
Lauren Ruth Ward — Live at the Observatory OC, ‘Wise Gal’, Live at Made in LA
Leah Capelle — ‘Alder Lake’
Lemaitre — Live at Made in LA
Leslie Stevens — ’12 Feet High’, ‘Teen Bride’
Light FM — ‘Tourist’
Liily — ‘Sepulveda Basin’, Live at FigFest, ‘Wash’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3), Live at the Fonda Theatre
Lily Kershaw — ‘Darker Things’
The Linda Lindas — Live at the Hollywood Palladium, Live at the Moroccan Lounge
Lisa Papineau — ‘Beautiful’
Little Hurt — ‘As Good As It Gets’
Livingmore — ‘Sleepy Boy’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2), ‘Dead Fruit’
Lizzie Land — ‘Messed Up’, ‘Intro Music Plays’ (full EP)
Lizzo — Live at Coachella (Day 3, Highlights), Live at the Hollywood Palladium
LMNOP — ‘First Time’
Local Natives — ‘Cafe Amarillo’, ‘When Am I Gonna Lose You’, ‘Tap Dancer’, Live at Zebulon, Live at the Hollywood Palladium
The Locust — Live at Desert Daze
Lola Bates — ‘I’m Gonna Lose You’
Lonely Boy — Live at Genius Loci fest
Lord Huron — Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Los Lobos — ‘Feliz Navidad’
Louis XIV — Live at Just Like Heaven fest
Love Nothing — ‘American Spirit’
The Lovepools — ‘White Lies & Palm Trees’
Low Hum — ‘Strange Love’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3 Buzzbands.LA Stage), Live at the Teragram Ballroom
Loyal Lobos — Live at the Regent Theater, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 4), ‘Criminals’
LP — Live at the Observatory OC
Lucy Arnell — ‘Instamatic You’
Luther Russell — ‘Corvette Summer’
M
Madame Gandhi — ‘Top Knot Turn Up’
Mara Connor — Live at the Moroccan Lounge
Mara Connor & Langhorne Slim — ‘Someone New’
Maraschino — Live at the Fonda Theatre
Marcus Buser — ‘All Night’
The Marías — Live at the Regent Theater
Maria Taylor — ‘Waiting in Line’ (plus full self-titled album)
Marion Belle & Sam Mehran — ‘Bad Bitches’ (full EP ‘Melt’)
Mark de Clive-Lowe — ‘Memories of Nanzenji’
Marlana — ‘So Bad’
Marques Wyatt — Live at Lightning in a Bottle
Mating Ritual — ‘Falling Back’, ‘U.N.I.’, ‘Future Now’, ‘King of the Doves’, Live at the Teragram Ballroom
Matt Costa — ‘Make That Change’
Matthew Logan Vasquez — Live at the Moroccan Lounge
Maxim Ludwig — ‘Rich Man’s World’
Mega Low — ‘Reminders’
Melted Bodies — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 4)
The Melvins — Live at the Troubadour
Mermaed — ‘Honest’
Michael Seyer — ‘Heaven Only Knows’
Midnight Divide — ‘Who Do You Think That You Are’
Mikal Cronin — ‘Shelter’
Mike Watt and the Missingmen — Live at Alex’s Bar
Milk Carton Kids — ‘The Only Ones’
Milly — Live at the Lodge Room
Mind Monogram — ‘Chasing Rabbits’
Mini Mansions — ‘GummyBear’, ‘Hey Lover’ (feat. Alison Mosshart), Live at the Teragram Ballroom
Mini Trees — ‘Steady Me’
Mirrorball — ‘This Time’
Missing Teen — ‘Screaming White Noise’
Mister Goodnite — Live at the Echo
Mk.gee — ‘Untitled’
Moaning — Live at Zebulon
Model Child — Live at the Lodge Room
Molly Moore — ‘I Love You But I Don’t Like You’
Monastereo — ‘The Boogar Sugar Boogaloo’ (interview)
Mondo Cozmo — ‘Black Cadillac’
Monogem — ‘So Many Ways’
