# Carlos de la Garza (music producer)

Carlos de la Garza is an American mixer, record producer, engineer, musician, and songwriter based in Los Angeles.

## Early life

De la Garza was born and raised in Cerritos, California. He started playing drums in high school and played in various local bands. While still in high school, he simultaneously joined Long Beach ska-punk band Suburban Rhythm and punk band F.Y.P, and later became a member of Reel Big Fish.

## Music production and engineering

De la Garza has worked with artists and bands such as The Linda Lindas, Paramore, M83, Young the Giant, Jimmy Eat World, Teenage Wrist, Tegan and Sara, Wolf Alice, Cherry Glazerr, Best Coast, Hunny, Wild Belle, Charly Bliss, Bad Religion, Ray Barbee, Fitz and the Tantrums, White Reaper, Spiritual Cramp,The Regrettes, Destroy Boys, Fidlar, Third Eye Blind, Bleached, and Ziggy Marley, whose self-titled album mixed and engineered by de la Garza won a Grammy Award in 2016. Paramore's Self-titled album, which de la Garza engineered and performed on, also won a Grammy award for "Best Rock Song" in 2015. In 2018 Wolf Alice was awarded the Mercury Prize for their album "Visions of A Life", which de la Garza also engineered.
In addition to his production and engineering work, de la Garza is an accomplished musician and multi-instrumentalist, being highly proficient in drums and percussion, guitar, bass, and keyboards. De la Garza was also a member of punk band F.Y.P. from 1991 to 1993 and popular ska punk band Reel Big Fish, in which he played drums from 1999 to 2003.
De la Garza's two daughters, Lucia and Mila, are members of the punk rock band The Linda Lindas.

