moe.":http://www.moe.org will release their first studio album since 2008, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LA LAs , on January 24 via Sugar Hill Records. Produced by John Travis (Kid Rock, Social Distortion, No Doubt), this album marks the first time since 1998’s Tin Cans & Car Tires that moe. has worked with an outside producer and released a studio album on an outside label. moe. has played all the tracks off WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LA LAs live with the notable exception of “One Way Traffic,” a number bassist Rob Derhak wrote with a Nashville songwriter for a music licensing project.

While most of the songs included on WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LA LAs were debuted in the past two years, the album opens with “The Bones of Lazarus,” a decade-old moe. original reworded in the studio to include a new verse and “some new color.” The album also includes the new version of “Suck a Lemon” – a Chuck Garvey song originally written for the band’s 2010 for The Electric Lemoe.nade Acid Test Halloween show – the group debuted with past summer. Another song included on the album – Jim Loughlin’s vibes
showcase “Chromatic Nightmare” – is also from that Halloween
performance.

“For most of our career we’ve done everything on our own in a very cottage industry, home-y kind of way,” Garvey notes. "With most of our recordings, we’ve gotten the equipment together, we’ve paid for everything ourselves, we’ve produced it ourselves and we’ve had complete control over it. For this album we actually made the leap of putting ourselves in someone else’s hands to help us come out with something different.

The members of moe. recorded WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LA LAs in the Woodstock, NY-area with King this past August. A pre-sale for the album beings at 2 PM today, November 9.

Here’s a look at the album’s tracks and debuted dates

1. The Bones of Lazarus (Rob Derhak; debuted 1/11/01)
2. Haze (Al Schnier; debuted 5/29/10)
3. Downward Facing Dog (Al Schnier; debuted 10/8/10)
4. Rainshine (Al Schnier; debuted 5/29/11)
5. Smoke (Al Schnier; debuted 5/28/11)
6. Paper Dragon (Derhak; debuted 10/8/10)
7. Chromatic Nightmare (Jim Loughlin; debuted 12/4/10)
8. Puebla (Al Schnier; debuted 5/30/10)
9. One Way Traffic (Rob Derhak/Jones)
10. Suck a Lemon (Chuck Garvey; debuted 12/4/10)