Indie Rocks! A Benefit Album For Malaria No More is comprised of 14 songs from artists including Juliette Lewis, The Walkmen and Youssou N’Dour, in addition to an exclusive unreleased live track from Third Eye Blind, and an exclusive cover track from Peter, Bjorn & John.

On November 17, 2009, the digital-only release will launch on Amie Street with a four week exclusivity period. The album will then be available to all participating digital service providers.

RED and Amie Street will be donating 100% of the proceeds to Malaria No More.

Malaria No More is determined to end malaria deaths in Africa by 2015. Malaria kills a child in Africa every 30 seconds, but it doesn’t have to be this way – malaria is a treatable and preventable disease.

Luckily, the world is mobilizing to end the disease. In the past few years, new tools and increased awareness have pumped new energy into the fight against malaria. Individuals all over the world are helping parents keep their children safe from the deadly bite of a malarial mosquito with a simple, $10 mosquito net. Millions of individuals across the globe are helping to make malaria no more once and for all.

Said Bob Morelli, President of RED, “We are very excited to work together with Malaria No More on this fantastic compilation, which has the potential to save thousands of lives.”

Amie Street will also make the compilation available at multiple price points, effectively giving consumers the option to make a donation in the amount of $10, $20, $50 or $100.

“The Indie Rocks! CD is a great way to show how easy it is to help save a life,” said Scott Case, CEO of Malaria No More. “For just $10, music fans receive a one-of-a-kind compilation album and send a mosquito net to help families protect their children from malaria. The generosity of the artists and their fans will have real impact in the lives of children in Africa – showing how music has the power to change the world.”

Indie Rocks! A Benefit Album For Malaria No More features an outstanding line-up of Artists.

Third Eye Blind, which just made an impressive comeback in 2009 by charting at #3 on the Top 200 Billboard Charts with Ursa Major, has generously contributed the exclusive live track “Bonfire.”

Acclaimed Swedish indie rock band Peter, Bjorn, and John donated an incredible exclusive cover track “Summer Breeze,” originally written by Seals & Crofts.

The multi-talented Juliette Lewis came on board with “Fantasy Bar,” off her new album Terra Incognita.

The Walkmen have given the riveting “Four Provinces,” off 2008’s You & Me, which in a similar charitable spirit, was released as an exclusive with Amie Street, with all proceeds for the album going to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

The renowned singer, songwriter, composer, cultural icon, and 2005 Grammy Award Winner Youssou N’Dour is one of the most celebrated African musicians in history. Having already worked very closely with Malaria No More, he recorded the song “Fight Malaria,” and allowed this track to be part of Indie Rocks! A Benefit Album For Malaria No More.

In releasing Indie Rocks! A Benefit Album For Malaria No More, RED, Amie Street, and all of the Artists who have generously donated their music will significantly reduce malaria infections and help make malaria-related deaths a thing of the past.

About Malaria No More:

Malaria No More is determined to end malaria deaths in Africa – and we’re helping the world get it done. We use breakthrough communications, global advocacy and smart investments to help us reach our goal: providing universal access to malaria interventions by the end of 2010 and ending deaths by 2015. Every 30 seconds a child dies from malaria, but a simple net can save lives. Find out how you can help at www.MalariaNoMore.org.

Track Listing:

1. Peter Bjorn & John – Summer Breeze (Exclusive)
2. Juliette Lewis – Fantasy Bar, from Terra Incognita
3. Jeff The Brotherhood – Bone Jam, from Heavy Days
4. The Grates – Two Kinds Of Right from Teeth Lost, Hearts Won
5. Third Eye Blind – Bonfire (Exclusive, Live in NYC)
6. Dirty Little Rabbits- Hello, from Simon
7. Wild Light – Adult Nights, from Adult Nights
8. The Walkmen – Four Provinces, from You & Me
9. State Radio – Let It Go, from Calling All Crows
10. Those Darlins – Wild One, from Those Darlins
11. Great Lake Swimmers – Pulling On A Line, from Lost Channels
12. Kate Miller Heidke – Politics in Space, from EP Kate Miller-Heidke
13. Yonder Mountain String Band – Fingerprint, from The Show
14. Youssou N’Dour – Fight Malaria

For more information, go to:

Amie Street Official Website

RED Distribution Official Website

Malaria No More

Debut Album Lovesick Electric Available October 27th

Hot Chelle Rae will be the main support to Third Eye Blind for two weeks in October.

The tour leads up to the release of the band’s debut album ‘Lovesick Electric’, coming out October 27, 2009 on Jive Records.

Buy Music:

Hot Chelle Rae on amazon.com

The band has already released the hit song “I Like To Dance”.

Watch “I Like To Dance” video – acoustic:

Hot Chelle Rae October 2009 tour dates:

(Dates and information subject to change.)

All dates are with Third Eye Blind

Oct 11 Binghamton University Events Center Vestal, NY
Oct 12 The State Theatre State College, PA
Oct 14 Lincoln Theatre Raleigh, NC
Oct 15 Memorial Hall Dahlonega, GA
Oct 17 JF Gregory Park Richmond Hill, GA
Oct 18 Neighborhood Theatre Charlotte, NC
Oct 21 Starland Ballroom Sayreville, NJ
Oct 22 Stanley Theatre (Utica College) Utica, NY
Oct 24 Jorgenson Center (UConn) Storrs, CT
Oct 26 Wharton Center (Michigan State) East Lansing, MI
Oct 27 House of Blues 27 Cleveland, OH
Oct 29 Wink Arena Big Rapids, MI

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Start lining up at 6AM for the chance to hear new songs off of Third Eye Blind’s NEW album ‘Ursa Major’.

Third Eye Blind will be performing at 8:30 AM at Rumsfield Park in Central Park, NYC LIVE on Good Morning America on Friday July 17, 2009.

For directions and questions about where to lineup and details please visit ABC News – GMA Central Park Summer Concerts for more information.

This exclusive LIVE performance is open to fans of all ages.

For those of you tuning in at home this performance is set to air LIVE at 8 AM via your local ABC Channel.

‘Ursa Major’ IN STORES EVERYWHERE AUGUST 18th

Buy Music:

Third Eye Blind on amazon.com

Third Eye Blind’s new single “DON’T BELIEVE A WORD” available now on iTunes
Pre-order Ursa Major on Amazon

For more information on Third Eye Blind, please visit:

Third Eye Blind Official Website
MySpace
Stephan Jenkins on Twitter
Third Eye Blind on Twitter

Third Eye Blind are about to release their first batch of new songs in five years via a digital EP, entitled ‘Red Star’, on November 18th, 2008. The material, which includes three new tracks along with additional video content, will be followed by a full-length release, ‘Ursa Major’, in 2009.

Third Eye Blind on amazon.com

Listen to the official mix of Third Eye Blind’s new song:

Download “Non-Dairy Creamer” MP3

Listen to the mix created by Eduardo Reynoso Jr. as part of the “Studio Access” program.

Last but not least, much has been written about Third Eye Blind singer Stephan Jenkins’ recent comments about the state of the album as a viable format for releasing music.

However, Jenkins does not believe the album format is dead at all…see the letter below from Jenkins for further discourse on the subject.

WHAT IS AN ALBUM?
- from Stephan Jenkins

My life is measured out in albums I have loved. We try to make those albums.

On November 18th, THIRD EYE BLIND is going to release three new songs from our upcoming album, Ursa Major. It’s been five years since we put out our last album. Since then, the options on how to release music have exploded. Yay!

All of these options made us ask: What’s an album? How does one want to encounter it? Reaching people with music is our challenge and purpose-how should we do it? Here’s what we think.

Albums are the most vital and compelling art form in my life. “Bohemian Rhapsody” is my favorite opera just by virtue of brevity! I grew up with headphones and liner notes, finding my identity through albums, and I have spent my life making them.

Led Zeppelin, every album (’cept Presence!) sounds dangerous and compelling to this day. The Police’s first three albums are still liberating and exotic. The Velvet Underground, Prince, Cat Stevens, The Clash, Joy Division, A Tribe Called Quest, Jane’s Addiction, and most influential to me, Camper Van Beethoven – their albums owned me probably more than I owned them.

I spent last year getting crushed by The Raconteurs, Justice, Foals, M.I.A., and Kings of Leon.

I can’t wait to put out Ursa Major in hopes that others will feel about it the way I do about bands I love. I personally won’t feel like Ursa Major is done until I put the vinyl on the turntable and until I’m holding the CD in my hand.

I prefer albums to singles and mix tapes and playlists. I still put vinyl on my turntable and freak out about how good Icky Thump sounds recorded on 16 track tape heads.

However, the album was created by the limitations of vinyl – about forty-five minutes and then expanded to the CD – about eighty minutes. Artists like The Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Pink Floyd made cohesive pieces of art from these limitations.

Albums were also created so that record executives could make cash. Albums require huge time commitments and budgets and then lots of promotion and album cycles and of course key tracks and hit singles, and payola, and getting signed and getting dropped, and 360 deals, and a very few people at the top of corporations who are interested in quarterly statements and ameliorating risk and who know what’s best for your band.

We love albums, we also feel limited by them. All I am saying is your website can now be your album, an ongoing ever-changing one that grows and morphs and reflects your creative impulses as you have them. Grab the moment of a song and share it the night you finished it. Make art that you have for it and post it. Then go play some shows and record some more. Physical and digital releases can interconnect and enhance each other.

