Maroon 5

Saturday, September 29th marked the first stop on Maroon 5’s U.S. tour. Their first stop was Detroit, Michigan. Today they’ll be playing in St. Paul, Minnesota playing at the Xcel Energy Center. After that, the boys are headed straight to Rosemont, Illinois. Helping kick off their shows will the The Hives and Sara Bareilles. If you happen to be in an area that they’ll be playing at be sure to check these guys out live. They are a great live performance and that’s coming from experience. I’ve already got my ticket for the San Diego show and am excited to see these guys perform their new stuff from their great sophomore album. Their sophomore album, It Won’t Be Soon Before Long, has gone down in the billboard charts from 15 last week to 27 this week but has already become a platinum record and with more publicity, a tour and a music video that YOU can be apart of their sophomore album is bound to become another multi-platinum record for Maroon 5.

Looking at the floor plans for the Maroon 5 concert, it looks like Adam Levine will be able to walk out onto two platforms to give his fans a little extra than a standard performance. The Detroit show was an 80-minute show and Maroon 5 had a 14 song set. As always in a Maroon 5 concert, they will play covers of other great hits. For instance, when I went to see them, they did a mash up of Akon’s Don’t Matter and a Sting song. It’ll be a show to remember to be sure to check it out.

For more updates and news about Adam, James, Jesse, Mickey and Matt be sure to bookmark this page for frequent updates and interesting stories about Maroon 5.

If you haven’t heard Maroon 5 is going on tour. A lot of the tour dates have gone on sale so if you want to see them on tour buy your tickets now.

According to Wikipedia,

“According to a casting sheet found on the web, director Jonas Ackerlund and the band are looking for a leading lady to play frontman Adam Levine’s love interest, as well as an older, haggard-looking man (the sheet made specific references to both Mickey Rourke and Ian McShane) for the role of the other man. There is also mention of strippers and pole dancers, as well as body doubles in said casting sheet (a mild sex scene is expected to take place, though the characters involved are unknown).

Filming took place on July 7-9, with the video’s premiere estimated for mid-July.”

Here are two more sneak previews:

Aspiring new artist, Kevin Michael, will join Maroon 5 in a portion of their tour. I had the pleasure of being able to see Kevin Michael open for Maroon 5 during the Myspace Secret Show here in San Diego. He has a good stage presence and you can see that afro a mile away. He and his beat-boxing guitar player took the stage for a couple songs and he was fairly decent. Is it me or does Maroon 5 have very odd choices for opening acts. Kevin Michael seems really out of place as an opening act for Maroon 5 but in his genre of music is fairly good. Beside Kevin Michael, The Hives will be the other opening act. So those tour dates will be a very interesting mixture of musical sounds. Here is his video for my favorite Kevin Michael song celebrating where he came from, It Don’t Make Any Difference To Me. Also below that are the shows he will be opening for.

October 15: Boston, MA
October 16: Washington, DC
October 18: Columbia, SC
October 20: Sunrise, FL
October 21: St. Petersburg, FL
October 23: Orlando, FL
October 24: Duluth, GA
October 26: Houston, TX
October 27: Ft. Worth, TX
October 29: Denver, CO
October 31: Salt Lake City, UT