Exclusive: Candlebox Streaming New Song, "Sweet Summertime"

Seattle-based alt rockers Candlebox are all set to release their first album in nearly four years, Love Stories & Other Musings, next Tuesday, April 3.

April 07-Pensacola, FL-Cap'n Fun
April 10-Jacksonville, FL - Mavericks
April 11-Atlanta, GA-37 Main
April 13-Charlotte, NC -Fillmore
April 14-Myrtle Beach, SC -House Of Blues
April 17-Charleston, SC-Music Farm
April 19-Ft. Lauderdale, FL -Culture Room
April 20-Tampa, FL -Jannus Live
April 21-Orlando, FL-Florida Music Festival
April 24-Winston-Salem, NC- Ziggy's
April 26-Philadelphia, PA - Chameleon Club
April 27-Allentown, PA-Crocodile Rock
April 28-Nashua, NH-Boston Billiard Club – Outdoors Festival
April 30-Washington, DC - Fillmore
May 03-New York, NY-Gramercy Theater
May 05 -Asbury Park, NJ -Stone Pony
May 10-Syracuse, NY-Wescott Theater
May 11-Pittsburgh, PA-Altar
May 12-Flint, MI-Machine Shop
May 16-Cleveland, OH-House of Blues
May 18-Ft. Wayne, IN-Piere's
May 19-Detroit, MI-Emerald Theater

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Josh Hart is a former web producer and staff writer for Guitar World and Guitar Aficionado magazines (2010–2012). He has since pursued writing fiction under various pseudonyms while exploring the technical underpinnings of journalism, now serving as a senior software engineer for The Seattle Times.

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