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Staind.com hey there, just wanted to catch up with everyone. we've been pretty busy lately getting ready for the upcoming tour and we also shot a video for "right here". that actually went really well. we did it at this really cool location in new jersey. it was a really old mansion that was built in 1901 and it was amazing. it's pretty much a performance video - the band playing in a rehearsal space kind of atmosphere (trust me - our rehearsal space doesn't look like this place!). we should see the first cut of the video today so hopefully you guys will be seeing it soon. nathan cox directed it and im pretty excited to check it out. i can't believe the tour is actually here! we've been practicing for the last couple of weeks getting ready to head back out and start playing again - can't wait! today's our last day of practice before we head to the first show in manchester, new hampsire. we get a day up there to dial in our sound and lights before the first show on thursday. im excited to play again - it seems like forever since we've done a show. it'll be really cool to be able to play some of the new songs also. we definitely have worked a few into the set. hopefully we'll see you guys at some shows and you can check out the new stuff live before the record comes out on aug. 9th. i'll make sure to check in from the road to let you guys know how things are going. we'll also make sure to send in some new pics and video from the road. stay tuned and we'll talk to ya soon. seeya mike" |
Staind.com [June 1, 2005] As preparations are made for the release of their upcoming album CHAPTER V, STAIND will head out on the road with 3 Doors Down, Breaking Benjamin and No Address for a cross-country U.S. tour. Due out August 9th, CHAPTER V marks the group's fifth album and is the follow-up to the band's 14 SHADES OF GREY. Recorded at Allaire Studios in Shokan, NY and at the band's Springfield, MA rehearsal space, the CD was produced and mixed by David Bottrill (Peter Gabriel, Mudvayne, Godsmack, Tool). The album's first single, 'Right Here,' is already hitting radio waves and the band will soon be shooting the video for the track. For now, some lucky fans are getting a sneak preview of the new music. Staind singer Aaron Lewis and guitarist Mike Mushok are in the midst of visiting 16 cities and have invited small groups of fans onto their tour bus to hear a selection of tracks from the album. Mike explains, 'Aaron and I have been out the last couple of weeks previewing the record for fans across the country and the response has been awesome! I really can't wait to get back out on the road and start playing these songs live.' Staind, Aaron and Mike along with bassist Johnny April and drummer Jon Wysocki, will head out on the road prior to the album's release for a U.S. tour with 3 Doors Down, Breaking Benjamin and No Address. The dates kick off in Manchester, New Hampshire on June 30th and will continue into September. Check in often with www.staind.com for updates and the full tour schedule. |
Staind.com Chris Harris [April 29, 2005] hey there - good news...the 2 new songs are done. it's good news for us anyway's because this means that the record is officially done. im really psyched - the new songs came out awesome. as i said last time it's gonna be tough picking out what will go on the record. once we figure it out we'll let you know. i'd also like to announce that starting Monday in cleveland, aaron and myself will be getting in a bus and traveling around the country to a couple of radio stations a day to play a couple of acoustic songs on the air and meet with listeners. we're gonna go in, do an interview, possibly play a new song off the record on the air and then get together with fans and play them some of the new record. i think it'll be really cool to hang out with you guys and be able to see how you like the new songs first hand. then at the end of the day we'll select some people in each city from our fan club/website to come on our bus and we'll hang with them and play them some of the new record. we're gonna be doing this for about 2 1/2 weeks or so and i'll have the cities and radio stations listed on the web site so you can try and tune in to listen or get a chance to come down and see us and hang out. we've never done anything like this before and i think it'll be cool to be able to play the record early to some fans who want to hear it before it's available on august 9th. im sure we'll be playing some new songs on the tour with 3 doors down also so if we don't hit your city you can hear some new songs at one of those shows. that's about it for now - i'll try and get up some pic's from the road and let everyone know how it's going, hopefully we'll see ya out there. seeya, mike ps - if you didn't catch it - it looks like august 9th is the release date. later. |
