Join me at 11 a.m. on The Independent FM for the final installment of the Buzz Bands LA Show’s annual countdown of my 101 favorite local songs. I fear I have left out about 100 more I could have included, but nonetheless today’s show picks up where last week’s left off and count down the […]
EPs can be funny little beasts. They often serve as kind of a hi-how-ya-doin’ introduction rather than a broad artist’s statement – a handful of songs, a particular single, maybe a remix or three, a taste of what is to come. They vary so much in breadth they are difficult to review. So the Buzz […]
Join me at 11 a.m. today on The Independent FM for Week 2 of the Buzz Bands LA 101, the countdown of my favorite L.A. songs of 2014. Today, I’ll spike the holiday punch with songs No. 70 through No. 40. Below, you’ll find the playlist and that always-handy stream of the show. ||| Week […]
Los Angeles, you were mighty good to us in 2014. Albums came from every nook and cranny, from the bedrooms of the DIYers to the scrappy studios that keep the engine running to the hallowed halls of the city’s pervasive Industry. We could have listened to a new local album per day and not run […]
I feel like Santa, only in vice grips. In preparation for my annual “Popular With Me” countdown of songs from Los Angeles artists, I made a list, and checked it … well, a lot. I started with a folder of about 350 songs, one per artist, to winnow things down to 2014’s Buzz Bands LA […]
Covering music in 2013 may have tuckered us out, but that didn’t keep us from creating all our favorite year-end lists. From songs to EPs to albums and even a prediction of what 2014 may bring, here’s a round-up of all our links recapping music in 2013. Songs Popular With Us 2013: Buzz Bands LA’s […]
Thanks for the good times, 2013. Now on to the hottest prospects for 2014. Last year’s Bands to Watch cited more than 20 Los Angeles acts who were already signed and ready to release full-lengths. Most of them did – although the vagaries of the record business and the occasional pratfalls of the creative process […]
Time for one final, fond farewell to 2013: Staff writer Seraphina L has chased me away from the microphone as she takes over this week’s Buzz Bands LA Show on The Independent FM. Tune in at 11 a.m. Pacific time as she counts down her 30 favorite songs (local, national and international) of the year. […]
Hey, 2013, it’s been nice seeing you, but you have downright tuckered us out. In the way of reviewing what we’ve accomplished here at Buzz Bands LA HQ, we’ve compiled an almost-exhaustive (we think), surely exhausting glossary of all the southern California artists we covered here. That’s more than 450 of them. And we missed […]
Here’s a Soundcloud playlist of the past three weeks of the Buzz Bands LA Show on The Independent FM, recapping my 101-song local music countdown. Happy new year, and thanks to everyone who made the music, listened and interacted. ||| Also: After the jump, the playlists for the shows:
