Monday, July 20, 2009
By Tracy Bratten – Clear Channel Radio Digital
It was a far cry from the arenas the Jonas Brothers are accustomed to selling out, but there was just as much excitement in the air as anxious Jo Bros fans filed into the PC Richard and Son Theater in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood Monday afternoon.
Fans from age 4 to 40 (and above) were lined up before dawn, standing under the hot sun eagerly anticipating the brothers taking the stage. As Nick, Kevin and Joe’s pictures graced the video screen before the show kicked off, little woots and hollers erupted from many a ‘tween – high-pitched screams that only some dogs could hear.
The brothers kicked off the show with their latest single, “Paranoid,” and it was almost hard to hear Nick singing over the chorus of adolescent girls. Little girls on daddy and mommy’s shoulders craned their necks to get a glimpse of the trio of good-looking Jersey boys over the camera phones held in the air. A mother in the back of the audience reminisced, “Remember going to concerts back in the day and holding up lighters?” – a nod to the technology of the ‘tweens – each one with his or her own device capturing the concert while simultaneously providing a little light.
The Jonas Brothers played the fun, upbeat tracks “That’s Just the Way We Roll” and “Play My Music” before Nick sat down at the piano for the fourth song, a slower tune form the latest album called “Much Better.”
Then Joe asked the audience, “Who’s ready to go to the year 3000?” before launching into the song, “Year 3000,” after which he accused the moms and dads in the audience of dancing in the back, trying to stay away from the crowd at the front.
The boys told the audience that they were proud of their latest album, Lines, Vines and Trying Times, which is certainly much more mature than their previous efforts. But with 19-year old Joe and Nick at only 16, some of the content of their new music seems almost too mature. Cue “World War III” – a song they encouraged everyone to dance to, even though it talks about fighting with your loved one. A little mature for a teenage relationship, or perhaps a vision of the marital bliss that newly-engaged Kevin Jonas will soon know all too well.
They slow things down with “I Gotta Find You” from the movie Camp Rock followed by “Turn Right” from the latest album – both songs that every screaming girl in the audience knew verbatim.
It’s no secret that The Jonas Brothers are not the most talented singers or musicians on the planet. But what they lack in vocal talent they make up for tenfold in the way they interact with their adoring fans – smiling and winking at them and making every girl in the room hope that she just might have a shot with one of the two still single Jonas Brothers.
“We are on tour right now,” Nick told the intimate crowd of 200. “Our first world tour… To think that 3 or 4 years ago we were playing in venues where maybe ten people showed up… All because of you guys!” The Brothers then sang what has become a sort of anthem to the fans, “When You Look Me in the Eyes.”
The highlight of the performance came when Jordin Sparks made a surprise appearance – to the enthusiastic delight of the crowd. She joined the Jonas Brothers onstage (Nick on drums) to perform her hit “Battlefield” – as well as promote her album, which hits stores Tuesday. “Have a great set!” she told the guys as she exited the stage after wowing the crowd with her stellar voice, adding that she hoped that everyone would “pick up a copy or five” of her new album.
Excited girls passed notes and signs and handmade drawings to the stage, and the Jonas Brothers even made fun of themselves, it seemed, when they asked, “Where’s all the parents in the room? Show your kids you still got it!” before covering Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline.”
The brothers closed the show with a song they wrote in New York City, “Lovebug,” a sweet, albeit sophomoric ode to falling in love that any generation of listener could relate to. And when it comes to the sweet, innocent, and adorably cute Jonas Brothers, what’s not to love?
Source: iheartradio
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“Nick Jonas Says ‘It’ll Be A While’ Before He Heads To College”
Jul 17 2009 6:51 AM EDT
By Jocelyn Vena
Nick Jonas isn’t planning on resting on his pop-star laurels. The 16-year-old is already looking at what he might do next, now that he has conquered music, TV and movies. So, one day in the distant future, college does seem like the likely next step for this Jonas brother.
He was recently rumored to have been checking out Northwestern University and on Wednesday (June 15) he confirmed to MTV News that he had in fact stopped by the school’s Chicago campus. However, he was quick to point out that he’s not planning on ditching his band or his current job as heartthrob for academia anytime soon.
“I did go see the college just to go check it out. I’ve always been interested in going to school in Chicago. I love Chicago,” he said. “It’s one of my favorite cities. And it was great just to see it. And that’s where it’s at right now.” He added that “it’ll be a while before I end up going anyway, because we’re obviously very busy — but that’s about where we left it off.”
Nick, who graduated from high school in June, hadn’t yet celebrated the big milestone when MTV News last spoke with him. So had the boys done anything for their little brother since then? “We had an all-around party,” Nick said, speaking of the party celebrating his graduation, the brothers’ mother’s birthday and their album, Lines, Vines and Trying Times, topping the charts. “We had a party at the beginning of the tour.”
Source: MTV.com
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Joe har ju länge haft lute rakare hår än Nick o Kevin, men nu på sistone har han också lite mer lockigt precis som sina bröder. Nu har vi fått en förklaring till varför.
“Joe Jonas’ New Hairstyle Explained: We Uncover The Mystery Behind The Locks”
Posted July 17th, 2009 by Jocelyn Vena in Crush Exclusive!
The Joe Jonas we’ve all grown to love is not the same man we were first introduced to. The Joe we first met used to straighten his hair. But, in the last few months the 19-year-old heartthrob has done away with the flat iron and decided to embrace his naturally curly locks. It’s a look already rocked by both brothers Kevin and Nick.
So when we met up with the guys on Wednesday, we took it upon ourselves to find out why Joe’s been embracing that fetching new hairstyle. “You know what happened?” eldest brother, Kevin explained to MTV News. “One day he went to the beach and just like the salt water I think it messed up your hair because it all of a sudden became curly.”
Both Nick and Kevin (and us) agree that it looks “good” and “awesome.” Plus, it’s probably a lot less maintenance and that’s always a plus in hot, humid summer weather and during an intense summer tour.
We have to say we love the new look. We think it makes him look dashing and mature. But, it’s hard not to like something the JoBros are sporting.
Source: MTV’s Hollywood Crush
Postade en video för några dagar sedan, där Kiss108 hade en intervju med enbart Joe. Här är en artikel som i stortsett skriver om det som Joe sa om att bli Kevin’s bestman.
Although Kevin Jonas and his fiancee Danielle Deleasa haven’t set any wedding date, Joe Jonas has opened up about his desire to become Kevin’s best man if their relationship is taken to the marriage level. “I want it,” he said. “I’ll be the best man ever.”
Though so, Joe shared that he and his brothers, Nick Jonas and Frankie Jonas, are “cool” with whoever chosen by Kevin to be his best man. “Eventually if I get married, [the best man] gonna be Nick, and when it’s Nick, [the best man] gonna be Frankie,” he stated.
While Kevin Jonas has been engaged to Danielle Deleasa, Joe Jonas himself is romantically linked to “10,000 B.C.” actress Camilla Belle. Both Joe and Camilla haven’t confirmed the nature of their relationship, but they are often photographed spending time together at numerous occasions.
As for Nick Jonas, the youngest member of Jonas Brothers is rumored to re-build love relationship with Miley Cyrus. “[It's] nice to reconnected with her,” he recently said in “Larry King Live”.
SOURCE: MTV News
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The Jonas Brothers are about a month into their sold-out world tour and so far it’s been more action-packed than they bargained for.
“Me and Joe ran into each other last night onstage,” Kevin told MTV News. “And it was pretty awesome. Well, it’s funny … it makes you laugh onstage during the show.”
Despite the occasional onstage collision, Joe said the tour has been going great so far. “It’s going really well,” he said. “We’re having a great time.”
The one brother who has kept out of everyone’s way onstage, Nick, is also enjoying the trek. “I’ve been safe so far onstage, and had a lot of fun shows,” he said. “The fans have been amazing in every city we’ve gone to and it’s just so great to be out on the road.”
Some highlights of the tour include Miley Cyrus taking the stage opening night in Dallas, squeezing in a few games of softball on the road and playing “World War 3″ off Lines, Vines and Trying Times because, as Joe explains, ” the crowd goes crazy.” However, it was a reworked version of the song “Much Better” that stirred up the crowd in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The song is rumored to be about Taylor Swift, and one night Joe Jonas changed a lyric from “Now I’m done with superstars” to “Now I’m done with country stars,” but the guys don’t seem to remember what we we’re talking about. “What happens onstage stays onstage,” he said.
SOURCE: MTV News
Wherever the Jonas Brothers go, thousands of screaming preteens are not far behind.
It seems to be every 4- to 16-year-old’s dream to meet the brothers from New Jersey, and it happens to be mine as well. The catch — I’m 20 years old.
And despite receiving playful ridicule from peers saying I’m too old to like them and that the notion in my head that I’ll meet them someday is irrational, my dream came true Saturday evening. I met the Jonas Brothers.
My two sisters and I have shared our love of the Jonas Brothers for just over a year. After seeing them in concert last summer when their super-stardom was just igniting, my mother feared landing tickets this summer would be almost impossible.
After spending hours on the computer, she got four tickets to their Chicago area concert that included access to a pre-concert sound check party where the Jonas Brothers answer questions and play a few songs.
We did our homework and found that the Jonas Brothers tend to pull fans on stage who wear inventive outfits.
On the Jonas Brothers’ most recent album is a song called “World War III.”
And what a coincidence; in our closets were vintage World War II army uniforms that we used for a high school performance three years ago.
On the Saturday afternoon drive from Deerfield to the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, we quickly scribbled, “We won’t start a WW3 with you!!” on a shocking pink poster and plotted further. If perchance we were chosen, we intended to ask if youngest brother, Nick, enjoyed his visit to Northwestern University last week. That was our goal — nothing more, nothing less.
With tickets in hand and nearly everyone staring at our ridiculous get-ups, we anxiously took our seats and waited.
When Kevin, Nick and Joe ascended to the stage, the immediate shrill of teenage girls was deafening; however, I took part in it too. The boys waved to the crowd and stood for a moment looking around at everyone. Middle brother, Joe, pointed to my sisters and me and said into his microphone, “Hey, that’s such a good idea!”
That in itself was enough. A Jonas Brother spoke directly to us. As the sound check went on, the brothers played a few songs and answered a few questions, none concerning Northwestern.
The brothers decided it would be fun to play musical chairs. Oldest brother, Kevin, said they needed four friends. As every hand flew in the air, and the screaming amplified, Joe Jonas pointed to me.
In disbelief, we took the stage and, in front of an audience of 500 people, played musical chairs with the brothers we never thought we’d meet.
Joe soon made the connection we were sisters and before we knew it, we were performing the Andrews Sisters’ “The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (a song we sang together in high school) for the Jonas Brothers.
After applauding and showering us with compliments, the boys decided it was time to return the favor.
My sisters and I lined up as Nick, Joe and Kevin serenaded us to one of my favorite songs, “Gotta Find You.” My knees almost buckled, and I was shocked that I didn’t pass out.
After the song was over, the three brothers and three sisters shared hugs and left the stage.
When I got back to my seat, it hit me. I just sang for the Jonas Brothers. Who does that?
Source:Suntimes
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Vet inte om ni sett det klippet där ett fan får lov att låna Nick’s gitarr och får även spela en låt (tror det är SOS) med dem.
I vilket fall, så kan ni nedan läsa en artikel om hur hon tyckte det var. Postar även videon så att ni som inte sett den kan se den. Eller om ni som redan sett den vill se den igen 
“A Fan’s Dream; Girl Performs With Jonas Brothers”
NEWARK, Ohio — A Newark teenager said she was still in shock on Monday after what happened to her last week at a Jonas Brothers concert.
Morgan Longstreth purchased a $400 sound check pass and saw the band perform in suburban Chicago on Friday night, 10TV’s Karina Nova reported.
There, she found herself up close and personal with Kevin, Nick and Joe Jonas.
“He looks at me and says, ‘You, with the tambourine. Come on up here,’” Longstreth said. “I (came) out to the middle of the stage and I’m going crazy. They (said), ‘What’s your name?’ I said, ‘Do you guys have a guitar I can play?’”
The band did not know is that they inspired Lonstreth to take guitar lessons.
“I played one of their favorite songs, ‘Superstition’ by Stevie Wonder,” Longstreth said. “They looked at me with such shock.”
Longstreth continued to wow the band. After playing on Nick Jonas’ guitar, the guys gave her another guitar and rocked to the song, “SOS.”
“I tried not to think I was playing guitar with the Jonas Brothers because I probably would have fainted had I realized what I was actually doing,” Longstreth said.
After she left the stage, Longstreth said that she called her mother and told her dream of playing guitar with the Jonas Brothers came true.
“That’s been my dream for three years,” Longstreth said.
To complete the dream, Morgan’s mother, Harmony Longstreth said she got a call from the Jonas Brothers’ mother, who told her that her daughter could really go far with her guitar playing skills.
Morgan told Nova that she would love to be a rock star but is concentrating on school and preparing for a career in the FBI.
Source: WBNS TV, Nick J Online
Hittade en artikel på Nickjonline.com som egentligen inte tar upp något nytt om varken turnén, eller skivan LVATT. Men jag tänkte att ni kanske ville läsa den i alla fall.
Let the high-pitched hysteria begin.
