Kan Wakan’s debut “Moving On,” released a year ago this month, remains an album of massive ambitions and epic scope. No surprise, then, that the L.A. collective helmed by composer/multi-instrumentalist Gueorgui Linev and guitarist-producer Peter Potyondy went all-out in the remix department as well. “Moving On Remixed” — being offered for free download via NoiseTrade […]
Los Angeles is blessed to be the home base of a handful of artists who make country music that doesn’t sound like it came out of a food processor, and with the April 10 release of “Greyhound Blues,” Geronimo Getty ascends to the top of that heap. The 10-song tour de force marks the […]
“Not Far to Go” holds a special place in Buzz Bands LA’s heart — in early 2012, fresh out of recording sessions at Raymond Richards’ Red Rockets Glare studio, Jacob Dillon Summers sent us the song, originally titled “How Far to Run” as a way of introducing his new project Lauralaura. The band is now […]
Choir boy-turned-electronic pop auteur Pat Grossi will release his second full-length as Active Child on June 16. It’s titled “Mercy,” and while still embracing themes of love and loss in Grossi’s characteristic naked vulnerability, the album marks a production shift away from the soupy effects that drenched his 2011 debut “You Are All I See.” […]
Electro-pop artisan Evan Voytas has kept his formidable falsetto in the shadows since he released his “Feel Me” EP in 2012 — he’s worked as a session musician and co-written songs for other acts, including Chris Brown’s “Time For Love.” Today, via Hit City USA, Voytas unveiled the new single “Disappear Into the Stars” (b/w […]
The cinematic electro-rock of L.A.’s Of Verona first emerged in 2011, when Toronto-born singer Mandi Perkins began collaborating with producer/multi-instrumentalist Dillon Pace. The full-length they released in 2012, “The White Apple,” had legs — it got the deluxe edition treatment the following year and yielded singles such as “Castles,” “Match” and, most recently, “Dark in My […]
If you’re going to do a song about war and oppression, you might as well sound metal. Muse released a new song today titled “Psycho,” and it makes the days of “New Born” sound like easy listening. It’s from the U.K. rockers’ seventh album, “Drones,” due June 8. Says frontman Matt Bellamy: “To me, ‘Drones’ […]
You need a spreadsheet to keep up with everything songwriter Nima Kazerouni is doing these days (so pardon our being a month late on this particular song). His So Many Wizards are working on a new album. His electronic pop project Crown Plaza has a show tonight at Harvard & Stone and new music in […]
Less than a month after they waxed about “Modern Love,” L.A. indie-poppers Max and the Moon have returned with a new single teasing their forthcoming third EP. “Harps” seems like another Hype Machine-bound confection, this one with the chillwave-y feel of bands like locals Tapioca and the Flea and a Starburst chorus reminiscent of MGMT. […]
Longtime followers of L.A. garage-rockers the Dead Ships might find some irony in a song titled “Big Quiet” — the trio of singer-guitarist Devlin McCluskey, drummer Christopher Spindelilus and bassist Alex Moore are to quietude what a Triple Whopper is to a healthy diet. But the Dead Ships’ earplugs-recommended scuzz gets a makeover on this new […]
