OAR GETS LAVA RUG PULLED

O.A.R. is one of the many bands on Lava Records who for all intents and purposes are homeless. The band and other label artists have been folded into an already overwhelmed Atlantic Records, which doesn’t bode well for O.A.R.’s next album, Stories Of A Stranger.

Not that Atlantic doesn’t love them, but they will not be able to have the specialized attention they had on the parent label’s subsidiary, Lava. So how does the band feel about the release of the forthcoming Stories Of A Stranger, and its first single, “Love And Memories”? Drummer Chris Culos explains:

“We’re not gonna lie and say that we’re the most confident we’ve ever been in our entire lives. Certainly when something like this happens, and it happens all the time, I guess, now. We’re new to this. Our experiences are just that where the record label industry is just very shaky. It’s ups and downs all the time. Whether in the past it was like that or not, I don’t know. But in our experince people come and go, people are fired, labels change and form and mismatch, and we sort of new that going into it.”

O.A.R.’s new effort, Stories Of A Stranger, is set to hit record stores on October 4, and the band is relying on its huge grassroots following to help them through the consolidation.