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New poster for the Chuck-produced ‘Resurgence’ reveals more info

AUTHOR: Dominika | 26. January 2017 | no comments

A couple months ago SimplePlan.cz revealed to you that Simple Plan’s drummer Chuck Comeau alongside the Australian director Peter John have been working on a documentary film project titled ‘Resurgence’.

And while the official Facebook and Instagram pages have been quite for a while, the official website for the movie has released a brand new poster, which gives us some more hints about this interesting project.

Firstly, the poster describes ‘Resurgence’ as “a history defining film about the pop punk scene of 1999 – 2004, and its comeback to the mainstream in 2016/2017.”

Secondly, it also reveals a number of artists, which have been interviewed for the film. These artists include Simple Plan, MXPX, Tonight Alive, Finch, Kevin Lyman, John Feldmann, Neck Deep, Sugarcult, Emo Night and many more.

Are you excited to see the final outcome?

A Chuck Comeau produced film about the resurgence of pop-punk to be released in 2017

AUTHOR: Dominika | 3. November 2016 | 3 comments

Besides being a great drummer, Chuck Comeau from Simple Plan has always been very interested in the music business in general and as a result of that he is often the force and the mastermind behind most of Simple Plan’s endeavours. Now, he has decided to take his interest in his band’s music scene to the next level by getting involved as a producer in a new documentary film project by Epik films, which delves into the topic of the current resurgence of pop-punk.

Recent years, but especially 2016, have brought us an exceptional number of new records and a general growth of interest in the pop-punk scene. Not only by newer bands like State Champs or Neck Deep, but also by bands who have been the leaders of the original pop-punk era in the late 90s and early 00s, such as Blink 182, Green Day, Simple Plan, Yellowcard, Sum 41 or Good Charlotte. And it was exactly this matter that his band is also a part of that got Chuck interested in producing ‘Resurgence: A pop punk-umentary’.

The film is directed by Peter John, which finally answers us the question what this Australian director and his team were filming at the Simple Plan Australian and U.S. shows and why Peter John still keeps being seen alongside Chuck – such as at the recent Good Charlotte show in Los Angeles.

Check out our gallery now for the first picture from the behind the scenes from the filming of this documentary with Chuck:

Epik films have also already released a trailer for this film, which is scheduled to be released in 2017 (however, it is currently unknown by which medium it will be distributed). From this trailer we can tell that besides fans, the documentary will also feature a number of interviews with people tied to the music industry, such as Story Untold (who opened for SP in the U.S.), Mike Fishkin (Idobi radio host), members of Neck Deep, Chuck Comeau of course and many more. See the trailer for “Resurgence” below:

Simple Plan to announce a secret musical project at a press conference in Montreal

AUTHOR: Dominika | 11. October 2016 | 2 comments

According to a press release [bit thanks to Janie for letting us know], local media are invited to a press conference in Montreal, Canada that will take place on October 24th at 10am. This press conference is hosted by Simple Plan and the mayor of Montreal, Denis Coderre.

The only known information about this press conference is that Simple Plan are expected to announce an unknown musical project and that the network of the Montreal public libraries is also somehow involved.

It is usually at this time of year when Simple Plan tend to announce or host their Simple Plan Foundation event – will this press conference reveal something about the Foundation’s plans or this year’s donation’s perhaps? Or could it be something entirely different? We shall wait and see what the press conference brings.

By October 24th Simple Plan will be done with the U.S. tour and it is currently unknown whether all the band members will be present at this press conference as Chuck and Pierre reside in the U.S. and they could possibly return home by then. The Montreal-based band members though are very likely to attend.

Another big SP surprise coming on Friday!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 16. December 2015 | 1 comment

In his latest Instagram post, Simple Plan’s drummer Chuck Comeau teased that the band is planning another big surprise – to quote him “something big and very cool” – and all that in just a few days – this Friday, December 18th to be exact!

Since he left no more clues as to what this surprise might be, we are once again left to guess. There is a number of possibilities what the band may have in store for us – so let’s have a look at them:

New website

While SimplePlan.com has recently already undergone a TOFTT change, there is still a lot of things missing. Keep in mind that ever since their 3rd album, Simple Plan have always featured some special interactive version of heir website in anticipation of their new album. Remember the SP wheel for the self-titled album? Or the Jet Lag Airlines before GYHO came out? Perhaps with the release of Taking One For The Team we may expect something more sport-y. :) This option seems the most probable as of right now.

Tracklist

I’ve mentioned the revelation of the tracklist the last time we were guessing what SP’s surprise might be. The band didn’t reveal the song-titles and their order on the album in their first big announcement a couple weeks ago, as they were still recording the new songs are were planning on eliminating them to 13 or 14. However a couple weeks have gone past since then and the band may finally be able to share the tracklist with us now. Possibly.

New music video

The band members have previously mentioned that there is a new music video in works and should be released “soon”. Whether it’s for a brand new song or the one for “I Don’t Wanna Be Sad” we haven’t seen yet – we don’t know. But it surely would be a big surprise to see what they came up with.

What are your guesses the Friday surprise could be about?

Simple Plan featured on charitable Music For Boobies compilation

AUTHOR: Dominika | 15. December 2015 | 1 comment

The Keep A Breast organization in partnership with Rude Records, will be releasing a music compilation called “Music For Boobies” on March 18th 2016 in order to raise funds and awareness in support of Keep a Breast’s vision of eradicating breast cancer for future generations.

The large number of artists from the alternative music scene decided to take part in this project, including Simple Plan (with their song “Astronaut”), Angels and Airwaves, Motion City Soundtrack, Falling In Reverse, Anti Flag, Zebrahead or Enter Shikari.

50 % of all proceeds will go straight to Keep A Breast. The remaining 50 % will be equally split between fair royalties to the artists who contributed to this project with their songs.

Check out the full tracklist below:

Volume 1
1. Angels and Airwaves – Saturday Love Remix
2. Falling In Reverse – Chemical Prisoner
3. Parkway Drive – Vice Grip
4. Sleeping With Sirens – Save Me A Spark
5. American Hi-Fi feat. Kay Hanley – Another Perfect Day (Acoustic)
6. Emarosa – A Hundred Crowns
7. Too Close to Touch – Pretty Little Thing
8. Motion City Soundtrack – Lose Control
9. Allison Weiss – Who We Are
10. Alvarez Kings – Fear To Feel
11. Patent Pending – It’s All Good Today
12. The Raveonettes – Wake Me Up

Volume 2
1. The Maine feat. Brennan Smiley – You Get What You Give
2. Simple Plan – Astronaut
3. Anti Flag feat. Tim Armstrong – Brandenburg Gate
4. Knuckle Puck – Swing
5. SUCH GOLD – When It Gives
6. Danko Jones feat. Cristina Scabbia – Wild Woman
7. letlive – Banshee (Ghost Fame)
8. Beautiful Bodies – War Inside Your Heart
9. Skinny Lister – Trouble On Oxford Street
10. Zebrahead – Blue Light Special
11. Enter Shikari – Dear Future Historians… (London Elektricity Remix)
12. This Wild Life – No More Bad Days
13. Simone Denny – Breathe Again

You can already pre-order the album on the following links: physical copy, digital copy or Amazon.

More information about this project can be found here.