VH1 Chris Harris [March 9, 2005] Massachusetts rockers' new album is expected this summer. Mike Mushok can't wait until you hear his band's new album, the whole damn thing, front to back. That's because for the first time since 2001's chart-topping behemoth Break the Cycle, the Staind guitarist has that old familiar feeling. "I know right now that I could play our new record, beginning to end, and not have any problem with it," Mushok said. "I don't think I felt that with [2003's 14 Shades of Grey] for some reason. I mean, I loved that record. I'm proud of it, and I thought there were some really good songs on there, but it really didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted. This new record, to me, has that feeling — that when I am playing a song for someone, I'm sitting there, looking forward to playing the next song for them and the song after that." The new record Mushok is describing is Chapter V, the fifth offering from Staind and the band's first album on Flip/Atlantic Records. While a definitive street date hasn't been firmed up yet (Staind singer Aaron Lewis' wife is pregnant and due in May, "so it will be sometime shortly after that," Mushok said), the record is expected to drop early this summer. Mushok added that the band intends to spend most of the summer touring in support of Chapter V; but again, the imminent birth of Lewis' child has put finalizing those plans on hold for now. Mushok said Chapter V will feature 11, maybe 12, new Staind tunes, among them "Paper Christ" and "Falling," along with "Right Here," a strong contender for the album's lead-off single. Staind finished mixing the record last week, after spending the better part of the past eight months writing and recording it with producer David Bottrill (Tool, Godsmack, Peter Gabriel). Mushok said Staind brought Bottrill in to helm the project because with Chapter V, the band was planning to take a much different approach to the recording process and wanted a seasoned pro on board to assist with the shift. "He's on the East Coast, which made it easy because we basically put together a studio in our rehearsal space [in Massachusetts]," Mushok explained. "Other than drums, we tracked everything there. It was nice because in the past we were all over the place. Even when we did the drums, we tracked them just outside Woodstock, which is only like two hours for any of us [to get to.] So we could go in to the studio, come home at night, and work on the record that way." Mushok couldn't say for sure whether being closer to home affected the sound of Chapter V in any quantifiable way, but he thinks it may have, because "this record, sonically, is a lot better than the last one, for sure," he rationalized. "We tried to approach things differently than we have in the past, through arranging, sonically, different amps, different guitars. And I think being in your own space allows you the freedom and the time ... to actually do that." Asked whether there was any deep-seated concept behind the record, bonding all of the tracks together, Mushok quipped, "Just to write a dozen great tunes — that's the concept." |
VH1 [June 15th, 2004] Staind entered the studio on June 7 to start tracking songs for their next album, according to a post on the band's Web site by guitarist Mike Mushok. The group has been practicing the new material for nearly two months and has assembled 12 songs and numerous musical ideas it plans to continue working on in the studio. David Bottrill — who worked on Godsmack's Faceless, Mudvayne's The End of All Things to Come and Tool's last two records — will produce. "That's been a really good experience," Mushok wrote of Botrill. "Everyone's pretty excited to get started." "That's been a really good experience," Mushok wrote of Botrill. "Everyone's pretty excited to get started." Staind hope to finish the album this summer for a fall release. The band may road-test some of the new songs during a week's worth of shows at the end of July that will end with their performance at the Rolling Rock Town Fair in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, which will also feature sets by Velvet Revolver, Disturbed, Hoobastank, N.E.R.D. and others. In addition to working with Staind, frontman Aaron Lewis is getting ready for his new batch of solo acoustic performances at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, which should allow him to earn back whatever he loses on the slots. |
