New Foals! The UK fivesome took to Annie Mac’s R1 show last night to debut the steady rocking title track from their forthcoming James Ford-produced LP What Went Down. WWD is in stores August 28.
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LA-based Singer-songwriter-musician Angel Deradoorian, who we featured on Philly rapper Lushlife’s 2012 “8 PM twilight summer night smooth-as-glass rework of ‘She’s a Buddhist, I’m a Cubist'” is also the former bassist, keyboardist and vocalist for Brooklyn-based group Dirty Projectors; who over the years B3 has featured a number of times on the blog, most recently for their track “Swing Lo Magellan” which hit our B3SCI Staff Top 20’s list in 2012. The talented Deradorian, who just announced her new debut solo album called The Expanding Flower Planet, which releases on August 21st via Anticon Records, basques in the newfangled indie solo-career limelight with her characteristically-lovely and versatile vocal talents on her new indie rock track and EP premiere “A Beautiful Woman” which is a perfect harmonious, percussion-driven choice to lead the album. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Deradoorian 
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Say hi to new Burger Records band La Lenguas and their West Coast-leaning melodic guitar/bass/drums sound and single “Love You All The Time”. Burger Records released La Lenguas’ “Tears In My Milkshake” cassette a couple of weeks ago, go cop that tape.
La Lenguas (Soundcloud)
Get into the new fast-paced hazy-vocaled deeply gutiar-driven indie psych rock single “I Hear Voices” from Brooklyn-based psychedelic trio Sunflower Bean which is out on Fat Possum Records on July 24th. Sunflower Bean, who were named NME’s best band at Brighton’s 2015 Great Escape festival, foster a perfect combination of rock influences from garage-rock to punk on recent genre-bending gem track “I Hear Voices” which is out for release trailing the group’s very good 2014 self-released “Show Me Your Seven Secrets” EP. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Sunflower Bean (Soundcloud)
Oakland artist Jackson Phillips, who is one half of the electro-pop duo Carousel, is set to release his highly anticipated indie-pop solo album Headcase on July 17th under the name of his side project Day Wave. We’re into Headcase’s first several Hype Machine top-hit tracks “Nothing At All”, “Total Zombie” and “Drag” which we covered here on B3 pages starting in November 2014. Day Wave’s latest single “We Try But We Don’t Fit In” with its dreamy layered fuzz-pop vocal harmonies, cleverly subtle indie pop-anthem lyrics and simple yet expressive rock guitar fundamentals takes the cake for our favorite track off the album thus far. We look forward to more sublime indie-vibes from brilliant new act Day Wave. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Day Wave (Soundcloud)
Is there anyone on a modern stage among newer artists that sings with more soul than Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes? That would be hard to imagine. Check out “Miss You”, a deeper track from the band’s sophomore Sound and Color album. It starts out quietly but sure doesn’t stay that way. While you’re at it, check out video from their Coachella sets, or their recent Jimmy Fallon appearance. Reviewed by Bruce Rave
Hear Bruce’s “Go Deep With Bruce Rave” weekly new music show on Indie1031/Los Angeles, KX 93.5-FM/Laguna Beach, and WSUM-FM/Madison. Details and archived shows can be found on his blog and be sure to follow Bruce on Twitter too!
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UK band Wolf Alice move forward in the build-up to their forthcoming My Love Is Cool LP out June 22 on Dirty Hit with new stream “You’re a Germ”. On the track a compressed, tensely wound verse gives way to an out-sized hook-y chant-driven chorus (“eyes wide, eyes wide”). “You’re a Germ” is another powerful and effective mark to the My Love Is Cool tracklist.
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We love the soft edged instrumental subtlety and authentically grounded old-style new wave vocals on new track “Dress For That” from Brighton-based indie duo Oslo Parks. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Oslo Parks 
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London band Flyte is back today with brand new “Closer Together” single. The single which is due July 31st on Island Records finds Flyte on a confident chord adeptly blending the band’s penchant for clear hooky songwriting with a cultivated taste in big guitar-driven cacophony. Stream “Closer Together” below.
Flyte (Soundcloud)
