Fuzz Collective

San Francisco-based retro rock group Fuzz Collective has announced their forthcoming album You Know The Reason, coming out on May 15 via Color Red. The band recorded the twelve-song set in a day and a half at 2200 Studios in Sausalito with guitarist and producer Eddie Roberts, founder of the long-running soul-jazz group The New Mastersounds, at the helm. Fuzz Collective tracked in Studio B at 2200 Studios (formerly The Record Plant), where Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Wonder, Sly & The Family Stone, and the Grateful Dead recorded during the studio’s heyday. Fuzz Collective features guitarist and vocalist Jeff Yasuda, bassist and vocalist Ethan Beard, harmonica player and vocalist Pete Chung, drummer and vocalist Tim Fisher, and keyboardist and vocalist Jason Tavano. The group formed in the early 2000s, simply as Fuzz. Some members have known each other since the 1990s — through different cities, careers, marriages, kids, and decades of shared reference points. “The band isn’t something that brought us together,” Yasuda says. “It grew out of already knowing and trusting each other.” That familiarity shapes the sound. The rhythm section locks without overplaying. Parts leave space. “There’s less posturing. Less urgency to prove anything.” On collaborating with the band and producing their sophomore release, Roberts offered high praise: “From the moment they hit the first track, I knew this album was going to be in a different league from the first. "