Mono/Poly — ‘Easy Living ‘ (feat. Kimbra)
Moon Bounce — ‘Hook’
Moon Honey — ‘Love Leech’
More Giraffes — ‘Treehouse’
The Morning Yells — ‘On the Lash’ (full album)
Moses Sumney — Live at Desert Daze, ‘Virile’, ‘Polly’
The Moth & the Flame — ‘Only Just Begun’, Live at the Moroccan Lounge
Motor Sales — ‘Motor Sales’ (full album)
Mt. Joy — Live at the Teragram Ballroom
MUNA — Live at the Lodge Room
MXMS — ‘Death Row’
N
Nahneen Kula — ‘Won’t Know Yet’
Naomi — Live at Lightning in a Bottle
Nasty Cherry — ‘Win’, Live at the Moroccan Lounge
The New Division — ‘Fascination’
New Evil — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 1)
NGELS — ‘Higher’
Nicholas Godin — ‘The Foundation’ (feat. Cola Boyy)
Nick Flessa — ‘Hell’s Bells’
Nick Waterhouse — ‘Wreck the Rod’, Live at the Regent Theatre, Live at Open Arts & Music Fest, ‘I’m Due (For a Heartache)’
Nicole Kiki Jaffe — ‘Stay’, ‘Holdout’
NIGHTCALLERS — ‘Who Calls at Night’
Night Dreamer — ‘Treasure’ (full EP)
Night Jacket — ‘Waking Up With You’, Live at the Bootleg Theater, ‘Pink and Yellow Roses’
Night Lights — ‘Nerve’
Night Talks — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2)
Nik Freitas — ‘Aviso Amor’
No Age — Live at the Wiltern
NoMBe — ‘Paint California’
NONA — Live at the Moroccan Lounge
No Parents — Live at the Echo
Nostalghia — ‘Wicked Woman’ (full EP)
No Parents — Live at the Echo
NO WIN — ‘Vision’, Live at the Highland Park Ebell Club
O
Odessa — ‘Thunder’
O Future — ‘Voyeur’
Oozelles — Live at Love You Down III at the Echo/Echoplex (Night 1), Live at the Satellite
Opus Vitae — ‘Get Lost’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3 Buzzbands.LA Stage)
Orchin — Live at the Echoplex, ‘My Wish’
Overjoy — ‘Sey U Want Me Back’
Oyster Kids — ‘Losing My Mind’, ‘Work It Out’, ‘Give In’
Ozomatli — Live at Lightning in a Bottle
ØZWALD — ‘Technicolour Sky’, ‘As the Crow Flies’
P
Paige Stark — ‘Depression Song’
Palm Springsteen — ‘Hey There Cowgirl’, ‘Sister Sister’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2)
Pander Sera — ‘Gazebo’
Paper Idol — ‘Still So Live’
The Paranoyds — Live at the Echo, ‘Hungry Sam’, ‘Girlfriend Degree’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2), ‘Face First’
Patricio (Motta) — Live at Lightning in a Bottle
Patrick Park — ‘Love Lover Love’
Peel’d — ‘Cahuenga Pass’ (full EP)
Pell — Live at Made in LA
Perfection — ‘What a Nice Time’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3)
Perry Farrell — ‘Pirate Punk Politician’
Peter Murphy — Live at the Grove in Anaheim
Phantom Planet — ‘Balisong’, Live at Made in LA
Photo Ops — ‘July’, ‘Palm Trees’
Piel — ‘Gift of Matter’
Pinky Pinky — ‘Mr. Sunday’
Pink $ock — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3)
Pioneer 11 — ‘I Hope I Haven’t Overstayed My Welcome’
Plague Vendor — ‘New Comedown’, ‘Let Me Get High/Low’, Live at the Echo
Pluralone (Josh Klinghoffer) — ‘To Be One With You’
Polyplastic — ‘Follow Suit’
POP ETC — ‘When Push Comes to Shove’
Pop Levi — ‘She Was a Girl’ (feat. Ariel Pink)
Poppy Jean Crawford — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 4), ‘Same Old Tricks’
