Deviates Release First New Album In Two Decades

The long wait is over. Influential South Bay punk rock band Deviates have released Holding Out, their first new album in 20 years. The album was recorded with producer Cameron Webb, and coincides with a run of west coast shows with Pennywise in October and November. Deviates have also announced a December 11th headline show at West Hollywood’s Troubador, which fittingly was the site of their last show two decades ago. The band have also released their new single and video The Liar, frontman Brian Barbara says, “”The Liar only tells you what you want to hear. Don’t listen to the Liar.”

“Twenty years later, you think you’ll never do it again, but I honestly never stopped writing and never stopped documenting music — and it always ended up going back to punk rock. I was 16 when we started this and I’m 42 now, but there’s always been this common thread for Deviates, which is that we’ve always been representative of the crowd that we play in front of. Twenty years later the heart behind this hasn’t changed.” (lead singer Brian Barbara)

Holding Out can be streamed and purchased here