Kevin Bronson on May 10th, 2010

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Bands that do mod come and go in Los Angeles, where Anglophiles can have a fine time without ever leaving the West Coast. Long Beach’s the New Fidelity have been doing it longer than most, and better. The sharp-dressed quintet’s the Who-meets-Squeeze power-pop motors like a Vespa through an L.A. traffic jam. It’s not necessarily the brand of retro –say, girl-group pop – that is currently fashionable, but the New Fidelity is no less adept at plundering the past. And those suits.

||| Download: The New Fidelity is currently making its six-song 2009 EP, “All Here Now,” available for free download. (E-mail required.)

||| Live: The New Fidelity open for the Like tonight at the Echo. They also play May 15 at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach.