Hurricane Sugar

In the coming months, music fans are going to get some heaping doses of Hurricane Sugar, a dynamic new Los Angeles-based band led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Alex Chamis. The quartet, which also includes guitarist Josh Brazinski, bassist Donovan Hernandez and drummer Jeff Galland, is set to release a series of hard-hitting, modern rock tracks as they bring their equally propulsive live show to the stage.
“The best groups aren’t always comprised of members who share the same influences,” says Chamis, whose musical heroes run the gamut from pop royalty (the Beatles) to psychedelic masters (Jimi Hendrix) to Southern rock icons (ZZ Top) to stoner rock (Queens of the Stone Age). “The other members of Hurricane Sugar are way into heavy, grungy stuff like Rage Against the Machine and Alice in Chains, so they take the songs I write and put them into a heavy-duty grinder and it all comes out pretty fierce.”
Despite the lockdown and the forced time away from live gigs, Chamis stresses that the band’s morale is as high as ever. “It’s been weird not being able to play,” he says, “but fortunately that looks like it will change soon. We’re looking forward to getting back out there and doing shows. If anything, the pause in our career has made us even hungrier. We’ve been rehearing like crazy, and we’re all set. It’s time to go.”