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videos added

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

Hello!  I added some more videos, 6 total:

VH1 All Access Totally Naked Adrian
MTV2 22 Greatest CDs
A Home For The Holidays – Running
A Home For The Holidays – Its My Life
TRL Awards February 2003 Adrian Young wins Most Revealing Moments
MTV 25 Greatest Video Stars

I’ve also added the two Home For The Holidays videos to YouTube:

marie claire, NFL backstage, Glamour mag…

Monday, September 10th, 2012

Hello!  Gwen is on the cover of the October issue of marie claire, which will hit the newsstands soon.  They have posted an excerpt of the article on their site, as well as a short behind the scenes video.

E! News has posted a short video from backstage at the NFL kick-off to YouTube.  It seems that they’ve disabled embedding the video, but you can watch it here!

Gwen is featured in a two-page spread in the October issue of Glamour magazine:

 

Of course, I don’t agree with the “don’ts”.  :)

Please vote for Gwen in Grammy.com’s “Who’s your favorite California Gurl?” poll here!

Happy Birthday to Gabrial McNair!

Saturday, September 8th, 2012

:D

filming P&S music video, gallery, price list, etc.

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

Tom tweeted that they were filming the Push And Shove music video last night at a dive bar in Brooklyn!

A user on YouTube has posted a video of No Doubt’s performances of Underneath It all, Just A Girl, and Hella good from the NFL kickoff concert last night! :

I’ve added a bunch of photos from the NFL kickoff concert to the gallery.

You can listen to No Doubt’s 97.1 Amp radio interview from this morning on their web site here.

No Doubt has posted a comprehensive list of the different Push And Shove album versions, Gibson Ampitheatre ticket levels, and prices on their site! : (OMG @ this Speaker Box Set!)

“For the soon to be released Push And Shove album configurations and Gibson Amphitheatre show dates, there are a number of pricing options available to fans.  Below is an outline of those options in the USA.

PUSH AND SHOVE
NOTE: Please understand that in most retail circumstances neither the band nor their record label can legally set the final sale price. In addition, there will be various international forms of the album – for those configurations, local markets, laws and currencies may also lead to different prices in different regions and countries.

$9.99 – Standard CD Album (11 tracks) – $13.98 is the suggested list price, however some retailers are expected to price this as low as $9.99 for at least the album’s first week
$11.99 – Standard Digital Album (11 tracks)
$13.99 – Deluxe Digital Album (14 tracks + bonus track)
$14.99 – Target Exclusive Deluxe Edition (19 tracks)
$17.98 – Walmart Exclusive ZinePak (11 tracks w/ 68-page magazine, trading cards and pull out poster) – expected to be discounted for the album’s first week
$25 – Picture Disc Vinyl (11 tracks)
$175 – Super Deluxe Limited Edition Speaker Box (14 tracks)

GIBSON AMPHITHEATRE SHOW TICKETS
Tickets start as low as $74.50.  Exact details of pricing tiers, locations and what is included with VIP tickets will be included when the public on sale date for these shows is announced.

$74.50 plus service charges
$99.50 plus service charges
$115 – ND2012 Club Tickets (best seats in the house – pre-sale begins today at 4:00 PM Pacific, INCLUDES ticket service charges and ND2012 Club perks and commemorative items 
$125 plus service charges
$250 VIP plus service charges
$375 VIP Party plus service charges”

Settle Down on NFL kickoff video

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

I’ve uploaded it to the videos section.  What a great performance!

I’ve also uploaded it to YouTube:

shows announced!, Tom interview…

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

No Doubt has been tweeting about playing a bunch of shows around the holidays, starting in November!  They also posted a scan of a ticket for a show on December 4th on the official:

They just posted a video on their official YouTube channel announcing 6 shows at the Gibson Amphitheatre in LA, November 24, 26, 28, 30, and December 2 and 4!

They’ve also just posted about it on the official! :

“No Doubt are excited to announce 6 headlining shows at Gibson Amphitheatre this November and December.  Opening acts to be announced.  For these sure to be memorable hometown shows, the band are making the BEST SEATS IN THE HOUSE available first to fans like you via the ND2012 CLUB.  If you want to spend some time during the holidays with Gwen, Tony, Tom and Adrian, here are the important details you need to know…
ND2012 CLUB 6 shows @ Gibson Amphitheatre 100 Universal City Plaza,  Universal City,  CA  91608

Sat 11/24/12 Gibson Amphitheatre
Mon 11/26/12 Gibson Amphitheatre
Wed 11/28/12 Gibson Amphitheatre
Fri 11/30/12 Gibson Amphitheatre
Sun 12/2/12 Gibson Amphitheatre
Tue 12/4/12 Gibson Amphitheatre

