Stream: SLUGS, ‘Bad Twin’
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SLUGS, currently the Monday night residents at the Echo, arrive with a bang. Their single “Bad Twin” is the first from their EP “Cool World.”
Stream: Milo Greene, ‘Young at Heart’
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“Young at Heart” is the latest single from Milo Greene’s new album “Adult Contemporary,” their third. It’s out Sept. 7.
Premiere: LIILY, ‘Toro’
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Liily is a hard-to-spell, hard-rocking new quintet of teenagers who on Friday release their first single and play the main stage at Echo Park Rising. Here’s the song “Toro.”
Album premiere: Former Faces, ‘Foreign Nature’
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Former Faces this week release their debut full-length, “Foreign Nature,” a spectacularly evocative 40 minutes of fluid, sometimes ambient psych-rock.
Premiere: Bloodweiser, ‘I’m Fine’
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Bloodweiser’s first single “I’m Fine” is a wobbly guitar anthem with a wallop — which may or may not sound believable at last call.
Premiere: Gardens & Villa, ‘Underneath the Moon’
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Gardens & Villa return with their first new music in three years. “Underneath the Moon” is a flute-fueled reminder that love is the answer.
Ears Wide Open: DAMYN
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Synth shaman DAMYN imbues his pop with musical complexities and existential weight. His album “The Dark Corners” is coming this fall.
Ears Wide Open: Smoota
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For fans of sex and love, and love and sex, and horns: Here is the title track to Smoota’s forthcoming album “Pheromones.”
Ears Wide Open: OcnSide
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The new duo OcnSide arrive with a bang — the big, buoyant single “Taking Me Over” is about the exhilaration that comes with summertime romance.
Premiere: The Morning Yells, ‘Half Speak’
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Sibling-fueled quintet the Morning Yells build on their folk sound with the new single “Half Speak” (not “Half Speed,” they point out), a lush, mid-tempo rocker full of Heartland candor.
