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Good Looks frontman Tyler Jordan stood beneath exposed pipes on a creaking plywood stage in a basement of student housing co-op on the University of Texas campus in Austin. Across a room decorated with decades of graffiti an undergrad sold Lone Star, Modelo Especial, hard seltzer, and earplugs from behind a worn wooden bar. “I thought we were past playing co-ops,” Jordan told the small crowd, before realizing how that might sound. “But we’re really happy to be here!” His band then ripped into the jangling guitar intro of a new single from their then unreleased sophomore album.That Sunday evening in March, Good Looks played a tight set of mostly new songs from Lived Here for a While, the album that’s out Friday, but sprinkled in tracks…

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