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Wondering what Louie has been up to? Seems like he’s been in the studio with Dawn McCoy and Chris Richards recording the song “Not So California”.

Picture from Chris Richards’ Facebook

Louis Stephens, piano, keyboards

There’s a couple of other pictures up on Chris Richards’ Facebook – and you can listen to the song here.

MTV has a behind the scenes video from the I Can’t Get Enough video shot.

Gotta love Louie, he always cracks me up.

Thanks to Jacqueline for sending me the link

youtube video for all you people from the UK

Get your free download of “I Don’t Wanna Lose You” from Rooney’s upcoming album, Eureka, out June 8th, 2010.
All you have to do is sign up for the Rooney newsletter below.

Here’s your chance to pre-order Eureka and get a signed copy of the album – either as a cd or on vinyl

You can choose to get either the cd for $15, the vinyl for $17 or the shirt and cd for $25.

When you pre-order the bundle with the shirt, you’ll also get an instant download of the single “I Can’t Get Enough”.

You can order the pre-order from pretty much all over the world (Brazil and Europe for sure) – shipping for the bundle to Europe is just under $10 ($9.81 I think), which makes it just under $35 in total. Totally worth it

Rooney
Eureka
California Dreaming Records/ILG
Release Date: 6/8

Tracklisting:

1.     Holdin’ On
2.     Can’t Get Enough
3.     Only Friend
4.     Into the Blue
5.     All or Nothing
6.     The Hunch
7.     I Don’t Wanna Lose You
8.     Stars and Stripes
9.     Go On
10.    You’re What I’m Looking For
11.    Not In My House
12.    Don’t Look Back At Me

First Impressions:

-Los Angeles pop rockers Rooney are releasing their third album on June 8. This is the group’s first release on its own label.     

-The album starts off with “Holdin’ On,” which is an up-tempo number and sounds like a typical Rooney song. It is very radio friendly and easily could have been the theme song to California Dreams if it were released in the ‘90s.  

-“Can’t Get Enough” is funky rhythmic track and singer Robert Schwartzman’s vocals show good range – could be something out of the G. Love catalogue, but better.  

-“Into the Blue” is a ballad featuring Schwartzman’s crooning over a piano and assorted other instruments. The song has Brian Wilson’s fingerprints all over it.

Key Tracks:

 “Holdin’ On,” “Only Friend,” “All or Nothing,” “The Hunch”

Predictions: 

Eureka shows how much Rooney’s songwriting has matured since its last album. Still maintaining its pop sensibility, these songs are crisper and the band isn’t afraid to take chances by experimenting with new sounds and styles. Don’t be surprised to hear some of these songs on the radio sometime soon.  

 CREDIT : FILTER MAGAZINE

Robert has revealed a bunch of Rooney news on his twitter

- Album release date set to June 8th
- They’ve had a prep day for a new video (to be shot on Tuesday)
- They’ve done a photoshoot

Also, the Rooney Street Team has tweeted that something exciting will be happening for Rooney fans on Monday – so stay tuned

Sorry for the lack of updates recently, I’ve been a little pre-occupied doing a little ”project” for Taylor Locke & the Roughs with some other girls.
Check out the brand new fansite on www.tlatr.com – We have bios, pictures, lyrics (corrected by Taylor himself ) and a bunch of other stuff up.
Remember to buy Grain and Grape on iTunes.

I won’t be posting too much about Taylor Locke & the Roughs on this site, so head on over to www.TLATR.com and leave us a comment

Matt has decided to leave Rooney to focus on becoming a doctor.
While we’re sad that he’s leaving, we wish him all the best

Thank for everything Matt.

Head on over to Rooney-band.com and read his letter.

This interview with Rooney reveals that Rooney’s new album will be called Eureka Kinda fitting if you ask me
(in case you didn’t know, Eureka means something along the lines of “having found it”, it being what you’re looking for)

Interview:
Rooney Steps Back, Regroups For Future

By GARY GRAFF
Of the Oakland Press
 

 It’s been a busy time of transition for Rooney.

The Los Angeles rock quintet left its record company, Interscope, after it wound down touring for its 2008 sophomore album “Calling the World.” Then, it started working on a third album that frontman Robert Schwartzman says “wasn’t exactly the record we wanted to make,” so the group took “a step back” before starting over again in March.

That album, titled “Eureka,” was recently finished, and Schwartzman — the son of actress Talia Shire, brother of actor/musician Jason Schwartzman and nephew of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola — says Rooney was ready to get out on the road after a long stretch of studio time.

“We’ve been working a lot, recording, and we feel like we haven’t been able to get out and play for our fans,” Schwartzman, 26, says. “We want to get new music out, but we also want to be able to play shows.

“It’s nice for people to get something new from us and come to the shows. It makes it more of an event for us and our fans.”

“Eureka” isn’t due out until next year and will most likely be released independently by the band. To tide fans over, Rooney has put together a four-song EP, “Wild One,” culled from those recording sessions and featuring songs that didn’t make the final cut — but that Schwartzman says are hardly castoffs.

“The record is really diverse, and it shows a lot of different sides to our band and what we can do,” explains Schwartzman, who’s had several acting roles and was a guest vocalist on Demi Lovato’s “Party.” “We recorded 20 or so songs and we kept going back and taking a break and listening to what we had, reapproaching the record with new material.

“As we looked at the big list of songs, some of them didn’t fit together, but they were still great songs. We didn’t want to throw them away, and we saw that we could make a great EP as a piece of work on its own and get people ready for the album, too. That way it won’t feel like such a long time between albums.”