Last year, the Jonas Brothers’ Look Me In the Eyes and Burning Up tours blasted eardrums and sent tweens and teens swooning. But when the New Jersey sibs stop at the newly renamed TD Garden Friday and Saturday for the Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009, they’ll be slinging pop-rock in a whole new dimension – one that involves a circular water screen and an in-the-round stage.
Yes, it’s the JoBros in 360 degrees, with more angles, more up-close-and-personal time and way more screaming.
“It’s very exciting for us,” said 16-year-old Nick Jonas during a conference call. “We’ve always talked about wanting to do a tour in-the-round. It’s a way for us to really connect with our fans, something that’s very important to all of us. There’s more of a real genuine connection with each and every person in the arena.”
The mammoth tour, which stops in 44 North American cities and spans three continents, supports the brothers’ recent “Lines, Vines and Trying Times” album, their fourth studio release and third on Disney’s Hollywood Records. Like their previous “A Little Bit Longer,” it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling more than 247,000 copies in its first week.
The album attempts to move the trio away from bubblegum pop with a darker edge noticeably absent from their formerly sunny style. The boys also cite expanding influences, namechecking Elvis Costello, Prince, Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond and Kings of Leon.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a big jump, but it definitely is a progression in our music and a growth for us,” 19-year-old Joe Jonas said. “It feels like a good growth in our music. It has a lot more horns and a lot more strings. Also, there’s more than just a typical kind of relationship song.”
“I think the overall message,” added 21-year-old – and recently engaged – Kevin Jonas, “is that we’re the same old Jonas Brothers, but we’re adding more and more music that has influenced us.”
In addition to their two sold-out tours, the Grammy-nominated brothers nabbed an American Music Award and two MTV Video Music Awards in 2008 and diversified their portfolios with multiple film and TV projects, including the Disney series “JONAS,” movie “Camp Rock” and a forthcoming sequel, “Camp Rock 2.” They even stopped by for a visit at the White House to surprise First Fans Sasha and Malia Obama.
Too busy to bicker, the brothers say they are BFFs as well as band mates. They claim unity on the family front helps them keep it real.
“We are, you know, not perfect,” Kevin said. “We live every day day-by-day and we do the best to make our mom proud. It’s a big family thing for us.”
“We’ve made that rule number one from day one, making sure that the family comes first and that we focus on that,” added Nick. “That’s the priority. And also we live by the rule, ‘We live life if it’s at the top like we’re at the bottom,’ which basically means stay humble and keep the right attitude.”
Source: Boston Herald
För några dagar sedan lade vi in bilder på en photoshoot som killarna gjorde för TimeOut New York.
De var även med i ett möte som tidningen hade till deras musik-avdelning.
Artikel, bilder och en video från det kan ses nedan. OBS!! Artikeln är ganska lång.
The best-selling teen idols guest-edit the TONY music section, recommending their favorite bands and things to do in NYC.
So why did we do it? Why did Time Out New York invite the world’s most prominent boy band to edit our Music section? Is this some kind of joke?
Well, no. We invited the Jonas Brothers to TONY because we wanted to see how they (and you) would respond to being taken seriously. Having read some of the million-odd interviews floating around Planet Media, we always noticed moments—between questions about Nick Jonas’s relationship with Miley Cyrus, the boys’ vows of chastity and so on—in which the brothers lit up when asked about music.
Even if you’re oblivious to the JoBros’ four albums (the new one, Lines, Vines and Trying Times, entered the charts at No. 1), you may have caught Nick’s encounter with his hero Elvis Costello in the pages of Rolling Stone—Costello described the 16-year-old as “thoughtful and curious”—or watched the JBs sing with Stevie Wonder at the Grammys, during which Nick got so nervous he forgot the words to “Superstition” (“Poor Nick,” wrote one Jonas fan on YouTube, “he fully, like, sh*t himself.”)
Our premise was simple: The boys (from Wyckoff, New Jersey) would lead the Music team in an editorial meeting, choosing the shows and records that would make up this week’s section. The reality, of course, is far more complex and surreal. We send them a slew of CDs and release dates a week earlier. And two hours before the boys were to set foot in the office (arriving straight from a Letterman taping), a huge, handsome FBI-type security man checks out the building. Stylists arrive, the rider arrives, more security arrives. Even Big Rob, the JB’s plus-size rapper and bodyguard, is here. A publicist ushers our writers into our conference room, and there—tanned and visibly tired—are the Jonas Brothers: curly Kevin, the eldest at 21; Joe, the 19-year-old, heavy-browed middle Jonas (star of Camp Rock); and Nick, the youngest Jonas and the band’s principal songwriter.
