Kevin Bronson on May 12th, 2009

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‘Bout time. Correatown – the musical hometown of Angela Correa –will release “Spark. Burn. Fade” in July (digitally, it’s out May 26). It’s basically the same album she originally titled “Echoes” (I got a promo copy sometime in 2008, and I was excited about the music then), chock full of her great storytelling and languid vocals. In a year already boasting formidable releases by L.A. singer-songwriters (Eleni Mandell, Sara Lov, etc.), this will on the shortlist.

||| Download: “All the World (I Tell Myself)”

||| Live: Correa is performing (solo) at UCLA’s “Take Back the Night” event on May 21

Indie-rock quartet Death to Anders is hard at work on the follow-up to 2007’s Sonic Youth-channeling “Fictitious Business,” and the early returns point to less dissonance but a no-less-pointed guitar assault. This new offering takes a classic rock riff and runs with it … handshakes all around.

||| Download: “Handshakes and Earthquakes”

||| Live: Death to Anders plays Friday night at Spaceland with the World Record and Amateurs (their EP release show)

Death to Anders photo via Classical Geek Theatre