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Tony Kanal Interviewed by Brandon Griggs

What made you guys enter the studio so soon?
We were just feeling the vibes. We finished touring in November of last year and we started writing at the beginning of January. The writing process moved quickly and was going so well that we were like ‘lets go into the studio and make this happen’. As smooth as everything was going, there was really no reason to wait.

So did you all help out on the writing of this album or did you have any outside collaborations?
Gwen, Tom and I wrote most of this record, but we did do a couple of outside collaborations. We co-wrote a song with Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics, and a song with The Neptunes (a hip-hop production team). Read the rest of this article »

Power POP Orbit

Tom Dumont launches more hooks for No Doubt’s Return of Saturn. By Kyle Swenson.

The moment the world got smashed over the head with No Doubt’s “Just a Girl” from 1996’s Tragic Kingdom, it was widely assumed the band was an overnight sensation. Not exactly.

The band formed in 1986, watched their major-label debut album flop in 1992, and logged years of recording an performing before its new wave/reggae/ska sound made a blip on the rock and roll radar.

In fact, as Tragic Kingdom was exploding towards number one on the charts, lead singer Gwen Stefani stated on the band’s Web site: “Last year, we were hanging by a thread. We were ready to quit and save ourselves from becoming a bunch of losers.” Read the rest of this article »