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

by Dominika | Oct 11th, 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!

by Dominika | Dec 16th, 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

by Dominika | Dec 15th, 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.

LISTEN to the full version of Simple Plan’s song “The Heroes”

by Dominika | Nov 20th, 2015 | no comments

Back in June of this year, the members of Simple Plan hit the recording studio again to record one song for the soundtrack to the movie “La Guerre des Tuques 3D” (“The Dog Who Stopped The War”). The song is called “The Heroes” and it is important to note that it wasn’t originally written by Simple Plan, but by Jonathan Painchaud who’s French version of this song also appears on the soundtrack.

Finally, after long months of waiting, you can now check out the full version of “The Heroes” in the video below, which also shows you the behind the scenes from the recording session. Interestingly, as you can see from the video, David Desrosiers took care of both the bass guitar and the drums or this song. It is currently unknown why Chuck didn’t participate in this recording, but it is quite possible the birth of his son (a week after the recording session) may have been the reason behind his absence.

Simple Plan in studio recording special soundtrack project

by Dominika | Jun 23rd, 2015 | 2 comments

While the guys have finished the official L.A. studio sessions weeks ago, they clearly still aren’t done with recording. As the band’s lead guitarist Jeff Stinco just revealed on Twitter, the members who are currently in Canada – him, Sebastien and David – got together today to record the bed tracks for a special project with Pierre’s vocals coming soon. In particular, Jeff mentioned the word “soundtrack” in the following tweet.

And while we try to figure out which movie Simple Plan’s special project could be featured in, check out some of the pictures from today’s recording of it that Jeff shared on the Internet: