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MEET THE HOST
I’m Eve (they/them), and I have the pleasure of finding new local music every week. I love the NYC music scene and I want to promote everything I find!
I run everything having to do with Brooklyn Buzz, and my voice is the one you hear on-air! I also work at the WPIR station when i’m not working on my own show.
This is my final year at WPIR and I’m getting ready to swap the campus studio for something in the NYC music scene myself — hit me up if you’ve got leads!
WHAT YOU MISSED THIS PAST WEEK…
February 21st, 2026
Starting off on a high note! I love this band. This whole album, Electric Hour, is so fantastic I had a hard time picking just one song to play from it. They had a live show at Baby’s All Right the night that this Brooklyn Buzz show aired, and the photos look like it was off-the-hook! Please listen to this full album and make sure to keep your eyes and ears open for possible upcoming shows as they finish their tour.
Under the Scar ~ Sword II
This song is fresh off the press from the end of January! Death Drive is endlessly cool. Self-procialmed Youtube to MP3 band – the vibes are great. I love their graphics, they have this animal onesie moment going on all the time with characters representing the members of the band. UGH it’s so cool.
⚝ They have a secret show coming up! On February 28th they’ll be playing a cheap, $10 show with a huge lineup of great bands including Fare Evasion and Miss Teen America (who are only the ones I’m familiar with but don’t even make up the full bill for the night). DM the band for the address!
Make Your Mind Up ~ Death Drive
I love these guys. They opened for Cut Worms when I saw them at Music Hall of Williamsburg a couple years ago and they were fantastic performers. Great folky, softer sound (so prepare for a switch-up in vibe compared to the surrounding songs for today). This is the first single off of their upcoming album that’ll be coming out on April 3rd!! The title of the song was incredibly applicable to all of us until this blizzard… But, the coolest part about this song is that it has a fantastically artistic and beautiful music video. It’s an animation made by painting directly onto 75mm photos to tell a story about a hitchhiker moving through the world. I highly recommend you check it out!
Goodbye Dirty Snow ~ John Andrews & The Yawns
We Mean It, Man! ~ Gogol Bordello
These guys have been around for a while, so you may be more familiar with them. They just came out with a new album on Friday the 13th that I had to celebrate on-air! This band is so radical, it’s difficult not to fall in love with them. During such a difficult and infuriating time politically, their songs will really speak to you and get you riled up. This song is no exception to that! God, the guitar part in this song is so tasty too.
This is their first song off of their upcoming self-titled album, Pippy, that’ll be released May 15th! Make sure to look for that this Spring.
⚝ They have a live show coming up where they will be playing at Pete’s Candy Store on March 8th! $10 bucks – lots of great, cheap, local shows with full, amazing bills you could be filling your weekends with :)
Angelina ~ Pippy
Legs In a Snare ~ Lip Critic
Lip Critic also has a full album coming out, this one on May 1st, and this song is the first and only song released from that upcoming album so far. Lip Critic seems to have a very dedicated and enthusiastic fanbase so definitely get in on that biz. Their live shows are cool, their music’s cool, and they have great graphic design all throughout their album art and social media. This song has a super cool music video out too, with a Babadook-esque entity haunting the screen. Definitely check that out.
Multiple songs by Best Actress for today’s show so that we can celebrate something cool we got to do together!! Best Actress just came out with their new, first full-length album (that I’m obsessed with) and I had the wonderful pleasure of interviewing them for WPIR’s Off-Air blog/magazine about the album and this new project of theirs.
The trio are all wonderful people and they totally got into the nitty-gritty with all of my prying questions about song lyrics, their album name, their process, and their friendship. So, for their showcase on Brooklyn Buzz I wanted to play what they requested, “Bardo” the banger, AND the tune that is my personal favorite, “Slane.” All their songs are short and sweet so it felt like the perfect opportunity for a double feature today. You can read that article on the WPIR website, or I also have it linked on my website (brooklyn-buzz.com).
Bardo AND Slane ~ Best Actress
Electric Feel ~ Gardenia
It’s been a while since I played Gardenia, so it felt like the perfect time to bring them back on the radio waves! This song is their fourth and final single before their new album drops, so keep your eyes and ears out for that one. This is an MGMT cover of a song we all know and love! :) Side note: I’m not a die-hard MGMT fan so one time I called them “Management” and I got flamed for it – what do you all think??
This song is kind of a throwback since it’s off of their punk album from 2022, The Fat of a Broken Heart. Really solid punk album if you’re looking for more good punk music like I always am. I always need more punk music in my life. I wanted to play them now though because they had a show on February 23rd I was able to shout-out on air. Now they have just announced a show in LONDON!
Comparing Saviors and Friends ~ Catcher
Bonafide Rockstar ~ Sarah Michelle Lee
Another musician we know we love on Brooklyn Buzz! Speaking of interviews – and this was totally coincidental – we did an interview with Sarah Michelle Lee about a year ago now that you should also go read! Time flies… crazy. THIS song is being played TODAY though because they just released this new song! I’m not gonna lie, I think this is my new favorite of theirs. I love rockstar vibes.
I Like You A Lot ~ Lowertown
Speaking of interviews (...part 2 – I swear I did not do this intentionally – ) Lowertown was actually the first group we ever did an interview with at WPIR for our Off-Air blog/magazine! Now they have a fresh album, Ugly Duckling Union, coming out on May 22nd and they recently released the first song off of that album. Keep your ears and eyes out for this one for sure. Also, I love duo bands so much!!
⚝ They have a show coming up at the end of their tour where they will be playing at Bowery Ballroom on June 27th! This one would be a blast to attend.
These guys have been around a long time and have a huge, dedicated following, but I wanted to play them today because they dropped a song and an upcoming album! This album, Everyone’s The Same, will be coming out April 3rd and it is particularly unique because “they will be opening a decade-old vault” since all the songs on this new album are demos, B-sides, and previously half-baked ideas that got put to the side, now being returned to and transformed into proper songs for releasing and loving. Lots of upcoming albums mentioned today, definitely look out for all of them!
Everyone’s The Same ~ A Place to Bury Strangers
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