Jon McLaughlin posted some behind the scenes footage from a photo shoot with his photographer friend Cliff for his new record, which is coming out September 6th. It will be the Indian artist’s first new album since his 2008 sophomore effort ‘OK Now’.

“Hi, we are at the photo shoot today. My name is Jon,” the singer songwriter said before introducing the lensman. “Cliff is a professional photographer. You see we have all these things that probably don’t do anything, but he brought them.” As for that notepad he was using as a prop during the shoot, Jon said, “You probably think, oh he’s not really writing in this notebook. He’s just pretending. No, I’m really writing. I’m writing a note to my wife, Amy. It says, ‘Amy, I hope it’s okay that I’m writing in this notebook right now. I don’t think you ever use it.'”

Watch the clip via YouTube below.

Jon McLaughlin and his band played a show at Wake Forest University earlier this month. Watch the crazy antics they get into before the show via his YouTube channel below.

Jon McLaughlin gives us a close look at a typical day day on the road while in Chicago on February 20th before his gig at the House of Blues. Jon was freezing as he waited to catch a cab to head to radio interview. Next stop was a stop to the venue for soundcheck. After taking a walk, Jon was heard singing the Bumblebee Tuna jingle in the shower. After a discussion about their entrance on stage, the video ends with Jon walking out to cheers.

“I thought maybe it would be fun to let you guys know what I do all day on the day of a show. So right now, I’m in Chicago. There’s the House of Blues, where we’re playing tonight,” Jon said. “I’m getting ready to do a radio interview, but I don’t have the address of the place. So I’m waiting on a phone call to get the address of the place and then I’m gonna take a cab and hopefully I won’t be late, and it’s freezing.”

Watch it below.

Jon McLaughlin played “would you rather” in a video clip at his YouTube channel, asking fans if they’d rather freeze time for ten seconds to remember a person’s name, or freeze time for three seconds to move.

“Would you rather be able to freeze time for ten seconds, and everybody, you’re in a conversation and someone asks you something, and stumps you, you can freeze time for ten seconds but you can still think for ten seconds, but after that ten seconds, they won’t know time has been frozen,” Jon explained. “Maybe like if you can’t remember someone’s name and it’s really important, you can freeze time for ten seconds, hopefully you remember their name. Then you’re like, ‘Oh! Sandra’. Or, would you rather be able to freeze time for three seconds but you can move. So you can freeze time for three seconds and if you want to leave. If someone pulls a gun on you, freeze time, and you have three full seconds to run. You only have three seconds. You don’t have to move. You can do the three seconds and just think.”

Watch the video below.

Footage of Jon Mclaughlin’s in store performance at J&R Music and Computer World in New York City last month has been posted online. Watch the Anderson, Indiana singer-songwriter perform ‘Industry’, off his debut album ‘Indiana’, below.

Yahoo! Music’s ‘Who’s Next’ features Jon McLaughlin, where the singer songwriter talked about how much he hated to take piano lessons in high school as a kid and how the lessons he learned were beneficial in emulating an artist he looked up to.

“Everybody goes to piano lessons, but when you’re a freshman in high school, nobody has piano lessons anymore,” McLaughlin said. “Every week, I was trying to talk my parents out of these piano lessons. I would come up with any angle I could. I’d try to talk them out of these weekly lessons, and it would never work. One day I just put my rollerblades on, went out real quick, ironically it was right before a piano lesson. I fell the wrong way. I wish I could say I was doing some wicked trick or something off a car. Just fell the wrong way and broke my wrist and that was my out. I was happy to take two broken arms for a couple of months to get out of (the lessons). I ended up not playing piano for a couple of years after that.”

Citing Billy Joel as an influence, Jon said, “The thing was, especially at the time I was in high school and wanted to get out of it, I never really bridged the gap between classical piano that I was playing week after week after week, and the Billy Joel tape that I loved to watch. Nobody ever put a Billy Joel song book in front of me and said you can actually play ‘And So It Goes’. You can play that. It wasn’t until 5-6 years ago that I started kind of doing what I’m doing now.”

Watch the performance of ‘Beautiful Disaster’ (the interview has since been removed) below.