Kevin Bronson on January 15th, 2023

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Hello, it’s been a while. Owing to end-of-the-year madness followed by our new year’s recalibration, this is Buzz Bands LA’s first Greatest Hits … This Week in a month. Tsk, tsk, tsk … but you’ll be happy to know that we’ve been punishing ourselves by doing 100 sit-ups a day. Honest.

So here is Vol. 253 in our series, featuring an array of things we heard and wrote about in recent weeks, including songs from Liily, Shana Cleveland, Butch Bastard, Allie Crow Buckley, Dusty Durston, King Tuff, Sun Room, Death Valley Girls, Ward, Cary Brothers, Frankie Rose, Hoogenboom, Gracie Abrams and more. Oh, and happy new year.

Ladytron, “City of Angels”
Dusty Durston, “Joke Got Old”
Frankie Rose, “Anything”
Hoogenboom, “Damn Good”
Allie Crow Buckley, “Greatest Hits”
Butch Bastard, “I Think It’s Gonna Rain”
Andrew McMahon, “Lying on the Hood of Your Car”
Taleen Kali, “Tomorrow Girl”
Heady Daze, “Call of the Wild”
Death Valley Girls, “Sunday”
Sun Room, “Cadillac”
Widows Gold, “Never Had You at All”
Liily, “Applause”
Motive Black, “Caged”
King Tuff, “Tell Me”
Shana Cleveland, “Faces in the Firelight”
Pop Cautious, “Love Like a Fool”
Supergloom, “Cut the Ties”
Your Grandparents, “Livin’ in Hell’
Ward, “Been Bad”
Cary Brothers, “Stardust”
Gracie Abrams, “Where Do We Go Now?”
Jules Duke, “Double Trouble”
Sunny War, “New Day”
Cuco, “First of the Year”
Homescool, “Bring on a Happy New Year”