Stream: Greatest Hits … This Week (Vol. 206)
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Buzz Bands LA’s latest playlist features new sounds from Gothic Tropic, Petey, Nite Jewel, the Marías, Devora, LACES, Colleen Green, Coma Culture, Pigeon Club, Paper Idol and more.
Notes from a Pandemic: Crowded House, Bad Religion, Dinosaur Jr., Rival Sons, Mndsgn, Tiny Deaths and more
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Watch Crowded House; stream Bad Religion, Dinosaur Jr., Rival Sons, Mndsgn, Tiny Deaths and more
Video: Colleen Green, ‘I Wanna Be a Dog’
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Colleen Green returns in September a new album, “Cool,” her first since 2015. The first single is an ode to the dog’s life.
Sunset Concerts series returns to the Skirball starting Aug. 5
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The popular (and free) Sunset Concerts series at the Skirball Cultural Center returns in August for four Thursdays of shows, featuring Quetzal, Run River North, the Delirians and Extra Ancestral.
L.A. Buzz Bands Show, tonight in at 9 on The Independent 88.5 FM
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Songs from Saint Motel, LACES, Gothic Tropic, the Sunshine State, Sunshine Boysclub, Petey, Coma Culture, Azure Ray, Deap Vally, Colleen Green, Illuminati Hotties, Pigeon Club, Nik Freitas and more on tonight’s local music hour.
Album premiere: Coma Culture chats about ‘Camouflage,’ coping mechanisms and ‘an optimistic, deep blue haze’
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SoCal indie trio Coma Culture’s debut album, “Camouflage,” doesn’t hide from anything. Officially out on Friday, it gazes at existential dread and instead finds an “optimistic, deep blue haze.” Songwriter-producer Jon O’Brien talks about the album, streaming here a day early.
Video: Nite Jewel, ‘This Time’
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Nite Jewel introduces “No Sun,” her first full-length in four years, with the video for “This Time.” The album, out Aug. 27, is informed not only by Ramona Gonzalez’s breakup but the history of musical laments.
Stream: Michael Seyer, ‘Little China Boy’
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Michael Seyer’s new album, “A Good Fool,” will be out in September. On the new single “Little China Boy,” he writes about his “personal narrative as an Asian immigrant growing up in America.”
Stream: LACES, ‘Almost Happy’ (feat. Butch Walker)
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Miss the ’90s? So does LACES. Her new single “Almost Happy,” which features “the best ’90s guitar solo ever” courtesy of Butch Walker, stokes nostalgia for happier times.
Notes from a Pandemic (June 21-24): Junaco, Sun Ra Arkestra, Brandi Carlile, Kristin Hersh, Ian McKaye, CHAI, BIIANCO and more
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