Matchbox Twenty News- Kody's Avenue

Matchbox Twenty News

Last updated: January 13th, 2001

LATEST NEWS:January 13th, 2001

Once again I have lost track of the time!! I had lotsa exams, and have only just finished giving Kody's Avenue a whole new look! I hope you enjoy it! On the news front Matchbox Twenty have finished their Australian Tour (which totally kicked butt!) Seem my concert pics HERE. They've released tourdates for the US tour with Lifehouse and Everclear, which can be found in the "Tour Dates" section of matchboxtwenty.com. Hm.... other wise the boys are up for 3 Grammy awards:

CATEGORY 20 - BEST ROCK SONG
BENT

CATEGORY 21 - BEST ROCK ALBUM
MAD SEASON

CATEGORY 84 - PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL
MATT SERLETIC for: Mad Season (matchbox twenty)

June 18th, 2000

Where did all the time go??
There's not that much on the news front...
Matchbox twenty are currently touring Europe (lucky devils) and Rumour (NB- RUMOUR!!) has it that Rob and Marisol are expecting a baby- that's one "Mad Season" for them.. tish boom...
Mean while entertain yourself with this Matchbox twenty interview over at MTV.
PEACE!

May 24th, 2000

Guess what- it's the next day!! and we all (well at least I do) have a copy of Matchbox Twenty's beautiful new album "Mad Season" in our hot little hands ( or blasting out our stereos!)
I have the limited edition copy. It's in the form of a story book, and really groovy! It also has bonus You & I & I video clip and extra stuff for your computer (I think all of them have it)
So yeah! How exciting!!
They've been on letterman, and I'm hoping that I'll be able to catch it here Down Under...!
Rumours for an Australian tour are p#e3319d icting November this year, and we'll know in 3 months or so.
Take care everyone! and have a Mad Day!!

May 20th, 2000

YAY YAY YAY!! an hour count down is plausible now...!! Hands up who can't wait to get hold of "Mad Season"...!!
Try ringing up your music store to reserve a copy of the limited edition...! I did!!
What we've heard is that Paulie is to get married!! [aww!!] so another matchstick wedding on the way!
In Australia (and the US of course) bent has be kicking butt (although not enough of 5ive , Britany Spears and the like) on the charts:

# 1  Todd and Milly at Night -TNT- 28/3/00
# 4  Jonesy             -Planet Rock-   May 6th (highest debut)
# 1  Todd and Milly at Night -TNT- 11/5/00
# 1  Todd and Milly at Night -TNT- 12/5/00
# 9  Jonesy             -Planet Rock-   May 13th
#26 Rick Dees Weekly top 40
# 8 Jonesy             -Planet Rock-   May 20th
#27 Aria charts/ Rage top 50

May 5th, 2000
There's so much going on at the moment with Matchbox Twenty as the days wizz by to the release of the new album. "bent" is available for purchase from any good music store in Australia, and is getting a little air play. The Australian release for Mad Season is May 22nd- that's a whole day before in the US. Matchbox Twenty are supposeldy (I'll check it out) in May Aussie edition of Rolling Stone.
Matchbox20's "Yourself or someone like you" was featu#e3319d in Sydney Triple M's top 500 rock albums at NUMBER 20!! (lol- that's funny MB20, #20... ok, maybe not)
Matchbox Twenty were also on Triple Ms Planet Rock, with an interview that I'll try to type up sometime... and I recieved an email from the DJ Jonesy so say that they should be featuring them more within the next few weeks (YAY!) So listen to them people!
I'll try to write more frequently as the release of Mad Season gets closer.... BYE!

April 15th, 2000

AMENDMENT: Okay boys and girls. It has been brought to my attention that perhaps the information I have on the release dates of "Bent" and "Mad Season" is slightly off form. I saw with my own eyes, that HMV will have the single on April 24th, but on the Warner Australia site the release for "Bent" is May 1st, and subsequently, while HMV said that "Mad Season" saw due out on the 24th of May, Matchbox Twenty say it's out on May 23rd, and Warner say it's out on May 22nd (I'm hoping for the 22nd, which is quite likely/ possible considering it's a Monday... I don't know)
So there you go- I hope I managed to clear up a few things for you.
Peace everyone.

April 12th, 2000

ATTENTION ALL AUSSIES:
"Mad Season" will be available in Australia on May 24th!! Thanks to the wonderful people at HMV, I have seen in black and white! The new single is confirmed to be "Bent" and will be released on April 24th (that's 12 days from today!!!). They haven't made us wait an extra 3 months as other bands do... HURRAY!

April 4th, 2000

The track listing for mad season is:

1.  Angry
2.  Black & White People
3.  Crutch
4.  Last Beautiful Girl
5.  If You're Gone
6.  Mad Season
7.  Rest Stop
8.  The Burn
9.  Bent <<<<<==== FIRST SINGLE!!
10. Bed of Lies
11. Leave
12. Stop
13. You Won't Be Mine

Matchbox20, formerly Matchbox 20 are now known as Matchbox Twenty... YEAH! so there

I recieved an email with a link to a Matt Serletic interview RE. the NEW ALBUM!It includes tourdates in Germany and UK. Check it out here at SonicNet

23/4/00 Latest album is due out now on May 23rd,(that's two more months from when I'm writing this!!) confirmed by Adam in his March 2000 edition of Postcards (see www.matchbox20.com ) and will be called "Mad Seasons". Despite rumours, the first release is not confirmed to be "The Style" but none-the-less will appear before the album comes out.

