Bug Music

About Bug Music

Bug Music was an influential independent music publisher in Los Angeles, California. Their clients included Johnny Cash and Roseanne Cash, Los Lobos, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Del Shannon, Three 6 Mafia, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Woody Guthrie, John Prine, and Richard Thompson. Widely regarded as a major contributor to the evolution of Los Angeles and independent music, the firm's catalog included songs across genres as diverse blues, punk, Americana, roots music, rockabilly, folk, country, and alternative rock, as well as hip-hop, electronic, and Latin rock. "Bug Music: Music Of The Raymond Scott Quintette, John Kirby & His Orchestra, And The Duke Ellington Orchestra" is the title of a 1996 album by Don Byron on Nonesuch Records. more »