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Other highlights of “Sidetracks” include Earle’s cover of Nirvana’s “Breed,” originally recorded as a bonus track for the Japanese pressing of his 2000 album “Transcendental Blues,” and his take on Bob Dylan’s “My Back Pages.” Also featured are a handful of tracks Earle has contributed to various soundtracks, including “Ellis Unit One” from 1996’s “Dead Man Walking,” “Me and the Eagle” from 1998’s “The Horse Whisperer,” and “Open Your Window,” two-thirds of which appears in the 2000 film “Pay It Forward. The song was recorded for Artemis’ soundtrack to the 2000 Abbie Hoffman biopic “Steal This Movie,” and sports dialogue by the late counterculture figure, whose estate rarely approves the use of his voice or image, according to the label. “Sidetracks” also features a version of the Chambers Brothers’ “Time Has Come Today” recorded by Earle and Sheryl Crow. Due Tuesday (April 9) via E-Squared/Artemis, the 13-track album features the single “Some Dreams,” which is also featured on the just released Hollywood Records soundtrack to “ The Rookie.”

Steve Earle describes his new compilation, “Sidetracks,” as a collection of “unreleased or underexposed” songs. Third Eye Blind will also play a May 4 hometown show in San Francisco at the Palace of Legion of Honor. The group has two live shows lined up in the coming weeks, beginning with a previously announced April 13 appearance the Beyond 2002 Festival in Miami. guests on the track “F***ed Up Kid,” while the Moldy Peaches’ Kimya Dawson adds vocals to “Self Righteous.” In what is to say the least an unusual pairing of influences, Jenkins describes the sound of “Crystal Baller” as “our continuing fascination with Lou Reed and club rhythms.” 4 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart.įrontman Stephan Jenkins is producing “Crystal Baller,” with assistance from bassist Arion Salazar and engineer Jason Carmer. That album’s single “Never Let You Go” reached No. Nineties breakouts Third Eye Blind are being sued by their former guitarist, Kevin Cadogan, who said that hes been stiffed on money from recordings from. Third Blind Eye songs 'Jumper,' 'Semi-Charmed Life' and 'Hows It Going to Be' have reached the Top 10 in the US and have sold 12 million records worldwide.

40 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 1.2 million copies in the U.S. The band has had two records, Third Eye Blind and Blue, certified as multi-platinum and platinum, respectively. It’s the follow-up to 1999’s “Blue,” which debuted at No. The album itself has sold more than 6 million copies, becoming an icon of its era.įounding members Kevin Cadogan and Arion Salazar either left or were pushed out, depending on who you ask, in 20 respectively, leaving drummer Brad Hargreaves as the only other original member in Third Eye Blind’s current five-member setup.Modern rock act Third Eye Blind has dubbed its third Elektra album “Crystal Baller” and plans to release it in mid-summer. Yet the self-titled album from which the song came spawned four more singles, two of which - “ How’s It Going to Be” and “ Jumper” - landed in the top 10. I had nothing to do with people who put out an album the same year I did.” I was thinking about Jeff Buckley and A Tribe Called Quest and Slowdive. “My cohort in my mind was totally different than what people might have assumed for me. Jenkins became infamous for his cocky attitude and willingness to take on all comers, be it rock critics or other bands. Media gatekeepers never understood the band “and that really bothered me.” “It was just the cohort that we were in,” says Jenkins. Which is exactly how the Bay-area group are remembered by casual fans and critics: one in a sea of interchangeable major-label alt-rock lite bands, like Sugar Ray, Everclear and Matchbox 20 who dominated rock radio in the waning days of the 1990s. That’s why it lasts.”īut it’s also the kind of song that sinks careers, branding its creators one-hit wonders. “The song is about being addicted to wanting,” says the band’s singer Stephan Jenkins, who penned the deceptively gritty tune about sex and drugs in the mid-’90s.

“ Semi-Charmed Life,” the insanely catchy 1997 debut single from Third Eye Blind, is the rare kind of song that sounds familiar even on first listen, the kind of song destined to be a hit.

By the time the “doot-doot-doots” kick in, it’s over. It starts with a drum fill, followed by that propulsive riff.