The album cycle is endless, the connection between band and audience is unbroken. How fluid and creatively freeing. And the best part is you don’t have to get permission from a boss in order to do it. Yay!

This all seems so much more democratic to me. Fewer people at the top will become billionaires this way, but more people will make a living making music. More bands who must be heard but couldn’t make a physical album have a chance. More music is available to kids like I was whose very identity depends on finding it. These are the days!

And while we are at it, I think the hit single is arcane as well. The songs that have resonated the longest with 3EB’s audience sometimes haven’t even been on our albums (see “Slow Motion”).

Oil paintings require oil paint in order to exist, it’s true. Music can exist and thrive in all kinds of formats — not just albums or singles. Maybe your best canvas is a website. Still friends?

I know that 3EB is launching a new website soon and we are giving it a lot of creative attention. It will be a device to engage our music, find, and share with others around music. We see it as one big digital album that will also go with our physical albums.

Finally, this is not an “us against them” argument. Majors continue to support hugely entertaining albums and I have worked with a lot of people at majors (like WEA) who care passionately about music. They are not going away and neither is the album.

I’m saying that choices are exploding. Albums are not the only way, and perhaps not even the most creative and effective way. Then again, they may be the way for you. Third Eye Blind is going to keep making records because we like them. But we are also going to put up songs like the three we are putting out on November 18th for download.

We might also in the future post a song when we record it and then maybe put out the album later.

WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE ARE DOING! We don’t think anyone else does either and we love it. We consider these to be exciting times to be lost in. I hope you have the choice and I hope you continue to find yourselves and each other through music.

Third Eye Blind Official Website

Third Eye Blind has partnered with Indaba Music to launch an innovative new web program, “Studio Access,” in support of the band’s upcoming album URSA MAJOR, scheduled for release in early 2009.

Designed to provide Third Eye Blind fans and other musicians with unprecedented access to the band’s creative process, “Studio Access” invites fans into to the band’s San Francisco studio to witness the recording of URSA MAJOR by logging on to the Studio Access – Indaba Music site.

Through videos, blog posts, and more, 3EB will allow everyone to hear new music and other creative content before it’s released, share comments, and even help them put the finishing touches on their new album, starting with the first new track in six years, “Non-Dairy Creamer”, the stems of which are being made available before anyone has even heard the band’s own final mix!

It’s been over five years since Third Eye Blind released their last record, and a lot has changed since then. Especially in the music business, and for Third Eye Blind, the changes are for the better.

3EB had their first taste of fame when the band released their debut CD, ‘Third Eye Blind’, in 1997. The album yielded five radio hits, including the now classic “Semi-Charmed Life.”

The band quickly rose to the heights of rock stardom, touring the world and releasing a string of radio hits over the next seven years. Yet, as they were pushed through the star-making machinery behind their very popular songs, they eventually lost control of their music and their image, until one day in 2004 the band woke up and realized they didn’t recognize themselves anymore. It was then that they decided it was time to take a break — time to take a look inside, re-evaluate who they were as artists, and get back in touch with themselves, their music, and most importantly, their fans.

These days 3EB write, record and tour on their own terms, unencumbered by the traditional rules of the biz that dictate how and when music is released. If the band wants to play a gig in San Diego, they play a gig, and 11,000 fans turn out, proving that, despite a five-year hiatus between albums, 3EB remains connected with its audience. And when Third Eye Blind releases URSA MAJOR in early 2009, it will be on the band’s own imprint, distributed through Sony/RED.

Contest to find the best fan mixes of songs from URSA MAJOR:

To celebrate the release of URSA MAJOR, and in recognition of the role their fans play in the artistic equation, Third Eye Blind’s “Studio Access” program also involves a unique, unprecendented contest to find the best fan mixes of songs from the album – before they’ve even heard the band’s own mix!

The contest kicked off September 15, 2008. Fans and other musicians will be able to download the audio stems from the first single from URSA MAJOR, “Non-Dairy Creamer.” Participants will have until October 6, 2008 to mix the song and post their finished track on the site, after which Indaba members will choose their three favorite mixes (voting runs October 6-16, 2008) as the Top 3 community winners. The band will also select their favorite from among all submissions, and the winning track will be made available on the band’s new website (launching soon), Myspace, Facebook and various other sites.

Several other tracks from URSA MAJOR will be made available through “Studio Access” throughout the rest of this year, culminating in a collection of fan-mixed tracks that will serve as a companion piece to URSA MAJOR. Best of all, a grand prize winner will be chosen based on the single best mix of the entire “Studio Access” program, and will be invited to perform live on stage with Third Eye Blind on one of their tour stops in early 2009.

Producers of the Top 3 winning mixes of each song will also win signed copies of URSA MAJOR.

Full contest details

Third Eye Blind Official Website