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Tom Henry: "All It Takes Is a Few Steps Back To See What’s Happening at Large and Realize That This Stuff Is the Truth"

The phrase the "LA sound" has meant a lot of things over the past six decades. Some people associate it with all sorts of things, but to me it will always be the sound of The Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Jan & Dean, The Byrds, Love, and Kim Fowley. After a few decades of sedated trends, Los Angeles hasn't felt more alive and diversified than it does right now (see the sights of Uni Boys, Dorothy Fuzz, Billy Tibbals, Alley Girl, Quad Super Six, Tim Presley, etc.). And somehow, a

Tom Henry: "All It Takes Is a Few Steps Back To See What’s Happening at Large and Realize That This Stuff Is the Truth"

Cruise Control: "Our Lives Were Changing but Somehow the Four of Us Stayed Close and Created an Album We're Super Proud Of"

Fink of Angel Face: "People Sometimes Say We Sound Poppier Than on the First Album, but Given the Backstory, We Don't Feel Like We've Really Changed"

The Cowboys: "I Suppose the Only Thing Keeping It Going Is Our Friendship, Which Is Really What This Band Is — Just a Minor Social Club for These Four Guys"

Brower: "I'm Always Coming up With Hairbrained Schemes To Release Things Unconventionally"

Loose Lips: "I Feel We Are Always on the Same Wavelength When It Comes to How It Should Sound and the Image of the Band"

Alien Nosejob: "It's a Little Bit of Everything and a Whole Lot of Nothing, Something for Everybody, Nothing for Most"

Motorbike: The Ultimate Embodiment of Rock 'n' Roll

The Now Sound of Today: Dumbells

Shrapnel: "I Think There Was About 23 Songs Once All Was Said and Done"

Miranda and The Beat: "I Feel Like We Really Tried To Drop Any Pre-Conceptions We Had About Ourselves Creatively and Just Made What Felt Right in the Moment"

Shop Regulars: "At First, the Project Was More of a Platform to Release Tapes but Has Since Become an Actual Band"

Track by Track: Brower on the Stompin' Bubblegum Nuggets That Cook up 'Flour'

The Circulators: "I Couldn't Put Much Significance Behind It Other Than Just Wanting to Document Those Songs and Make Something That We Could Be Proud of and Say, 'Hey, We Made an Actual Record!'"

The Prize: "It Sometimes Feels Like We Haven't Done That Much but Then When You Step Back and Have a Look at the Opportunities We've Had and the Things We've Got to Experience, I Feel Really Lucky!"

Jed Dmochowski of The V.I.P.'s: "None of Us Were Trained Musicians, but We Knew How a Good Song Should Be Shaped and Sound Like"

New Math: "I Think We Just Were Like Lots of Kids. You Just Tried to Mimic Your Favorite Band at the Time, or Your Favorite Sort of Moment in Music"

Loose Lips: "We Didn't Want To Do Anything That Was Strictly Punk or Power Pop and Maybe in Doing So Focus on Creating Our Own Sound"

Josephine Network: "I Have a Vivid Memory of My Dad Playing Me a 45 of 'Great Balls of Fire' by Jerry Lee Lewis and It Totally Freaked Me Out. I Have Been a Rock N Roll Victim Ever Since"

The Unpredictable and Unmistakable Sounds of Chris Burns & His Going Concerns