December 22.

2007

JOE LENNANE
We are deeply saddened by the loss of a great friend and amazing production manager, Joe Lennane.
Joe passed away this week while on tour in Switzerland. He made a huge impact on everyone around him, including
ourselves and will be missed.

49 "Makes Me Wonder"
Maroon 5
Quite a player, that Adam Levine: In addition to his good looks, he's got that silky voice and a big bag
of hooks. He deploys both on this dance-pop kiss-off, a hit brighter than any Swedish tunesmith has
come up with in years.

10. Maroon 5: Makes Me Wonder

- What made it so catchy: Pop juggernaut Maroon 5 returned from their smash Songs About Jane
with this Jamiroquai-esque pop ditty that made you wonder if you could ever get it out of your
head.

Sleek, sexy and featuring just the right amount of distro buzz, the song was an instant hit.
Singer Adam Levine once again owns us with his pop prowess, using his swagger-filled, well Pro-
Tooled falsetto to drive this ditty straight through your ears and smack into your brain.

Top 5 Songs To Listen To While On The Road In Europe

Filed under: Jesse Carmichael, Maroon 5, MySpace blogs — maroon5blog @ 1:14 pm

By Jesse Carmichael

• Bright Eyes - “Make A Plan To Love Me”

• Radiohead - “Nude”
• Bob Dylan - “Don’t Think Twice. It’s Alright”
• The Orioles - “It’s Too Soon To KNow”

'Maroon 5 nº 1 en iTunes'
- It Won't Be Soon Before Long es el album más vendido en iTunes consiguiendo desbancar a 'Amy Winehoue' y
'Kanye West'. El segundo disco de la banda batió récords de pre-venta al superar las más de 50.000 copias
vendidas y con solo una semana consiguieron vender más de 101.000, gracias a estas ventas han conseguido que este
disco sea el más vendido de 2007 en este formato.
• Bjork - “Earth Intruders”

December 18.2007

IWBSBL "THE B-SIDE COLLECTION" ON ITUNES

Head over to the iTunes store for an opportunity to purchase a collection of songs that did not make the "It
Won't Be Soon Before Long" album. B-SIDE COLLECTION AT THE ITUNES STORE.

FAN CLUB STORE DISCOUNT

Just a reminder to our SIN Fan Club members, with your membership you also get a 10% discount to the
OFFICIAL MAROON 5 WEB STORE. Please contact your SIN rep if you have any questions.
December 11.2007

HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) ON ITUNES

Maroon 5 cover the classic John Lennon song, "Happy Xmas" (War Is Over) which is available today on iTunes.
Head over to the ITUNES STORE to purchase your copy.

Maroon 5, Fergie are No. 1 for year on iTunes

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Maroon 5 and Fergie hold the top spots on iTunes' year-end sales roundup.

The online music store released its top-selling albums and singles Tuesday, though it declined to release actual
sales figures.
Maroon 5's sophomore album, "It Won't Be Soon Before Long," was the No. 1 seller on the site, followed by Amy
Winehouse's "Back to Black" and Kanye West's "Graduation." Winehouse and West are also leaders heading into
the 50th annual Grammy Awards -- he has eight nominations, she has six.
Rounding out the top five best-selling albums were "American Idol" alum Chris Daughtry's band's self-titled
debut, "Daughtry," and "Coco" by newcomer Colbie Caillat, who has the hit "Bubbly."
Fergie came in at first and fifth place in single sales. Her hit "Big Girls Don't Cry" was the top-selling single of
the year for iTunes, while "Glamorous" finished in fifth. Gwen Stefani's "The Sweet Escape" came in second
place, followed by Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah" and Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend."

WON'T GO HOME WITHOUT YOU PREMIER

Tune into VH1 Top 20 Countdown tomorrow - Saturday December 1st for the premier of the video for "Won't Go
Home Without You". Check your local listings for time and channel.

You can view the video online via our Maroon 5 You Tube Channel now as well as the entrance to the maroon5.com
website. "WON'T GO HOME WITHOUT YOU" ON YOUTUBE!

November 28.2007

AUSTRALIA TOUR DATES

Check out the LIVE section to see the newly announced 2008 Australia Tour Dates. We look forward to seeing
you on the road!

BID ON GUITAR LESSONS WITH JAMES

Check out the 4thAnnual GRAMMY Charity Holiday Auction where you can bid on a guitar lesson with James
Valentine! Auction proceeds benefit MusiCares and the GRAMMY Foundation. The auction ends December 6, so
place your bids today at EBAY.COM/GRAMMY

Janet Jackson graba un dúo con Maroon 5 para su nuevo álbum

El disco, que aún no tiene título definitivo, se publicará en el primer trimestre de 2008. Incluso, se rumorea que
podría estar listo para finales de enero aunque este dato aún no ha sido confirmado. Lo que sí es seguro es que,
para su nuevo trabajo, la cantante ha grabado un dúo con el grupo de rock Maroon 5.

November 16.2007

DECEMBER BLENDER
The December issue of Blender is on newsstands now. Check out the "Collect Call From: Maroon 5" starting on
Page 67.
November 13.2007

"MAKES ME WONDER" REMIX AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

Head over to iTunes now to download the "Wake Up Call" Mark Ronson Remix Featuring Mary J. Blige
CHECK IT OUT HERE.

November 12.2007

TV APPEARANCES
Keep an eye out for Maroon 5 on your TV this week.
Thursday - November 15th on The Ellen Show
Sunday - November 18th on The American Music Awards
Check your local listings for time and station.

November 8.2007

"WAKE UP CALL" MARK RONSON REMIX W/ MARY J. BLIGE

Maroon 5 has announced a November 13th release for the "Makes Me Wonder" remix. The new version was
remixed by Mark Ronson (Christina Aguilera, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen) and features vocals from six-time
Grammy winner Mary J. Blige. The song will be available through online music retailers including iTunes.

October 30. 2007

VERISON PRESENTS MAROON5 MASH UP

ake your own mash of "Makes Me Wonder" and "Wake Up Call" and send it to all your friends.
Enter for a chance to win a guitar signed by Maroon 5 and $2,500!
http://www.maroon5concerts.com/mash

Maroon 5 is a band perhaps best known for its sex appeal and steamy videos.

When the neo-soul pop band made it big with their first album, Songs About Jane, they stirred up controversy
with a video in which frontman Adam Levine appeared to be having sex with his then-girlfriend. Then there was
another video that featured Levine pining after a highly sexualized Kelly Preston.

The controversies, combined with the band’s radio-friendly pop tunes, took the debut album to the top of the
charts. But it took more than two years for that album to climb the charts and while the band’s sophomore
release had a brief stint at the No. 1 spot on Billboard, it’s now hovering around the 50th spot.

It Won’t be Soon Before Long was released in May and although it’s not the blockbuster the band might have
hoped for, Levine was impressively cool and relaxed about its reception when he spoke to The Vancouver Sun
from a tour stop in Orlando.

Our first album, we won’t ever be that again and the beauty is that we don’t need to because we can still play
those songs live,” he said.

“It’s still a huge part of us. In fact, we lean towards that material when we play it because that’s what’s putting
people in seats right now is the first album.”

Maroon 5 will take the stage tonight at Pacific Coliseum to play the songs the audience wants. But they will also
play several songs off the new album, with hopes that in time, they too will become favourites.
“That takes time - so much time - and touring and playing good sets and keeping people interested, because
people’s interest can wane very quickly if you start getting too self-absorbed.”

Levine is famous for his vanity and confidence. But that is undoubtedly part of his appeal.

He has a reputation as something of a serial dater - having been romantically linked to Jessica Simpson, Natalie
Portman, Maria Sharapova and several other women. But he says he actually has very little time for a social life
when he’s touring.

“It is fun out here, but it’s so much work and you’re so consumed by it that for me, personally, I can’t really
socialize at all because I have to be able to sleep and perform and keep myself together so that I can keep this
machine rolling,” he says.

Yoga has kept him in prime physical and mental shape during the current tour and he concedes he’s become
somewhat obsessed with it.

“I definitely have the bug. I started about eight months ago and I haven’t stopped,” he said.

“Obviously, for vanity’s sake it’s nice, and for your body it’s good. But also, mentally, it is the most intensely
centering and grounding thing. I’ve never been this focused in my entire life.

“I can pretty much directly attribute it to the yoga because I didn’t start taking Prozac and I sure haven’t
changed any other habits in my life, so it’s definitely, honestly one of the best things that’s ever happened to
me.”

At 28 years of age, Levine says he’s left behind many of his boy-ish ways, but is feeling fantastic and looking
forward to getting older.

“I feel so young considering where I am in my life. I kind of enjoy being a little bit older. When I was 22 I was
just a punk. I had a no idea what I was doing,” he said.

“I think that as I get older I get a little bit wiser. I embrace getting a little bit older and the cool thing is, yeah,
I’m almost 30, but I’m also still 28. I don’t look at it like an expiration date or anything. I look at it like, ‘Cool, I
get to be a handsome, successful, young, compassionate 30-year-old man. That’s how I like to look at it.”

Levine can’t predict how long he’ll keep swaggering across stadium stages and wailing about love gone wrong, but
he looks to Sting and the Police - for whom Maroon 5 recently opened a show - as great inspiration.

“Sting is one of my heroes and he’s still such an amazing singer and still has it. That’s an exciting thing. He’s not a
young guy any more and the fact he can still kill it is very inspiring,” he said.

“I really don’t know what’s going to come naturally [to me] . . . I certainly am not going to be clinging to my youth.
I did away with a lot of the stuff that I used to do when I was a kid a while ago. I think it’s a natural thing you
have to feel out and you don’t want to feel silly.

“I don’t know if I’ll be able to be 35 and be on stage. I don’t know if that’s going to feel right. It may. It may feel
right. I don’t know.”

For now though, Levine is focused on presenting a great show and giving his legions of female fans what they paid
for -funky, emotive, soul-pop songs sung by a playboy with chiselled features.

Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine is proudly old-school when it comes to his musical favorites. But at 28, he already
feels a generation gap between himself and many of his fans.

“When I mention The Police or Marvin Gaye or The Beatles, strangely enough, that’s new to a lot of ears that are
younger and didn’t grow up with them,” Levine said.

Here’s a look at three of his biggest influences:

ARTIST: THE BEATLES

Legacy: Do you have to ask? Defunct since 1969, this English band still ranks as the most influential in rock.

Suggested albums: Except for the uneven “Yellow Submarine” soundtrack, all of them.

Levine: “My mother used to play The Beatles’ ‘I’ll Follow the Sun’ every day. And every time, I felt something
intuitively. It seemed effortless and so connected to who I was. I thought: ‘Wow, this is something I could do
with my life.’ ”

ARTIST: MARVIN GAYE

Legacy: Before he was shot to death by his father in 1984, this gospel-bred R&B superstar was one of pop’s most
soulful and versatile talents. Like few others, he transformed social and political issues into stirring music.

Suggested albums: “What’s Going On”; “Here, My Dear”

Levine: “He seemed like an amazing person and it was one of the most tragic losses we ever had. I would be very
curious to see what he had to say now, because I wasn’t around when he was. The world would be a better place
with him in it.”

ARTIST: STING

Legacy: Veteran solo star and the charismatic leader of the now-reunited Police. In his younger days, Sting
admitted to deliberately stirring up trouble in his personal life to create fertile songwriting inspiration.

Suggested albums: (with The Police) “Synchronicity”; (solo) “The Soul Cages”

Levine: “Have I stirred things up in my life to get a good song, like Sting did? I can guarantee you that is
probably true. However, I will never admit to it. Nobody wants to hear music about how happy and rich you are. It
just isn’t interesting. I think what people want to know is: ‘OK, you’ve got this great life, but don’t you suffer the
way we do?’ And the answer is: ‘Yes, of course. Everyone suffers.’

San Diego - end of tour pranks

Filed under: IWBSBL Tour, Maroon 5, Video — maroon5blog @ 2:31 am

This was the last show of the tour for The Hives and Phantom Planet, so of course there were the customary end
of tour pranks from each band!

PRANK 1: Phantom Planet

WATCH VIDEO
During the song “California” scenes from The OC were flashed up on the big screens. Lead singer Alex stopped
and said, “Believe me, there will be serious retributions for all those who are listening backstage!”

PRANK 2: The Hives

WATCH VIDEO
Maroon 5 ran on stage dressed like The Hives in the middle of “Hate To Say I Told You So” and sprayed the band
with silly string. Pelle, the lead singer of The Hives said, “Maroon 5 are up next…we’ll just have to see if
something unexpected happens during their set.”

PRANK 3: Maroon 5
VIDEO 1 - Adam
VIDEO 2 - James’ and Mickey’s reactions

During “Secret” the Kara’s Flowers video for Soap Disco started playing on the big screens and ended with the
words “Love Phantom Planet.” Adam said, “Just to let you know where Maroon 5 came from, we wanted to show
you a video we made when we were 17 so you can really get to know our history!”

PRANK 4: Maroon 5

WATCH VIDEO
During Adam and Matt’s drum solo before “Little of Your Time” Phantom Planet and The Hives unexpectedly came
on stage to join in and they all ended up having a big jam session.

Adam Mix 94.1 Interview

Filed under: Adam Levine, Interviews, Maroon 5 — maroon5blog @ 2:51 pm

Adam was interviewed in Las Vegas at The Palms hotel on Tuesday. Listen to the interview here

They’ve sold 2m albums in the UK, 10m in the US. But they can’t get a good review. Angus Batey goes
backstage with Maroon 5, the world’s most misunderstood pop group

It is possible to pinpoint the moment where everything hits Adam Levine. During one of their best-known songs,
She Will Be Loved, the singer, guitarist and principal songwriter in Maroon 5 allows his emotions to the surface.
Performing in front of a sell-out crowd at the Staples Center in the band’s home city of Los Angeles, Maroon 5
pause the song. A close-up of Levine’s face flashes on to the screens that flank the stage: is that a tear in what
many suppose to be his gimlet eye?

“I almost did [cry],” Levine admits the following day, as he, bassist Mickey Madden and guitarist James Valentine
chat over an organic meal in the bowels of San Diego’s Cox Arena, another colossal sports venue the band have
sold out. “I was just taking it all in. We always do that pause, but this was a very intense one.”

“More or less all the people involved in the making of our record were there, and our friends and families,”
Madden explains of the LA show. “All of the people that you wanna impress the most, the kind of people who,
when you think about it, can really trip you up, or really make you play better.”

This tour’s emphatic success has been the long-awaited reward for one of the most misunderstood and unfairly
maligned pop bands of recent years. Maroon 5’s debut album, Songs About Jane, sold more than 10m copies
worldwide - 2m of those in the UK. The follow-up, It Won’t Be Soon Before Long, released in May, is closing in on
3m sales already.

Yet the band’s rise has hardly been the serene, untroubled one such bald statistics suggest. Songs About Jane -
originally released in 2002 - was the ultimate “sleeper” hit, turned into a huge success by relentless, unforgiving
touring. The bonds between the core members - Levine, Madden, keyboardist Jesse Carmichael and drummer
Ryan Dusick, all of whom had been friends since their early teens - were put to the test when an injury forced
Dusick out of the group. Add to this a critical reception that paints them as at best opportunists, at worst
cynical charlatans, and there seem plenty of good reasons for Levine and his bandmates to get emotional.

British critics view the band with suspicion tending to derision. NME, Uncut and Mojo - magazines with clear
ideas about what their readers judge to be serious rock music - did not review It Won’t Be Soon.

This paper’s review of a gig in London this year said: “They have clung to the perspective that adequate is
preferable to amazing, and competence is enough to fill the charisma void.”
It is difficult to see what Maroon 5 have done to attract such opprobrium. They are clearly serious about music:
despite Noel Gallagher slagging them off when Maroon 5 and Oasis were paired on a British festival bill, the
Angelenos bear no ill will towards the leader of a band they all admire. And as support for this tour of enormous
American venues they have chosen critics’ darlings the Hives, at least in part, as Valentine explains, “because a
lot of our audience is a pop radio-listening audience that might not otherwise be exposed to a band like them.”

Songs About Jane was a robust, immaculately crafted collection of pop-rock songs with nods to Stevie Wonder,
U2 and Led Zeppelin. It Won’t Be Soon transcends it: every verse, chorus and middle-eight has been honed to pop
perfection.

“We wanted to make an album full of singles: that kind of was the goal,” says Levine, smiling coyly. “Maybe it was
a bit of a mistake the first time around, and we wanted to repeat that mistake. I like having hit singles! It’s fun!”

