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Simple Plan members back together in Los Angeles confirm release of new music soon

AUTHOR: Dominika | 19. September 2021 | no comments

Ahead of their first post-covid concert this Sunday in Chicago, IL at Riot Fest, Jeff and Sebastien joined their California-based colleagues Chuck and Pierre in Los Angeles a couple days ago. This is the first time all four members of Simple Plan got together ever since covid first hit in Feberuary 2020.

And there are many good reasons why the boys went to LA first before heading east to Chicago. We will soon learn about all of them, but some have just been confirmed by the band in a short video they posted on their social channels: the boys have been doing a lot of content in LA including photoshoots – why? Because they are confirmed they are about to release some new music!

Check out the new video below:

Seb teases a release of a music related “something… soon, or not.. maybe”

AUTHOR: Dominika | 16. June 2021 | no comments

Given how long the fans have been making fun of Simple Plan for all of their “soon” phrases, they keep dropping for months before anything is actually released, the guys have already picked up on that and are now trying to be even more careful about what they let out of their mouth, in order for the fans not to be disappointed, if said thing doesn’t get released in the teased timeframe. And that is understandable.

Sebastien tried to wiggle his way out of it again in a new interview that was done with Sebastien for The Dangerous Darrin Show podcast by the show’s host, Darrin Pfeiffer from Goldfinger. There, while answering a question whether the upcoming album was recorded purely in California, Sebastien answered yes, but… he also added a little hint of some brand new recordings, that have been recently done by all members of the band for a little “something” that might be coming “soon”. Seb was very careful about his wordings. Check out his full response:

“No, it actually ended up being all in California for this. We did recently… I can’t say for what, though… but we did recently all do our little parts each in our home studios and brought it together for… eh… for something… that might or might not be coming soon or not. So there’s that to look forward to. Maybe. Who knows?”

Could it be a new single? Some other musical venture for Simple Plan that could be released soon? We shall see. But things are definitely finally moving ahead!

Besides that, there was also another interesting bit in the interview, where Sebastien was asked about whether Simple Plan have any timeline when the record could see the light of day. Sebastien hinted that there is a possibility of us hearing a new single possibly this summer already. That matches what Pierre recently said too about SP wanting to have a new material out for the tour with New Found Glory. Check out what Seb said regarding SP’s 6th album:

“Ah, man, I would have loved this record to come out despite the pandemic. Honestly. It just didn’t happen. So hopefully, hopefully if the world gets going again, I would love for the album to be out in the summer. Or at least like a single. You know? It would be great. The template used to be: the album comes out, single 1, single 2, single 3 and all that. But now it’s the other way round. Single 1, single 2, single 3, album comes out. So hopefully we get into that whole wheel this summer. It would be great.”

– Sebastien Lefebvre [on The Dangerous Darrin Show] –

You can check out both parts of The Dangerous Darrin Show podcast that feature this interview with Seb below:

Pierre confirms Simple Plan will likely have new music out before tour with New Found Glory

AUTHOR: Dominika | 28. May 2021 | 1 comment

In a new video published by Alternative Press, Joel Madden (Good Charlotte), Jordan Pundik (New Found Glory) and Pierre Bouvier (Simple Plan) got together on Zoom to discuss the upcoming ‘Pop Punk’s Still Not Dead’ tour that Simple Plan and New Found Glory are going on together starting end of August.

Besides the new tour, Joel also asked the two musicians about possible new music of both bands, which is when Pierre confirmed that fans who will be attending the ‘Pop Punk’s Still Not Dead’ will likely be in for a treat for some sneak peeks from the new Simple Plan album, as the band should have some material out by then.

Check out what he said about it and the new Simple Plan album:

“Well, we had a new material that we’ve been sitting on for a while and we’re, I think we’re preparing to figure out how to release it. […] We had a record that was getting released before the pandemic and we kinda put breaks on that cause we didn’t know it it was gonna be worth it not being to be able to tour on it. And now I think we’re trying to figure out how do we wanna release it. Like do we wanna do it like a few songs, a few songs and then a few songs. Or the whole record. But yeah, we have new stuff that we’re super excited about. But I’m excited… they all still sound fresh. We did some stuff with Zakk (Cervini), we did some stuff that I produced, […] we got our guy JVP, who was an engineer on our 4th album and he kind of co-produced with me.

