DIVING FOR PEARLS is a great little rock band with a strong following among fans of melodic rock and AOR. The old website is gone, but we'll be back in April with some goodies that we hope will be well worth the wait!

In case you didn't already know: The classic debut from 1989 was recently re-issued by Rock Candy Records in a remastered form (cheers David Prater!), and it includes some never released stuff (grouphug!) I urge you to check out! And if that wasn't enough, I know there's still a lot of fans from the old days that missed the comeback release "Texas" from 2005.

We'll be back with detailed information on how and where to obtain the CD's, so for now let's just say that if you live in the USA you can support a very cool little (and reliable) online store called NEH Records by ordering the music from Diving For Pearls through them. $16.99 for the re-issued debut and $14.99 for "Texas." If you live in Europe you can support an equally great outlet called Music Buy Mail where you can get the re-issue for € 17.20 and "Texas" for € 15.10. You can also get the newly re-issued debut straight from Rock Candy Records for £12.99.

Here's a little more about Diving For Pearls - but you'll get the wole story and a little bit more by the end of April, so we hope to see you back here then! Yeah..and please feel free to sign the guestbook before you leave!

"Founded in 1988 by Danny Malone and named after a line in the Elvis Costello song, Shipbuilding, Diving For Pearls' 1989 self-titled debut gained a coveted five-K review in rock bible Kerrang! But the grunge revolution and poor promotion by Epic Records prematurely ended the bands career and it would be more than a decade before Malone would reunite with producer David Prater to recreate the distinctive Diving For Pearls sound.

The 2005 release Texas was recorded in Allen, Texas and latterly, Massachusetts, during 2004, and the musical chemistry between the two during recording sessions in 1989 was evident in abundance this time around too. While Texas remains true to the timeless sound of Diving For Pearls, the albums 12 tracks demonstrate a contemporary edge and the result is an effortless combination of the modern and the classic, as Malone notes. David and I wanted the new record to have a sense of continuity with the first record without sounding nostalgic, he says. We are both fans of the records being made by bands like the White Stripes and Audioslave, and wanted to see if we could incorporate a few of the elements that they use, without abandoning the sound that we established on the first record. Diving For Pearls were cruelly denied the opportunity to build on such a glorious start to their music career, and though the musical landscape has significantly altered in the 15 years since the band first burst onto the scene, with the release of Texas, Malone believes some things never change. We're still a good little rock n roll band, with good songs, and hopefully a believable lead singer, he says. And I dont think that we've strayed too far away from what we've always been good at...melodic rock.