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Sam Evian is a functionality alias of Sam Griffin Owens, a fresh York-based vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist with an love for the mellower noises from the ’60s and ’70s. Also a studio room multitasker, he helped to construct the Body 8 Documenting Studios in Brooklyn, and his understanding for vintage …

Devising sauntering, country-informed indie pop, Whitney is certainly a band constructed around the primary songwriting duo of Julien Ehrlich, formerly of Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Smith Westerns, and Utmost Kakacek, formerly from the last mentioned. Ehrlich sings and performs drums, while Kakacek grips guitars. Their initial single, “No Girl,” made …

Work Drugs focus on cocktails-compatible indie pop inspired from the soft rock and roll era of performers like Christopher Mix and Donald Fagen, but having a lo-fi spark. (They’ve embraced the label “smooth-fi.”) The group was shaped in Philadelphia by vocalist/multi-instrumentalists Thomas Crystal and Benjamin Louisiana. They self-released Function Medicines’ …