“Hello, sir,” Nick says to Music editor Steve Smith, standing up to shake his hand. This is your section this week, we tell the boys. “Cool,” Kevin nods. Then it’s down to business.
What they want from their TONY music section
“I think the important thing, especially in New York, is you always wanna know who’s playing, what’s happening in your area,” Kevin says. “And the exciting, random events too, like the air-guitar tournaments.” So you want coverage of the big shows, and also more obscure stuff? “Yeah, from—what’s the up-and-rising neighborhood in Brooklyn? Umm, Williamsburg? From Williamsburg to downtown.” Given that the JBs have been touring the world for about four years now, we’re impressed that the nabe that spawned TV on the Radio and drunken kickball is on their radar.
Do the boys ever get to see shows? “When we’re together it can be a little crazy,” Joe says. “When we go separately…less so.” Nick recalls being blown away by a Rolling Stones gig at Madison Square Garden four years ago. “I was probably 10 or 11,” he says.
What they want from music reviews
“First you look at the number of stars,” Joe says, laughing. “I think for us it’s interesting when you have a guy that loves the Rolling Stones and he’s reviewing a Kanye West record. You gotta get the right people to review things.” In relation to the band’s own oeuvre, Joe is pragmatic. “I know you can have a very eclectic field of music, but someone who loves underground hip-hop is not particularly gonna love our album.” Our music editor Smith, a hip-hop lover, metalhead and unabashed Miley Cyrus fan, mildly clears his throat. Still, the Jonases are quick to admit that they do have something to learn from the critics. “Totally!” Kevin concedes. “I recently did an interview with [country star] Brad Paisley, and he said, ‘I hate it when they’re right!’”
“I enjoy writing reviews,” Nick says—quickly, seriously. “I do it, like, for fun.” When he was being homeschooled, he explains, he wrote music, movie and TV reviews for extra credit: “There was a show called Kid Nation where they sent 50 kids out into the wilderness to try and survive. It got shut down for legal reasons—I don’t know how it was ever on TV—but I was so amused by it.” He pauses. “There was this kid who just drank a whole thing of, like, Clorox and… So I would write up these reviews, and hope to go to college one day to study English literature.”
How they hear new music
“A lot of our friends pass bands along to us, and we check ’em out, and obviously iTunes is a big one,” Joe says. “Genius sidebar!” his big brother firmly asserts. Then Nick: “I’ve always said that it’s important as an artist to go on a musical journey and discover what you like and you don’t like. And the Internet’s a good way to make that happen—but also, growing up in a musical home introduced a lot of different styles to me.” Ah yes, the Jonas parents: Kevin Jonas Sr., then a pastor, and his wife, Denise, were traveling musicians, and the brood spent a good deal of their early life on the road as their folks spread the word through music. Kevin remembers their dad playing them Carole King’s Tapestry and getting them to listen for a bum note in one of the songs. “Like, ‘Listen to this, riiiiiiight…now!’?” Nick explains. “My dad pointed out to us that’s kind of the beauty. They didn’t have Pro Tools back then, but then you think about it, and the fact they kept it in keeps the song pure.”
How broad are their tastes?
“If it’s good, it’s good,” Nick says, “Rock, pop, hip-hop, whatever it is.” Kevin agrees: “You can listen to a Shania Twain song produced by Mutt Lange, and then you can listen to any of his other bands and the production aspect of that is so incredible. You can’t deny the power that is Mutt Lange, his vision—from power pop to heavy metal. That’s a man who has an open mind to music.” The band’s current shared obsession is the Zutons (see “Why I love …” later in this section), with Phoenix (“impactful,” Joe says) and Kings of Leon also earning the thumbs-up. “I’m also a big fan of Minneapolis funk,” Nick says. “Love the funk,” he affirms, smiling shyly.
So playing the Grammys with Stevie Wonder must’ve been pretty great then. “Oh, awesome,” says Nick. “It was an amazingly cool experience.” The JoBros rehearsed for three nights, Joe explains, the first night on their own, and the next two with Wonder. “And when he arrived, he left to shave and clean up,” Joe recalls. “But he didn’t come back for an hour or so, and we’re thinking, Is something wrong? Then he came back and we played music for four hours with him.” Wonder wasn’t scheduled to rehearse with them the following night, but insisted. “We played [the Grammy medley] three times, but mostly it was just us playing random songs; he’s like, ‘Oh, let’s sing this song! I wrote it for Michael Jackson!’?” Which song? “It’s called ‘No News Is Good News’?” Nick says. Joe starts singing: “No neeeeeeeeeeeeeeews…” with Kevin joining him in falsetto. Joe says it was a relief that Wonder couldn’t see the
incredulous looks they were shooting one another. “We were freaking out! It was pretty exciting.”
