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December 22.2007

JOE LENNANE

We are deeply saddened by the loss of a great friend and amazing production manager, Joe Lennane.Joe passed away this week while on tour in Switzerland. He made a huge impact on everyone around him, including

ourselves and will be missed.

49 "Makes Me Wonder"Maroon 5Quite a player, that Adam Levine: In addition to his good looks, he's got that silky voice and a big bagof hooks. He deploys both on this dance-pop kiss-off, a hit brighter than any Swedish tunesmith hascome up with in years.

10. Maroon 5: Makes Me Wonder

- What made it so catchy: Pop juggernaut Maroon 5 returned from their smash Songs About Janewith this Jamiroquai-esque pop ditty that made you wonder if you could ever get it out of your

head.

Sleek, sexy and featuring just the right amount of distro buzz, the song was an instant hit.Singer Adam Levine once again owns us with his pop prowess, using his swagger-filled, well Pro-

Tooled falsetto to drive this ditty straight through your ears and smack into your brain.

Top 5 Songs To Listen To While On The Road In Europe

Filed under: Jesse Carmichael, Maroon 5,MySpace blogs maroon5blog @ 1:14 pm

By Jesse Carmichael

Bright Eyes - Make A Plan To Love Me

Radiohead - Nude Bob Dylan - Dont Think Twice. Its Alright

The Orioles - Its Too Soon To KNow

Bjork - Earth Intruders

December 18.2007

IWBSBL "THE B-SIDE COLLECTION" ON ITUNESHead over to the iTunes store for an opportunity to purchase a collection of songs that did not make the "ItWon't Be Soon Before Long" album.B-SIDE COLLECTION AT THE ITUNES STORE.

FAN CLUB STORE DISCOUNTJust a reminder to our SIN Fan Club members, with your membership you also get a 10% discount to theOFFICIAL MAROON 5 WEB STORE. Please contact your SIN rep if you have any questions.

'Maroon 5 n 1 en iTunes'

- It Won't Be Soon Before Long es el album ms vendido en iTunes consiguiendo desbancar a 'Amy Winehoue' y'Kanye West'. El segundo disco de la banda bati rcords de pre-venta al superar las ms de 50.000 copiasvendidas y con solo una semana consiguieron vender ms de 101.000, gracias a estas ventas han conseguido que estedisco sea el ms vendido de 2007 en este formato.
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December 11.2007

HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) ON ITUNESMaroon 5 cover the classic John Lennon song, "Happy Xmas" (War Is Over) which is available today on iTunes.Head over to the ITUNES STORE to purchase your copy.

Maroon 5, Fergie are No. 1 for year on iTunes

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Maroon 5 and Fergie hold the top spots on iTunes' year-end sales roundup.

The online music store released its top-selling albums and singles Tuesday, though it declined to release actualsales figures.Maroon 5's sophomore album, "It Won't Be Soon Before Long," was the No. 1 seller on the site, followed by AmyWinehouse's "Back to Black" and Kanye West's "Graduation." Winehouse and West are also leaders heading intothe 50th annual Grammy Awards -- he has eight nominations, she has six.Rounding out the top five best-selling albums were "American Idol" alum Chris Daughtry's band's self-titleddebut, "Daughtry," and "Coco" by newcomer Colbie Caillat, who has the hit "Bubbly."Fergie came in at first and fifth place in single sales. Her hit "Big Girls Don't Cry" was the top-selling single ofthe year for iTunes, while "Glamorous" finished in fifth. Gwen Stefani's "The Sweet Escape" came in second

place, followed by Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah" and Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend."

WON'T GO HOME WITHOUT YOU PREMIERTune into VH1 Top 20 Countdown tomorrow - Saturday December 1st for the premier of the video for "Won't GoHome Without You". Check your local listings for time and channel.

You can view the video online via our Maroon 5 You Tube Channel now as well as the entrance to the maroon5.comwebsite."WON'T GO HOME WITHOUT YOU" ON YOUTUBE!

November 28.2007

AUSTRALIA TOUR DATES

Check out the LIVE section to see the newly announced 2008 Australia Tour Dates. We look forward to seeingyou on the road!

BID ON GUITAR LESSONS WITH JAMES

Check out the 4thAnnual GRAMMY Charity Holiday Auction where you can bid on a guitar lesson with JamesValentine! Auction proceeds benefit MusiCares and the GRAMMY Foundation. The auction ends December 6, soplace your bids today at EBAY.COM/GRAMMY

Janet Jackson graba un do con Maroon 5 para su nuevo lbum

El disco, que an no tiene ttulo definitivo, se publicar en el primer trimestre de 2008. Incluso, se rumorea quepodra estar listo para finales de enero aunque este dato an no ha sido confirmado. Lo que s es seguro es que,para su nuevo trabajo, la cantante ha grabado un do con el grupo de rock Maroon 5.

November 16.2007

DECEMBER BLENDERThe December issue of Blender is on newsstands now. Check out the "Collect Call From: Maroon 5" starting onPage 67.
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November 13.2007

"MAKES ME WONDER" REMIX AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADHead over to iTunes now to download the "Wake Up Call" Mark Ronson Remix Featuring Mary J. BligeCHECK IT OUT HERE.

November 12.2007

TV APPEARANCESKeep an eye out for Maroon 5 on your TV this week.Thursday - November 15th on The Ellen ShowSunday - November 18th on The American Music AwardsCheck your local listings for time and station.

November 8.2007

"WAKE UP CALL" MARK RONSON REMIX W/ MARY J. BLIGEMaroon 5 has announced a November 13th release for the "Makes Me Wonder" remix. The new version wasremixed by Mark Ronson (Christina Aguilera, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen) and features vocals from six-timeGrammy winner Mary J. Blige. The song will be available through online music retailers including iTunes.

October 30. 2007

VERISON PRESENTS MAROON5 MASH UP

ake your own mash of "Makes Me Wonder" and "Wake Up Call" and send it to all your friends.

Enter for a chance to win a guitar signed by Maroon 5 and $2,500!http://www.maroon5concerts.com/mash

Maroon 5 is a band perhaps best known for its sex appeal and steamy videos.

When the neo-soul pop band made it big with their first album, Songs About Jane, they stirred up controversywith a video in which frontman Adam Levine appeared to be having sex with his then-girlfriend. Then there wasanother video that featured Levine pining after a highly sexualized Kelly Preston.

The controversies, combined with the bands radio-friendly pop tunes, took the debut album to the top of thecharts. But it took more than two years for that album to climb the charts and while the bands sophomorerelease had a brief stint at the No. 1 spot on Billboard, its now hovering around the 50th spot.

It Wont be Soon Before Long was released in May and although its not the blockbuster the band might havehoped for, Levine was impressively cool and relaxed about its reception when he spoke to The Vancouver Sunfrom a tour stop in Orlando.

Our first album, we wont ever be that again and the beauty is that we dont need to because we can still playthose songs live, he said.

Its still a huge part of us. In fact, we lean towards that material when we play it because thats whats puttingpeople in seats right now is the first album.

Maroon 5 will take the stage tonight at Pacific Coliseum to play the songs the audience wants. But they will alsoplay several songs off the new album, with hopes that in time, they too will become favourites.
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That takes time - so much time - and touring and playing good sets and keeping people interested, becausepeoples interest can wane very quickly if you start getting too self-absorbed.

Levine is famous for his vanity and confidence. But that is undoubtedly part of his appeal.

He has a reputation as something of a serial dater - having been romantically linked to Jessica Simpson, Natalie

Portman, Maria Sharapova and several other women. But he says he actually has very little time for a social lifewhen hes touring.

It is fun out here, but its so much work and youre so consumed by it that for me, personally, I cant reallysocialize at all because I have to be able to sleep and perform and keep myself together so that I can keep thismachine rolling, he says.

Yoga has kept him in prime physical and mental shape during the current tour and he concedes hes becomesomewhat obsessed with it.

I definitely have the bug. I started about eight months ago and I havent stopped, he said.

Obviously, for vanitys sake its nice, and for your body its good. But also, mentally, it is the most intenselycentering and grounding thing. Ive never been this focused in my entire life.

I can pretty much directly attribute it to the yoga because I didnt start taking Prozac and I sure haventchanged any other habits in my life, so its definitely, honestly one of the best things thats ever happened tome.

At 28 years of age, Levine says hes left behind many of his boy-ish ways, but is feeling fantastic and lookingforward to getting older.

I feel so young considering where I am in my life. I kind of enjoy being a little bit older. When I was 22 I wasjust a punk. I had a no idea what I was doing, he said.

I think that as I get older I get a little bit wiser. I embrace getting a little bit older and the cool thing is, yeah,Im almost 30, but Im also still 28. I dont look at it like an expiration date or anything. I look at it like, Cool, Iget to be a handsome, successful, young, compassionate 30-year-old man. Thats how I like to look at it.

Levine cant predict how long hell keep swaggering across stadium stages and wailing about love gone wrong, buthe looks to Sting and the Police - for whom Maroon 5 recently opened a show - as great inspiration.

Sting is one of my heroes and hes still such an amazing singer and still has it. Thats an exciting thing. Hes not ayoung guy any more and the fact he can still kill it is very inspiring, he said.

I really dont know whats going to come naturally [to me] . . . I certainly am not going to be clinging to my youth.I did away with a lot of the stuff that I used to do when I was a kid a while ago. I think its a natural thing you

have to feel out and you dont want to feel silly.

I dont know if Ill be able to be 35 and be on stage. I dont know if thats going to feel right. It may. It may feelright. I dont know.

For now though, Levine is focused on presenting a great show and giving his legions of female fans what they paidfor -funky, emotive, soul-pop songs sung by a playboy with chiselled features.

Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine is proudly old-school when it comes to his musical favorites. But at 28, he alreadyfeels a generation gap between himself and many of his fans.

When I mention The Police or Marvin Gaye or The Beatles, strangely enough, thats new to a lot of ears that are

younger and didnt grow up with them, Levine said.

Heres a look at three of his biggest influences:


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ARTIST: THE BEATLES

Legacy: Do you have to ask? Defunct since 1969, this English band still ranks as the most influential in rock.

Suggested albums: Except for the uneven Yellow Submarine soundtrack, all of them.

Levine: My mother used to play The Beatles Ill Follow the Sun every day. And every time, I felt somethingintuitively. It seemed effortless and so connected to who I was. I thought: Wow, this is something I could dowith my life.

ARTIST: MARVIN GAYE

Legacy: Before he was shot to death by his father in 1984, this gospel-bred R&B superstar was one of pops mostsoulful and versatile talents. Like few others, he transformed social and political issues into stirring music.

Suggested albums: Whats Going On; Here, My Dear

Levine: He seemed like an amazing person and it was one of the most tragic losses we ever had. I would be very

curious to see what he had to say now, because I wasnt around when he was. The world would be a better placewith him in it.

ARTIST: STING

Legacy: Veteran solo star and the charismatic leader of the now-reunited Police. In his younger days, Stingadmitted to deliberately stirring up trouble in his personal life to create fertile songwriting inspiration.

Suggested albums: (with The Police) Synchronicity; (solo) The Soul Cages

Levine: Have I stirred things up in my life to get a good song, like Sting did? I can guarantee you that isprobably true. However, I will never admit to it. Nobody wants to hear music about how happy and rich you are. It

just isnt interesting. I think what people want to know is: OK, youve got this great life, but dont you suffer theway we do? And the answer is: Yes, of course. Everyone suffers.

San Diego - end of tour pranks

Filed under: IWBSBL Tour, Maroon 5,Video maroon5blog @ 2:31 am

This was the last show of the tour for The Hives and Phantom Planet, so of course there were the customary endof tour pranks from each band!

PRANK 1: Phantom Planet

WATCH VIDEODuring the song California scenes from The OC were flashed up on the big screens. Lead singer Alex stoppedand said, Believe me, there will be serious retributions for all those who are listening backstage!

PRANK 2: The Hives

WATCH VIDEOMaroon 5 ran on stage dressed like The Hives in the middle of Hate To Say I Told You So and sprayed the bandwith silly string. Pelle, the lead singer of The Hives said, Maroon 5 are up nextwell just have to see ifsomething unexpected happens during their set.

PRANK 3: Maroon 5
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VIDEO 1 - AdamVIDEO 2 - James and Mickeys reactions

During Secret the Karas Flowers video for Soap Disco started playing on the big screens and ended with thewords Love Phantom Planet. Adam said, Just to let you know where Maroon 5 came from, we wanted to showyou a video we made when we were 17 so you can really get to know our history!

PRANK 4: Maroon 5

WATCH VIDEODuring Adam and Matts drum solo before Little of Your Time Phantom Planet and The Hives unexpectedly cameon stage to join in and they all ended up having a big jam session.

Adam Mix 94.1 Interview

Filed under: Adam Levine, Interviews, Maroon 5 maroon5blog @ 2:51 pm

Adam was interviewed in Las Vegas at The Palms hotel on Tuesday. Listen to the interview here

Theyve sold 2m albums in the UK, 10m in the US. But they cant get a good review. Angus Batey goesbackstage with Maroon 5, the worlds most misunderstood pop group

It is possible to pinpoint the moment where everything hits Adam Levine. During one of their best-known songs,She Will Be Loved, the singer, guitarist and principal songwriter in Maroon 5 allows his emotions to the surface.Performing in front of a sell-out crowd at the Staples Center in the bands home city of Los Angeles, Maroon 5

pause the song. A close-up of Levines face flashes on to the screens that flank the stage: is that a tear in whatmany suppose to be his gimlet eye?

I almost did [cry], Levine admits the following day, as he, bassist Mickey Madden and guitarist James Valentinechat over an organic meal in the bowels of San Diegos Cox Arena, another colossal sports venue the band havesold out. I was just taking it all in. We always do that pause, but this was a very intense one.

More or less all the people involved in the making of our record were there, and our friends and families,Madden explains of the LA show. All of the people that you wanna impress the most, the kind of people who,when you think about it, can really trip you up, or really make you play better.

This tours emphatic success has been the long-awaited reward for one of the most misunderstood and unfairlymaligned pop bands of recent years. Maroon 5s debut album, Songs About Jane, sold more than 10m copies

worldwide - 2m of those in the UK. The follow-up, It Wont Be Soon Before Long, released in May, is closing in on3m sales already.

Yet the bands rise has hardly been the serene, untroubled one such bald statistics suggest. Songs About Jane -originally released in 2002 - was the ultimate sleeper hit, turned into a huge success by relentless, unforgivingtouring. The bonds between the core members - Levine, Madden, keyboardist Jesse Carmichael and drummerRyan Dusick, all of whom had been friends since their early teens - were put to the test when an injury forcedDusick out of the group. Add to this a critical reception that paints them as at best opportunists, at worstcynical charlatans, and there seem plenty of good reasons for Levine and his bandmates to get emotional.

British critics view the band with suspicion tending to derision. NME, Uncut and Mojo - magazines with clearideas about what their readers judge to be serious rock music - did not review It Wont Be Soon.

This papers review of a gig in London this year said: They have clung to the perspective that adequate ispreferable to amazing, and competence is enough to fill the charisma void.
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It is difficult to see what Maroon 5 have done to attract such opprobrium. They are clearly serious about music:despite Noel Gallagher slagging them off when Maroon 5 and Oasis were paired on a British festival bill, theAngelenos bear no ill will towards the leader of a band they all admire. And as support for this tour of enormousAmerican venues they have chosen critics darlings the Hives, at least in part, as Valentine explains, because alot of our audience is a pop radio-listening audience that might not otherwise be exposed to a band like them.

Songs About Jane was a robust, immaculately crafted collection of pop-rock songs with nods to Stevie Wonder,U2 and Led Zeppelin. It Wont Be Soon transcends it: every verse, chorus and middle-eight has been honed to popperfection.

We wanted to make an album full of singles: that kind of was the goal, says Levine, smiling coyly. Maybe it wasa bit of a mistake the first time around, and we wanted to repeat that mistake. I like having hit singles! Its fun!

Its best just to ignore all press, be it good or bad, but its impossible at the same time, says Madden. Wedefinitely have a very populist role in the music scene, which I think all of us would prefer, rather than to be aniche band that appeals to music journalists. No one likes to read condescending or dismissive things aboutthemselves, but I think theres a lot more to the band than would meet the eye on a cursory glance, you know?

He has a point. Much of Maroon 5s US press concentrates on Levine, whose good looks and lyrics of pain and

heartbreak have combined with a string of assignations with high-profile women to turn him into prime celebrity-media fodder. His bandmates stop short of admitting frustration with his public image, but Madden concedes,when the singers is out of earshot: Adams celebrity is definitely overwhelming. Its distracting and it gets inthe way of seeing the band as a band, so, in that sense, its tiresome. But if Maroon 5 is a democracy - and thereis considerable evidence they are - its a democracy where some group members are more equal than others.

The vast bulk of the creativity comes from Adam, and thats duly noted in the way we make our decisions,Madden explains. Theres very little ego in our decision-making, particularly artistically, which is great - thats anice place to aspire to, and get to. I think the principal reasons bands fall apart and end up hating each other arejust pure questions of ego, jockeying for attention. But I think we all know the roles we play within the band.

The tour ends the day after our interview with a more intimate gig at the Palms casino in Las Vegas, the setculminating in a 10-minute cover of Princes Purple Rain. Afterwards, the band head to a club for an end-of-tourparty; all except Levine, a keen blackjack player, who is given the full Vegas high-roller treatment and spends thenight gambling in a roped-off VIP area.

Its not that he isnt one of the gang - he is a prime mover in the end-of-tour joke played on the Hives, who areambushed on stage by a balaclava-clad Maroon 5 who spray them with silly string - but perhaps the comparativeelevation of his personal celebrity has combined with the parts of his personality that lean towards the loner, andhas exaggerated his status as first among equals. In any case, his school friend argues, Levine was always a starin his own mind; its just now that everyone else is catching up.

Ever since he was 12, Id say, pretty firmly, that he hasnt basically changed, Madden says. I would maybe saythat fame has justified his personality. Valentine adds: Having been around lots of successful artists over theyears, theres a psychological profile that Adam shares with a lot of them. I wouldnt wanna name names, he

chuckles, but the front-person, the lead singer - its a very distinct type. You see it again and again.

Who could he mean? Maroon 5 played four dates on the last Rolling Stones tour, and were invited to meet eachband member individually in their separate dressing rooms - They did not disappoint, Madden grins - and onedate on the Police tour. Surely Valentine is not invoking Mick Jagger or Sting? And of course theres the yogathing, the guitarist says with a smile. (Levine is a recent convert and has brought his teacher on the road.) But,you know, theres a confidence, and theres never questioning what you do, and diving 100% into every decision youmake.

But even as headstrong a spirit as Levines occasionally takes the sensible route. Such as when the band decidednot to play their new single, Wont Go Home Without You, when supporting the Police, because of its obvious debtto Every Breath You Take. Sting went into our dressing room and slapped me in the face, Levine jokes. Seriously, though, [Every Breath] is one of my favourite songs ever written. I wanted to write a song like it.

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When Adam first brought the song to the band, says Valentine, it was like the Beach Boys meets the Strokes,because of the way the guitars were arranged. Its still like that in the chorus, but the turn came when we wererecording it, and we came across that muted part in the verse. We were like, Should we do that? And wedecided, Its fine - its an homage to one of our favourite bands.

The song would not have turned out the way that it did had they gotten back together before we made the

album, Levine explains. They were totally dead and gone, and were never going to get back together. And theyannounced their tour a week after our album came out. It would have been silly to play it. Madden sighs. Itwould have been like us saying, Hey, have you guys ever heard the Police?

This is a video from Nokias website that shows the band having fun while travelling around Europe. Maroon 5 aredoing a promotion with Nokia where if you buy their new N81 8GB phone, you get the new album, the unreleasedtrack Let It Go and a dance remix of Makes Me Wonder preinstalled.
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