VH1 [June 7th, 2004] "Hey there, I know it's been a long time since I've written anything but lately I've been really busy working on this new record. We go into the studio today to start tracking the new stuff. I'm really excited about where we are, I think the new stuff is sounding really good and can't wait for it to be done so everyone can hear it. We've been practicing now for about almost 2 months and have about a dozen songs or so right now but some other ideas that we've also been working on. David bottrill is producing this time. He's been up the last couple of weeks working with us and that's been a really good experience. Everyone's pretty excited to get started. If all goes well we should have this out this fall so hopefully soon you'll have a new record to check out. In the mean time, Aaron's had some solo acoustic gigs that have been going really well. He just played in reno and we got to check him out at the Mohegan Sun Casino here in Connecticut a few weeks back. He's got one more show in Vegas right before the 4th of July so check it out if you can. Staind has some dates that we'll be doing towards the end of July. We go out for just over a week and end that little run with the Rolling Rock Town Fair. That should be cool, we played in it 2 years ago and it was awesome. They always seem to put together great line ups. This year we'll be playing with Sevendust, Disturbed, Hoobastank, Finch, Three Days Grace and a few other bands that I can't remember now. Speaking of Three Days Grace we did that tour of Canada with them and Nickelback and they were really cool. and obviously we toured all last fall with Sevendust and those guys always rock - we're excited. Should be a great show. Not sure yet who's doing the other dates in July with us but when we know you'll know. We'll I've been meaning to write something now for weeks but have been just so busy working on songs, I'm glad I finally got to do it. I'll make sure to keep stuff updated now throughout the recording process to let you know how we're doing. We'll be video taping a lot of stuff and taking some pictures that we'll make sure we get up on the site asap so stay tuned for some new news (finally). Thanks for sticking around and listening and I'll be sure to check back soon. Seeya Mike" -> ThanksJana |
VH1 Jon Wiederhorn [Jan 20th, 2004] Aaron Lewis grooves on privacy, gushes even more about his 2-year-old daughter. When Staind frontman Aaron Lewis isn't performing for thousands of fans, he's hibernating in his house in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. As one of just 1,200 residents in the town (which he declined to name), Lewis has the luxury of complete privacy. Sure, his neighbors know who he is, but they pretty much keep to themselves as well. "Everyone else lives here for the same reason," he explained. "They don't want to be bothered either, so it was the perfect place for me to move. The mail doesn't even come to my house. I have to go to town to visit the mailbox. It's perfect." Now that Staind are off the road, Lewis is enjoying some well-deserved downtime. Aside from an appearance at the Rolling Rock Town Fair on July 31 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, he has no immediate plans do anything with Staind — but that doesn't mean his label is done working the band's latest album, 14 Shades of Grey. "How About You" continues to receive strong airplay, and two other singles are being lined up for release later in the year. The priority track is the heartfelt "Zoe Jane," which hits radio on April 19. Lewis wrote the song about his daughter, who is nearly 2 years old. "That was such an easy song to write," he said. "All the [sentimental] things in the song just had to be said and they came out easily. When I'm out on the road and it's time for her to go to bed, I get the call, and Zoe gets on the phone and says 'Na-night,' and tells me that she loves me. You can hear my face through the phone cracking from my smile." Unlike the normally reticent Lewis, his daughter is "talking up a storm," but in other ways she's a chip off the old block. "She doesn't stop singing," he beamed. "At the end of the day, when you put her down in the crib to go to bed, she's still deliriously singing and crossing songs with other songs. It's pretty funny. I'm definitely haunted by children's tunes. I get in my truck and it's what's in my CD player already playing when I turn the thing on. And if the TV is on, it's on the Noggin channel. But I love it." While "Zoe Jane" is being worked to alternative and rock radio, Staind will simultaneously offer heavier stations the more rockin' "Yesterday." The track is about reflecting on the past and features the line "Isn't it strange how yesterday it seems I was just a boy and already afraid." "I guess it's looking back in wonderment and amazement as to where I came from and what I've been through to get here," Lewis said. Some of those experiences have been well documented, and many aren't pretty. But these days the frontman is no longer interested in dwelling in the past. "It's much more uplifting and much more enjoyable in my life now to look forward," he said. "I just try to live in the moment, live for the now. You can't change what happened yesterday and you can't control what's gonna happen tomorrow. The only thing you can do is control what's happening to you this second." |
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VH1 [March 23rd, 2004] Third 14 Shades of Grey single addresses control issues. by Corey Moss UNIVERSAL CITY, California — While Jonathan Davis signed CDs a couple of dressing rooms down, Staind's Mike Mushok explained Korn's new single, "Ya'll Want a Single," to Aaron Lewis backstage at KROQ-FM's recent Almost Acoustic Christmas. "[It's a response to] 'Y'all don't have a first single yet. You guys need to go back and come up with a single,'" the guitarist said of the tune, imitating a record exec. "Holy smokes," Lewis responded. "That sounds really familiar." The scenario is so familiar to the band, in fact, that Staind wrote a song about it too. Titled "How About You," the tune is the third single from 14 Shades of Grey and the follow-up to "So Far Away". "The song's kind of to the people in the [music] business," Lewis explained. "They think they can just sit behind a desk and tell us all how to do it. If they knew how to do it, they wouldn't be behind a desk." "When you do a record, it seems that toward the end of it everybody in the world puts on a producer's hat and is a songwriter all of a sudden," Mushok added. "And the more success you get, the more people decide to put on a hat and put out an opinion, and ['How About You'] addresses that a little bit. Mind your own business." "How About You" never exactly says "Mind your own business," but the song opens with the verse "If someone else showed you the way/ Would you take the wheel and steer?/ It hurts me that you're not ashamed/ Of what you're doing here." "All it is, is them putting pressure on you to see what you come up with," Mushok mused. "I'm not even sure they listen to what you give them. It's just Record Exec 101. When a band turns in a record, first they go, 'I don't think I hear the first single. Why don't you guys write some more songs?' It always seems to happen, and they just put you right under the thumb and see what they can squeeze out of you." Staind have no plans to make a video for "How About You," but that's a different problem the band has with the music business. "It just doesn't seem like videos are getting played much these days," Mushok complained. The Massachusetts-bred rockers will continue to promote 14 Shades of Grey in a more preferable manner — by touring. The band postponed three shows, and canceled five others, when Lewis developed throat polyps and severely swollen vocal cords in November, but he has since recovered. "I had to learn how to re-sing a little, using some proper technique rather than just going out there and ripping at it," said Lewis, who saw a vocal coach. "I was doing a couple of key things completely backward, so I stopped doing that and started warming up and warming down. It seems to be working just fine." Staind will headline a show on Thursday at the Warfield in San Francisco, after which they'll open for Nickelback on a Canadian tour beginning January 19 in Kelowna, British Columbia. "We chose the wrong two months to cover Canada," Lewis said, complaining about the cold. "But there's no better band for us to play Canada with." After that outing, the band will return to the studio to start work on its fourth major-label release. "We'll try and get together, throw ideas around and take it from there," Mushok said. "That's pretty much how we've done it for the last two [albums]. Maybe we'll try to get some pressure from executives telling us we don't have a first single." |
107 TheEnd [April 9th, 2003] When it comes to Aaron Lewis' songwriting, nothing is in black and white. 14 Shades of Grey, to be released May 20, contains 14 songs that Lewis describes as "more mature" than Staind's previous releases. While the lyrics on Tormented, Dysfunction, and Break the Cycle dealt mostly with Lewis' depression, 14 Shades of Grey branches out a bit. "Sometimes it's a little more difficult to figure things out and fix them," says Lewis, and his lyrics explore this theme as well as many others. The first single, "Price to Play," is a comment on the music industry while "Zoe" is inspierd by his 1-year-old daughter and "Layne" is a tribute to the late Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley. Included with the CD will be a limited edition DVD that contains footage of the band throughout their career. |
theprp.com [N/A] Lo-Pro, a group which features former members of Ultraspank and Godsmack, are now eyeing a tentative June 03rd release date through Geffen/Interscope for their upcoming new album. The effort was produced by Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, TRUSTcompany) and will be the first release through Aaron Lewis of Staind's new imprint label. ---------- In other Staind news, Aaron Lewis signed Southern California band Lo-Pro to his Geffen Records-affiliated label. The band consists of former Ultraspank singer Pete Murray and guitarist Neil Godfrey, former Godsmack drummer Tommy Stewart, and guitarist Pete Ricci. |
Neil [Fri, Jan 24, 2003] At cd universe they have a Staind tribute album listed to be released on Feb 4th. The album will be released on the Big Eye Label. It's listed regularly for $10.98 but if ordered off the site it's $7.69 |
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