What’s new: Gliss, Airborne, Submarines, PB&J

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gliss”¢ The first songs from L.A. shoegaze trio Gliss’ forthcoming album, “Devotion Implosion,” hit iTunes today. “Sad Eye” and “Anybody Inside” reveal Gliss at its damaged, Jesus and Mary Chain-meets-Raveonettes finest. The full-length will be out in April on Cordless Recordings, and the threesome recently debuted some of the album’s new material in a Viper Room show with Ida Maria. Strong stuff. It’s been almost two years since the trio’s debut, “Love the Virgins.”

||| Live: Gliss performs Feb. 6 at Spaceland.

||| Stream: “Sad Eye”
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airborne-nbc”¢ “I could’ve sworn I just saw the Airborne Toxic Event do the NBC chime,” my wife said to me last night from her perch in front of the television. And she was right – the L.A. quintet is one of a handful of artists (including the Flaming Lips, T.I. and the B-52’s) to have done a video bit ending the signature NBC chime. The network’s website butchers the band’s name on the “About” window (“The Toxic Airborne Event Chimes In” it says), but the video clip gets it right. You have to sit through a short commercial, naturally, but check it out here.

”¢ RCRDLBL has a couple downloads from some Buzz Bands alumni. The Submarines have released a cover of “Waiting for a War” by the Bay-area quartet the Morning Benders. the L.A. duo of Jack Dragonetti and Blake Hazard treat the song quite nicely, thank you. And I wondered why I hadn’t seen Ferraby Lionheart around town recently – the write-up tells me Lionheart traveled to Scandinavia and then returned to his hometown of Nashville to work on his new album. The first product of those sessions is the sweet folk ballad “Dear Corinne.”

||| Download: The Submarines’ “Waiting for a War”

||| Download: Ferraby Lionheart’s “Dear Corinne”

”¢ And is that Kanye West pimping “Nothing to Worry About,” the new single from Peter, Bjorn & John? Looks like it. The Swedes’ new album, “Living Thing,” is out March 31.

||| Download: “Nothing to Worry About”