Part 1 of the L.A. Buzz Bands Show’s year-in-review features music from Van William, Mt. Joy, Joey Dosik, Eels, Spare Parts for Broken Hearts, Teenage Wrist, Dear Boy, Lauren Ruth Ward, James Supercave and more. Tune in to 88.5 FM at 9 p.m.
Here is our annual Index of the Los Angeles artists we covered this year — more than 500 of them. There’s so many more we didn’t get to, but it’s nice to have a goal for 2018, right?
Here are Buzz Bands LA’s Top 20 (and then some) Bands to Watch for 2018 — featuring artists such as Moaning, the Marias, Laura Jean Anderson, Shey Baba, Sudan Archives, Lone Kodiak, SILENTSHOUT, Superet, the Tracks, Pinky Pinky, Oddnesse, Bekon, Slowkiss, VAVA, Cuesta Loeb, Jasper Bones, Lukas Frank, Pearl Charles and more.
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.
