Join me at 11 a.m. Pacific time for the second installment of the Buzz Bands LA 101 – my annual countdown of my favorite songs of year from L.A. artists. In the first week’s show on The Independent FM, we left off at No. 70, and for two hours today we’ll roar through 33 more […]
Following is a simple Top 10 list of my favorite albums of 2013, abbreviated this year because my other job commitments (and obsession with following L.A. artists) limited my explorations. It was a long and trying year, something of a whirlwind. Then, seemingly out of the blue, came a surprise: Old friends from across the […]
Although Buzz Bands LA spends a lot of energy following local artists, my year-end album list is a general one. (EPs are a different story.) In comparison to last year’s list, 2013’s lineup seems to be dominated by artists from across the pond – with a handful of L.A.-based artists making the cut. Check out my […]
Preface: More than 200 Los Angeles-sired albums landed on Buzz Bands LA’s doorstep this year, and they came in all sounds and styles. There is something to recommend in a startling number of them. But to avert writing the same introduction I did last year, I will simply say, in dispensing with the notion of […]
There may have been 202 local albums released this year (yes, 202), but sometimes you can’t get have a successful finale without putting out a little teaser first. EPs are often overlooked when making year-end lists, but we at BBLA HQ believe the preview is just as important as the finished product. Short releases are […]
It was so much fun last year that I’m doing it again. Tonight, on a special “deluxe” edition of the L.A. Buzz Bands Show on KCSN, I’ll be counting down my “Favorite 40” L.A. songs of the year. Join me at 9 p.m. on KCSN (88.5 FM, streaming at KCSN.org) for a two-plus-hour installment of […]
It’s that time of year. I’ve spent the last few days rifling through blog posts, sorting an iTunes folder with more than 300 songs in it and sequencing the next three weeks’ worth of Buzz Bands LA Shows on The Independent FM. You know, I’ve made the list and checked it twice (which, this year, […]
There were albums I loved, albums I liked, albums I appreciated and albums I avoided in 2012. Because of my regional focus, I spent an inordinate amount of time with music from Los Angeles artists. And strangely for me, a lot of the hyped bands failed to resonate; stuck in traffic, I’d rather have played […]
What a year. More than 140 Los Angeles-sired albums passed through the Buzz Bands LA headphones this year, not counting EPs, mixtapes and singles. Judging from the detritus at my desk – handwritten lists, stacks of CDs, press releases – and my unopened emails, there were a lot more out there. It came in all […]
By Seraphina Lotkhamnga It’s been a great year of music. My ears have had such a good year that the task of selecting my top albums has never been harder. Perhaps it’s because I’ve whittled down my usual list of 25 albums to 20 this year. Some artists on this list made their L.A. debuts […]
