“This band feels like the old family farm,” says Sam Doores, one of five songwriters and multi-instrumentalists in the Deslondes. “It’s a place where we can meet for the Fourth of July, bring our families, grill some burgers, and make some music together. It’s always going to be there, and we know it’s going to work and feel good.” After more than 15 years together, four albums, and countless live shows, the five members have found new inspiration in the ties that bind them together as friends and collaborators, as something close to kin. That sense of comfort and commitment animates their new album, Roll It Out, lending it a quiet poignancy as they reflect on what it means to devote yourself to other people—whether it’s family, friends, audiences, or other guys in the tour van with you.Founded less as a band than as a neighborhood hang at Doores’ home on Deslonde Street, the band devised an anything-goes philosophy that allowed them to incorporate sounds they picked up on their travels and everything they heard at home: classic country, hobo folk, crust punk, rural blues, Third Ward jazz, rockabilly, r&amp;b, Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint but also George Jones and the Band. “We take turns giving each other somebody to lean on when it’s our turn and the freedom to express themself any way they want,” says Riley Downing, who usually plays guitar and sings his own and others’ songs. “That means we don’t have a particular genre. It’s a gumbo of all different genres and time periods. Everybody’s literally into everything.”Roll It Out recaptures the crackling energy of the band’s early days but also reflects the new perspective of age and maturity. “We’ve had some of these songs for a long while, and fans who know us might well know some of these songs,” says John James Tourville, who plays electric guitar, pedal steel and occasionally the fiddle, and who writes songs but doesn’t sing them. “It’s about half and half old versus new, so it feels both fresh and familiar to us. It reminds me of back when we were starting out, before we were even the Deslondes—back when we were the Tumbleweeds. It’s like we’re moving forward to get to where we were.”Roll It Out sounds like a small miracle from a band returning from a long hiatus and recovering from the loss of a crucial player. Following 2022’s experimental Ways &amp; Means, longtime drummer and keyboardist and harmony singer Cameron Snyder realized he had toured as much as he could and needed to settle down. His parting was amicable, but it still rocked the Deslondes. “It was a hard role to fill because Cam wrote songs, sang beautiful harmonies, played multiple instruments, and did wonderful work with arrangements and production,” says Doores. “We needed somebody who could bring his own voice to the band and pick up different things in the studio. It just wasn’t going to be the Deslondes unless we were bringing in someone who had an equal voice.”They didn’t need to look very far. A mainstay in the New Orleans music scene, Howe Pearson had played with Doores in various projects and had recently toured with Hurray for the Riff Raff, and proved even more versatile than expected. “Howe came in with such a great attitude,” says Downing. “He can sing harmonies and write songs, and he’s good to travel with. He plays drums a little more upbeat, more like what we used to have when we were just a New Orleans dance band. It pepped everything up.” His presence in the van and on the stage and in the studio changed the Deslondes’ direction, giving them access to older rhythms and energies that reminded them of the band’s earliest days.When they started gathering songs for a new album, they had some new ones but also some old favorites that had been rattling around for years despite having never been recorded. Downing has been playing versions of opener “Hold On Liza” for the better part of a decade, mostly around campfires but occasionally onstage, but they struggled to get a satisfactory version on tape. This new lineup crafted a big-sing-along chorus that serves as a showcase for their downhome harmonies. “People always requested it,” says Downing, “so I thought it would be nice to get it down so it doesn’t slip into obscurity. I’m so much older now than when I wrote it, and I’ve realized it’s okay to sing an old song and give it new life before it fizzles out.”After brief pre-production in New Orleans, the band booked time at the Bomb Shelter in Nashville, where they’ve recorded every Deslondes album with producer (and unofficial sixth member) Andrija Tokic. They shared ideas and conducted impromptu experiments, adding handclaps to Pearson’s snappy “I’ll Do It” and churchly organ and mandolin to Dan Cutler’s sympathizing “Find the Ground.” “We knew we wanted a stripped-down and very loose feel,” says Tourville. “Andrija kept saying, Let’s just be easy. Do we really need another guitar here? No. Everybody was chiming in and listening to each other, and that’s a good feeling when everybody’s on the same page.That kind of back-and-forth demands no small amount of trust, not only to say which ideas don’t work but which ones do. And then to fight for those ideas. Throughout the sessions Doores argued that “Mercury on Parade” didn’t belong on the album, despite the fact that he wrote it himself. It’s a sweet song with a gentle humor, a breezily bluesy riff, a Zodiac sing-along, and lyrics about knowing when to shut up around the people you love. “It’s my own song, but it felt like an outlier,” he says. “It just never clicked for me. But they convinced me that it added a nice break. It finally started to click for me in the mixing process, and I realized they were right. In general, I think we err on the side of being very critical of our own songs and believing more in everybody else’s.”With age comes a reluctance to romanticize the allure of the road. “Grand Junction,” penned by Tourville and sung by Downing, addresses their history of hopping freights across America, back when they were wandering aimlessly, even recklessly. With its slowly chugging drumbeat, brushstrokes of pedal steel, and wailing harmonica, it’s a somber lament for the foolhardiness of youth. “It’s the last train song I’m ever going to write,” says Tourville. “I’m over it. I haven’t ridden a train in four years. I grew out of it, so I’m going to shut up about it.” Downing approached the song with the same gravity: “It’s something that has been romanticized and glorified in a way that I don’t agree with, so I understood where he was coming from. We all sing our songs about our rough and rowdy ways, but there are people who didn’t make it to their destinations.”That sober view of the past enlivens this record of regrets and reliefs by a band coming to terms with all the history they share. “We love traveling and touring, but maybe even more than that we love being home with our families. We all write songs based on our own lives and feelings, so they all fit together because we spend so much time together. We know we’re never going to get this close with anybody else ever again, because we've been through so much together.”

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Formed in 1995 by Makoto Kawabata at the same time as the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective. The group released its debut album in 1997 on PSF Records (Japan), and it wasselected as one of the year's best albums in the The Wire magazine (UK). In 1998 the group played their first tours of the US and Europe. Since then the group has released a huge number of albums on labels from many different countries. As of 2017, the group hasreleased around 80 albums. Every year since 1998, they have toured extensively in the US and Europe, and more recently have started performing around Asia and in Japan too. The group has performed in collaboration with many musicians including psychedelic originatorsGong and Guru Guru, Simeon (Silver Apples), Nik Turner (Hawkwind), and the Occitanian trad singer Rosina de Peira. Japanese collaborators have included Afrirampo, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Jun Kuriyama (The Ox),and many others. To begin with the group had a floating line-up with contributions from many members of the AMT Soul Collective. But as tours became more frequent, the group began to coalesce around a core touring line-up. Other bands were created with Acid Mothers Temple as part of their name (AMT &amp; The Cosmic Inferno, AMT SWR, AMT &amp; The Space Paranoid, AMT &amp; Infinity Rising Zero, Acid Mothers Gong, Acid Mothers Guru Guru, Acid Moon Temple, etc.), but AMT &amp; The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. has continued to function as the mothership andmain lineage for all our activities.In 2016, twenty one years since the group's founding, there was a major shift in the line-up and "Next Generation" was added to the name. We now view the first twenty years as chapter one in our story, and we are now turning the page to start chapter two. The group played more than 100 shows in each year, toured in Europe, North America, South America, Oceania and Asia, also Japan. They also played many festivals (Glastonbury Festival in UK, Levitation in US and France, Rock In Opposition in France, Standon Calling in UK, KualaLumpur Experimental Film, Video &amp; Music Festival in Malaysia, LUC fest 貴人散步音樂節 in Taiwan, etc). During pandemic, they launched their official Bandcamp, have released more than 60 albums(including many unreleased materials), and have toured in Japan in each year. And they played the streaming festival “Levitation Sessions”. They organized “Acid Mothers Olympic 2021” against “Tokyo Olympics 2021”, they originated and played a new style of “music sports”. Finally the group went to the first European tour in Autumn 2022 and North American tour in Spring and Autumn 2023, after pandemic. 2024, the group will tour in Europe in Spring andNorth America in Autumn.

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Everclear, one of the leading alternative rock bands to emerge from the ‘90s, celebrated their 30th Anniversary in 2022, and founder, vocalist and guitarist Art Alexakis has made it clear that he has no plans to slow down. Since forming in 1992, Everclear has enjoyed a lengthy career by any measure, spanning 11 studio releases, including four that have been certified Gold or Platinum, selling over 6 million records, and achieving 12 Top 40 Hit Singles on Mainstream Rock, Alternative, and Adult Top 40 radio, including “Santa Monica,” “Father of Mine,” “I Will Buy You A New Life,” “Wonderful” and “Everything To Everyone,” as well as numerous videos, thousands of shows, and various other accolades, including a 1998 Grammy nomination.After the demise of his band Colorfinger in 1992, Alexakis was struggling to make it in Portland, where he’d moved from San Francisco. That extremely difficult personal and creative period was the crucible that forged Alexakis into the fiery songwriter heard on the early Everclear demos, the Nervous &amp; Weird EP (1993), and ultimately the World of Noise LP, both released on the Portland independent label Tim/Kerr Records. The original 1993 release of World of Noise, paired with the band’s significant efforts to break into college radio and the buzz they’d created within the Portland music scene, attracted the attention of major labels, including Capitol Records, which signed the group soon after. Beginning with their major-label debut, 1995’s platinum-selling album Sparkle and Fade, and its massive chart-topping hit “Santa Monica,” Everclear was soon a household name and catapulted into the masses, thus allowing their impressive three-decade career to prosper and endure.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 2019, while being treated for an injury caused by a minor car accident, Alexakis was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) and learned that he had likely been living with the disease for nearly twenty years. Since being diagnosed, Art has donated one dollar from every ticket purchased for his performances to charities such as Sweet Relief Musicians Fund and National MS Society.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 2022, Everclear reissued World Of Noise as a special 30th Anniversary remastered, deluxe edition, making the album available for the first time on digital streaming platforms with 6 bonus songs in addition to its original 12 tracks. Adding to the celebrations that year, Everclear released a commemorative anniversary video, “Everclear – 30 Years Gone: A Retrospective,” hosted by former MTV VJ, current radio host and longtime friend Matt Pinfield, and embarked on a lengthy North American Tour. One special stop on the tour, back in Alexakis’ hometown of Los Angeles, was recorded and filmed for a new live album. Live at The Whisky a Go Go, set for release September 8, 2023 via Sunset Blvd. Records, features all the hits and hidden treasures from throughout Everclear’s extraordinary catalog as well as two new original bonus studio tracks.In addition to his thousands of Everclear performances over the band’s lengthy career, Alexakis created and runs the annual Summerland Tour, which features a package of popular ‘90s alt rock bands, and he released his first solo album, Sun Songs, in 2019. More than three decades later, Everclear’s enduring legacy and ongoing appeal as a live band continues.

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