The media is already abuzz over No Doubt’s AWESOME first in-studio webisode! We love that the media is as excited about the new music as we are!!
PopCrush:
No Doubt fans have been patiently awaiting the band’s return, and over the weekend, the quartet finally announced a Sept. 25 release date for their sixth studio album. Now, Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young are giving No Doubt lovers a sneak peek of a new track called ‘Push and Shove,’ which they previewed during an in-studio webisode.
Hard at work putting the finishing touches on their upcoming 2012 LP, the members of No Doubt individually discussed the overall recording process for the album during studio sessions in Santa Monica, Calif. “We are so doing cool hours,” Kanal, who plays bass, said to the camera. “We come in at 9:30 or 10 in the morning because we’re all up early. I was up at 6:30 this morning with my daughter. So I got to spend a few hours with her and then head into the studio.” No Doubt might be one with their fans, but it’s good to know that family still comes first!
Kanal later delved into the ‘Push and Shove’ track, which is a collaborative effort with Major Lazer, aka DJs/producers Diplo and Switch. The electro duo have been making their rounds in the pop genre lately, lending their song ‘Pon de Floor’ to Beyonce‘s ‘Run the World (Girls)’ track. “We got a call from Jimmy [Iovine] and [he said], ‘You should meet these guys. They really want to work with No Doubt.’ We had heard of Major Lazer and we had heard of Diplo and Switch. I reached out to them and said, ‘Do you have anything or do you want to work on something together?’ We all got in the studio together and worked on this track [‘Push and Shove’].”
Later in the video, Stefani can be heard singing, “You push and shove / I take the bait / it’s a risky business, gonna play it anyway,” as Young pounds furiously on the drums, leading into a breakdown during the chorus. Major Lazer’s production is evident as heavy reggae beats make its way into the track, which also includes vocals from Jamaican artist Busy Signal. In the YouTube description, No Doubt writers, “Of all the songs on the album, this is the only collaboration of it’s kind. Enjoy!”
Gwen Stefani and No Doubt have begun promoting their first new album in more than a decade with a series of “webisodes” that go behind the scenes of recording sessions in their Santa Monica studio.
Stefani is joined by band members Tom Dumont, on guitar, keyboards, Tony Kanal on bass and keyboards and Adrian Young on drums. They’ve all been playing together since the 1980s.
The first in a series of short videos leading up to the album’s release Sept. 25 previews a brand new track called “Push & Shove.”
Kanal reveals that Universal Music mogul Jimmy Iovine hooked them up with Major Lazer and Jamaican artist Busy Signal.
“Push and Shove” features No Doubt and Diplo and Switch, the principals behind Major Lazer.
The new webisode reveals a snippet of “Push and Shove,” with Stefani singing a line or two of a verse.
“You push and shove,
I take the bait.
It’s a risky business
gonna play it anyway.”
The band’s sixth, as yet unnamed, album will include 12 tracks under the tentative titles: “One More Summer,” “Gravity,” “Settle Down,” “Easy,” “Dreaming the Same Dream,” “Heaven,” “Undercover,” “Psycho,” “Push and Shove,” “Looking Hot,””Sparkle” and “Undone.”
No Doubt promised tons of new content for their fans between now and the release of their long-awaited album, due September 25, and the band is making good on their promise already. The ska-pop-rock quartet uploaded their first In Studio webisode, where we get a behind-the-scenes look at the recording of their LP, and hear a few bits and pieces of new track “Push And Shove”.
“You push and shove / I take the bait / It’s a risky business / Gonna play it anyway,” sings Gwen Stefani on the tune, which was a collaboration between No Doubt and Diplo and Switch, the principals behind Major Lazer. (Apparently, Jimmy Iovine was responsible for the two groups getting together. Thanks, Jimmy! We like what we hear so far.)
Just a few days after announcing release date for their new album, No Doubt post a video from their recording sessions in Santa Monica as part of their webisode series. It takes fans inside the room where the band crafted a new song called “Push & Shove”. They said, “Of all the songs on the album, this is the only collaboration of it’s kind. Enjoy!”
In the video, Gwen Stefani sings some lines, “You push and shove/ I take the bait/ it’s a risky business/ Gonna play it anyway,” while Adrian Young beats the drums. The new song is a collaboration between No Doubt, producer duo Major Lazer and Jamaican artist Busy Signal for the new album that will come out in the United States on September 25.
“We are so doing cool hours,” Tony Kanal gushed to the camera. “We come in at 09:30 or 10 in the morning because we’re all up early. I was up at 06:30 this morning with my daughter. So I got to spend a few hours with her and then head into the studio.”
Recalling how they ended up working with Major, he said, “We got a call from Jimmy [Iovine] and [he said], ‘You should meet these guys. They really want to work with No Doubt.’ We had heard of Major Lazer and we had heard of Diplo and Switch. I reached out to them and said, ‘Do you have anything or do you want to work on something together?’ We all got in the studio together and worked on this track.”
We were playfully tweeting with a friend last week about No Doubt releasing their new CD in the Fall….of 2045. So when we heard they were setting a release date, I wasn’t holding my breath. Big mistake! Huge!
No Doubt not only said the new CD will be released on September 25th, but also released studio footage of them recording “Push & Shove” a new song with Major Lazer and Busy Signal.
I feel like a little fan boy right now. Yes, I just squeeled after watching the video again. Love seeing behind the scenes footage of stuff like this.
Since I was so late on this news, I think I might have to release a special unreleased remix of “Hollaback Girl” to make it up to the No Doubt fans. Coming sooner than U think!
Finally, No Doubt’s 6th studio CD is coming out September 25th!-DocFB
TIME:
Eleven years after releasing their last album, No Doubt’s return finally has a date: September 25, 2012.
The Orange County-bred quartet announced the release date of their sixth studio album in a video message over the weekend. The highly anticipated album has been in the works for the last few years, and a solid release date comes as a relief for many fans.
The genre-defying group also dropped their first webisode yesterday afternoon, part of a series documenting the recording process behind this still-untitled album. In the clip, we get a sneak peek into the recording of “Push & Shove,” featuring Jamaican artist Busy Signal and produced by Major Lazer.
The video shows the group having fun, Gwen Stefani spitting like fire into the microphone over dirty dance beats—the reunion feels worth the wait. And wait we did; three years after having announced the album, it’s not surprising fans and critics have grown more than a little impatient.
“A lot of stuff happened during that time period,” Stefani told Rolling Stone last June, defending criticism of their pace. “Marriages, babies and, for me, two records and two clothing lines. So if you really worked out the math, you’d be like, ‘Wow, you guys are going fast.’
Rolling Stone chronicled band’s recent movements earlier this year under the headline “No Doubt Somehow Still Recording Long Awaited Comeback Album.” Spin put together a slideshow of collected photos from the band members’ Twitter accounts, painting a picture of what the group has been up to “instead of recording.”
Indeed, they’ve done a lot. The band started songwriting work for the new album in March 2008, following the wrap of Gwen Stefani’s The Sweet Escape tour—though things were moving slowly, in part due to Stefani’s second pregnancy.
In the summer of 2009, they reunited for a greatest hits tour, hitting 50 cities across the U.S. and Canada, joined by acts like Paramore and Katy Perry. They performed on Gossip Girl later that year, and in 2010, they entered producer Mike “Spike” Stent’s studio (whom they worked with on Rock Steady in 2002) to start recording. That December, they performed before President Obama at the Kennedy Center Honors. News that they were recording with Major Lazer surfaced in 2011, and photos began to come in through the group members’ Twitter accounts documenting the process.
Last week guitarist Tom Dumont tweeted that they are finally mixing the album, in the process of shooting two videos, and plan to release its first single in July.
So, what can we expect to hear? A return to their ska-rock roots? Punked-out electronic dance music? More of the dancehall influences we last heard on Rock Steady?
Given the group’s collaboration with Major Lazer—comprised of Diplo and Switch—more dancehall influences appear to be on the horizon. In an interview with The Vine last year, Diplo described the sound as being reggae “from the future.” After hearing several tracks last summer, Rolling Stone revealed that “Settle Down” is a “party-ready reggae blast,” while “One More Summer” is a club-ready update of their ska-punk sound. Taking key elements of the genres they’ve experimented with over the years (both individually and as a group) and infusing it with timely, forward-thinking electronic and live percussive experimentation seems like the route the band is headed, but future webisodes may offer more clues as we get closer to the drop of the first single.
It’s good timing for No Doubt; music featuring live instrumentation and rock influences have been slowly gaining dominance on the charts, from Gotye to Adele to Fun.’s anthemic “We Are Young.” No Doubt may take their time with things—they also had a five year gap between 1995’s Tragic Kingdom and Return of Saturn—but they’re returning to a base that’s primed and ready for their comeback.
No Doubt is ramping up for the release of their first album in eleven years and are taking fans behind the scenes in a series of webisodes documenting the making of the set, the first of which was premiered by the band yesterday on its website.
“Over the past few months, Gwen, Tony, Tom and Adrian have been recording together and filming the process at producer Spike Stent’s studio in Santa Monica, California,” the band writes in the introductory post.
The album is actually years in the making. The band began initial work on the record in March 2008, after Gwen Stefani wrapped the tour behind her second solo album, The Sweet Escape. Songwriting on the effort reportedly got off to a slow start because, according to a post from Stefani, she was distracted by her second pregnancy, and was delayed further when the band, energized by being in the studio together for the first time since the sessions behind 2001’s Rock Steady hit the road in 2009 for a massively successful greatest hits tour.
The band spent the majority of 2010 quietly cutting demos in Kanal’s studio in personal studio in Hollywood before joining Stent at his studio in early 2011 to officially begin tracking the effort. Progress has been slow but steady since then, and the band has been waiting for the right time to release the album. That time, it seems, is September 25.
In the webisode below, we see the recording process behind the song “Push & Shove.” It’s a really interesting look at the inner working of a functioning band (I feel like we’re too used to hearing stories about bands at war and backstage battles) who seem really pleased to be creating together again.
Welcome back, No Doubt. We’re thrilled to hear (literally) that things sound better than ever.
PRAISE! But seriously, everyone stop what you’re doing right now and say thanks to someone or something, because we’re still reveling in the fact that new No Doubt music is on the way. Even though they recently revealed the official release date of their new album (September 25), we now have video evidence from the studio! Filmed while No Doubt was recording new songs, their “In The Studio (Webisode 1)” behind-the-scenes video features the entire band back in action writing, playing and just being generally incredible.
Watch behind-the-scenes footage from No Doubt’s studio session after the jump.
No Doubt is recording the new album (their sixth!) in Santa Monica at the multiroom studio of their producer, Spike Stent. Gwen is looking fully stunning (natch) as she records some vocals, Tony Kanal is his usual badass self while recording some bass licks, Adrian Young pounds away on the drums and Tom Dumont slays the guitar. These guys have aged like a fine wine!
Toward the end of the clip, we hear Gwen record vocals for a tune called “Push & Shove,” a collaboration between No Doubt, producers Major Lazer and Jamaican artist Busy Signal — and, um, IT’S PURE GOLD. Take a second to smile extra big today, guys, because life just got a little better. Many thanks, No Doubt!
The media is already abuzz over No Doubt’s AWESOME first in-studio webisode! We love that the media is as excited about the new music as we are!!
PopCrush:
No Doubt fans have been patiently awaiting the band’s return, and over the weekend, the quartet finally announced a Sept. 25 release date for their sixth studio album. Now, Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young are giving No Doubt lovers a sneak peek of a new track called ‘Push and Shove,’ which they previewed during an in-studio webisode.
Hard at work putting the finishing touches on their upcoming 2012 LP, the members of No Doubt individually discussed the overall recording process for the album during studio sessions in Santa Monica, Calif. “We are so doing cool hours,” Kanal, who plays bass, said to the camera. “We come in at 9:30 or 10 in the morning because we’re all up early. I was up at 6:30 this morning with my daughter. So I got to spend a few hours with her and then head into the studio.” No Doubt might be one with their fans, but it’s good to know that family still comes first!
Kanal later delved into the ‘Push and Shove’ track, which is a collaborative effort with Major Lazer, aka DJs/producers Diplo and Switch. The electro duo have been making their rounds in the pop genre lately, lending their song ‘Pon de Floor’ to Beyonce‘s ‘Run the World (Girls)’ track. “We got a call from Jimmy [Iovine] and [he said], ‘You should meet these guys. They really want to work with No Doubt.’ We had heard of Major Lazer and we had heard of Diplo and Switch. I reached out to them and said, ‘Do you have anything or do you want to work on something together?’ We all got in the studio together and worked on this track [‘Push and Shove’].”
Later in the video, Stefani can be heard singing, “You push and shove / I take the bait / it’s a risky business, gonna play it anyway,” as Young pounds furiously on the drums, leading into a breakdown during the chorus. Major Lazer’s production is evident as heavy reggae beats make its way into the track, which also includes vocals from Jamaican artist Busy Signal. In the YouTube description, No Doubt writers, “Of all the songs on the album, this is the only collaboration of it’s kind. Enjoy!”
Gwen Stefani and No Doubt have begun promoting their first new album in more than a decade with a series of “webisodes” that go behind the scenes of recording sessions in their Santa Monica studio.
Stefani is joined by band members Tom Dumont, on guitar, keyboards, Tony Kanal on bass and keyboards and Adrian Young on drums. They’ve all been playing together since the 1980s.
The first in a series of short videos leading up to the album’s release Sept. 25 previews a brand new track called “Push & Shove.”
Kanal reveals that Universal Music mogul Jimmy Iovine hooked them up with Major Lazer and Jamaican artist Busy Signal.
“Push and Shove” features No Doubt and Diplo and Switch, the principals behind Major Lazer.
The new webisode reveals a snippet of “Push and Shove,” with Stefani singing a line or two of a verse.
“You push and shove,
I take the bait.
It’s a risky business
gonna play it anyway.”
The band’s sixth, as yet unnamed, album will include 12 tracks under the tentative titles: “One More Summer,” “Gravity,” “Settle Down,” “Easy,” “Dreaming the Same Dream,” “Heaven,” “Undercover,” “Psycho,” “Push and Shove,” “Looking Hot,””Sparkle” and “Undone.”
No Doubt promised tons of new content for their fans between now and the release of their long-awaited album, due September 25, and the band is making good on their promise already. The ska-pop-rock quartet uploaded their first In Studio webisode, where we get a behind-the-scenes look at the recording of their LP, and hear a few bits and pieces of new track “Push And Shove”.
“You push and shove / I take the bait / It’s a risky business / Gonna play it anyway,” sings Gwen Stefani on the tune, which was a collaboration between No Doubt and Diplo and Switch, the principals behind Major Lazer. (Apparently, Jimmy Iovine was responsible for the two groups getting together. Thanks, Jimmy! We like what we hear so far.)
Just a few days after announcing release date for their new album, No Doubt post a video from their recording sessions in Santa Monica as part of their webisode series. It takes fans inside the room where the band crafted a new song called “Push & Shove”. They said, “Of all the songs on the album, this is the only collaboration of it’s kind. Enjoy!”
In the video, Gwen Stefani sings some lines, “You push and shove/ I take the bait/ it’s a risky business/ Gonna play it anyway,” while Adrian Young beats the drums. The new song is a collaboration between No Doubt, producer duo Major Lazer and Jamaican artist Busy Signal for the new album that will come out in the United States on September 25.
“We are so doing cool hours,” Tony Kanal gushed to the camera. “We come in at 09:30 or 10 in the morning because we’re all up early. I was up at 06:30 this morning with my daughter. So I got to spend a few hours with her and then head into the studio.”
Recalling how they ended up working with Major, he said, “We got a call from Jimmy [Iovine] and [he said], ‘You should meet these guys. They really want to work with No Doubt.’ We had heard of Major Lazer and we had heard of Diplo and Switch. I reached out to them and said, ‘Do you have anything or do you want to work on something together?’ We all got in the studio together and worked on this track.”
We were playfully tweeting with a friend last week about No Doubt releasing their new CD in the Fall….of 2045. So when we heard they were setting a release date, I wasn’t holding my breath. Big mistake! Huge!
No Doubt not only said the new CD will be released on September 25th, but also released studio footage of them recording “Push & Shove” a new song with Major Lazer and Busy Signal.
I feel like a little fan boy right now. Yes, I just squeeled after watching the video again. Love seeing behind the scenes footage of stuff like this.
Since I was so late on this news, I think I might have to release a special unreleased remix of “Hollaback Girl” to make it up to the No Doubt fans. Coming sooner than U think!
Finally, No Doubt’s 6th studio CD is coming out September 25th!-DocFB
TIME:
Eleven years after releasing their last album, No Doubt’s return finally has a date: September 25, 2012.
The Orange County-bred quartet announced the release date of their sixth studio album in a video message over the weekend. The highly anticipated album has been in the works for the last few years, and a solid release date comes as a relief for many fans.
The genre-defying group also dropped their first webisode yesterday afternoon, part of a series documenting the recording process behind this still-untitled album. In the clip, we get a sneak peek into the recording of “Push & Shove,” featuring Jamaican artist Busy Signal and produced by Major Lazer.
The video shows the group having fun, Gwen Stefani spitting like fire into the microphone over dirty dance beats—the reunion feels worth the wait. And wait we did; three years after having announced the album, it’s not surprising fans and critics have grown more than a little impatient.
“A lot of stuff happened during that time period,” Stefani told Rolling Stone last June, defending criticism of their pace. “Marriages, babies and, for me, two records and two clothing lines. So if you really worked out the math, you’d be like, ‘Wow, you guys are going fast.’
Rolling Stone chronicled band’s recent movements earlier this year under the headline “No Doubt Somehow Still Recording Long Awaited Comeback Album.” Spin put together a slideshow of collected photos from the band members’ Twitter accounts, painting a picture of what the group has been up to “instead of recording.”
Indeed, they’ve done a lot. The band started songwriting work for the new album in March 2008, following the wrap of Gwen Stefani’s The Sweet Escape tour—though things were moving slowly, in part due to Stefani’s second pregnancy.
In the summer of 2009, they reunited for a greatest hits tour, hitting 50 cities across the U.S. and Canada, joined by acts like Paramore and Katy Perry. They performed on Gossip Girl later that year, and in 2010, they entered producer Mike “Spike” Stent’s studio (whom they worked with on Rock Steady in 2002) to start recording. That December, they performed before President Obama at the Kennedy Center Honors. News that they were recording with Major Lazer surfaced in 2011, and photos began to come in through the group members’ Twitter accounts documenting the process.
Last week guitarist Tom Dumont tweeted that they are finally mixing the album, in the process of shooting two videos, and plan to release its first single in July.
So, what can we expect to hear? A return to their ska-rock roots? Punked-out electronic dance music? More of the dancehall influences we last heard on Rock Steady?
Given the group’s collaboration with Major Lazer—comprised of Diplo and Switch—more dancehall influences appear to be on the horizon. In an interview with The Vine last year, Diplo described the sound as being reggae “from the future.” After hearing several tracks last summer, Rolling Stone revealed that “Settle Down” is a “party-ready reggae blast,” while “One More Summer” is a club-ready update of their ska-punk sound. Taking key elements of the genres they’ve experimented with over the years (both individually and as a group) and infusing it with timely, forward-thinking electronic and live percussive experimentation seems like the route the band is headed, but future webisodes may offer more clues as we get closer to the drop of the first single.
It’s good timing for No Doubt; music featuring live instrumentation and rock influences have been slowly gaining dominance on the charts, from Gotye to Adele to Fun.’s anthemic “We Are Young.” No Doubt may take their time with things—they also had a five year gap between 1995’s Tragic Kingdom and Return of Saturn—but they’re returning to a base that’s primed and ready for their comeback.
No Doubt is ramping up for the release of their first album in eleven years and are taking fans behind the scenes in a series of webisodes documenting the making of the set, the first of which was premiered by the band yesterday on its website.
“Over the past few months, Gwen, Tony, Tom and Adrian have been recording together and filming the process at producer Spike Stent’s studio in Santa Monica, California,” the band writes in the introductory post.
The album is actually years in the making. The band began initial work on the record in March 2008, after Gwen Stefani wrapped the tour behind her second solo album, The Sweet Escape. Songwriting on the effort reportedly got off to a slow start because, according to a post from Stefani, she was distracted by her second pregnancy, and was delayed further when the band, energized by being in the studio together for the first time since the sessions behind 2001’s Rock Steady hit the road in 2009 for a massively successful greatest hits tour.
The band spent the majority of 2010 quietly cutting demos in Kanal’s studio in personal studio in Hollywood before joining Stent at his studio in early 2011 to officially begin tracking the effort. Progress has been slow but steady since then, and the band has been waiting for the right time to release the album. That time, it seems, is September 25.
In the webisode below, we see the recording process behind the song “Push & Shove.” It’s a really interesting look at the inner working of a functioning band (I feel like we’re too used to hearing stories about bands at war and backstage battles) who seem really pleased to be creating together again.
Welcome back, No Doubt. We’re thrilled to hear (literally) that things sound better than ever.
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