[From All Music.com-Andy Kellman] Cedric Gervais is a French DJ/producer and actor best known for his multi-platinum, Grammy-winning remix of Lana Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness" (2013). In addition to his hit with Del Rey, Gervais has remixed tracks by dozens of other pop and rock artists for the dance-
floor, and has actively released original material since the early 2000s. He operates the Sleaze and Sleaze Industry labels, and also counts heavyweight dance imprint Ultra and major-label Island among the outlets for his releases. Gervais' full-length projects have alternated from production albums such as Experiment (2006) and Miamication (2011) to commercial DJ mixes.
The three Long Beach musicians who comprised Sublime -- vocalist/guitarist Nowell, bassist Eric Wilson, and drummer Bud Gaugh -- played their first gig on July 4, 1988, at a small Long Beach club (a show that sparked the infamous Peninsula Riot). The group began touring heavily while amassing an increasingly substantial following, especially among the surf/skate beach crowd. After four years of concentrating strictly on live shows, Sublime recorded their first album, 40oz. to Freedom, in 1992. The LP was released on Skunk Records -- a label formed by Nowell with Sublime manager Miguel -- 
and sold at local shows, but it really started to break when local radio station KROQ began playing the single "Date Rape" two years after its initial release.
Mostly due to that radio exposure, Sublime signed to MCA in time for 1994's Robbin' the Hood, which revealed an experimental ethic more in keeping with cut-and-paste dub than the well-tuned rage of the Cali punk revival. The album performed well at college radio and set the stage for the breakout success of their self-titled third album. On May 25, 1996, however, Nowell was found in a San Francisco hotel room, dead of a heroin overdose. The band collapsed, but the eponymous Sublime was still slated for a July release.
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[From honchomusicgroup.com] When Jacob Stelly enrolled at Texas A&M in 2017, he barely knew his way around the acoustic guitar. By the time he graduated four years later, he'd grown into an acclaimed songwriter and full-time road warrior, creating a signature sound that fused Texas country twang with Red Dirt roots-rock and anthemic Americana.
Raised two hours away in Liberty, Texas, Stelly grew up listening to classic songs by George Jones, Alan 
Jackson, and Randy Travis. "My grandpa is my best friend in the whole world, and those are the singers he loved," he remembers. His father introduced him to a different sound. "Dad loved Elvis," Stelly adds, "but he also loved Elton John, The Band, and a lot of 1970s rock & roll. Even before I began writing songs, I had all this amazing music pumped into my ears."
That childhood soundtrack received a jolt of electricity during Stelly's final years of high school, when he discovered Texas' rich legacy of homegrown country music. Songwriters like Randy Rogers, Dalton Domino, and Parker McCollum were home state heroes, delivering stories about life, love, and loss with a uniquely Texan perspective. It wasn't just a sound; it was a community. Stelly was hooked.
[From reverbnation.com] Armed with a sound that mixes the rootsy stomp of the Southern states with the trippy swoon of the West Coast, Folk Family Revival make music for rock clubs and rodeos, dive bars and honky-tonks, or campfires and cantinas. A throwback 
to a time when Southern rock and psychedelic music dominated the airwaves, they may be best described as a psychedelic folk- country rock and roll band, but they’re not wild about labeling their sound. They’d rather let the music do the talking.
Water Walker, the band’s newest release (due out on Rock Ridge Music on April 7, 2015), includes 12 songs that were weaned and whittled on the road, where the Texas-based band of brothers — featuring Mason, Barrett and Lincoln Lankford, along with family friend Caleb Pace — built up their audience one gig at a time.
