Blog: Buzz Bands

That rock cliché about smoky vocals took on a whole new meaning when Leslie Stevens and her band were recording their new album. It was 2008, and "the wildfires were raging," Stevens says. "You could see on the hills, there were chunks of ash in the air, and you could smell it in the room." With that faintly apocalyptic backdrop, Leslie & the Badgers' "Roomful of Smoke" was birthed. Produced by David Bianco , who's worked with the likes of Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Teenage Fanclub and Tift Merritt, the band's third full-length is an [...]