What's up with all the guest chats? July 26, 2001
By Hanson.net Staff
If you didn't get the chance to attend yesterday, Hanson.net had its first guest chat with David Garza Last night. Why, you ask? WHY NOT!
Hanson has decided to open up the Hanson.net ModChat to some new faces and give you all a chance to meet some new Artists, ask some new questions, and get some new answers. You never know, you may just wind up adding some new CD's to your collection. This is in fact the goal - to open you all up to some new music and art that you may otherwise never come across.
Each one of these guests has been selected by Hanson and are up-and coming-artists. Hanson.net is a unique forum for Hanson as well as the artists they support and admire. Hanson feels that you, as the Hanson.net Community, are the best suited to receive these special guests and welcome them into the Hanson.net Community. For some guests, like David Garza, Hanson.net is their FIRST live chat on the Web. It's awesome to know that Hanson wants you all to be the FIRST people to meet and chat with their special guests, who are undoubtedly talented and unique individuals.
There will be guests chats for the next 3 weeks and hopefully a long time thereafter. Keep checking the CHATS PAGE to stay on top of the chat guest schedule and always read the Hanson.net News to bone up on the featured guest.
Hope to see you in the ModChat!
Hanson in Oklahoma Today - July 2, 2001
By www.oklahomatoday.com
Hanson are listed among Tulsa's Fab 51 in the current issue of Oklahoma Today! The magazine has group photos of the most prominent musicians in Tulsa, including Hanson. The magazine has this to say about the three musicians: "Taylor Hanson, 18, plays keyboards for the brother band Hanson, which became an international sensation in 1997 with the hit single, "Mmmbop." Zac Hanson, is the drummer for Hanson, which released it's critically acclaimed album, This Time Around, last year. Isaac Hanson, 20, first got hooked on guitars with an imitation Gibson Les Paul purchase in a local Tulsa pawnshop. Now, the Hanson guitarist loans those first instruments to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum." You can order a copy of the magazine from Oklahoma Today.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Update - June 29, 2001
By HCL News Team
A guitar belonging to Isaac Hanson is presently on display in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum! It is part of an exhibit called, "On the Charts". If you want to see the guitar as part of this exhibit, go quickly! We have heard from the Rock Hall exhibition staff that the entire "On the Charts" exhibit will be taken down in two weeks. What happens after that? The guitar will be stored for a while, but chances are good that after some time has passed, it will be displayed once again as part of another exhibit. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is continually changing its exhibits.
A Smash Hits Clipping - June 28, 2001
By Smash Hits
NEXT TIME AROUND Hanson: new album is coming out next year Hanson have revealed that their new album will be influenced by British bands like Coldplay and Travis, and promise that it'll reach the shops by the beginning of next year. Isaac, Taylor and Zac spoke to SMASH HITS as they jetted into England for a flying visit whilst writing songs in France.
"Middle of Nowhere was pop-based, rock and This Time Around was more southern rock and blues influenced," said Isaac. "There might be a couple more '60s and '70s songs on the new album, and a bit more mellowness."
"I think you're always trying to find new inspiration - like the new U2 record," added Zac.
And Taylor was keen to keep us up-to-date with their love lives. "You wanted to know if we have girlfriends?!" he laughed. "Isaac and I do, but Zac is single at the moment."
Rolling Stone on Hanson's Collaborations June 26, 2001
By Rolling Stone
"We've done this writing project in southwest France," says Taylor, the middle Hanson child, "where songwriters pair up and write and record a song everyday for a week." Looking in a new direction for its next album, the trio worked with the likes of Carole King, Miles Zuniga of Fastball, and Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies. They also worked with Matthew Sweet at his home in Los Angeles. "We've got enough material for two, maybe three albums," says Tay, but the boys are taking their time to decide just what'll make the cut for their next LP, due in 2002. Drummer Zac, the youngest, has a potentially prosperous idea: "Let's become teen pop!" he says sarcastically. "We're gonna bomp, bomp, bomp, bomp. Oh, Yeah, baby."
Hanson at Seventeen Magazine's Party - June 22, 2001
The stars came out in droves...
By CDNOW
--June 15, 2001--
The stars came out in droves for Seventeen magazine's Hollywood Spotlight party at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Calif., on Thursday (June 14).
The concert/fashion show featured performances by Evan and Jaron, 3LW, Rhona, Ray J, and a headlining set from Mandy Moore, whose beau, That '70s Show clown Wilmer Valderrama (Yes, he's robbing the cradle), cheered on from the sidelines.
