Stream: Plague Vendor, ‘Locomotive’

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Plague Vendor
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Two happy missives from the camp of Plague Vendor, the band whose blistering live shows are the best way to get your ya-ya’s out short of skateboarding down a mountainside: The L.A. garage-punks are working on their third album, the follow-up to 2016’s “BLOODSWEAT,” with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton (the Decemberists, Future Islands, Alvvays, Blondie, among others).

And Plague Vendor — Brandon Blaine, Michael Perez, Jay Rogers and Luke Perine — just released their second single of this year, “Locomotive,” which is more like a jet plane than a train and sounds like a speed-metal riff on Tom Petty’s “Running Down a Dream.” Like the single “I Only Speak in Friction,” it was produced by Brett Gurewitz, the Epitaph Records founder and Bad Religion guitarist. Either single will get your blood pumping for Plague Vendor’s third album, or their next live show.

||| Stream: “Locomotive”

||| Also: Stream “I Speak Only in Friction”