## Discography

| Year | Artist | Title | Label | Role |
| 2025 | Dogpark | "Hollywood" | Severance Records | Producer |
| 2024 | Destroy Boys | "Boyfeel" | Hopeless | Producer, co-writer |
| 2024 | The Linda Lindas | "Found a Job" | A24 | Producer |
| 2024 | Cold War Kids | "Scandalized" | | Producer, co-writer |
| 2024 | Spiritual Cramp & White Reaper | "Whatever You Say Man" | Blue Grape | Mixer |
| 2024 | Destroy Boys | "Plucked" | Hopeless | Co-writer, Producer |
| 2024 | Paramore | "Burning Down the House" | A24 | Producer |
| 2024 | The Linda Lindas | No Obligation | Epitaph | Producer, engineer, mixer |
| 2023 | Paramore & The Linda Lindas | "The News (Re: The Linda Lindas)" | Atlantic | Producer |
| 2023 | Cold War Kids | "Run Away With Me" | | Producer |
| 2023 | Destroy Boys | "Beg For the Torture" | Hopeless | Co-writer, producer |
| 2023 | Paramore | This Is Why | Atlantic | Producer |
| 2023 | M83 | "Oceans Niagara" | | Engineer |
| 2023 | Spiritual Cramp | Spiritual Cramp | Blue Grape | Producer |
| 2022 | Friday Pilots Club | "Bury Me" | | Co-write, co-producer |
| 2022 | The Linda Lindas | Growing Up | Epitaph | Producer, engineer, mixer |
| 2022 | HUNNY | Homesick EP | Epitaph | Producer |
| 2021 | Hayley Williams | Flowers for Vases / Descansos | Atlantic | Mixer |
| 2021 | Natalie Bergman feat. Beck | "You've Got A Woman" | Third Man | Mixer |
| 2021 | Man On Man | Self-titled LP | Polyvinyl | Mixer |
| 2021 | Third Eye Blind | Our Bande Apart | MegaCollider | Mixer |
| 2021 | The Linda Lindas | "Oh!" | Epitaph | Producer, engineer, mixer |
| 2021 | Justin Courtney-Pierre | An Anthropologist on Mars | Epitaph | Mixer |
| 2020 | Becca Mancari | The Greatest Part | Captured Tracks | Mixer |
| 2020 | Best Coast | Always Tomorrow | Concord Records | Producer, mixer, co-writer |
| 2020 | Elephant Castle | Cool To Be Unhappy EP | Old Wizard | Engineer, Mixer |
| 2020 | Hayley Williams | Petals for Armor | Atlantic Records | Engineer, Mixer |
| 2020 | Bad Religion | '"Faith Alone", "Emancipation of the Mind", "What Are We Standing For", "Lose Your Head (demo version)"' | Epitaph | Producer, engineer, Mixer |
| 2019 | All American Rejects | "Send Her to Heaven" | Epitaph | Mixer |
| 2019 | Bad Religion | Age of Unreason | Epitaph | Producer, mixer, co-writer |
| 2019 | Charly Bliss | Young Enough | Barsuk | Mixer |
| 2019 | Cherry Glazerr | Stuffed and Ready | Secretly Canadian | Producer, mixer, co-writer |
| 2019 | HalfNoise | Natural Disguise | Congrats | Mixer |
| 2019 | HUNNY | Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. | Epitaph | Producer, Composer & Mixer |
| 2019 | Wild Belle | Everybody One of a Kind | Love Tone | Mixer, additional production |
| 2019 | Fitz and the Tantrums | All the Feels | Elektra | Engineer |
| 2018 | Culture Abuse | Bay Dream | Epitaph | Producer, mixer, various instruments |
| 2018 | Parade of Lights | Human Condition Pt. 1 & 2 | UMG | Producer, Writer & Engineer |
| 2018 | Plague Vendor | "Locomotive", "I Only Speak In Friction" | Epitaph | Mixer |
| 2018 | Teenage Wrist | Chrome Neon Jesus | Epitaph | Producer, co-writer, engineer, mixer |
| 2018 | The Wonder Years | Sister Cities | Hopeless | Mixer |
| 2018 | Wavves and Culture Abuse | "Big Cloud", "Up and Down" | Epitaph | Mixer |
| 2018 | Ziggy Marley | Rebellion Rises | Tuff Gong Worldwide | Engineer |
| 2017 | Cherry Glazerr | Apocalipstick | Burger, Secretly Canadian | Producer, mixer |
| 2017 | Paramore | After Laughter | Fueled by Ramen | Mixer, engineer |
| 2017 | Alvarez Kings | Somewhere Between | Sire, Warner Bros. | Producer, mixer |
| 2017 | Wolf Alice | Visions of a Life | Dirty Hit | Engineer, additional percussion (tracks 7, 12) |
| 2016 | Wild Belle | Dreamland | Columbia | Bass, engineer, guitar |
| 2016 | Jimmy Eat World | Integrity Blues | RCA | Engineer |
| 2016 | M83 | Junk | Naive, Mute | Engineer |
| 2016 | Lyle Workman | Love (Original Netflix Series Soundtrack) | Independent | Mixer |
| 2016 | School of Seven Bells | SVIIB | Vagrant | Engineer |
| 2016 | The Naked and Famous | Simple Forms | Somewhat Damaged | Engineer |
| 2016 | Bleached | Welcome the Worms | Dead Oceans | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2016 | Ziggy Marley | Ziggy Marley | Tuff Gong Worldwide | Mixer, engineer |
| 2015 | Night riots | Howl | Sumerian | Producer, mixer, engineer |
| 2015 | YACHT | I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler | Downtown | Engineer |
| 2015 | WATERS | What's Real | Vagrant | Producer, mixer, engineer, various instruments |
| 2014 | Young the Giant | Mind over Matter | Fueled by Ramen | Engineer, percussion |
| 2014 | Jaymes Young | Habits of my Heart EP | Atlantic | Producer |
| 2014 | The Colourist | The Colourist | Republic, Universal | Producer, composer ("Tonight (Young Hearts)") |
| 2014 | M83 | Divergent: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Interscope | Engineer |
| 2014 | The Downtown Fiction | Losers & Kings | Photo Finish | Producer, engineer |
| 2013 | Hellogoodbye | Everything is Debatable | Fearless | Additional production, drums |
| 2013 | Tegan and Sara | Heartthrob | Vapor, Warner Bros. | Engineer |
| 2013 | Paramore | Paramore | Fueled by Ramen | Engineer, mixing engineer, vocal producer, percussion |
| 2012 | Neon Trees | Picture Show | Mercury | Engineer, percussion |
| 2010 | Valencia | Dancing With a Ghost | I Surrender | Producer, engineer |
| 2010 | Neon Trees | Habits | Mercury | Engineer, mixer |
| 2002 | Reel Big Fish | Cheer Up! | Mojo, Jive | Drums, Percussion |

### Awards

| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
| 2024 | "This Is Why (album)" (as Producer) | Grammy Award: Best Rock Album | Won |
| 2024 | "This Is Why" (as Producer) | Grammy Award: Best Alternative Music Performance | Won |
| 2019 | "Rebellion Rises" (as Engineer) | Grammy Award: Best Reggae Album | Nominated |
| 2018 | "Visions of a Life" (as Engineer) | Mercury Prize | Won |
| 2017 | "Ziggy Marley" (as Mixer & Engineer) | Grammy Award: Best Reggae Album | Won |
| 2015 | "Ain't It Fun" (as Engineer, mixing engineer, vocal producer, percussion) | Grammy Award: Rock Song Of The Year | Won |