“Maybe that’s what Stevie was thinking, too,” our music writer Jay Ruttenberg ventures.
So who are we covering this week?
Wilco makes the grade, as do Stellastarr* and reissues from the Rolling Stones and the Beastie Boys. We’re intrigued, though, that the JBs choose to cover Matisyahu—in Joe’s words, “a Hasidic Jew reggae guy,” whom the band collectively loves. “At first you’re thinking, Is this a gimmick?” Joe explains. “But he’s really passionate. And live, we saw a similar energy to what we like to have onstage—where you can’t control it, and you’re just jumping up and down having fun.” “He, like, crowd surfs,” Kevin adds.
Ruttenberg frowns. People regard reggae music as having a certain spirituality, he suggests; if a white person does it, an audience wants them to be somehow “spiritual.” How does this play into the way Matisyahu is received? “I think he’s a spiritual person in his own right,” Kevin says. “I think it’s a true heart, it goes past practical religion. Compared to just, ‘I go to church, I do this and that.’?” And, Joe adds, reggae artists have a story to tell—“and he has a big story to tell, how he came into the Hasidic world.” It goes back to that truism, says Kevin: Don’t judge a book by its cover.
By the time a frantic publicist signals the meeting’s end, it has become less easy to judge the Jonas Brothers by their teen-magazine covers. As they refer to themselves repeatedly as artists, we could only wonder how long the family act will be able to keep its members creatively fulfilled. “Me personally, I hope to do more acting,” Joe says. “We’ve done a television show and a movie, and I think it’d be cool. Nick, he wants to do more music throughout his life. And Kevin, I think he wants to get into directing.” “I like the other side of it,” Kevin confirms. “I like analyzing, that whole thing.”
“Our audience is growing up with us, but we’re always open to having new listeners,” Joe says. “Even now, people are like, ‘Oh, dude, you’re at the top’—and we’re like, ‘Ahhh, we just started.’?” The funny thing is, it might actually be true that these young men are just beginning to come into their own identities—something we’d like to have explored in more depth. But we’ve already exceeded our allotted time with the boys, and the three Jonas Brothers are whisked through the door to meet an Access Hollywood TV crew, which will accompany them to a fans-only gig at the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza. As they leave, Nick turns around to express his gratitude: “It’s always nice to have an intelligent conversation about music.”
[SOURCE: Time Out New York]
Jonas-approved shows this week
The teen idols quit music (for a day!) and guest-edit the TONY music section, recommending their favorite bands and things to do in NYC.
Matisyahu
“Every form of music has to be believable in its own right, and Matisyahu’s lyrics are a prime example. It’s a spiritual thing with reggae music and it always has been.”—Nick Jonas
Stellastarr
“Someone told us they’re an incredible band, so we really wanted to get to know them.”—Kevin Jonas
Wilco
“Everybody knows Wilco are just great live—you can tell they record well together.”—Joe Jonas
Jonas-approved new albums
Rolling Stones reissues
“The Stones is the Stones; it’s just classic rock & roll, I think you can’t go wrong—with every song you’re like, Oh sweet, another good one!”—Joe Jonas
- Ill Communication: Remastered Edition by the Beastie Boys
- Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana 3
Jonas-approved things to do
THEATER
Jersey Boys August Wilson Theater
“We saw Jersey Boys about two months ago. Why did we love it? Great story line, solid acting, just a lot of fun and everything you expect of a Broadway play.”
EAT OUT
Quality Meats 57 W 58th St
“The first time we visited was about a month ago. Nothing like a great steak with an awesome atmosphere and friendly service. The staff really knows how to take care of us.”
BOOKS
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
“The Alchemist is a story about the endless search of finding out who you truly are. On the road for most of our lives, sometimes it’s difficult to find something to grasp on to, to define who you are and where you belong—and reading The Alchemist truly made me appreciate my family and band and those close to and around me. It brought some stability into our wild ride of a life.” —Joe Jonas
[SOURCE: Time Out New York]
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When it comes to their albums and tours, the Jonas Brothers say they want to be on the cutting edge.
