Stream: Los Angeles Police Department, ‘Hard’
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The new single from Ryan Pollie, aka Los Angeles Police Department, is an endearing hymn to being terrified of the future. It was produced by Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado.
Photos: Alvvays at the Echoplex
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The Canadian quintet dispensed an hour of feel-good jangle-pop, including some new songs, on a return trip to Los Angeles.
Stream: Buzz Bands LA’s Viva! Pomona Festival mix
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The third annual Viva! Pomona festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, July 18-19, at the Glass House. We’ve compiled a hefty 42-track mixtape of bands performing this weekend. From indie rock to punk, garage, rap, DIY, and dream pop, there’s a good variety of sounds to encounter, and Latin American acts peppered in with California […]
Stream: Los Angeles Police Department, ‘Insecurity’
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Ryan Pollie is a very tall man with a very low self-opinion — at least, if you take his wry, shambolic garage-pop literally. Pollie is the winking mastermind behind the quartet Los Angeles Police Department, whose noisy 2014 debut album crackled with lovingly misshapen pop songs, ragged and hooky and most of which ended too soon. […]
Stream: Buzz Bands LA’s Holiday Mix 2014
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Stringing some lights today? Wrapping gifts? Baking cookies? Here’s an eclectic assortment titled “Holiday Mix 2014” compiled by the Buzz Bands LA team – it includes new tunes from 8mm, Anny Celsi, Tuxedo, Gary Calamar, the Royal Oui, Los Angeles Police Department, Arrica Rose and Old Monk, among others, as well as the Vince Guaraldi […]
Avi Buffalo favors warm glow over fireworks at Echo
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One thousand five hundred ninety-six days passed between the release of the first Avi Buffalo album and the second, and a lot happened to Avi Zahner-Isenberg in the interim: a dalliance with college, a relationship, studies in music production, other explorations and experimentation on his own and with friends’ bands. Etcetera. You now, life. ||| […]
Video: Los Angeles Police Department, ‘Enough Is Enough’
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Ryan Pollie is a modest man with a bold moniker. His self-titled debut “Los Angeles Police Department” (out now via Forged Artifacts and Chill Mega) was simple and unpretentious but warm and wonderfully emotional. The video for “Enough is Enough” and its hazy, lazy, sunny combination of Pollie peeking through some tree branches, picking some […]
Video: Los Angeles Police Department, ‘She Came Through (Again)’
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Ryan Pollie has impressed us with the very fact that he’s been able to hold on to Los Angeles Police Department as a recording moniker (bands named for government agencies like Chicago Transit Authority, eventually Chicago, didn’t fare as well back in the day). But Pollie’s recordings are the real ticket. When he released the […]
Ears Wide Open: Los Angeles Police Department
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It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Warm Weather, but Ryan Pollie, who makes up one-third of the indie-pop band, has been making music on his own. Recorded in Pollie’s West Hollywood house, he releases this solo material under the moniker Los Angeles Police Department. Yes, it’s tough to Google, but it’s safe to […]
