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.
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: 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.
Stream: Wait. Think. Fast., ‘Vamos Juntos’ (feat. Ceci Bastida)
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Wait. Think. Fast. return with a bright new single, “Vamos Juntos,” a duet with Ceci Bastida that’s “a love song to all music heads.”
Ears Wide Open: Rigby
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After releasing three EPs in the past three-plus years, Rigby — aka Kelly Rose Golden — is working on a full-length for 2024. Her new single “Push” typifies the poignancy in her plaintive, lo-fi music.
Ears Wide Open: Ilsey
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After more than a decade writing and/or singing for other artists, Ilsey will release her debut album, “From the Valley,” in October. The album’s lead track, “No California,” might just be California gold.
Ears Wide Open: Pluto Saffron
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Singer-songwriter and producer Rob Banks has debuted his solo project Pluto Saffron. Not overcast at all, the first single “Clouds” is about “harnessing the ever-fleeting glimmer of hope that we all need to hold onto when things feel hopeless.”
Stream: Singles from Janelane, Nic Hessler, SPELLES, Evangline and Coma Girls
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Songs we like: A heaping helping of new singles, from from Janelane, Nic Hessler, SPELLES, Evangline and Coma Girls. Dig in.
