Present The Buzz Bands LA 101, our favorite songs of 2025, selected from the almost 50 L.A.-centric playlists we shared this year.
Buzz Bands LA is taking a break. Our editor will still be curating semi-regular playlists, information about which will appear here.
Indie-rock quartet Chalk Talk has released the brash new single “The Idiot” ahead of their winter-break tour, which starts tonight with a show at Genghis Cohen.
Long-distance collaborators Travis Trevisan and Christina Hernandez will release “Here We Lie,” their debut album as Slow Salvation, on Aug. 25. File under: dream-pop splendor (and mastered by Simon Scott of Slowdive).
Giant Waste of Man has made a short film you should watch. They’re also performing at El Cid on Jan. 23.
From the packed main stages to the considerable talent in the festival’s nooks and crannies, Lightning in a Bottle 2024 offered a feast for the senses.
In advance of Friday’s appearance at Substance 2022, the Jesus and Mary Chain’s Jim Reid talks about COVID, his long-running battle with stage fright, being a latecomer to jazz, getting along with his brother and what the future might hold. In the works: a book, a documentary and a new album.
Bram Inscore, the songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist who bootstrapped his way through the L.A. scene and became a collaborator with A-list artists, has died at age 41. He “had the magic touch,” friends and fellow musicians agree.
Present The Buzz Bands LA 101, our favorite songs of 2025, selected from the almost 50 L.A.-centric playlists we shared this year.
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Present The Buzz Bands LA 101, our favorite songs of 2025, selected from the almost 50 L.A.-centric playlists we shared this year.
Week 1 of a three-week series featuring the L.A. Buzz Bands Show’s top songs of 2025 starts tonight, with tunes from Sun Room, Haim, Automatic, Sextile, Madison Cunningham, Cuco, Livingmore, Andy Stavas, Jordana, Syd Taylor, Sunday (1994), Holly Blair, Active Child, Natalie Bergman, HEALTH, Magic Bronson and Archer Oh.
Tunes from GUV, Sego, Thebandfriday, Stanley Simmons, Illuminati Hotties, Fake Dad, Devon Thompson, WARFIELD, Auditorium, KennyHoopla, Los Retros, Active Decay, Cayden Wemple, Sam Slick and more in Buzz Bands LA’s final weekly mix of 2025.
Music from Gold Star, Spanish Love Songs, Abygale Scott & Kyle Krone, Lindsey Troy, Poolside, Bunny Lowe, Truman Sinclair, Fime, Andy Stavas, Livingmore, Girlfriend Wife, the Mynabirds and more in tonight’s local music hour on 88.5 FM
Songs from from Abygale Scott, Gold Star, Truman Sinclair, Together Pangea, Death Lens, Jesse Jo Stark, Silversun Pickups, Westerner, Shane Sato, Lucky Me, KiKi Holli, Spanish Love Songs, Spill Tab, Walter the Producer and more in Buzz Bands LA’s latest mix.
Songs by Andy Stavas, Wife Support, Livingmore, Valley Queen, Jason Heath, Sharon Silva, Common Law, Poolside, Kid Lightning, 123Death, Rose’s Pawn Shop, Natalie Del Carmen and more in tonight’s local music hour on 88.5 FM.
Hear music from Andy Stavras, Fake Dad, Wife Support, Janelane, Livingmore, The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers, Crash Richard, Pigeon Club, Hidden Fortress, Common Law, Poolside, Anna May, Bandie in Buzz Bands LA’s new mix.
Songs from Lindsey Troy, Girlfriend Wife, Blondfire, Izzy Outerspace, Nico Vega, June-Oh, The Hellp, Active Child, Rain Gregorio, Alain Whyte, Mini Trees, Bennett Coast and more in tonight’s local music hour on 88.5 FM.
Songs from Girlfriend Wife, Lindsey Troy, Valley Queen, Lucy Clearwater, Alain Whyte, Rain Gregorio, Blondfire, The Hellp, Izzy Outerspace, Miya Folick, Eliza Noxon, Dakota Dry, Club Oro, Irontom, Drugdealer, The Neighbourhood and more in Buzz Bands LA’s new mix.
Tunes from Active Child, Doe Paoro, Giant Drag, Oh Darling, Giant Waste of Man, Jessie Payo, Silversun Pickups, Phantom Pink, The Neighbourhood, Jay Buchanan, Tim Heidecker, Blondshell, Rain Gregorio and more in the lcoal music hour on 88.5 FM.
