Stream: PAPA, ‘Everything Takes an Accident’
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“Everything Takes an Accident” is the lead track on PAPA’s new album (and first since 2016), “Dig Yourself or Dig a Hole,” out Oct. 13. Darren Weiss and gang play the Echo on Nov. 5.
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Bronson, a graduate of Bradley University, is a former sports writer and editor and graphic designer who worked in the newspaper business for 35 years.
Stream: BEL, ‘Forget Everything’
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BEL’s “Forget Everything” is an indie-rocker tinged with regret for having taken a relationship out of the friend zone. Made with Jackson Phillips (Day Wave), it’s the singer-songwriter’s fourth single of 2023, arriving as she embarks on a tour supporting Gatlin that brings her to the Echo on Oct. 15.
L.A. Buzz Bands Show, tonight at 10 on 88.5 The SoCal Sound
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Tunes from Polyglam, Escape Artist Lovers, SPELLES, Go Betty Go, Deap Vally, Towa Bird, Allah-Las, PAPA, Chris Farren, Mitch Rowland, BEL, Omar Velasco, All Things Blue and more on tonight’s local music hour on 88.5 FM.
Ears Wide Open: Polyglam
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New indie-pop trio Polyglam — Allie Stamler, Rachel White and John Sinclair — have released but two singles, including “Town” (out today). They play with your heart … and equilibrium.
Stream: Go Betty Go, ‘Keep Up’
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Working around guitarist Betty Cisneros’ treatments for cancer, pop-punk quartet Go Betty Go have finished their first full-length since 2005. The typically adrenaline-charged “Keep Up” is the first single.
Win tickets: Dengue Fever at the Lodge Room on Sept. 27
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Win tickets to see Dengue Fever, performing in support of their new album “Ting Mong,” on Wednesday, Sept 27, at the Lodge Room.
Ears Wide Open: Towa Bird
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First known for her guitar heroics on social media, Towa Bird will release her debut album, “American Hero,” next year. Three singles in, there’s a lot to like about the 24-year-old who describes her sound as “if ’70s classic rock and ’90s Britpop had a baby, and the baby was queer, Asian and a woman.”
Stream: Deap Vally, ‘Baby I Call Hell (Deap Vally’s version)’
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L.A. duo Deap Valley, who riffed, roared, pummeled and punned their way into the annals of femme-rock over four albums in over a decade, are calling it quits — but not before releasing a re-recorded version of 2013’s “Sistrionix” and playing a farewell tour.
Stream: Greatest Hits … This Week (Vol. 266)
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Music from Janelane, Geographer, Nic Hessler, JESSA, Hooveriii, Pluto Saffron, Wait. Think. Fast. (feat. Ceci Bastida), Ilsey, Rigby, Cayucas, Katelyn Tarver, SPELLES, Ciao Howdy, Cold War Kids, Coma Girls and more on Buzz Bands LA’s latest mix.
Stream: Guppy, ‘Texting & Driving’
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Where will your text messages go when you die? Guppy have the answer in their new single, “Texting & Driving,” produced by Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin and released ahead of a tour that brings the quartet to El Cid on Sept. 25.
