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February 4, 2015

Retox’s Beneath California Streams

The Los Angeles-based punk band currently consists of Justin Pearson (The Locust, Head Wound City, All Leather, Swing Kids), Michael Crain (Festival of Dead Deer, Kill the Capulets), Brian Evans, and Keith Hendriksen (Kill the Capulets, Virginia Reed). Since their conception in 2011, they have toured with similarly like-minded acts such as Melt-Banana, Tomahawk, OFF!, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Trash Talk. Retox is a band that aims to simultaneously reflect and defy, using music as a way of holding a broken mirror to the rest of us, exposing different pieces of our own fucked up realities, and forcing the acknowledgement of the inevitable self-imposed apocalypse we are creating for ourselves.

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February 4, 2015

Full Devil Jacket Offers Valley Of Bones

Fresh off announcing their new label home, FULL DEVIL JACKET has wasted no time. The band will release VALLEY OF BONES on March 31, 2015 via eOne Music, their first full length in over a decade. Produced by Justin Rimer (12 Stones), it’s a victorious and impossible to ignore sophomore slab, simultaneously resurrecting and updating the band’s hard rock sound. Longtime fans will recognize plenty of signature elements, but this is the Full Devil Jacket of old on steroids.

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February 4, 2015

Sylvan Goes Home

With Home, for the first time since their critically acclaimed “Posthumous Silence” of 2006 SYLVAN have taken the chance to create another full-on concept album. Even though the Hamburg natives attach great importance to creating contextually comprehensive pieces of art with any of their albums, this time around SYLVAN have upped their ambition another notch and taken on the mammoth task of building an overall concept around the never ending quest of the human condition for Home – that very special place that can provide a feeling of complete safety.

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February 4, 2015

Sweredriver’s “Autodidact” Streams

On the heels of their recently detailing their forthcoming LP I Wasn’t Born To Lose You, Swervedriver are back today to share a second track from the album and announce new tour dates. The release of “Autodidact” comes in conjunction with the band announcing a handful of new tour dates around their North American tour in March with Gateway Drugs, which now includes a second New York City play. Check out “Autodidact” above and see below for all upcoming Swervedriver tour dates.

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February 4, 2015

Dwight Yoakum’s Second Hand Heart Coming

Internationally renowned recording artist, songwriter, and actor Dwight Yoakam will release a brand-new album, entitled Second Hand Heart, on April 14th, 2015. The album marks the multiple GRAMMY Award winner’s return to the Warner family. Yoakam released a series of albums on Reprise Records beginning with his debut, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., in 1986.

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February 4, 2015

Becca Stevens To Release Perfect Animal

The New York Times says she is “a vocalist and guitarist who balances deep melody against lyrical caprice.” With the new Becca Stevens Band album Perfect Animal, coming April 7th on Universal Music Classics, she has sharpened her voice as a songwriter and bandleader. Stevens filters her myriad influences (indie rock, R&B, jazz, West African music, folk) into a singular, electrifying sound on Perfect Animal.

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