Biggest Loser Promo: Love Remains the Same
July 30, 2008
TV Commercial From NBC’s Biggest Loser featuring Gavin Rossdale’s single “Love Remains the Same” - here
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Gavin Rossdale: Del Mar Race Track Interview
July 30, 2008
Chris Cantore (www.X1FM.com) interviews Rossdale before his show at the Del Mar Race Track.
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Guest mentor Gavin Rossdale performs on Idol
July 29, 2008
CTV.ca | Guest mentor Gavin Rossdale to perform on Idol tonight
As someone who brought whole stadiums to their feet with anthems such as “Machine Head” and “Swallowed” in the post-grunge era of the 90s and early years of 2000, former Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale knows a thing or two about rock music.
But the British-born performer, who just released his first solo album Wanderlust, is also no stranger to acoustic performances and stopped by Canadian Idol to help the Top 8 show their vulnerable side during ‘Unplugged’ week.
Rossdale was really pleased to see that the show was music-driven, with seven out of the eight competitors who have written their own material.
“I didn’t know what to expect. I love going into things and not knowing anything about what the hell is going on,” said Rossdale with a laugh, shortly after his mentoring session with the Idols.
“I really enjoyed it because I felt for all of them and I really enjoyed being non-judgmental. I understand the plight they’re in and I like the fact that they all seem to really care about what they’re doing and what they’re singing.”
Rossdale listened to each competitor perform their song the day before the Top 8 Performance Show and offered his advice on what they were doing right and how they could make it even better.
“I think it’s really trying to just allow them to understand they’ve done really good to get to this point and it’s not about pushing too much, trying too hard is the worst thing. It’s really about revealing. This whole process is not about dressing up or putting on a mask, it’s about taking a mask off. It’s showing us their vulnerabilities, it’s showing us their insecurities because that’s what’s appealing,” said Rossdale.
With so many ways of breaking into the music business, Rossdale said he couldn’t discount the reality television route.
“Do I think it’s the perfect way to break in? I think there’s a longer slower more painful, lonelier road to do without a big TV show because you can see the power nowadays and it kind of dates you to discredit (that),” said Rossdale.
“I think whether or not you come out on a major label or an independent record label or even this kind of a show, you’ve just got to concentrate on being good. If you’re good, everything else falls away.”
Rossdale follows his Wanderlust
You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who grew up in the 90s who didn’t know the words to songs like “Glycerine,” “Everything’s Zen” or “Machine Head.”
Bush was a defining act of the generation and received massive world-wide acclaim and success with 1994’s “Sixteen Stone,” 1996’s “Razorblade Suitcase,” 1999’s “The Science of Things” and 2001’s “Golden State.”
The band disbanded in 2003 and lead singer Rossdale went on to release an album under the band name Institute in 2005 - something he now thinks he should’ve released under his own name because it’s hard to start up a new band after being in such a huge one.
Fast forward a couple years and Rossdale started getting the itch to record something else as the title Wanderlust implies. He said a lot of people have commented on how glad they are he’s back making music, to which he replies, “But I never left.”
“That’s my journey, you know we’re all on journeys so it’s been painful but I think that pain is good and that when people realize that I’ve been in the ocean, I just fell over the wave, but I was still in the ocean and now I found a way back up and now I’m just sort of coasting and there’s a million miles to go but I’m definitely moving in the right direction,” said Rossdale.
He has also had to deal with the implications of being in a celebrity couple and how to keep the focus on his music and not his personal life. Rossdale is married to Gwen Stefani and the two have a son named Kingston, with another on the way.
Making a new record has been an enjoyable thing for Rossdale, especially since he was able to work with a variety of musicians on the album, something you can’t often do when you’re in a band.
“It just freed me up and allowed me to make that kind of a record and just go every day to the studio. It was inspiring but I made it with a good Canadian.”
This good Canadian is, of course, famed music producer Bob Rock, who is best known for his work with Metallica.
Rossdale said he has quite a clear aesthetic himself and Rock helped exactly where he needed him to.
“I didn’t want my hand held the whole time, but at certain times I really wanted some great input and he had some really good creative ideas and suggestions and so it was really pretty ideal production from him.”
Rossdale said the response to Wanderlust has been phenomenal and the record has seen a steady growth since its release in June.
“I know it will never reach the scales of where I went with Bush, but there’s something similar about this slow burn. There’s something powerful about it and before you realizing it you’re lighting tons of fires,” said Rossdale.
And with a new baby expected to arrive in August, it looks like things are exactly how Rossdale wants them to be.
But what happens if Gwen goes into labour while he’s here performing on the Canadian Idol stage?
“I’ll sing a song for him,” said Rossdale with a smile.
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Idols say working with Gavin Rossdale was invaluable
July 29, 2008
CTV.ca | Idols say working with Gavin Rossdale was invaluable
Working with Gavin Rossdale, former frontman for 90s post-grunge rock band Bush, was an invaluable experience, according to Canadian Idol’s Top 8.
Theo Tams from Lethbridge, Alta., said he has always looked up to the rocker and was told by Rossdale in his mentoring workshop he should find the heart and passion in the music.
Tams sang “Weak in the Knees” by Serena Ryder and credits Rossdale for the moving performance.
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Gavin Rossdale: La County Fair
July 29, 2008
2008Lineup
Lifehouse
Gavin Rossdale
Sunday, Sept. 28
8 p.m.
Lifehouse
With Who We Are, their fourth Geffen album in seven years, Lifehouse is really starting to enjoy the fruits of its success and have some fun. With this album the group gets back to basics of why singer-songwriter Jason Wade, along with drummer Rick Woolstenhulme and bassist Bryce Soderberg, formed the band while still a teenager in suburban California. Jason says they love making music and feel lucky to be able to continue to do it. The rocking twang of the lead single, “First Time,” is already climbing the Hot A/C and Top 40 charts. Fans will respond to mega hits “Hanging by a Moment” and “You and Me.” Other songs from the group include “The Joke,” “Broken,” “Make Me Over””Learn You Inside Out” and “Disarray.” Lifehouse re-recorded “Storm,” when Wade realized how much it meant to people. The song, part of the band’s first indie record, is now licensed by the television show So You Think You Can Dance. This is a rock band with a gift for melodies and lyrics that touch people.
Gavin Rossdale
Former frontman for post-grunge mega band Bush, Gavin Rossdale has taken the solo road with his album Wanderlust. And if the success of the first single, “Love Remains the Same,” is any indication, Rossdale is headed for success once again. Described as a wide range of modern rock to ethereal and romantic, Wanderlust has been called Rossdale’s most mature, sensual, honest and compelling album. With wife Gwen Stefani, Rossdale has reached the upper echelon of rock celebrity. Expect a rockin’ show at the L.A. County Fair.
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Gavin Rossdale: Canadian Idol
July 29, 2008
Check out these videos from Canadian Idol with Gavin Rossdale mentoring the contestants
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Gavin Rossdale: canoe.ca Interview
July 29, 2008
CANOE — JAM! Music - Artists - Rossdale, Gavin: Gavin Rossdale has new solo CD
Gavin Rossdale has new solo CD
By JASON MACNEIL — Sun MediaWhen Gavin Rossdale’s band Bush finally called it a day years ago, the singer was at a crossroads of sorts.
The musician, perhaps better known these days as the husband to No Doubt and solo pop star Gwen Stefani, opted to start another band called Institute after Bush disbanded.
But Rossdale doesn’t have fond memories of that particular experience.
“It’s a shame because there were so many songs on that band’s record,” Rossdale says from a promotional stop in Toronto. “That’s the closest I’ve been to a prostitute.”
Fortunately, Rossdale has put that group behind him and is back with a new solo album WANDERlust.
The album came out last month but was ready roughly eight months ago.
“There’s always such a delay and it’s a slow process moving the machine,” he says.
“That’s just the turnaround, the monolithic way of record labels. I kind of have a stupid faith in them.”
A BAND PERSON
Rossdale, 42, says he found it difficult becoming a solo act after being in Bush for so long.
“I don’t really like it when people go solo,” he says. “I’m a natural band person. (Guitarist) Thurston Moore out of Sonic Youth is weird. And yet I was forced to do it. If you want to keep making music and you feel an affinity for singing, writing and playing, you have to do what you do.”
The album, produced by Bob Rock, includes songs such as Forever May You Run as well as Can’t Stop the World, the latter featuring Stefani.
“She helped me write that song,” Rossdale says. “I hear what she does but I like keeping stuff away (from her) and just throwing it on in the car and saying, ‘What?’ So this one came up and she wanted to sing on it. And any husband knows you don’t step in the way of your wife. I wasn’t going to do that.”
Rossdale also wasn’t going to wait around before hitting the road in support of his new album.
While he’s already played a few European festivals, he says the connection with longtime fans has been rewarding.
“I’ve met many people who are not psychotic, that’s too strong, but they have such a sense of relief that I’m playing again and what it means to them,” he says. “And it’s so beautiful.
“It takes a lot to figure out what to do after a big band. People don’t prepare you for that ascendency but they also don’t prepare you for that descent. At least with the ascendency you’ve got fake friends. But on the way down it’s like, ‘Wow!’”
And while Rossdale will spend part of the year on tour, he’s also making a Canadian television appearance tonight as part of the Canadian Idol competition.
Rossdale says that much like Queen’s Roger Taylor and Brian May last year, he was a bit hesitant about accepting the offer to help the remaining contestants.
“It’s a bit of a weird one but I just thought that it was something that would be disgruntling about turning it down, something about being stuck in the past,” he says. “I think they’re all innocent, they’re all musicians and they just want to sing well. That was refreshing because I was a bit concerned they’d be more worried about the consequences of selling records like celebrity and fame.”
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Griffith Park Blaze Threatens Rossdale-Stefani Home
July 27, 2008
A local park close to Gavin, Gwen and Kingston home, Griffith Park has a 3- to 5- acre brush fire burning at the northern end of the park.
Griffith Park Blaze Threatens Celeb Homes - Access Hollywood
LOS ANGELES, Calif. –Fire officials say a 3- to 5-acre brush fire is burning at the northern end of Griffith Park in Los Angeles.
Celebrities including Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale frequent the park and live nearby.
Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Ron Myers says 75 firefighters are either at the scene or en route to the blaze, which was called in at 12:42 p.m.
Myers says the fire is burning in an area of heavy brush and four helicopters are dropping water on it.
Griffith Park is one of the largest urban parks in the U.S. and is home to the Los Angeles Zoo and the Greek Theatre.
Myers says there are no reports of injuries or threatened structures. The fire is moving slightly toward the south.
Myers says the firefighters are still sizing up the situation.
The hillside blaze west of the L.A. Zoo burned 15 acres and prompted some evacuations. The blaze was put out in three hours. California condors were moved to safer ground.
source: La Times
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