THE DEARS Degeneration Street (2011 UK 14-track CD album - Anchored by new drummer Jeff Luciani, The Dears began working in a newfound spirit of collaboration for the follow-up to 2008's 'Missiles'. Between the group, MP3 demos began circulating via email. Spontaneous, late-night meetings would yield the best work of their lives: music inspired by death, fearlessness, rage and promise. After months of rehearsals, thirteen standout songs emerged. Rather than rush into the studio, the band headed to their beloved Mexico City for a three-night residency to debut new material to some of their most impassioned supporters. The next day, The Dears began making what some are already calling 'rock history'. Sixteen days later, a hard drive filled with 150 GBs of recorded material was swaddled in bubble wrap and shipped across the continent to producer Tony Hoffer in Los Angeles. 'Degeneration Street' includes highlights ranging from electrifying nihilist pop anthem 'Thrones', to the star-scraping heights of 'Galactic Tides'; from the grimy opener 'Omega Dog', to the Motown sci-fi of 'Lamentation', Degeneration Street is, definitively, The Dears!)