subject: Maroon 5 Tickets - Maroon 5 Escape To Switzerland To Record New Album [print this page] Rather than set up shop in Los Angeles, Maroon 5 escaped to Switzerland to record the band's follow-up album to 2007's It Won't Be Soon Before Long with veteran producer Robert "Mutt" Lange. Frontman Adam Levine told Rolling Stone that while not enjoying fresh air and sampling some chocolate in Switzerland, the band was able to solely concentrate on recording, saying, "It's truly incredible, and it's so different because we've had only work to focus on." The fruits of their labor will be revealed when the album arrives sometime in 2010.
Prior to beginning work on their highly-anticipated new album, Levine and the rest of the band entered the studio to cover Frank Sinatra's legendary song "The Way You Look Tonight" for a project organized by iTunes. Maroon 5's version of "The Way You Look Tonight" will be featured alongside other cover songs, such as the Fashion's cover of "Something Stupid," Josh Radin's take on "Fly Me To the Moon," A Fine Frenzy's rendition of "The Things We Did Last Summer," the Kooks' cover of "Stormy Weather" and the Kills' take on "Willow Weep for Me." Titled His Songs, Our Way, the iTunes album became available for download this past June.
Maroon 5's charismatic and often cocky frontman Levine joked to Rolling Stone "I nailed it" (in reference to his cover of the Old Blue Eyes song) before admitting that he was actually "terrified" to be part of the tribute because he is a huge Frank Sinatra fan. While studio gadgets would likely have been able to enhance Levine's vocals (not that they need it!), he told Rolling Stone, "I wanted to go for it, and try and make it legitimate, and do it in a take, with a band performing live, and have it all be in one live take." It wound up requiring five takes - still quite a feat - at the same Capitol Records studios where Sinatra himself recorded.
Maroon 5 also contributed another song, their infectious hit "She Will Be Loved," to Band Hero, the multi-system Activism game that arrived on Nov. 3. Featuring an eclectic batch of songs by Lily Allen, Fall Out Boy, Jackson 5, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, David Bowie, Counting Crows, Hilary Duff, No Doubt, N.E.R.D., Cold War Kids, the Rolling Stones, the Airborne Toxic Event, Spice Girls, Duran Duran, Taylor Swift and many more, Band Hero lets players use Levine, Swift and No Doubt as playable avatars in the game.
Maroon 5 returned home from Switzerland in time to embark on a string of dates at college campus scattered throughout the U.S., starting with a Nov. 2 show in Murray, Kentucky. Other stops on Maroon 5's current mini-tour include Louisville, Ky.; Rochester, N.Y.; Lewisburg, Pa. and San Antonio, Texas. Check online for Maroon 5 tickets to see the band live on their current road trip, which wraps up in Wichita, Kan. on Nov. 22.