Apparently.... the Matchsticks latest endevour is to tour with Jars of Clay (the best Christian band in the whole wide world!!) during US summer....

As you all know... Santana and Rob Thomas had an AWESOME sucess at the Grammys and cleaned the place up. YAY!


"Live in Australia"
-released (finally) in Australia!!
thanks to AM20FC
News is to check out your local 
 Sanity music stores!


OCTOBER 27, 1999
Matchbox20 goes diamond!

Matchbox20 has just been awarded the prestigious
Diamond Award by the Recording Industry Association
of America (RIAA). This means that thanks to all
of our fans, matchbox20 has sold in excess of
10 million albums in the U.S. alone.

As of March 1999 just 62 titles (spanning four
decades of music) qualify for the Diamond Award
including: "Abbey Road," "Dark Side of the
Moon," "Led Zeppelin IV," "Rumours,"
and "The Joshua Tree."


SEPTEMBER 3, 1999

Matchbox20's Rob Thomas will be taking
time out of the studio to join Carlos
Santana on The Tonight Show With
Jay Leno on Friday, September 10th. 
They will be performing their #1 hit
"Smooth" which has topped the radio
charts for 9 consecutive weeks.

In case you hadn't heard: Matchbox20 has
been in the studio since mid-August to
start recording their follow-up to
"Yourself Or Someone Like You." Word
from the studio is that everything's smooth
and the band is having a great time.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 25, 1999
MATCHBOX20'S ROB THOMAS RECEIVES 
BMI'S "SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR" HONORS;
"LIVE FROM AUSTRALIA" HOME VIDEO DUE JUNE 22nd 
Rob Thomas, lead singer and songwriter with Lava/Atlantic
recording group matchbox20, has received 1999's "Pop
Songwriter of the Year" award from the performing rights
organization, BMI. Thomas was recognized for penning three
songs on the year's most-performed songs list, and shares the
"Pop Songwriter of the Year" titles with Mariah Carey,
Shania Twain, and Sarah McLachlan.
The hono#e3319d  tracks, "3am," "Real World," and "Push" (which was
also awarded last year for being among 1998's most-performed
songs), were also rewarded with BMI's "Pop Awards" for
their inclusion on the most-performed songs list. All three songs
are found on matchbox20's eight-times-platinum certified
debut, "YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU." 
Released on September 27, 1996, the top 5 charting smash
has been on the Billboard 200 for a remarkable 115 weeks.
In other band-related news, Thomas will be a special guest on
"SUPERNATURAL," the upcoming album from Latin rock
legends, Santana. His vocals will be featu#e3319d  on the album's
first single, "Smooth," a track co-written by Thomas, and
produced by Matt Serletic (matchbox20, Collective
Soul, Edwin McCain, Aerosmith). 
Matchbox20 are set to release their first full-length home
video, "MATCHBOX20 LIVE FROM AUSTRALIA,"
on June 22nd. The video features electrifying performances
of all the Orlando, Florida-based band's hits, shot live in
Sydney on their 1998 sold-out Australian tour. Other highlights
include exclusive matchbox20 renditions of Cyndi Lauper's 
"TimeAfter Time," and the Beatles' "Don't LetMe Down,"
as well as the band's new "You & I & I." 
In addition, "MATCHBOX20 LIVE FROM AUSTRALIA"
also features never-before-seen backstage footage,
as well as the smash companion clips for "3am," "Push,"
"Long Day," "Back 2 Good," and "Real World."
The band are currently preparing to enter the studio
in July to begin cutting tracks for their highly-anticipated
second effort.

*the above is from the Official Matchbox20 site*

##WEDDING BELLS##

Rob an Marisol his fiance have finally set their wedding date! After being postponed from April, the new date is now October 2, 1999, with the wedding taking place in California. Apparently Rob has hired a wedding consultant to plan their perfect wedding personally I'm waiting for the wedding in hope that it'll be in all the magazines....!

Australian matchbox 20 Video

Fear no more Aussies! Word has it that the PPV that all everyone's been going on about might be available by June! But then again, the date was originally March... then April... then May..... About the PPV though- from the preview, it looks like it was the Sydney concert, but then again- there wasn't anything stopping them from wearing the same thing through the whole of the Aussie tour...!

The "next" album

Recording should be taking place...now? Recording should be done before the wedding, and the Album released early 2000.... (fingers crossed!). At the moment Rob is either working on a solo project, or living in New York with Marisol... or both....

Matchbox 20 up against 'The Doors"

Personally I'm a little peeved at this. Matchbox 20 was up against 'The Doors" in a recent Triple M "battle of Rock" weekend. The Doors won-66-34%. I was thinking that it was a little unfairly matched, as the Doors have been around for years, and established a large fan scale... but never mind- I don't care- I casted my vote for the number one rock act ....the Doors... Kidding!!! Matchbox 20

Okay so basically that's it. I have no more news.... because this is a new news section..... so email me if you hear anything that should be up here!