Yeah, I’m thinking that we’re gonna have new music out for the tour as well. But I’m not 100 percent sure, but I think at that point we gotta be putting out some stuff that we’ve been sitting on. So, I’m excited for people to hear it. […] We’ve always felt true to what we sound like and pop-punk runs through my veins […] but our stuff sounds like old-school Simple Plan but with a modern twist to it. And we always have a couple of curve-balls, we can’t help ourselves. Simple Plan always like to put a song on there that the true hardcore fans will be like ‘What the fuck is this?’ so… we’ll see how that turns out.”

– Pierre Bouvier [on Zoom call with Joel Madden and Jordan Pundik] –

You can watch the entire video featuring the Zoom call between Pierre, Joel and Jordan below:

Chuck discusses new album’s release struggles in Disposable Heroes podcast

AUTHOR: Dominika | 8. May 2021 | no comments

It’s been a while since the members of the band have done any interviews, especially given the current pandemic situation, which is why it is even more surprising to hear that Chuck recently gave a very in-depth interview to Yesod Williams (from the band Pepper) for his podcast Disposable Heroes.

In the episode, Chuck discussed multiple topics from the band’s unexpected fame on TikTok last year because of the “I’m Just A Kid” challenge all the way to the current forms of releasing music and how Spotify has changed that. Chuck also confirmed that Simple Plan’s a New Found Glory’s co-headlining tour, which was supposed to take place in the U.S. in spring 2020 (and has been indefinitely postponed twice already) is definitely still happening – when the situation allows it, of course.

The most interesting part of the interview came when it was time to discuss Simple Plan’s upcoming 6th album they’ve been working on since 2018. Chuck said that there is a number of reasons why the album has not been released yet: being in the middle of the process of switching labels, the uncertain times due to the pandemic and therefore not being able to promote it the best way they could: touring.

Check out this excerpt from this interview, in which Chuck discusses the reasons why the release of the album has been postponed:

“Well at first, the first initial thought was to let’s see what happens [when the pandemic hit]. But then obviously all the predictions and everything were a little off in terms of not just ours but the world in general. And I think… today is one year since our last show. […] Which is insane when you think about that. And I think literally March 12th, we were about to fly out for a show and I remember the whole world changed when the Trump went on TV and the borders were shutting down and the NBA cancelled their season. […] And I think everybody thought, okay, you know, three four months, five more months, we’ll be back on tour, we’ll be back working. So at that time, it was like let’s see what happens and then you keep doing that, you keep doing that. And now we’re a year in…

I think what’s been challenging for us is that we’re in the middle of changing labels. We just finished our deal with Atlantic and we’re looking for a new partner and trying to figure that out. So I think it has complicated the process, it has made it a little longer, cause right now, it’s hard to talk to people, to have meetings, to make sure you choose the right partner. So that added a level of complexity to the whole thing that we didn’t expect. And on top of that to try to find like your new home, like how you’re gonna release new music, you know, throwing in everything that happened, throwing in the whole TikTok thing, which took us by surprise and was gigantic and trying to figure out how do we release music – it’s been a challenging year to say the least.

So I don’t know if we’re waiting for touring to come back, per se, I just think we have a lot of things that have to kind of align. But I’m hoping… I know that our fans have been really patient and I know that we’re kind of stretching the elastic of their patience. And like we need to put it out. And even for ourselves. Like… we’ve been living with these songs for a long time now, we’ve recorded them, you know, we can’t wait to release them. It’s just… it’s been weird. It’s been disappointing, to be honest. It’s been kind of heartbreaking. Like, why can’t we just, you know… put this out.

But there’s also the fear of, like, we worked so hard on it, you don’t wanna put it out and have it just kind of go away and nothing happening. Like, I look at All Time Low, good friends of ours. They put out a record, they’ve done all the virtual shows and they have the biggest hit of their career with Monsters. And they’re like stuck at home. It must be amazing on one end, cause you’re like oh my god, we finally have that song, and we finally have what we’ve been chasing for for so long, but it’s probably also pretty heartbreaking because you’re like, man, like why did it have to happen this year, you know?”

– Chuck Comeau [in the Disposable Heroes podcast] –

You can listen to the entire (over an hour-long) Disposable Heroes podcast with Chuck Comeau below:

Pierre about new album: Simple Plan might release some new material “pretty soon”

AUTHOR: Dominika | 29. May 2020 | 1 comment

Just a few days ago, Nick Major from Idobi Radio got in touch with Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan over videochat and together they discussed Simple Plan’s old hit ‘I’m Just A Kid’ becoming viral on TikTok and also Simple Plan’s upcoming 6th studio album.

