Kevin Bronson on August 29th, 2018

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Singer-songwriter Calvin Love — the Canadian with strong ties to Los Angeles (he moved here in 2010 to play guitar in Red Cortez before moving on with his solo career) — crafts vintage rock songs with the soul of a busker, uncompromising and unrelenting. Just announced this week, his forthcoming third full-length “Highway Dancer” will be his third album for his third different label, which is testimony to his determination, not the quality of his music.

The album is the follow-up to 2012’s debut “New Radar” and 2015’s “Super Future.” The songs are an extension of the creative period that yielded his 2017 EP “Ecdysis.” “The songs you hear on this album were compiled from a larger collection over the past three years,” Love explains. “Many of the songs are the subconscious soundtrack to my life and travels before my mind had a chance to conceive them. Inspiration came from everything that attracted my inner soul to the external forces and beauty this world has to offer.”

As he did last year before that EP came out, Love will preview the music with a Los Angeles residency. This one, a Sunday night affair starting this weekend, will be held at La Petite Poubelle, the cozy space adjacent to La Poubelle in Franklin Village. He will be joined by poet/artist Jenna Putnam and a rotating lineup of poets and musicians.

“Highway Dancer” is out Oct. 26.

||| Stream: “Dreams Keep Callin'”

||| Live: Calvin Love and Jenna Putnam will appear at La Petite Poubelle on Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30. Love opens for the Sheepdogs On Oct. 12 at the Peppermint Club.

||| Previously: “Sugar Hives,” “Daydream”