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Plain White T’s raising money for Invisible Children
Grammy-nominated rock act Plain White T’s has partnered with iPhone app developer Zuujit to raise money for Invisible Children.
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Grammy-nominated rock act Plain White T’s has partnered with iPhone app developer Zuujit to raise money for Invisible Children.
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“1,2,3,4,” the current hit single from Plain White T’s, has gone platinum, having sold over 1 million digital copies. The song appears on the band’s latest album, Big Bad World, which was recorded with Grammy nominated producer Johnny K and is the follow up to its 2006 major label debut album, Every Second Counts. Sales of “1,2,3,4” have been fueled by the popularity of its companion video, which caught fire after its release in February. To date, the single has garnered over 27 million plays on MySpace, while the video has over 5 million views on YouTube. Shot in 18-degree… Read more »
One night in the late 1990s, Conan O’Brien was hanging out in a Detroit bowling alley after shooting a remote segment with Ted Nugent (”I rode around in the woods with him, we had a guitar duel and then fired guns,” he recalls). “I have this vague memory of these really cool kids coming over and hanging out with us,” he says. “I knew nothing about them or what they did.” A few years later, O’Brien learned he had met Jack and Meg White that day when he popped into a Saturday Night Live rehearsal to check out the White… Read more »
Even with the overwhelming success of the acoustic ballad “Hey There, Delilah” last year – which earned the band two Grammy nominations – Plain White T’s lead singer Tom Higgenson says he’s been writing songs for the band’s next record since they finished their last one. Today, the Chicago-based quintet headed into a Malibu recording studio to begin work on their second major label album, the band’s fourth overall, which is expected to hit stores September 24th. While the band isn’t consciously trying to create a “Delilah Part II” (Higgenson points out all of the band’s albums have had slower… Read more »
Ashlee Simpson has set an April 22 release date for her third Geffen album, “Bittersweet World,” which features production from Timbaland and the Neptunes’ Chad Hugo. The first official single, “Little Miss Obsessive,” boasts guest vocals from the Plain White T’s Tom Higginson. The track has yet to land on any Billboard charts. Released digitally in December, album track “Out of My Head (Ay Ya Ya)” also failed to chart but has sold 117,000 digital downloads in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. Simpson indulges her ’80s fetish throughout the project. The sassy “Boys” imagines the Cardigans’ “Lovefool” atop a… Read more »
Jack White has revealed he he is working on three albums. The White Stripes/Raconteurs man explained his current projects while discussing the fallout caused by his first band scrapping their the rest of their 2007 tour dates because drummer Meg White was suffering from acute anxiety. “Half of me was glad because I have three other records I’m working on, and I didn’t have any time to work on them,” he told the Seattle Times. “I was really getting worried that I might have to not do these things I wanted to do because of the touring.” White would not… Read more »
Today it was announced that the Plain White T’s garnered their first-ever Grammy nod in the categories of SONG OF THE YEAR and BEST POP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCALS for “Hey There Delilah,” a song that grabbed the much-coveted No. 1 slot in the U.S. on Billboard ‘s “Hot 100” chart as well as the No. 1 slot internationally on Billboard’s Euro Singles Sales chart (the song hit #1 in 9 countries) making it one of the biggest songs in the world. As reported in Entertainment Weekly, the band’s smash hit “Hey There Delilah” has… Read more »
Casey Calvert, guitarist for post punk/ rock band Hawthorne Heights, was found dead early Saturday morning. Calvert was 26-years-old. According to several accounts Calvert appeared healthy on Friday night while spending time with friends before going to sleep for the night. Those same reports indicated that Calvert passed away at some point while sleeping. Calvert’s sound played a big role in Hawthorne Heights and its highly successful second album If Only You Were Lonely which debuted at #3 on the Billboard charts and produced the hit single “Saying Sorry.” Hawthorne Heights had a show in Detroit, Michigan on Friday night… Read more »
Global domination and making a new album are on the docket for chart-topping pop-rock band Plain White T’s in 2008.Currently opening for Fall Out Boy, the Chicago quintet plans to head overseas in January to promote the recent international release of its “new” album, 2006’s “Every Second Counts.” The group will play the U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, according to frontman Tom Higgenson.”We’re possibly bigger in the U.K. than we are in America now,” Higgenson told Billboard.com. “It’s still fresh over there. We’re going over to headline 2,000-seaters, which will be great.”But Higgenson and company are even more… Read more »