In the interview, Pierre confirmed that the album is done and the band is now looking for ways to release it in the current climate. One of the things besides not being able to promote it on tour, that is still holding the release back is the fact that Simple Plan are in the talks of getting a new record deal with a new record label. But once that is settled, the guys still need to figure out in what way the album would be getting released. Read what Pierre said exactly on this matter below:

Nick: Are you guys holding off on the new album release just to wait till you’re able to tour on it?

Pierre: We’ve talked about what we’re gonna do… There was talks of like holding it off for a bit and there was talks of like we can’t hold it off because we don’t know how long it’s gonna be and right now we’re just kind of figuring out like how we’re gonna release it. Like… we’re in the middle of getting another record deal right now so it’s kind of not that we’re holding it off, it’s more that we’re just trying to […] plan it and figure out, you know, do we release it all at once? Do we do a couple of EPs? Do we break it up? You know, it’s because now there’s so many different ways to put out a record. You could put out a song every week, you could put out twelve at once… so it’s a matter of just figuring that out.

Of course until then, the guys plan on staying active online in various other ways – according to Pierre, the band has some online performances planned, a bunch of interviews and they also wanna continue recreating their own old photos on TikTok, keeping the viral trend going.

But what about a single? Could we perhaps expect some new material before the full record (in whichever way) drops? According to Pierre: YES! And maybe even “pretty soon”!

Nick: That’s awesome and with this TikTok stuff going on, oh, not a bad time to release one of the new songs off the album..

Pierre: Yeah, it’s not a bad time to release it. And I think like, I don’t wanna… we haven’t talked about this and I’m sure that Chuck will be listening to this and going like: ‘Dude, shut up!’ But like, I think that we’ll be putting out some stuff pretty soon. We’re not gonna be waiting that long and yeah, just kind of hopping on the TikTok momentum. And also, it’s time, you know? It’s been a long time and we don’t wanna sit on these songs. We want people to hear them when they feel fresh and they feel good.

And in the final quote we decided to extract from the interview, Pierre discussed how happy and excited he is about the new Simple Plan songs, explaining that this is the record he’s probably put the most of himself into, especially since he’s also producing it for the first time (with Zakk Cervini, Brian Howes and JVP). Check out how Pierre himself feels about the album:

Nick: Album no. 6, man! You perfectionists: are you guys happy with what you’ve created with this one at least? Does it meet the standards of Simple Plan?

Pierre: This is to me, I think, by far, one of the albums that I’m the most proud of. Because… like I’ve always been very very involved with every album. Obviously, I’m one of the main songwriters of the band and since album two, which was 2004, Still Not Getting Any, I’ve been sort of producing our demos. So I write the songs with Chuck, we’ve brought in some extra songwriters here and there… But I pretty much for 99% of our songs, I am the one building the skeleton, building the prototype, building what it’s gonna sound like in my computer, recording everything. And then I take it to the band and then the band rerecord everything. So for this album I’ve done it more than ever, a lot of my production is on the album, I’m actually a producer on this album and I feel like as a person, as a musician, as a producer, I’ve really come into my own at this point, you know… I’ve been doing this for long enough, where I’m starting to feel like I’ve mastered my craft.. Not mastered, but.. you know, I’m doing well.

And I feel really.. I feel like I’m the most part of this album. Like this is the most that I’ve given personally to an album and I think I’m very proud of it and I think it sounds great. I think the songs are great, the songwriting is great and I feel like the fans… there’s like I would say four or five, maybe six songs that the fans are gonna lose their shit over. Like, I think that they’re gonna be really really happy. And that’s always a challenge, because a band in the pop punk era, you know, you want.. I love pop punk music, I always have. When a pop punk song comes out that’s awesome, it’s always my favorite genre. But, you also want to like keep yourself fresh. I don’t wanna keep making the same record over and over again, so we always try to do different things. And you know, that can sometimes backfire on us… or it could be ‘whoa that was so cool’! And on this album I feel like we’ve really hit the pop punk sort of what they all want. And then we did some things that are a little bit off there, but they’re out there in a cool way. They’re not out there and like “eww, that’s kind of pop”, you know what I mean? It’s like we’re pushing the envelope in a way that I think fans are gonna be stoked about.

And yeah, I’m just fully 100% behind. I think the songwriting is some of our best lyrically, some really awesome honest lyrics in there. And the production: we’ve got Zakk Cervini mix most of it. And he produced one song. Then we have myself and another guy Jay [note: Jason ‘JVP’ Van Poederooyen] that produced a bunch of songs and it’s sounding like, in my opinion, one of our best records.

If you’re interested, you can watch Nick’s entire interview with Pierre below: