Buzz Bands LA’s favorite EPs of the year came via Alyeska, Billie Eilish, Brainstory, Buyepongo, Cody Crump, El Ten Eleven, Former Faces, Geneva White, Goon, HAWAI, Holy Wars, Joey Dosik, Kamasi Washington, La Bouquet, Lone Kodiak, Lukas Frank, Malia, Miya Folick, Saro and Superet (with some special mentions.)
Damn, Kendrick Lamar’s album was good. And beyond that obvious choice, so was a lot of other music from Los Angeles artists in 2017. Enjoy “Popular With Us 2017: Our Favorite Albums of the Year.”
Salve for an unsettling year: Enjoy Popular With Us 2017: A Buzz Bands LA Countdown, a compilation of our favorite 101 L.A. songs of the year.
Part 1 of three weeks of 2017-in-review shows, tonight’s L.A. Buzz Bands Show features music from from Cold War Kids, Lauren Ruth Ward, Magic Bronson, Chris Price, Miranda Lee Richards, Sure Sure, NONA, the Mynabirds, the Marias and more.
From slow-rapping turtles to mushroom-fueled romps to ripping up a donut shop to Macaulay Culkin (!) on a cross, here are the videos that made Buzz Bands LA’s life visually trippy in 2017.
Buzz Bands LA looks back on 2017 with galleries (and galleries) of our favorite concert photographs.
Here is Buzz Bands LA’s recap — in index form — of the 550-plus Los Angeles artists we covered this year. Yeah, we’re nerds.
It’s Buzz Bands LA’s annual “Artists to Watch” — short missives about the music we’re anticipating the most in 2017. Dig in.
Catch both parts of the Buzz Bands LA Show’s annual year-end song countdown, rebroadcast starting at 11 a.m. on The Independent FM.
Michael Stock, who helms the weekly Part Time Punks club night at hosts the PTP radio show on KXLU, shares his favorite songs of the year.
