Teenage Wrist’s muscular new album, “Earth Is a Black Hole,” arrives Friday. In the Buzz Bands LA interview, singer-guitarist Marshall Gallagher talks about taking over as frontman, rock in the time of political upheaval and remaining a guitar hero.
Garage-rocker Veronica Bianqui’s long-in-the-works album finally arrives Friday. Releasing it, she tells Buzz Bands LA, closes the chapter on her former self. Check out the premiere of “I Want to Tell You” before the whole album lands.
Taylor Locke clowns around on a huge stage in the video for his new single “Dying Up Here.” How the singer-songwriter-producer got the gig is a wild story. “What’s the statute of limitations on a breaking and entering?” he jokes in the Buzz Bands LA interview.
After taking time off due to bassist Daniel Alden’s injury and to map out a new sonic direction, Lone Kodiak return this week with guitars blazing on the new single “Make It a Weapon.” Along with the premiere of the song, singer-guitarist Dainéal Parker tells Buzz Bands LA about arriving at a sound that feels “like motorcycles and protests and getting in trouble.”
L.A. native Robert Francis today released his eighth album — and his second in two months. How did that happen? In the Buzz Bands LA interview, he talks about Nashville, pink houses, elusive stardom, the “End Times” and adopting a new persona.
Al-Qasar, the striking new project from Thomas Bellier (Blaak Heat, Spindrift), connects the dots between Bedouin soul and 1960s psych-rock. They call it “Arabian Fuzz,” and fans of surf music should expand their horizons with Al-Qasar’s EP, “Miraj.”
Wayne Everett’s “Two Ghosts,” his first album since 2002, came out today. In the Buzz Bands LA interview, he chats about his internal conversations — including asking himself “How can I call myself a musician if I don’t make music?”
Back from their hiatus, Delta Spirit arrives in L.A. next week for two shows. Frontman Matt Vasquez talked about the quintet’s time off, and the possibility of a new album. (Spoiler: yes, there is.)
Ethan Gruska’s surprising sophomore album “En Garde” (out Jan. 24) is informed in part by his recent work as a co-writer and producer. In a conversation with Buzz Bands LA, he talks about the processes of “collaging” and “scraping” … and whether we can ever get our voices to sound like Moses Sumney’s.
Returning after taking a financial hit in the Pledge Music fiasco, Nostalghia has released a wickedly dark new EP. In the Buzz Bands LA interview, the singer-songwriter talks activism, hypnotherapy, unconditional love and “long talks with my shadow.”