That’s why the group’s world tour, which plays Tuesday and Wednesday at IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J., and July 23 and 24 at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, has a 140-feet-long, 30-feet-wide in-the round stage, a giant crane levitating over the audience and a one-of-a-kind circular water screen that not only makes it rain indoors, but projects lyrics and band silhouettes onto the cascading water.
But when it comes to music, the Jonases say they found inspiration for their chart-topping new disc, ”Lines, Vines & Trying Times,” in Neil Diamond’s music from the 1960s and ’70s. The disc, which this week dropped to No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 200 chart after debuting at the top two weeks ago, features heavy horns and strings on several of the tracks.
The Jonases — Nick, 16, Joe, 19, and Kevin, 21 — even cover Diamond’s ”Sweet Caroline” in concert.
Nick says they were ”inspired” by Diamond after performing his song ”Forever in Blue Jeans” in a pre- Grammy Awards MusiCares Foundation tribute to him in February.
”It really got us pumped about all that he’s done in his career and how amazing he is,” Nick says. ”We were sitting in the audience watching people play all of his songs and really realizing how amazing his career has been and being inspired by his band. So we tried to infuse that in some of our sounds.”
Kevin adds, ”I think we hope to bring music that hasn’t been heard in pop music in a while. There are a lot of horns in this new record. There are a lot of new strings and there are a lot of different musical instruments that are going to add and build to the sound that we already have.”
Diamond wasn’t the only inspiration. Nick also cites Stevie Wonder — with whom the group performed at the Grammys — Prince, Kings of Leon, English indie rockers The Zutons and his favorite, Elvis Costello.
”We are always trying to grow our music libraries and learn as much as we can on this musical journey that we’re on,” Nick says. ”Our musical evolution continues to be about discovering new music … This album is taking steps and just trying to learn as much as we can and continue to grow.”
Growth may be a necessity for the Jonas Brothers. While they’ve sold more than 8 million records worldwide and nearly a million tickets to this tour, starred in their own concert movie and have a hit Disney Channel TV show, they also are pushing the typical shelf life of boy bands. ”Lines, Vines & Trying Times” is the fourth CD for the Jonas Brothers; the popularity of boy bands ‘N Sync and Backstreet Boys lasted three albums each.
The brothers are also at the age when teen idol status soon no longer fits. Kevin last week, for example, became engaged to Danielle Deleasa, 22.
”I think we’re always trying to grow and I think our audience is growing as well and I think that it would be good to grow with the audience,” Nick says. ”As far as a limited shelf life, we’re doing what we love and we know that our fans will grow up with us. And although this has been said before, we believe in our fans and believe in their commitment and their loyalty to us and we appreciate that.”
An added concern is that the Jonases are in an age when the traditional record industry is faltering.
”You think about that every day as an artist in this generation,” Kevin says. ”Just 10 years to 15 years ago, the Britney Spearses and the ‘N Syncs of the world were selling a million records in the first day of their album release and they were selling arenas out. … But no one’s selling 10 million records anymore. I think everyone wants to take new steps toward new ideas and new technologies that will allow music to get out there.”
And this tour gives fans a spectacle to remember. With a stage that’s surrounded by seats and slowly rotates, ”there’s not just one row of 20 seats that are in the front row — they are over the entire bottom half of the arena plus the upper deck is essentially a front row ticket,” Kevin says.
The circular water curtain, Kevin says, ”is a production element that we are very excited about. It’s only been done a certain way where it’s been completely just a straight line. We’ve developed a new way to do this and I don’t want to give too much away about it, but it will add a very interesting effect. Especially in the round, it will feel like you’re in a whole other world once you enter into the arena that night.”
Now coming up on five years in the business, the brothers are asked where they see themselves five years from now.
”We hope to be still you know doing this, of course — touring, playing music,” Kevin says. ”At the same time we hope to be making music for other people and doing lots of different things like that.”
They already are. This week they announced they’ve started their own record label, and have signed the tour’s opening act, Honor Society, with whom they’ve also written. They also have written for Disney star Demi Lovato, who’s signed to their management group.
Says Nick Jonas: ”We’re continuing to learn as much as we can and really enjoying every moment. This has been an amazing ride we’re on and we’re learning a lot every day and we’re so thankful to have the opportunities that we do have.”
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Artikel från The Salt Lake Tribune som skriver om killarnas tidigare 4 juli upplevelser, den nya plattan och givetvis om den nya scenen.
On the Fourth of July, Joe Jonas said he and his brothers look forward to doing what a lot of families do. They want to spend time with their family and friends. Eat some barbecue. Play some softball.
Oh, and just one more thing: Perform in front of a stadium of screaming fans.