“It’s best just to ignore all press, be it good or bad, but it’s impossible at the same time,” says Madden. “We
definitely have a very populist role in the music scene, which I think all of us would prefer, rather than to be a
niche band that appeals to music journalists. No one likes to read condescending or dismissive things about
themselves, but I think there’s a lot more to the band than would meet the eye on a cursory glance, you know?”

He has a point. Much of Maroon 5’s US press concentrates on Levine, whose good looks and lyrics of pain and
heartbreak have combined with a string of assignations with high-profile women to turn him into prime celebrity-
media fodder. His bandmates stop short of admitting frustration with his public image, but Madden concedes,
when the singers is out of earshot: “Adam’s celebrity is definitely overwhelming. It’s distracting and it gets in
the way of seeing the band as a band, so, in that sense, it’s tiresome.” But if Maroon 5 is a democracy - and there
is considerable evidence they are - it’s a democracy where some group members are more equal than others.

“The vast bulk of the creativity comes from Adam, and that’s duly noted in the way we make our decisions,”
Madden explains. “There’s very little ego in our decision-making, particularly artistically, which is great - that’s a
nice place to aspire to, and get to. I think the principal reasons bands fall apart and end up hating each other are
just pure questions of ego, jockeying for attention. But I think we all know the roles we play within the band.”

The tour ends the day after our interview with a more intimate gig at the Palms casino in Las Vegas, the set
culminating in a 10-minute cover of Prince’s Purple Rain. Afterwards, the band head to a club for an end-of-tour
party; all except Levine, a keen blackjack player, who is given the full Vegas high-roller treatment and spends the
night gambling in a roped-off VIP area.

It’s not that he isn’t one of the gang - he is a prime mover in the end-of-tour joke played on the Hives, who are
ambushed on stage by a balaclava-clad Maroon 5 who spray them with silly string - but perhaps the comparative
elevation of his personal celebrity has combined with the parts of his personality that lean towards the loner, and
has exaggerated his status as first among equals. In any case, his school friend argues, Levine was always a star
in his own mind; it’s just now that everyone else is catching up.

“Ever since he was 12, I’d say, pretty firmly, that he hasn’t basically changed,” Madden says. “I would maybe say
that fame has justified his personality.” Valentine adds: “Having been around lots of successful artists over the
years, there’s a psychological profile that Adam shares with a lot of them. I wouldn’t wanna name names,” he
chuckles, “but the front-person, the lead singer - it’s a very distinct type. You see it again and again.”

Who could he mean? Maroon 5 played four dates on the last Rolling Stones tour, and were invited to meet each
band member individually in their separate dressing rooms - “They did not disappoint,” Madden grins - and one
date on the Police tour. Surely Valentine is not invoking Mick Jagger or Sting? “And of course there’s the yoga
thing,” the guitarist says with a smile. (Levine is a recent convert and has brought his teacher on the road.) “But,
you know, there’s a confidence, and there’s never questioning what you do, and diving 100% into every decision you
make.”

But even as headstrong a spirit as Levine’s occasionally takes the sensible route. Such as when the band decided
not to play their new single, Won’t Go Home Without You, when supporting the Police, because of its obvious debt
to Every Breath You Take. “Sting went into our dressing room and slapped me in the face,” Levine jokes. ”
Seriously, though, [Every Breath] is one of my favourite songs ever written. I wanted to write a song like it.
There was no way it wasn’t a direct influence.”
“When Adam first brought the song to the band,” says Valentine, “it was like the Beach Boys meets the Strokes,
because of the way the guitars were arranged. It’s still like that in the chorus, but the turn came when we were
recording it, and we came across that muted part in the verse. We were like, ‘Should we do that?’ And we
decided, ‘It’s fine - it’s an homage to one of our favourite bands.’”

“The song would not have turned out the way that it did had they gotten back together before we made the
album,” Levine explains. “They were totally dead and gone, and were never going to get back together. And they
announced their tour a week after our album came out. It would have been silly to play it.” Madden sighs. “It
would have been like us saying, ‘Hey, have you guys ever heard the Police?’”

This is a video from Nokia’s website that shows the band having fun while travelling around Europe. Maroon 5 are
doing a promotion with Nokia where if you buy their new N81 8GB phone, you get the new album, the unreleased
track “Let It Go” and a dance remix of “Makes Me Wonder” preinstalled.