Stream: Ryan Pollie, ‘Blackout’
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Ryan Pollie chucks the band name Los Angeles Police Department and issues his first single as Ryan Pollie. He should get fewer 911 calls this way.
Stream: Nicky Blitz, ‘Why Won’t the Talking Heads Play Coachella’
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Nicky Blitz’s fun new single poses a very good question.
Stream: Laura Jean Anderson, ‘Silence Won’t Help Me Now’
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Laura Jean Anderon’s first single in two years, “Silence Won’t Help Me Now,” is a bold stroke.
Stream: Kadhja Bonet, ‘Mother Maybe’
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Kadhja Bonet announces her new album, “Childqueen,” on a high note. Really, really high.
Stream: Correatown, ‘Oh Wonder’
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Angela Correa woke up way too early one morning and wrote this feel-good song about the wonder that is life.
Premiere: Ward, ‘Crush’
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Ward is a tech guy-turned-musician who finds liberation in propulsive alt-rock. His new single “Crush” is about escaping the squeeze of the workaday life.
Stream: Spencer Ludwig, ‘Just Wanna Dance’
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Call him superficial, or merely fun-loving, but singer-songwriter-trumpeter Spencer Ludwig just wants to dance. His new single “Just Wanna Dance” may spread the contagion.
Stream: Cary Brothers, ‘Crush’
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“Crush” is a song Molly Ringwald might have danced to in “The Breakfast Club,” Cary Brothers suggests — in a letter to Molly Ringwald. Brothers’ new album “Bruises” comes out April 27.
Stream: Sam Morrow, ‘Skinny Elvis’ (feat. Jaime Wyatt)
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Sam Morrow finds a powerful melting-pot country sound on his new album “Concrete and Mud,” out this Friday. On Thursday night, he headlines the Peppermint Club.
Stream: Joachim Cooder, ‘Everybody Sleeps in the Light’
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Joachim Cooder’s EP “Fuchsia Machu Picchu” is out next week. The drummer-songwriter-composer sings on it — a first for him — and the lush collection features the talents of his father Ry, wife Juliette Commagere and brother-in-law Robert Francis.