Poolside — ‘Can’t Stop You’re Lovin” (feat. Panama)
Possible Oceans — ‘Falling Backwards’
Potty Mouth — ‘Starry Eyes’, Live at the Hi Hat
Precious Child — ‘Fear in the Rain (Violet Door)’
The Premonitions — Live at the Hi Hat
The Pretty Flowers — ‘Chip My Paint’
Prima Donna — ‘Sing to Death’
Proper Junkies — Live at the Bootleg Theater
Psychic Love — Live at the Bootleg Theater
R
Rachel Fannan — ‘All In’
Rachel Goodrich — ‘Gucci’
RACKETS — ‘Ooh Aah’
Rain Phoenix — ‘You Right’, Live at the El Rey Theatre
Rainstorm Brother — ‘Fire You Light’
Ramonda Hammer — ‘Hoax’, Live at the Echo
Ray Kash — Live at Genius Loci fest
Redd Kross — ‘Beyond the Door’, Live at the Troubadour
The Regrettes — ‘I Dare You’, Live at the Fonda Theatre
Repenter — ‘Complicated’
The Red Pears — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2), ‘Dreams’
Retro Bloom — ‘Getaway’ and ‘She’s So Fly’
Rett Madison — ‘Pin-Up Daddy’
Riah — ‘Growing Up’ and ‘Lie’
Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca — Live at Open Arts & Music Fest
Rincs — ‘Locked In’
Rival Tides — ‘Vultures!’ and ‘My God Is Fire’ (full album)
Rob Leines — Live at Made in LA
Rocky Dawuni — ‘Beats of Zion’
Rose Dorn — ‘Shaking’
Rosie Tucker — ‘Gay Bar’, Live at the Moroccan Lounge, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2), ‘Ambrosia’
Ross Golan — ‘Stay Positive’
Rows Arc – ‘High on the Tide’
Royaljag — ‘909’, Live at the Regent Theater, ‘Dangerous’ and ‘I Don’t Know How I Got Here’ (full EP)
Ruby Friedman — ‘Journey on a Bullet’ (feat. Gentlemen Alchemists), ‘Teardrop Trailer’
Runnner — ‘Eggshell’
Run River North — ‘Hands Up’, ‘Okay Cool’, ‘Monsters Calling Home, Vol. 2’ (full EP), Live at the Fonda Theatre
Ryan Pollie — ‘Get Better Soon’
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SadGirl — ‘Chlorine’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3)
Sam Marine — Live at the Moroccan Lounge
Saint Motel — ‘The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Pt 1’
Sam Sparro — ‘Everything’
Sam Valdez — ‘Turn’
Sara Melson — ‘Same River’
Saro — ‘Please’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3)
SASAMI — Live at the Echo, ‘Jealousy’, ‘Free’ (feat. Devendra Banhart), Live at the Wiltern, Live at Desert Daze
Scott Gilmore — ‘Two Roomed Motel’ (album)
Sea Wolf — ‘Fear of Failure’
Second Still — ‘The Future’
Sego — ‘Shame’, Live at Love You Down III at the Echo/Echoplex (Night 2), ‘Heart Attack’
Send Medicine — ‘Harvest Man’
Shaded — Live at Desert Hearts fest
The Shakes — ‘Heaven (Doesn’t Seem So Far Away)’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 1), ‘Talking to Strangers’
Shakey Graves — Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Shannon Lay — ‘Nowhere’, Live at Pico Union Project
Sheare — ‘Nightmare Baby’
The Shelters — ‘You’re Different’, Live at the Moroccan Lounge
Shere Disraeli — ‘Shere’ (full album)
She Wants Revenge — Live at Just Like Heaven fest
SILENTSHOUT — ‘King of Nothing’, ‘Knuckle’
Silversun Pickups — ‘It Doesn’t Matter Why’, ‘Don’t Know Yet’
Sincere Gifts — ‘David’
