Ryan Pollie has impressed us with the very fact that he’s been able to hold on to Los Angeles Police Department as a recording moniker (bands named for government agencies like Chicago Transit Authority, eventually Chicago, didn’t fare as well back in the day). But Pollie’s recordings are the real ticket. When he released the […]
“I don’t write about happy love,” Tove Lo explained during her sold-out show at the Echoplex back in April. “But I do have one song that’s a happy song,” the Swedish pop star shared before she went into “Not On Drugs.” As opposed to her other hits like the wildly popular “Habits (Stay High),” the […]
If you’re part of the EDM circuit, you may be familiar with Afrojack’s international hit “Ten Feet Tall.“Â However, if you’re like us at BBLA and are more interested in the Chris Martin-like voice behind the soaring melodies than those stereotypical bass drops, then let us introduce Stephen Wrabel. Simply doing business as Wrabel, the singer-songwriter’s […]
Playing with old and current members of the Happy Hollows at Buzz Bands LA’s stage for Echo Park Rising on Saturday, Sarah Negahdari announced the band is currently in the studio making a third album. However, she wasn’t there to promote the beloved trio she usually fronts with wild yelps and unrestrained guitar-tapping. It was time for Negahdari’s […]
Echo Park Rising started off in a big way, and by big we mean massive. Either we need to give a big thumbs up to the festival’s marketing team, or people were eager to devour a free Friday night of music. Perhaps it was also the fact that the fourth annual neighborhood festival started a […]
It’s Friday and you deserve some fresh indie pop. Enter Mount Saint, the fairly new band whose members include Brittany Tolman (formerly of Imagine Dragons), Drew Beck (Chasing Kings), brothers Clint and Riley Holgate and live drummer Andrew Tolman (also formerly of Imagine Dragons and currently in the Moth & the Flame). They have only […]
New Zealand’s Liam Finn has never been one to shy away from experimenting on his albums, but on his third studio album “The Nihilist,” he replaces the organic soundscapes with a ton of synths. Diving into the electro-rock realm but still maintaining that boisterous pop fuzz, Finn has written songs like the high-strung ‘Burn Up […]
A lot of the time, less is more, and Brooklyn’s She Keeps Bees have mastered that mantra on their latest album “Eight Houses.” This will be the fourth full-length released by Jessica Larrabee and Andy LaPlant, but it will be the first time they are working with an outside producer. With Nicolas Vernhes (Deerhunter, The […]
Echo Park Rising, the free neighborhood festival that has extended from two days to three days, is just around the corner. Festivities will kick off Friday, Aug. 15 and continue through Sunday Aug. 17, and Buzz Bands LA is once again privileged to be curating one stage during the festival, in the Champagne Room at Taix […]
Allah-Las will return Sept. 16 with their sophomore effort “Worship the Sun” via Innovative Leisure. To follow up their 7-inch single “501-415,” the psychedelic garage-rock quartet releases the video for its b-side “No Werewolf.” The tune itself is a cover of a song by the Frantics, but the video is actually the work of Russian […]