Purchase tickets for one or more of the shows, as many shows as you want, at a pre-sale only ALL INCLUSIVE $115 per ticket.  NO SERVICE CHARGES, NO MEMBERSHIP FEE.  4 ticket limit. IN ADDITION, each ticket order includes: – Early entry for your party into the venue before the general public – Exclusive commemorative pin – Exclusive commemorative postcard set
ALL ND2012 CLUB TICKETS ARE NON-TRANSFERABLE AND MUST BE PICKED UP NIGHT OF SHOW AT THE DESIGNATED ND2012 CLUB ENTRANCE.
YOU MUST PRESENT A VALID GOVERNMENT PHOTO ID THAT MATCHES YOUR WILL CALL NAME AND HAVE YOUR GUESTS WITH YOU AS YOUR PARTY WILL BE REQUIRED TO IMMEDIATELY ENTER THE VENUE UPON TICKET PICK-UP.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 – ND2012 Club ticket pre-sales start at 4:00 PM Pacific.  The pre-sale will be open unitl 4:00 PM Pacific on Monday, September 10, while ticket supplies last.  Reserved seats and pit tickets will be available in the pre-sale.
Public on sale information is still to be announced, but the best seats in the house will be available via the ND2012 Club first!
All pre-sales can be accessed via this link: http://nodoubt.tickets.musictoday.com
Once you click the link, you will land on a Music Today ticketing page.  If you are buying during the initial rush for tickets, you may be placed into a “waiting room” queue which ensures a smooth buying experience for all patrons.  From there you will be passed to the event listings page automatically, so do not refresh your page or try another browser.  Doing either of these may cause you to lose your place in line.
For this run, you will be able to purchase tickets to multiple events.  Once you accept the tickets offered by the ticketing system for your first event, you will land on the CHOOSE SHIPPING METHOD page.  From here you can choose to REQUEST MORE ITEMS by clicking on the labeled icon in the bottom left corner of page.  This will take you back to the event listings page and the purchase process can begin for other events.  You cannot request additional tickets for any events already in your basket.  MAKE SURE TO WATCH YOUR BASKET TIME IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER OF PAGE.  IF THIS EXPIRES, YOU WILL LOSE ALL TICKETS IN YOUR BASKET.
See you at the shows!”

There’s a new interview with Tom on ew.com:

“On September 25, something we haven’t seen in more than a decade will finally arrive: a brand new No Doubt studio album.

Push and Shove is the long-gestating result of a reunion begun back in 2008 but regularly undone by family obligations, touring schedules, and good old-fashioned writer’s block. Entertainment Weekly caught up with guitarist Tom Dumont to talk about the process of getting back together, the core sound of Push and Shove, and the strangeness of being a rock band full of parents.

EW: This album has been in development for almost four years… Tom Dumont: We came back together in 2008. Gwen finished her second solo album and tour cycle in 2007, so we said 2008 was the year for a new No Doubt album. We started to write, but then Gwen became pregnant with her second baby. So we thought, “We can write and record an album while Gwen’s pregnant—we’re in the studio, we don’t need to go on the road.” But we were up against a bit of writer’s block. And Gwen had just come off all her solo stuff and was pregnant, so she was just exhausted. And I think she would tell you the same thing.

So she had Zuma [her second son, born in August 2008] and then we decided to try to go out on tour to reconnect with each other on stage and with our audience. So that was the 2009 summer tour, which ended up being fantastic. We had a lot of fun, and we realized we had a huge audience there waiting for us. That gave us a lot of confidence. At the end of that year we started the process up again. We’re all parents now, and the challenge is balancing the time between trying to be good parents and doing a good job and making a great album. That stretched the process longer than it might have been. It’s rock and roll all grown up.

At what point in the process did the single “Settle Down” get written and recorded? It was pretty early on — I think early 2010. It might have been the second or third or fourth song we wrote. We were doing most of the writing at [bassist] Tony [Kanal]’s house. He has a home studio, and we would get together a couple of afternoons a week. Most songs started with the music. That song was one of the few on the album that we started with a Jamaican dancehall beat — something we explored a lot on Rock Steady, and in the case of this record, I think it was the only one that started that way.

We started with that kind of musical inspiration, and I would build the musical bed really quickly. I’d sketch it out while Gwen and Tony sat there and waiting for me. I was able to build these things without thinking a whole lot in a half hour or 45 minutes. From there, they would sit with the music and come up with vocal melody ideas. At the end of the process they would fit the lyrics, and the lyrical idea usually came last — hat’s mostly Gwen’s thing.

So is that the same process you went through on previous albums? It’s an evolution of the same process. Rock Steady was pretty similar. In the earlier days, like the Tragic Kingdom days, it was pre-computer, so we’d sit with a cassette recorder and a guitar, and it would be me and Gwen and a cassette tape, and we’d write it that way. The process has evolved a little bit because of technology, but it’s really the same thing.

You mentioned that a lot of Rock Steady was inspired by Jamaican dancehall. Was there a particular cornerstone sound for Push and Shove? Musically, the inspiration came from two worlds. One is that Jamaican-inspired part of the band, the ska-reggae-dancehall vibe. There are a few things on the album that come from that place. The title track comes from that place—it’s kind of a modern ska song, for lack of a better description. A song like “Sparkle” is modern sounding but has a groove from more of a ’70s reggae vibe.

