The campaign for Maroon 5's sophomore release, "It Won't Be Soon Before Long," will continue well into 2008. But the group plans to work on its third album while it's touring to support this one.

 

"There's not really any material left over," guitarist James Valentine tells Billboard.com. "We are gonna set up a room backstage where we can play together, so hopefully we can start to work on the new material on the road so that we don't have as long of a gap as there was between our first (2002's 'Songs About Jane') and second records."

 

Valentine adds that the quintet has no sense yet of what direction it wants to go next, however. "Stylistically, we don't know," he says. "We'll see what happens. I'm just excited about getting into a room with these guys and seeing where we're at."

 

Maroon 5 will, of course also be focusing on its existing material when it hits the road Sept. 29 in Auburn Hills, Mich. With the platinum "It Won't Be Soon..." about to spawn a third single, "I Won't Go Home Without You," frontman Adam Levine says the group will "definitely be playing a healthy amount of new material" on tour. "When you have one album," he says, "you've got to play every song, which may not be appropriate for the set. Now that we have twice as much material, I think that we're really gonna be able to diversify the way the set comes off live. It's gonna be a thousand times better than the first (tour)."

 

Valentine says Maroon 5 will continue to work cover songs into the shows, but not to the extent the group did before. "I think those'll come in now and then, but it'll be more of a special thing," the guitarist explains. "We're just excited we have enough songs to make a set of our music now."

 

 

Levine says a film crew has been documenting the making of "It Won't Be Soon..." and Maroon 5's preparations for the tour. "We have B-roll even though there's no A-roll," he notes. Live footage probably won't be shot until sometime in 2008, he adds.

 

Next up, Maroon 5 will perform as part of Mark Ronson's set at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday in Las Vegas.

Cool. :dance:

I can't wait for a third album. :dance:

I thought this news was vital TBH, Because I think it confirms that Adam won't go solo seeing it was widely rumoured a while back :(

I never heard about that rumor. :o

Adam Levine -- Hard Up for Cash?

 

Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine must not be reaping the benefits of their new album just yet -- he doesn't even have enough money to pay the valet!

 

TMZ spotted the tatted up rocker outside Magnolia last night, where he had to take the wallet from his female companion to get money for a tip! Who bought dinner?!

 

Here is a link where u can see the video :lol:

 

Gimme dis wallet!

Maroon 5 looks to fill its setlist with originals

September 13, 2007 09:09 AM

By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski

LiveDaily Contributor

On this round of arena shows, Maroon 5 [ tickets ]fans can expect a healthy dose of new songs and few, if any, of the covers for which the pop band has become known.

"We're sort of known for playing cover songs and it was because we had no choice on the first tour," guitarist James Valentine said during a recent teleconference. "We only had one album's worth of material, so we had to start throwing in some other people's songs. We're just excited that we have enough songs to make a set of our own music."

 

On the same teleconference, lead singer/guitarist Adam Levine added, "We don't want there to be too many bells and whistles because we don't want to detract from the music. That's obviously really important to us. We're going to stretch out our show a little bit and do things that we didn't do last time."

 

That creative exploration would be on par with Maroon 5's sophomore collection, "It Won't Be Soon Before Long." The album's first single, "Makes Me Wonder," made the largest jump to No. 1 in the history of The Billboard Hot 100 chart, moving from No. 64 to No. 1. The move was fueled by digital sales of 243,500 downloads and a No. 1 debut on the Hot Digital Songs chart. The album is the follow-up to Maroon 5's 2002 debut, "Songs About Jane."

 

Even though headlining behind a lone album was a tough predicament, Maroon 5's members still have fond memories. For example, opening for The Rolling Stones at Detroit's Comerica Park was more than notable.

 

"That was an amazing experience," Valentine said. "They're our idols and it was amazing to see. We had the opportunity to meet them all backstage. They were so gracious. We were led around by Ronnie Wood to each member's dressing room and you could see each member's personalities in the little areas. Keith Richards' backstage area was just a bar."

 

There's going to be a bit of competition on this leg of Maroon 5's arena tour as Sweden's The Hives are scheduled to be the opening act.

 

"We love The Hives," Levine said. "They're a great band and we wanted to get a really good, energetic, amazing live act. There's often discrepancies between records and live shows, and you really never know who's a genuinely good band. They are just so great, literally. I think they're best suited for playing live, and that's what the show's about so we wanted to get the best one out there."

 

Valentine added, "It's going to raise the bar for us every night because they're going to be really tough to follow. So I think it will force us to step up and bring our A game."

Adam couldn't go solo anyway. he's made himself unpopular with a lot of people. when do you reckon the new album will be out? 2009?