Maroon 5 are performing in Atlantic City on New Year’s Eve and are offering fans a chance to win tickets to attend the show. Enter at maroon5.com. “We’re having an amazing year and we’re wrapping it up in Atlantic City,” singer Adam Levine says in the video.
The video at MySpace has since been removed.
Adam Levine was spotted departing the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday night (November 23) after attending the Lakers game against the Chicago Bulls. The Maroon 5 singer said he had no clue what a Hollywood.tv camera guy was talking about when asked for his thoughts on Jennifer Grey winning ‘Dancing with the Stars’ earlier in the evening. Pressed further, Levine said “congratulations”. Watch the comments below.
Maroon 5 are back with a new album called ‘Hands All Over’ and did an exclusive live set for Walmart Soundcheck, performing ‘Misery’, ‘Wake Up Call’, ‘Give A Little More’, ‘She Will Be Loved’, ‘Sunday Morning’ and ‘This Love’. During their interview, Adam Levine and company discussed working with Mutt Lange on the new project, going to Switzerland to record the album, having a more diverse album this time than their prior efforts, the process of recording ‘Misery’, their favorite song on the album, the advancements of being able to communicate with their fans, and how their fanbase demanded attention from the popular media. Watch a preview below, the entire performance at soundcheck.walmart.com, and view more photos from the show below the cut.
Follow Maroon 5 on the release day for ‘Hands All Over’ in a new webisode. The pop rock group were in New York City on the September 21st release day, which signer Adam Levine described as “one of the craziest days I can remember in recent memory.” They started off with a ‘Today’ show performance before heading to ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’. Adam then is seen taking on the persona of Shmoke, the assistant to the stars, before they wrapped up the night with their album release party.
Video at YouTube has since been removed.
Adam Levine of Maroon 5 recorded a video for the ‘It Gets Better’ project. “There’s been a rash lately of a lot of gay suicides, people treating people so badly because of there very personal beliefs, and I just felt the need to say something to kids who are bullied and are made to feel they’re not amazing,” Levine said. “Don’t let them win, is all I can kind of offer. Please don’t let them win because it’s such a terrible energy to spread and all I can say, as the project says it gets better. High school is not the end of the line. I hated high school. High school fu**ing sucked, but if you can get through it, there’s a whole world out there that exists beyond people treating you badly.”
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Adam Levine of Maroon 5 spoke with the Daily Mail about how the band has had a tough time at gaining critical respect with a fanbase that largely consists of females and has been cast with the “boy band” label. “We’re a proper band, so it’s upsetting we still seem to have something to prove,” the 31-year-old singer said. “We’re in the same boat as Duran Duran. Most of their fans were girls, but they were a legitimate group.” Read more.
Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5 sat down with Fuse on Demand’s ‘On The Record’ to talk with host Toure about their career, how they’ve managed to get along after so many years together, the girl behind their original band name Kara’s Flowers, the improbable story on how they got signed, and their latest album ‘Hands All Over’. Adam also took the opportunity to rant at an old guitar teacher that gave him a flunking grade. “Here’s why I’m mad at you,” Adam told the bleeped teacher, staring into the camera. “Because you fu**ed me. Here’s why you fu**ed me [bleeped]. I came to him before the end of the semester and was like, ‘Hey man, I’m clearly failing your class, what can I do?’ He was like, ‘You know what man, it’s cool, I’m gonna give you a C or C-, but you’ve just got to show up the rest of the classes. You’ve got 10 more classes.’ Didn’t miss one more class, did well on my final exam or whatever that was, and he gave me a fu**in’ F. That’s fu**ed up. I did those things and he still failed me.” Watch the interview via YouTube below.
Maroon 5 checked in with fans on their blog at MySpace on Monday (September 13) to explain their taping policy when it comes to the band’s tour in support of their new album ‘Hands All Over’, out September 21st. With the proliferation of handheld HD video devices, artists and labels are getting more concerned about high quality concert footage posted at YouTube cannibalizing potential DVD sales. The policy reads:
Maroon 5 allows audio taping at almost every live performance. We feel that each show is unique and want to offer our fans the opportunity to recreate the live experience through the audio reproduction of our shows. At all taping authorized performances, tapers can tape from any ticketed seating location in the venue. No soundboard or power feeds are provided.
Taping is limited to audio-only. Wireless receivers are strictly prohibited. We sincerely appreciate all of our fans, so we ask that you please be considerate of those around you by not obstructing anyone else’s view of the performance.
All recordings must be used for personal use or trading only. Selling or commercializing any recording is illegal and will jeopardize taping privileges for everyone.
In addition to helping fans recreate the live experience, we hope tape trading will foster greater interaction within the fan community. Any method of trading that does not involve personal fan interaction defeats the spirit of this goal of the taping policy and is not authorized. In particular, posting audio or video files on web sites for streaming to or downloading by the public, is not authorized.
Maroon 5 are out with the music video to their new single ‘Give A Little More’, the second release off the American pop rock band’s third studio album ‘Hands All Over’, due out on September 21st on A&M/Octone. Watch the Paul Hunter directed video via Vevo below.
Maroon 5 is featured on the cover of Billboard magazine, where singer Adam Levine talked about working with Mutt Lange on the band’s third album ‘Hands All Over’ in Switzerland. “He helped make the songs more straightforward,” Levine said. “What we do is very simple, and he helped us narrow it down a little bit and make it more cohesive. He said, ‘Listen, you guys need to make sure you’re writing the best material you can.’ He pushes you hard. It made me realize that no one has ever really pushed me before. He was the first guy who was unafraid to say, ‘This isn’t good enough. Try again.’” Read more.