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Popular With Me 2011: Favorite albums of the year

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I’ll remember 2011 as a year with more good music than I had time to devote to it. Because my primary focus is music emerging from SoCal – and because there was so much of it this year – I found myself taking only passing interest in many hyped albums … and not finding a […]

2011: The Buzz Bands LA Index of L.A. artists we covered

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Buzz Bands LA covered a lot of SoCal artists in 2011 — more than 300 of them. Some albums and EPs we were only able to give a mention; others were covered via song posts, videos or live reviews. Here, alphabetically by band, is an index of our coverage: A Abandoned Pools, “In Silence” single […]

Popular With Me 2011: My 15 favorite live shows

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In 2011, I saw more than 500 bands perform live over 265-plus days of show-going, and still I feel as if I missed a lot. Plenty of what I did see remains etched in my memory, though, from festival adventures big and small (SXSW, Coachella and FYF to the Silverlake Jubilee, the substitute Sunset Junction […]

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Popular With Me 2011: Buzz Bands LA’s favorite local albums of the year (Nos. 1 through 20, with a foreword and some special mentions)

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An abundance of excellent music came my way from the SoCal community in 2011. My favorite 20 albums follow, with some special mentions/recommendations beyond that. It was an especially rich year for folk-rock and singer-songwriter albums, not so much for hard rock. Most of the nouveau electro and experimental releases left me cold. I didn’t […]

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