The Australian version of the singing competition show The Voice has a very impressive variety of coaches, which include Seal, Delta Goodrem (who you may remember from one of the versions of the music video for “Save You”), Keith Urban and Joel Madden from Good Charlotte. Their job is to mentor the contestants who get into their teams throughout the whole journey of the show.

One of Seal’s protégés is 26-years-old Sam Ludeman, who performed a cover version of a Simple Plan song in the last night’s episode of the song. And what other song than “Summer Paradise” it could be, when this song has already become Australia’s summer anthem, and has managed to stay at the tops of local music charts for weeks.

After Chuck from Simple Plan had heard about one of their songs being played on The Voice, he contacted Sam himself via Twitter, congratulated him on his performance and invited him and the coaches from The Voice for their upcoming concert in Sydney, Australia.

Below you can noww check out Sam Ludeman’s version of “Summer Paradise” that he performed with at The Voice yesterday (thanks to SPB.com for the link):

Thanks to our colleagues over at SPB.com you can now check out the previously mentioned “naked” version of the song Astronaut, which has appeared for the first time on the digital single of Summer Paradise, that is now available on iTunes.

What do you think about this new version? Which “Astronaut” is your favourite?

Just like last year, Singapore is hosting the annual conference called “All That Matters”, which is divided into three parts: Digital Matters, Gaming Matters and (for us a very familiar one) Music Matters. The conference holds various lectures, workshops, speeches, artist performancers and discussions – all about how the contemporary music business works.

In the last year’s edition, Simple Plan attended this event mostly as performers – and apart from a concert, a few of the band members also took part in the recording of a new special version of the song “Fix You”, to support the victims of the earthquakes in Japan.

This year, All That Matters takes place from May 22nd to May 26th, and Chuck Comeau has confirmed his presence as one of the invited speakers for Music Matters, which takes place from 24th to 26th May. Along with him, his panel will be hosted by Simple Plan’s manager and Coalition Entertainment’s co-founder, Mr. Eric Lawrence.

In the following video you can check out what the previous volumes of this conference looked like:

As we’ve found out a couple months ago, the Canadian band The New Cities has a track on their new album called „Love Me Deadly“ which was written by Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau from Simple Plan and it was thought to be the only song the guys have worked on.

However in the most recent interview at MuchMusic, the members of The New Cities have revealed that Chuck and Pierre have co-written also another track on the record and it’s the song called “Get Connected” , which is also featured on The New Cities’ latest album “Kill The Lights”. You can check out the interview with the band below on the video approximately at mark 7:20:

Reporter: And you guys have worked with Pierre from Simple Plan as well, you guys toured together… How was that?

The New Cities: Yeah, Pierre and Chuck. It was great! And we spent like one afternoon, and we just worked on a song and yeah, it’s great. It’s a song called „Get Connected“ and the other one called „Love Me Deadly“. So in one afternoon, two tracks, that’s it.

Free The Children and Me To We, charitable organisations that are helping children from all over the world to get educated, engaged an empowered, are hosting a special benefit concert in Lindsay, ON in Canada called “Concert For Change” with all the proceeds going to the forementioned cause. Simple Plan unfortunately won’t be able to attend the event (as at that time they will already be heading to Australia), but still decided to show their support of such event in the followng video:

During the last two months, Simple Plan have travelled through a huge part of Europe, even managed to stop at places they’ve never been to before and most importantly played a huge amount of concerts for tens of thousands of European fans.

In the following video, the members of Simple Plan sum up their favourite moments of touring Europe: