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When in Jamaica, No Doubt do as the Jamaicans do. The bandmembers are kicking it reggae style as they record their fifth album on the “Island in the Sun.” “[Bassist] Tony [Kanal] and I have been playing tons of crazy, dub-sounding keyboard tracks on all the demos,” guitarist Tom Dumont wrote in an e-mail interview Thursday. Their new duties have resulted in “a noticeable lack of guitar and bass” in the sound, he said. After laying down a handful of tracks in Los Angeles, No Doubt hopped a plane to the Caribbean to collaborate with a few of Jamaica’s renowned… Read more »

They took a bit of a break to hang out at this year’s South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, but Isaac and Taylor Hanson are hard at work, with brother Zac, on their third major-label studio album, which they hope to have out by the fall. “I’m really excited about the songs we’re writing,” says Taylor. “It’s actually moving more and more towards kind of power pop stuff – The Cars, The Raspberries, the Jayhawks, that kind of stuff. I started to hear some of that and thought, ‘This is where the band is moving.’” Isaac, meanwhile, describes the… Read more »