Shame on us for not paying closer attention. Turns out long-running indie-rock outfit Sebadoh sneaked an EP onto Bandcamp last year, a five-song volley that, as advertised, will transport old-schoolers back to the band’s “Bakesale” days. Today the band announced that its first new album in 14 years, “Defend Yourself,” will come out Sept 17 […]
Like so many gifted DJs, Brooklyn-based Jeremy Malvin has both a background rooted in percussion, as well as a healthy synth obsession. Malvin records and performs under the moniker Chrome Sparks, creating blissed-out electronica ranging in demeanors from celebratory (“Luna Luxor”) to comatose (“Marijuana”). His recently released “Sparks” EP treads on terrain touched by Teen […]
It’s been almost two years since PAPA released their undeniably catchy tune “I Am the Lion King.” Since then they’re been relentlessly touring its EP, “A Good Woman Is Hard to Find.” Now they’re finally preparing for the release of their debut, which is slated for late summer 2013. The speedy soulful tune “Put Me […]
[Buzz Bands LA today welcomes a new contributing writer, Dan Frazier, whom many in L.A. might know as the man behind Free Bike Valet.] Venice Beach’s Mind the Gap have always been in a limbo between pop rock and electro funk, but their upcoming EP “Youth” doesn’t yield its dance-floor intentions with the singles “Find […]
Jeff Cormack, Kelly Lueke and Matt Jeffries call themselves South of France but the garage-pop band is actually from Denver, Colorado. They aren’t too serious of Francophiles to have sing their debut record “Another Boring Sunrise” entirely in French, but there is that surf-rock ditty “Choix” where they repeat “Je ne comprends pas” a lot. […]
Things are not always in black and white, but there are meanings within the shadows, and Trixie Whitley has been one to sing every emotion treading space between light and darkness. Her stunning debut “Fourth Corner” (out now on Strong Blood records) appropriately touches on every every facet of blues, soul and rock, proving the […]
Rainbow Jackson thrashes around in the dizzying space between today’s next-wave garage rockers and Stooges-inspired power-pop of the 1970s. The L.A. quartet of Chad Carlisle, Sam Daggett, Laith Khalaf and Andy Ford play as if they’re daring someone suggest they clean it up – which, happily, they haven’t and probably won’t. Their newest three-minutes blast […]
Gypsy punk provocateurs Gogol Bordello have spent a decade raising hell – if not in socio-political arenas then on festival stages all over the world. They’ve been silent for a couple of years (except for the single “Let’s Get Crazy,” made in 2012 for a soda company’s ad campaign), but two weeks ago they announced […]
Smallpools are Sean Scanlon, Beau Kuther, Mike Kameran and Joe Intile. They make unfailingly catchy, bouncy, feel-good electro-pop, judging from their first volley. They sound like Passion Pit, Foster the People and Youngblood Hawke. They are Hype Machine-hot right now because the market can’t seem to get enough of unfailingly catchy, bouncy, feel-good electro-pop. Their […]
[Buzz Bands LA today welcomes a new contributing writer, Andrew Veeder. He has flow too.] Last year, a 17-year-old kid from Brooklyn put out a new mixtape – but it sounded as if it’d been buried in a time capsule since his birth in 1995. Now eighteen, Joey Bada$$ is emerging as one of the […]