Sister Mantos — Live at Open Arts & Music Fest
SJae – ‘First’ (full EP)
Skin Mag — ‘Mourning Sickness’ (full EP)
Sleeptalk — Live at the KROQ Locals Only Fest at the Teragram Ballroom
Slip — ‘The Thought of a Past Life is Comforting’, Live at Festy Baby at the Lodge Room
Slow Hollows — Live at the Fonda Theatre, ‘You Are Now on Fire’
Slowtrip — ‘Fold and Run’
SLUGS — Live at the Observatory OC, Live at the Hi Hat, Live at the Moroccan Lounge
Slut Island — Live at the Echo
The Small Calamities — ‘Designer Heartache’
Smoke Season — ‘Up On Me’, ‘You’
Snowball II – ‘Lost in Juarez’
Sofia Bolt — ‘Waves’, Live at Zebulon, ‘Heart Is a Rock’
Sofia Wolfson — ‘Nothing’s Real’
The Soft White Sixties — ‘The Overpass’, Live at the Lodge Room
Son Little — ‘Suffer’
Sons of the Southwest — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 4)
Sophie Bom — ‘Housewife’
Spare Parts for Broken Hearts — Live at the Hi Hat, Live at the Echo, ‘Big Win’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2)
Spendtime Palace — ‘Offshoot’
Spooky Mansion — ‘Real Jerk’
SP’s — ‘Rise/Fall’
Starcrawler — ‘Hollywood Ending’, ‘Bet My Brains’, Live at the Fonda Theatre
Starflyer 59 — ‘Remind Me’
Stars at Night — Live at the Moroccan Lounge
Steady Holiday — Live at Coachella (Day 2)
Steve Lacy — ‘Outro Freestyle’
Still — ‘Divinity’
Stone Irr — ‘All We Want Anymore’, ‘Fine With Me’
Storefront Church — Live at the Bootleg Theater, Live at the Echoplex
Strange Parade — ‘Between Us All’
Sudan Archives — ‘Confessions’
Sumo Princess — ‘Kali Ma’
Sun Drug — ‘Post+Break’
Surf Curse — ‘Disco’, Live at the Fonda Theatre
Susy Sun — ‘Calling You the Same’, ‘Fan Girl’
SWIMM — Live at Love You Down III at the Echo/Echoplex (Night 1, Night 2), Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2)
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Talker — Live at the Hi Hat, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3 Buzzbands.LA Stage), ‘Keep Me Safe’, ‘Learning the Feeling’
Talk Time — ‘Year of Self’ (full EP and interview), Live at the Bootleg Theater, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3 Buzzbands.LA Stage)
Tamaryn — ‘Fits of Rage’, ‘Angels of Sweat’, Live at the Echoplex
Tara Brooks — Live at Desert Hearts fest
TeamMate — Live at the KROQ Locals Only Fest at the Teragram Ballroom
The Tearaways — Live at the International Pop Overthrow at Molly Malone’s
Teenage Wrist — ‘Mary’
Tennis System — ‘Shelf Life’
that dog. — Live at the Smell, ‘If You Just Didn’t Do It’
Thee Sinseers — Live at Open Arts & Music Fest
Thom Sawyr — ‘Wishing on the Wind’
Thrill You Kill You — ‘Thrill You Kill You’
Tijuana Panthers — ‘Path of Totality’, ‘Little Pamplemousse’
The Tissues — Live at the Moroccan Lounge
Together Pangea — ‘Never Said I Wanna’
Tom Freund — ‘Runaround’ and ‘East of Lincoln’ (full album)
Tool — Live at the Staples Center
Total Heat — ‘L.A. Song’, Live at the Bootleg Theater
The Tracks — Live at the Hi Hat
Trapdoor Social — Live at the KROQ Locals Only Fest at the Teragram, ‘The Lie’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3 Buzzbands.LA Stage)
TRISHES — ‘Language’ and ‘Ego’ (full EP)
