Bionic Buzz® covered South by Southwest 2026 in Austin. There, we stopped by SPIN & Tipify’s “Road to Austin” Live Showcase at Courtyard ATX. The showcase featured 14 emerging and independent artists selected and curated by SPIN. Built around genuine music discovery rather than hype cycles, the Road to Austin Live Showcase puts [...]
SONS OF APOLLO--former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-Guns N’ Roses), Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force) — are pleased to announce the release of ‘Live With The Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony’ on August 30. ‘Live [...]
Bionic Buzz® got to cover a pre NAMM Bash: If You Want 'Bon' You Got it. The concert took place at the Yost Theater in Downtown Santa Ana, CA. Special guest band for the bash was Six Gun Sala. Los Angeles-based Southern Rock band Six Gun Sal stands proudly in the lineage of [...]
Bionic Buzz® got to cover Artist Relations Endorse Expo annual pre NAMM event. There we got to interview musician & singer / songwriter Derek Day after his amazing performance. Check out our interview and his full performance at Hybrid Studios in Santa Ana, CA below. If you are attending NAMM 2019 you can [...]
Modest Mouse formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington. and over the last decade has become the indie rock standard; one of few bands capable of treading the narrow path where massive popularity is possible without sacrificing longtime fans. The band released their first full-length album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with [...]
Bionic Buzz® got to cover ALT 98.7’s Big Adventure at the Orange Country Fair Grounds. The event was a music festival, comic con & comedy festival all rolled into one awesome, well BIG ADVENTURE! Featured a diverse crowd of cosplayers, music fans, ravers, video gamers, comedy fans & more. All seem to [...]
Cold War Kids means International Blues. They began in August '04 with friends, jangly guitar, hand claps, and a Harmony amp in a storage room atop Mulberry Street restaurant in downtown Fullerton, CA. For the first practices, having instruments was secondary to stomping and chanting; Clanging on heat pipes, thumping on plywood walls. [...]
Empire of the Sun are an Australian electronic music duo from Sydney, formed in 2007. The band is a collaboration between Luke Steele, of alternative rock act The Sleepy Jackson, and Nick Littlemore, of electronic dance outfit Pnau. Their 2008 debut album, Walking on a Dream, brought the duo international success and has been certified double platinum in Australia and gold in [...]
Echos, the Portland duo, fall into a genreless mist of both cinematic post-rock style instrumentation and left-of-center pop writing; paving a new path, and style along the way. Clash Magazine notes Echos are "Oddly infectious […] in an electronic haze”. Often self-referential and coated in bitter-romance lyricism, Echos brings the angst of 2006’s [...]
NVDES is a Los Angeles-based experimental electropop project formed by musician and producer Josh Ocean, best known as one-half of the duo Ghost Beach. Conceived as a quirky indie collective, Ocean and a handful of core collaborators began releasing singles beginning with "Before the Weekend Comes" in 2015, followed by tracks like "Fela," "Don't Fvck Your Neighbor," and [...]
