Los Angeles folk-rock band Dawes are celebrating the ten-year anniversary of their second album Nothing Is Wrong with a special deluxe edition of the record, due out August 20. The new reissue will be available digitally and on special edition vinyl featuring two-colored LPs in a gold foil jacket, with enhanced artwork and photos. The deluxe edition comes with four bonus B-sides from the original recording session – “Strangers Getting Stranger,” “All My Failures,” “Rest Easy,” and “Don’t Send Me Away.” The vinyl will include an exclusive 7-inch featuring two of the tracks and a digital download of all four songs.

Listen to the single debut of “Strangers Getting Stranger” and pre-order Nothing Is Wrong (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) here.

Nothing Is Wrong followed Dawes’ 2009 debut North Hills, the album that introduced and endeared the band’s rootsy brand of California rock-and-roll to critics and fans across the country. For their second full-length, the band – singer/guitarist Taylor Goldsmith, drummer Griffin Goldsmith, keyboardist Tay Strathairn, and bassist Wylie Gelber – returned to Jonathan Wilson, the renowned producer who helmed North Hills and has collaborated with everyone from Erykah Badu to Graham Nash. Nothing Is Wrong additionally featured Jackson Browne, singing on “Fire Away,” and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers founding member Benmont Tench on organ on three tracks. Taylor Goldsmith looks back on Nothing Is Wrong:

“The songs themselves were coming straight out of my life at the time. No one was safe. If I shared a particularly lively conversation with someone or even a more intimate encounter, it was all immediately fair game. My parameters for discretion were not quite established yet. It took me a second too long to realize how voyeuristic being a writer could be. I still needed to figure out how to add a layer or two to emotion, how to express myself without putting all my cards on the table at every opportunity. But maybe that’s what being 25 is all about. All the rest would come later. I’m just glad it’s all there for us to reach back into on any given night. Each record has been a turning point and something of a growth spurt, but maybe none as pivotal as Nothing Is Wrong was for us. That was the moment where we could see ourselves turning from hopeful upstarts into lifers. Glad it’s still worth talking about 10 years later.”

SOJA, the internationally acclaimed, two-time GRAMMY-nominated eight-piece from Washington D.C., will release their highly anticipated new album, Beauty In The Silence – their first in four years – on September 24 (pre-order available now). Listen to their new single “Press Rewind” ft. Collie Buddz and J Boog, which instantly sets the album’s mood of soulful celebration; a track that first took form late one night on Buddz’ tour bus and is a gloriously radiant tribute to how music enlightens and sustains us. “When we first fell in love with this band, we were kids,” says frontman Jacob Hemphill. “We worked our other jobs. In a band, if you’re lucky, music eventually becomes your real job. While that’s amazing, if you’re not careful, it becomes more ‘job’ than ‘awesome.’ That’s when you gotta press rewind and remember why you fell in love, and why you’re still in love, with music. I was on Buddz’ bus after a show we did, and he was playing beats he made. He’s a dope producer. He got to this riddim and I freaked out and said ‘wait, dude pause it.’ He paused it for like 30 seconds and I wrote the hook, then he started it over and I sang it. It was on after that.”

Fueled by the sheer force of the band’s connection and chemistry, Beauty in the Silence makes for a much-needed antidote to fractured times, infusing so much warmth and wisdom and unstoppable joy into each and every track. Like 2014’s acclaimed Amid the Noise and Haste (a GRAMMYnominee for Best Reggae Album), the title to Beauty in the Silence references the opening lines of Max Ehrmann’s beloved poem “Desiderata”: Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence. “My dad had that poem memorized, and before I’d go out on tour he’d sort of whisper it in my ear,” said Hemphill. “To me it’s a reminder of what we lose when we get caught up in the distractions all around us. You get so used to life being loud and fast and goal-oriented, but then you go out in nature and hear the silence and realize, ‘Damn, I got tricked.’ Life doesn’t have to be all go, go, go. The real key to life is in being still.”

“I really love that this record is a mix of all of us together in a room and all of us far apart,” said Hemphill. “It’s something that I’d love to keep doing in the future: let’s get together, let’s get the vibe and the groove, and then let’s go off into our own worlds and discover what’s there.” SOJA deepens that communal spirit by collaborating with some of the biggest names from all corners of the reggae world including: UB40, Slightly Stoopid, Stick Figure, Dirty Heads, Rebelution, Common Kings, Mihali, Nanpa Básico, Eli Mac and more. And while each artist brings their own distinct sensibilities to the mix, all of the guest musicians are deeply aligned with the band’s mission of uplifting the masses.