Blog: Direct Current

Describing his forthcoming album as his "post-coming of age story", Howie Day makes his long awaited return to center stage with Sound The Alarm , arriving August 25 via Epic. Our preview back in February hinted at some promising indicators -- and what we've heard from Alarm thus far proves pretty clearly that Day's much publicized personal issues are behind him -- and he's ready to climb back back into the ring with some strong new tracks. [...]