Orange County quintet the Devious Means look like a lot of other indie-pop quintets – four guys and a gal, taking a perfect band photo – and on their first two EPs they sounded like a lot of ther indie-pop quintets too: Serviceable melodies, boy/girl vocals, big choruses and all. But where other artists are […]
Seldom have we come across band that less looks the part as Sweet Bump It, the Echo Park-based septet who appear to have just walked out of an Adrienne Rich study group. You know what they say about looks, though. Fronted by diminutive shredder-in-training Nicole “Paco” de Leon and co-founded by Jenna Eyrich, Sweet Bump […]
Madi Diaz’s forthcoming album “Phantom” is one of the dance-while-you’re-mad, dance-while-you’re sad collections that sees the Berklee-educated, formerly Nashville-based singer-songwriter fully transitioning from folk to electro-pop. As evidenced by the irresistible single “Stay Together,” it works; the album reveals a sophisticate’s touch for songwriting as well as Nick Ruth’s accessible-but-not-overbearing production. The video for the […]
The Haim sisters are back and they’re not alone. For their “My Song 5” video, they’ve recruited friends from all ends of the music spectrum to join them in a hilarious parody of shows like “The Jerry Springer Show” and “Maury.” The host Dallas Murphy is played by none other than “Saturday Night Live” cast […]
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 […]
Even more heartrending that lovers separated by geography are lovers isolated by emotional distance. In the stylish video for singer-songwriter Tien’s new song “This Ain’t Home,” you get a sense of both. Directed by Belarusian filmmaker Vlad Akushevich, the surrealist video depicts the Maryland-bred artist deep in longing – a sentiment for which there is some […]
Victory for the win? Not so much. Singer-guitarist Robert Fleming has changed his nom de tune to Sneakout (ostensibly to avoid confusion with Victory Records) and embarked on making a follow-up to his infectious 2013 full-length “Victory Is Music.” If Fleming’s buzzing pop-blues (nice for selling cars) recalled the early days of rock, he graduates […]
Dorothy Martin continues to wage her one-woman campaign for putting the real back in rock ’n’ roll. Well, it’s not exactly a solo effort, since the quartet she fronts, Dorothy, boasts three shredders to back her vintage blues wail – guitarist Mark Jackson, bassist Greg Cash and drummer Zac Morris. But she’s the one with 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 […]
