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The long wait may soon be over for Counting Crows fans.
The band, which hasn’t release a new album since 2002′s Hard Candy, have recorded the first half of their next album, frontman Adam Duritz told andPOP.
“I’m not sure about that,” he said, when asked if he had a release date in mind for the new record, but he said the band was in the process of finishing the other half.
Despite not having new material for the past five years, the Counting Crows toured last summer with the Goo Goo Dolls.
And although he could not specify a release date, some web sites are reporting the album may be released this August.
Adam Duritz wasn’t planning on starting another record label.
The Counting Crows frontman had been down that road before – in 1997, he founded the label E. Pluribus Unum, which was bought by Geffen Records in 2000. Even after discovering two great acts on MySpace, Duritz was still hesitant to start a label to sign the musicians and get them started.
It wasn’t just the stress of starting a new independent label from scratch; it was also the time commitment that such an endeavor requires, something Duritz didn’t know if he had.
But as he continued to listen to the music of Blacktop Mourning and Notar, and seeing Blacktop Mourning perform live, Duritz realized he wanted to help these acts more than he thought and he wanted to be a part of their evolution as artists.
“The talent of Notar and Blacktop Mourning just blew me away and I wanted to be a part of their evolution,” he said.
So Duritz started Tyrannosaurus Records (T-Recs), which will be based out of New York City and distributed by Megaforce Records.
Blacktop Mourning will be the first release of T-Recs, and their debut disc is set to drop on May 15. It wasn’t just Durtiz that gave the Chicago band a career booster; MTV discovered them in 2005 and began to play their songs on their shows.
Blacktop Mourning is a punk-pop band, which Duritz compared to the likes of Green Day. He also contrasted Blacktop Mourning’s guitarist and songwriter, Max Steger, with the songwriting abilities of Billy Joe, Green Day’s frontman.
Duritz said the comparison between the two comes before Green Day’s breakout smash album, Dookie. While it was a great record, Duritz said that Joe had always been writing songs in a tone that was beyond his years. Steger is the same, and is only 18-years-old.
Nonetheless, Duritz said that even though he ended up starting a label for the two acts, he realizes his responsibilities with the band do not end with that.
“I know that when you start a label you’re responsible for the hopes and dreams of the artists you sign and that’s a big deal to me,” he said, adding T-Recs will be signing a limited number of artists so that each artists on the label gets the attention they deserve.
Besides starting a new label to help them out, Duritz also performed vocally on four of the disc’s tracks, and Counting Crows guitarist, David Immergluck, also plays on the album.
Notar, a rapper from Brooklyn, New York, also caught Duritz’s eye. At only 26, Notar not only excels in songwriting capabilities, Duritz said, but he also plays the trumpet and attended the University of Dayton on a music scholarship.
By discovering the acts online, it illustrates the change that has occurred in the music business beyond just being able to download music. The fact that new artists can be discovered on places like MySpace open up more opportunities for more musicians than what existed as early as five or 10 years ago.
Duritz said that while he has some problems with people downloading music, it is also a great way for artists – both new and established – to get their music out, get new fans and a way to interact with the old ones.
The Counting Crows have their own MySpace page, as does Duritz. He also does a blog on his page, which keeps fans up to date. He said the web can be a great way for artists to reach out and branch out. He plans to link both Blacktop Mourning and Notar from his personal MySpace page and the Counting Crows site.
“I hope people listen to my bands,” he said.
Duritz, who toured this past summer on a double bill with the Counting Crows and Goo Goo Dolls, explained how important it is for musicians to be able to put on a good live show that their fans will want to come to over and over again. He used his band as an example.
“We haven’t put out a record in five years, and we had a sell-out summer tour (this past year),” he said, adding that he has seen Blacktop Mourning perform live and they put on a great live show.
Blacktop Mourning’s debut disc, “No Regret,” is set to drop May 15, while Notar’s debut will be hitting stores later in the fall.
If all goes as planned and the Counting Crows release their fifth studio album next year, five years will have passed since their last album with new music.
“The entire career of The Beatles,” jokes the band’s guitarist, David Immergluck, while finishing his eggs Florentine in Manhattan last week.
It’s been a while since the Counting Crows have been active, but it’s going to be a busy summer for the band from San Francisco.
In June, they will begin a 46-date summer tour, co-headlining with the Goo Goo Dolls.
On June 20, the band will release a live album, “New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 2003.”
And just over a week ago, they entered the studio to begin work on a new album.
The band will work on the album for the next few weeks. They’ll take a break a couple weeks before the tour, play shows all summer long, then it’s back to work to finish the album, which may not be out until next spring.
“We have four songs in a pretty strong straight,” Immergluck says. “We have about nine that we’ve been working on. So we’re ahead of schedule, which is kind of cool. It seems to be coming pretty easy, which is unusual.”
Immergluck says that while the band tries to find some direction in the beginning stages of creating a new album, ultimately, the music takes control.
“No matter what you do, it tells you what direction it’s going. You can control it to a certain degree but the song will force you to do any number of things.”
Fans can expect to hear many of the classic Counting Crows songs (“Mr. Jones,” “Big Yellow Taxi,” “Accidentally in Love”) on their upcoming tour.
“It’s been a while since we’ve been out playing so we’re very hungry for it,” he says.
Concert organizers had presented the band with the opportunity to tour with Sheryl Crow.
“There would have been a lot of opportunities for Crow imagery,” he says, “but us and the Goo Goo Dolls, looks like it’s going to be good.”
The tour is sure to be one of the summer’s highlights. The Counting Crows – a band that has sold 20 million albums worldwide – haven’t had a lengthy tour since 2003′s jaunt with John Mayer.
“I’m a big fan of a proper tour where you’re playing every night. The band gets into a greased groove,” he says. “If you have a gig every five weeks like we’ve been doing lately, it’s always good and exciting but it’s rough, rusty and randy. When you’re playing all the time, you get into the groove and the bar is raised.”
The Counting Crows and the Goo Goo Dolls will tour together this summer across North America.
The two rock bands will hit the road on June 17 in Las Vegas and won’t stop until they wrap up the tour in Dallas on September 9.
The Counting Crows have sold over 20 million CDs worldwide, and the Goo Goo Dolls have released some of the most-played songs in the history of radio (“Iris,” “Better Days”), so how do the bands decide who goes first and who closes the show on the co-headlining tour?
“We want to go first,” Goo Goo Dolls frontman Johnny Rzeznik told andPOP recently. “I need to get to bed early. I’m not a young man anymore.”
Tickets go on sale this weekend through Ticketmaster.
Dates:
Wed 6/21 Portland, OR Clark County Amph
Thu 6/22 Seattle, WA White River Amph
Sat 6/24 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Amph
Sun 6/25 Concord, CA Pavilion
Tue 6/27 San Francisco, CA Shoreline Amph/Chronicle Pavilion
Thu 6/29 San Diego, CA Coors Amph
Fri 6/30 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amph
Sat 7/1 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Pavilion
Mon 7/3 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion
Wed 7/5 Denver, CO Red Rock Amph
Fri 7/7 St. Louis, MO UMB Bank Pavilion
Sat 7/8 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Amph
Sun 7/9 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest
Tue 7/11 Cleveland, OH Scene Pavilion
Wed 7/12 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Amph
Fri 7/14 Columbus, OH Germain Amph
Sat 7/15 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion
Fri 7/21 Detroit, MI DTE Music Theatre
Sat 7/22 Buffalo, NY Darien Lake PAC
Mon 7/24 Toronto, ON Molson Amph
Wed 7/26 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank
Fri 7/28 Hershey, PA Hershey Pavilion
Sat 7/29 Boston, MA Tweeter Center
Mon 7/31 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun
Tue 8/1 Gilford, NH Meadowbrook Musical Arts Center
Thu 8/3 Wantagh, NY Jones Beach
Fri 8/4 Wantagh, NY Jones Beach
Sun 8/6 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata
Mon 8/7 Saratoga Springs, NY SPAC
Wed 8/9 Bethel, NY Bethel Woods
Fri 8/11 Scranton, PA Ford Pavilion
Fri 8/18 Chicago, IL Tweeter Center
Sat 8/19 Springfield, IL Illinois State Fair
Mon 8/21 Nashville, TN Starwood Amph
Wed 8/23 Raleigh, NC Alltel Pavilion
Fri 8/25 Philadelphia, PA Tweeter Waterfront
Sat 8/26 Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion
Mon 8/28 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Amph
Tue 8/29 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Verizon
Thu 8/31 West Palm Beach, FL Sound Advice
Fri 9/1 Tampa, FL Ford Amph
Sun 9/3 Atlanta, GA HiFi Buys Amph
Tue 9/5 Birmingham, AL Verizon Wireless Amph
Thu 9/7 Houston, TX CWM
Fri 9/8 San Antonio, TX Verizon Wireless Amph
Sat 9/9 Dallas, TX Smirnoff Amph