 Credit : GoAndDoMichigan.com

Thanks to Miranda for the link

Taylor has a new project going on.

The project is called “Taylor Locke & The Roughs”. Taylor is doing lead vocals and guitar.

The other members of Taylor Locke & The Roughs are (from left) Chris Price playing guitar and keyboard, Charlotte Froom (from The Like) who plays bass and Mikey McCormack (from Everybody Else) playing drums.

They have 4 songs up on their myspace, and I got to say that I love each one of them… Though during my first listen I fell just a tiny bit more in love with “What Have I Done?” than the rest

You can find them on facebook too.

Awesome job Taylor Locke & The Roughs

Concerts

Taylor Locke & The Roughs will be opening for Sloan at Slim’s in San Francisco on Feb 19th. The doors open at 8pm and the event starts at 9pm. 
You can buy tickets here.

Sloan is also playing a show in LA on the 21st. Seeing as Taylor Locke and the Roughs are opening for Sloan in SF – and has a concert listed on the 21st in LA, I’m assuming that they’ll be opening for Sloan in LA too. TLATR aren’t listed on the website though, so I don’t know for sure. If I’m right, they’ll be playing at King King on Feb 21st. Doors open at 8pm.

Wow, there’s quite a few things happening these days… yay

Ned

First of all CONGRATULATIONS to Sarah & Ned. Emmett Andrew Brower has been born and he looks adorable

Ned tweeted this picture from his twitter

 Ned’s been busy, he also attended the 2010 NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA, where you could catch him at the Ludwig booth

Here’s some pictures from Ludwig-Musser Drums and Percussion’s facebook

 Taylor

Taylor has been hanging out with Bleu, recording a song called Boston.

You can read more about that here :)

Flickr

Rooney is now on Flickr. See the latest pictures as they get uploaded and join the group to share your own pictures

 Robert

Robert has been talking to D.A. from Chester French. Personally I’d love to see them do something together, or at least have D.A telling Robert/Rooney a little about how to promote themselves and keep fans happy
Robert also tweeted about recording a song with Joe Jonas…
For all these juicy updates, follow Robert on Twitter

WikiName

Miranda from the Rooney street team (and Rooney-band.com) found this little thing the other day, and I found it really funny ;P

HISTORY

Rumor has it, Ed Rooney, an avid adversary of the ironically titled band, Rooney, is on the hunt for the five men who form the rock group. Apparently, the high school principal has left his Shermer home in hopes of reaching Los Angeles by the end of the week. Rooney (the principal, not the band) has been known to destroy a good time, or try to anyway. The band has declined to comment. In related news, Ferris Bueller has won the lottery.

Meanwhile, a pack of friendly guys with loose sleeves and bell-bottoms relax by a swimming pool. Never has a band been so unquestionably dutiful to a hometown. Or a home state, for that matter. Before a sun-kissed throng of Marissa Cooper’s and Summer Roberts’, with the grizzly bear flag flapping in the bonfire breeze, these guys, together known as Rooney, let the whole world know just how much they love California.

And, boy, is John Hughes insulted.

A diehard for his own home state, Hughes worked hard to convert the nation’s adolescents, in the prime of their angst, to the ear-muffed joys of the Windy City through the innocently sensual bite of Molly Ringwald’s bottom lip. (A smart man, that Hughes.) But now he scoffs at the L.A. based group that does nothing but rob this already regressing generation of what is really out there, beyond the bleached blonde shores of Southern California, to a place where sixteenth birthdays are often forgotten, where beautiful women are technologically created, and where Buzz eats all the cheese pizza. The band neglects a little place called Illinois… all in the name of a legendary 80s character.

Uniting under the mustached title of ‘Ed Rooney’ in 1999, Robert Schwartzman, Louie Stephens, Taylor Locke, Ned Brower, and Matthew Winter quickly dropped the first name, opting for a more Ferrisian effect with plain old ‘Rooney’ (hence the lack of propriety in the absence of Ed and/or “Mr.”) As harsh-weathered fans of the classic 1986 hit Italic textFerris Bueller’s Day OffItalic text, the rebellious group identified themselves in salutatory ode to the man who, in essence, made Ferris Bueller’s day off the exhilarating ride that it was.

A surprise this was not to most followers. Schwartzman, the animated lead singer and former actor, is a multi-gifted descendent of The Royal Coppolas. Nephew of Vito Corleone’s written voice, son of the shy face behind “Yo, Adrian!”, cousin of the founder of Bill Murray’s translation, brother of Max freaking Fischer; one had to only assume that his next project would somehow correlate to his insane tie to cinematic brilliance. Robert, as well as his less-genetically-privileged bandmates, often express their fervent passion for The Arts in general; whether be it music, film, sketching, or literature.

However, Rooney has established their respectable foundation based on the fact that they adore Southern California, albeit amidst a plethora of high-pitched squeals and pigtails. Such a reputation has caused many skeptics, John Hughes included, to wonder “Why not ‘Wayne‘, ‘Hasselhoff’, ‘Schwarzenegger’?”

“Why,” asks Hughes, “must you sabotage my homeland, my craft, my Ed Rooney?”

They laugh in response, their growing hair blowing out the convertible windows on a drive down Pacific Coast Highway. “Because,” they say in harmonic unison, “we’re on the trip of our lives under a California sun, and he’s still trying to catch us.”

You can find it here