That’s just one of the things The Salt Lake Tribune learned in the past few months during two conference-call interviews with other media.
Since 2005, The Jonas Brothers — 21-year-old Kevin, 19-year-old Joe and 16-year-old Nick — have become the biggest boy band in the world, having sold more than 8 million records. They’ll spend this holiday headlining Saturday’s Stadium of Fire concert at Brigham Young University’s LaVell
The trio’s Provo concert is part of a world tour promoting their latest CD, "Lines, Vines and Trying Times," which was released on June 30 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart.
In press calls, the three young men talked about their holiday memories, as well as their influences as they continue on a musical journey that took them from a small New Jersey township to their current chart-topping status as the biggest-selling band in the world right now. (Sorry, U2.)
On Fourth of July memories
Joe: We have one big memory when we first started touring. We were actually in –where were we, in Tennessee?
Nick: We were in Memphis.
Joe: We spent the whole day walking around, having barbecue. Just one of those memories that you kind of never forget.
Kevin: We actually started the Burnin’ Up Tour, last year, on the Fourth of July. So we’ve had some really great, amazing memories for July every year.
Joe: And then the year before that we were in Penn State, actually. And then the year before that we were in Memphis, Tenn. So we’ve been able to spend it in the coolest places and have the coolest days there. But this year, I think, will be the coolest. It’s going to be awesome. We’re very excited.
On the Stadium of Fire
Joe: We’re definitely looking forward to, you know, seeing all the fans. The Stadium of Fire show’s going to be unbelievable. And we’re so honored to be a part of it. And I think for all of us, we’re looking forward to being able to be with all our friends that we tour with, our band, our crew, on July Fourth. It’s always a lot of fun. We might even try to play a softball game or grab a little bit of barbecue somewhere. We’ll see what happens. But we’re definitely looking forward to being with the fans and being able to play the show.
Nick: I have a goal to become president one day. So we’re big fans of America. But, seriously, when we were younger we were a part of the parade in our town, Wyckoff, N.J., where we’d get on the float and decorate it all up with the American flag. It’s cool to have those good small-town memories.
On priorities
Joe: I think we definitely maintain a sense of normalcy throughout this whole thing. Family is very important to us, and making sure the family comes first [is] the sole focus of everything we do. I think for us our faith comes first and it always has. And it’s a big part of everything we do.
Kevin: We are, you know, not perfect. We live every day, day-to-day, and we do the best to make our mom proud.
Nick: For us, it’s also about the family base. We’ve made that rule No. 1 from Day 1, making sure that the family comes first and we focus on that.
On the tour setup
Kevin: The stage is built in a way that it’s going from 140 feet from point A to point B all the way across the arena. So there’s not just one row of 20 seats that are in the front row. They are over the entire bottom half of the arena, plus the upper deck is essentially a front-row ticket. This new tour has been influenced by ['The Jonas Brothers: 3D Concert Experience'] movie in many ways. One being that we were able to watch our show and see what we liked and didn’t like in the way we performed.
Nick: We wanted to find a way to provide a bigger and better show for our fans and this was one of the ways we had to do so. … There are more front-row seats now, and there’s more of a real genuine connection with each and every person in the arena.
On the new album and its influences
Nick: We have a lot of different influences on this new record: people like Neil Diamond’s band and one out of the U.K. called The Zutons. There’s a lot of different sounds that have come together to make our band sound. And I think, for us, it’s about taking gradual steps and just doing one album at a time, trying to infuse new sounds and new ideas. During the Grammy season we had the honor of being able to perform one of Neil Diamond’s songs, "Forever in Blue Jeans." And we were sitting in the audience watching people play all of his songs and really realizing how amazing his career has been and being inspired by his band and all that’s he’s done and it’s amazing. Also, I think we can all agree that the new Kings of Leon record is fantastic.
Joe: I wouldn’t say it’s a big jump, but it definitely is a progression in our music and a growth for us. It feels just like a good growth in our music and it has a lot of more horns in the record and a lot more strings. Also, there’s more to the music rather than just a typical kind of relationship song[s].
Nick: The songs that are new on the new album are all things that we’ve really gone through, you know, personal experiences. That’s where we get all of our inspiration from. But also we’ve been working on trying to use metaphors, in a way, to kind of mask a literal thing that happened to us. I think that, personally, Elvis Costello is excellent at doing that.
Kevin: We are always trying to grow our music libraries and learn as much as we can on this musical journey that we’re on.
Källa: The Salt Lake Tribune
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