Troi Irons — ‘Strangers’
Tropa Magica — Live at Happy Sundays fest
Trouble in the Wind — ‘Fall Guy’
T.S.O.L. — Live at the Regent Theater
TT — Live at Love You Down III fest at the Echo/Echoplex (Night 2)
Turtles on Speed — ‘High With You’, Live at the Hi Hat
Tuxedo — ‘Vibrations’
TV Heads — ‘Ribbons’
Twin Oaks — ‘Getting Nowhere’ and ‘Last Call’
Two Cheers — ‘Future Constellations’
Two Lips — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3)
Ty Segall — ‘Ice Plant’, Live at the Teragram Ballroom
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The Undercover Dream Lovers — ‘Right Now’, ‘All You Need’, ‘Plane Ride’
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Van Dyke Parks — Live at Zebulon
Velvet Starlings — ‘Kids in Droves’, Live at the International Pop Overthrow at Molly Malone’s
Victoria Williams — Live at the Fonda Theatre
Vivian Girls — ‘Sick’
VS Colour — Live at Love You Down III at the Echo/Echoplex (Night 2), Live at Festy Baby at the Lodge Room
VOWWS — ‘Structure of Love II’ (feat. Chino Moreno)
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Wajatta — ‘Don’t Let Get You Down’
Wallows — ‘Scrawny’, Live at the Fonda Theatre
Wand — ‘Scarecrow’, Live at Desert Daze
Warbly Jets — Live at the Echo
Ward — ‘Bring Me Low’ (album), ‘Sober’, Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 3 Buzzbands.LA Stage)
Wargirl — ‘How You Feel’
Warpaint — Live at Love You Down III at the Echo/Echoplex (Night 1, Night 2)
War Tapes — ‘The Continental Divide’ B-sides
WASI — ‘Run’
Wax Charmer — ‘Emblem’
Wayne Kramer and MC50 — Live at the Teragram Ballroom
Weezer — Live at Coachella (Day 2, Highlights)
Wes Chiller — ‘Mo Nothin”
West Coast Weekend — ‘Heart Attack’
Westerly — ‘Shakin”
Weyes Blood — ‘Andromeda’, ‘Everyday’, Live at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
Whispertown — Live at the Bootleg Theater
White Elephant Orchestra — ‘Revolution Superstar’
White Fence — Live at Desert Daze
Wild Signals — ‘Home’ and ‘Vauxhall’
The Wild Reeds — ‘Giving Up on You’
Will Fox — ‘Which Way’, ‘Which Way’ (full album & interview)
William Tyler — ‘Fail Safe’ and ‘Goes West’ (full album)
Winnetka Bowling League — ‘Kombucha’
Winona Oak — ‘He Don’t Want Me’
Winslow — ‘Origami Tiger’
Winter — ‘Bonsai’
Wires on Fire — ‘Learn to Drown’, Live at the Echo
Wish You Were Here — ‘Christmas Creek’
Wolf Woodcock — ‘Just Trust Me’
WORLDS — ‘Joyrider’
WRENN — ‘Psychosexual’
WVM — ‘Immortal Eye’
Wyatt Blair — ‘Cherry Rose’
Wyndham — ‘Fistful of Stars’
WYO — ‘Moonlight’
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X — ‘Delta 88 Nightmare’
Xoller — ‘Warning Shot’
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YIP YOPS — Live at Echo Park Rising (Day 2), ‘Sinner’
Young the Giant — Live at the Forum
Youth Brigade — Live at the Regent Theater
Youth Code — Live at the Teragram Ballroom
Your Smith — ‘Wild Wild Woman’, ‘In Between Plans’ and ‘You Could’ve Told Me’
yOya — ‘New Friends’
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ZOOLUXX — ‘How Far’
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