South Bay punk band Deviates announced their plans to release the new album Holding Out, which will be their first new batch of songs in 20 years, coming September 17. The band plans to release 500 limited-edition, translucent, blood-red vinyl copies of the album, shipping out November 15. You can order Deviates merch and vinyl here. The band was considered “the future of punk rock” 20 years ago, acting as a model of Southern California’s late-’90s, early-2000s punk scene, though they ended up breaking up after their second album, Time is the Distance. “At the time, it seemed like being a part of the future of punk rock required devotion to being in a touring band for life, which wasn’t really what I think we had intended or what we thought it was gonna be,” s...