But the other half of our inspirational palette is British music from the ‘80s, stuff like Depeche Mode and the Cure and OMD. That’s the other side of us. How those two sides fit together I don’t know, but that’s our sound. That’s what makes us No Doubt. A lot of that record is more of that ‘80s British New Wave kind of flavor. I think the other singles will start to tell a fuller story of what the album is. We’ve always had a really hard time focusing on one sound. We just can’t help ourselves. In the old days, the record label used to tell us to focus, and we’ve just never done that. [Laughs]

What sort of contributions did producer Mark “Spike” Stent make? Spike fills in a lot of roles for us. On one hand, he’s the best in the business as far as making things sonically awesome and interesting, and he really acts in some ways like a coach trying to get the best performances out of us. He’s also a filter in that sense. On a lot of the songs on this album, we rewrote sections over and over again, and Spike would be good about saying, “You know what? This chorus is not good enough. It’s not great. Let’s see if we can beat it.” In a lot of cases, he was the one driving us to try to do better. So he’s a quality control filter as well.

What about Major Lazer? What was that collaboration like? Major Lazer was a really different kind of relationship. We collaborated with them on “Push and Shove,” the title track. That song started with a musical bed they had created in Jamaica with an artist named Busy Signal. They sent it to us, and we wrote a chorus for that and a bridge and added a bunch of lyrics. Then we went back and forth and ended up with this modern ska epic. It’s six minutes long. It’s really awesome.

What are some of your favorite songs on the album? What are you looking forward to playing live? I’m really proud of the album overall. It’s one of those things that as I’m recording them, I can close my eyes and picture being on stage in front of 20,000 people. “One More Summer” is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.

One of the fun things about playing live is watching the audience sing the songs back to us. There’s another song called “Easy” that is another perfect summer anthem that feels like it’s going to go over great. There’s a song called “Undone” that is probably the one true ballad on the album. That may not go over as well live, because it’s a little more introspective and chilled out, but it’s a beautiful song, and I’m so proud of what Gwen achieved on that lyrically and melodically.”

You can listen to No Doubt’s interview with LA’s 104.3 MYfm with Val from this morning on their site here!

videos, preview the whole album!, KROQ interview

Monday, September 3rd, 2012

Hello!  I’ve replaced the small mpg1 videos of the 2004 Jones Beach, NY show with better quality, mpg2 videos.  You can download them here.  I’ve also uploaded them to YouTube (Sunday Morning is just finishing uploading to YouTube as I type this-and who knows if YouTube will allow the videos to remain or not.  They’re fickle). :)

Push And Shove is available for pre-order in the Australian iTunes store, and you can PREVIEW EACH SONG! Click here to go to the Australian page.  After you click the “view in iTunes” button, you’ll need to be sure to click the popup to change the store (if you’re not in Australia).  You can hear about a minute of each song!!!!!!

Kevin and Bean of KROQ are going to air their interview with No Doubt tomorrow morning, at 7am PST.  Live stream of the station is here.

Saturday, September 1st, 2012

Hello!  In the September 13 issue of Rolling Stone, there’s an NFL 2012 game schedule poster, that features No Doubt! I’ve cropped out most of the poster.  The ND photo is about a half page in size. :

Guitar Center is holding a contest to win Adrian’s drum kit!  Click here to enter!

KROQ has posted more of Adrian’s recent interview with Stryker, including a video here!

gwen-stefani.ru has posted a behind the scenes video of Gwen’s Elle UK shoot! :

EIT has posted photos of the magazine, as well as a transcription of the article here!

video update, win tickets to NFL Kickoff, Elle UK…

Thursday, August 30th, 2012

Hello!  I’ve added the June 30, 2004 LA show to the videos section!  Unfortunately, I’m missing the last three songs.  If anyone has them, would you kindly send to me?

From an official No Doubt mailing list e-mail received today:

“WIN TICKETS TO SEE NO DOUBT PERFORM ON NFL KICKOFF!

Next Wednesday, September 5, No Doubt is returning to NYC to perform live as part of the NFL Kickoff pre-show for the New York Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys game! The band has arranged for a number of free tickets to be given away to super fans for their pregame performance at Rockefeller Center.

Enter to win a pair right here and be sure to use the promo code NODOUBT12.

Fans are encouraged to use the comment box to describe how big of a No Doubtfan they are. These tickets will allow fans to be on and around the stage during the show, so we need the most enthusiastic ND fans!

Note: There is a limit of two tickets per person and you must be 18+ to enter.”

PopCrush is having another poll: “Gwen Stefani vs. Hayley Williams: Who’s the Best Frontwoman?”  While Hayley does kick a lot of butt, do we really have to ask that question?  :) Hayley is currently in the lead, though so click here to vote!

Gwen is going to be on the cover of the October issue of Elle UK!

Buy the Push And Shove single on iTunes now!

Wednesday, August 29th, 2012

The “Push And Shove” single is now available in the iTunes store!
Push and Shove (feat. Busy Signal, Major Lazer) - Single - No Doubt

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