Stream: Air Life, ‘Searchin’ for an Answer’
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L.A. soul-pop collective Air Life wants to get it on with a stranger in their latest single for New Professor.
Premiere: Rae Okino, ‘Game Changer’
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Her debut album is titled “Valentine’s Day,” so Rae Okino is unveiling her first single today. The L.A. singer gets steamy on “Game Changer,” featuring Lafa Taylor.
Stream: La Sera, ‘I Need an Angel’
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La Sera’s new Ryan Adams-produced album “Music For Listening to Music To” will be out March 4.
Ears Wide Open: Old Man Saxon
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Old Man Saxon’s new single “The Perils,” from a forthcoming new EP, was written during a time the rapper was “essentially living on the streets of L.A.,” he says.
Premiere: The Slightlys, ‘Go Getter’
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Teenaged quartet the Slightlys unveil a new single from an EP they made with producer/engineer Eric Palmquist.
Stream: Los Angeles Police Department, ‘Hard’
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The new single from Ryan Pollie, aka Los Angeles Police Department, is an endearing hymn to being terrified of the future. It was produced by Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado.
Stream: Dutch Party, ‘Lost Boy’
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Dutch Party’s latest songs pack some powerful messages — don’t be deceived by their catch pop facades. The L.A. indie-poppers have a new video too.
Premiere: Happy Hollows, ‘Way Home’
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Happy Hollows’ new single is a starburst of pulsing, vintage synths and singer Sarah Negahdari’s typically lightning guitar licks, all about the anxiety of returning home.
Premiere: Glasz, ‘What You Say’
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Glasz, the new collaboration between Jonathan Haskell (Seven Saturdays) and Jim Evens (Helen Stellar), debuts with the spectacularly cinematic single “What You Say.”
Ears Wide Open: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith uses her Buchla synthesizer to paint a futuristic jungle scene on new album, “Ears,” which comes out April 1 on Western Vinyl.
