Cody Crump is something of a terror. The young singer-guitarist’s bio relays his rocky times in his hometown, the western Colorado outpost of Montrose, where he was kicked out of the high school band and choir and impeached as junior class president after being arrested. He moved to Denver, then to L.A., and in 2013 […]
If you know Maxim Ludwig from his audacious classic rock outfit the Santa Fe Seven or his alt-rock band Drive He Said, you’d think that, given a proper chance, the singer-guitarist could leap tall buildings in a single bound, and maybe shred a solo while doing it. He’s back to making music as Maxim Ludwig […]
More than a year after they first announced they would be collaborating, Scottish post-punk Franz Ferdinand and long-running L.A. provocateurs Sparks have revealed their first song as FFS. It’s titled “Piss Off,” the first song that brothers Ron and Russell Mael and the gang of Glaswegians — Bob Hardy, Alex Kapranos, Nick McCarthy and Paul […]
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 […]
After releasing the songs “The Spirit of St. Louis” and “Truth and Diamonds” early in 2015, Los Angeles-via-Brooklyn artist Alge has just dropped a new single called “Palms of Our Hands.” It features his friend and frequent collaborator, the Brooklyn-based R&B artist DAJ, and is his most anthemic and dynamic track yet. The iced-out pop […]
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 […]
Many new bands have embraced traditional blues-rock in recent years, but few have given it a cherubic, gleeful double-high-five like Sweet Bump It, whose self-titled debut is out today. The band, conceived by diminutive singer-guitarist Nicole “Paco” de Leon and bassist Jenn Eyrich, first emerged in 2013 with the rough-hewn “First Slice” EP, then won […]
