Ears Wide Open: Roses
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Juan Velazquez played in Abe Vigoda, the tropi-punks whose four-album exploits supernova-ed with the Pitchfork-approved “Crush” in 2010. Roses, Velasquez’s new venture with Marc Steinberg and Victor Herrera, is not that. It’s a cool-as-a-Members-Only-jacket collision of post-punk and New Wave that fans of the Psychedelic Furs might fall for. Los Angeles has long been a haven for bands with Anglophile streaks, and these Roses, right down to the crooning vocals and bursts of shoegazing, sound as if they could have bloomed in London in 1988. The trio’s EP “Dreamlover” is en route Aug. 5.
||| Stream: “Florence Girls”
||| Live: Roses play the Bootleg on July 16, the Glass House in Pomona on July 19 and the Echoplex on July 22.
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