Also seen mingling among the venue's exclusive Foundation Room were the boys of Hanson, Brandy, Wild Orchid, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson, Frankie Muniz, members of the casts from Days of Our Lives and Temptation Island, and Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, who sped away in her sweet-ass, purple Lamborghini Diablo VT.
Read this at CDNow's Miss Truth for June 15.
Hanson Teams With Barenaked Ladies, Carole King, Fastball, Semisonic On Next Album - June 22, 2001
By Kevin Raub
--June 21, 2001, 10:05 am PT--
The boys of Hanson are still amidst a writing flurry for the follow-up to 2000's This Time Around and have penned new tunes with Barenaked Ladies, Carole King, Fastball, and Semisonic, in addition to previously reported collaborations with Matthew Sweet and ex-New Radical Gregg Alexander (allstar, May 25).
Singer Taylor Hanson cites influences ranging from the Cars to Big Star for the album, in which the trio has a pool of 30-40 songs from which to choose. "I think it's going to take the step that the last record didn't," Taylor tells allstar. "It's gonna stay rock and stay true to what we have always done, which is write pop songs. But it's going to keep a sensibility that people continue to doubt that we are going to get to."
Hanson is determined to shed its baby band image, with This Time Around -- a critical surprise to say the least -- being merely the beginning of that process. "The last record was a great step for the industry to go, 'OK They made a second record and it wasn't crappy,'" says Taylor. "But for me, this record is the final statement. I'm totally psyched. As an artist that's doing music, I'm more pumped about what we are doing now then anything we have ever done."
Although the trio is set to enter a Los Angeles recording studio in a month, they still haven't decided on a producer for the album. Taylor reports the band is mulling over at least 10, all of which he is confident can take on the job with aplomb. "All are amazing producers," says Taylor. "I'm not really focused on that. I think we can make a great record with almost any of them."
Sonically, expect the new Hanson album to be slightly less rambunctious than This Time Around or the band's 1997 debut, Middle of Nowhere.
"One thing about our records, you can't listen to the Hanson albums and relax," says Taylor. "I'm super-proud of them, but they're not the kind of records you put on to chill out to. I think elements of the record really need to have that -- where you can put it on and play it as background music at a party, or play the record through and have it be in your face and rock your world. But there is a sense of mellowness that we never really touched on."
The new, as-yet-untitled Hanson album is tentatively due in early spring on Island Records.
Hanson Grow Old - June 14, 2001
By Much Music
Now for a story that falls into the ‘what were they thinking’ category. Teen pop sensation Hanson has posed for the cover of Modern Maturity Magazine. For those of you not in the know, it’s an older people rag. In the cover article, Hanson talk about their Grandmas. Hanson are also collaborating with the ‘getting up there’ legendary songwriter Carole King.
The Recording Process in short - June 2, 2001
By Kathy
This is a very short summary of what goes on!
You have the song that you are ready to record. You walk into the studio. Then, the sitting and waiting begins.
You lay out some tracks. Each instrument gets a microphone (some instruments get more) that is hooked up to a track or tracks. Setting this up is very time consuming. You have to check to see that each note isn't too soft or loud so to speak. The engineers and artist will try to get that perfect pitch!
You can either record one instrument at a time, or a whole orchestra at once. This setting up can take hours to days! Remember; everyone's after that PERFECT note, pitch &, etc. Then, you play the song.
OK, now the song is done being recorded. Now, to hear the play back and check every note that was played to see if it is too loud, too soft; if it's off, etc. If a note is not right then the artist goes back in to either play that note over again, or play the whole song over again. If the recording is done digitally, then the computer might help in raising the pitch, lowering it, shortening it, or lengthening it. Then, you compare all the notes to all the instruments. This takes even more hours of waiting.
Say that the musicians are all done. Now lets do that same process all over again, but this time you record a human voice, usually one at a time, but sometimes in a group. Then, you record little extras; for example, Zac doing his "yea yea yea" screaming (lol) or a harmony part to your own voice. Even though Hanson all sing together in harmony, that does not mean that they will just record three part harmonies. They can each record three part harmonies in their own voices, making a nine part harmony recording if they wanted to that.
OK, say your all done recording those perfect instruments and perfect voices. NOW it's mixing time! Let the mind boggling time begin! That means that the engineers put everything together in the most perfect note, pitch, and sound level that there is. This could take weeks, or even months to get that perfect sound the artist or producer wants!!! Remember there are a lot of HUMAN voices, sounds, and hearing levels involved here, and not every human has the same voice, sound or hearing levels!
Now to make matters even more confusing. In choosing an engineer and studio, you might record a song in one studio, do some extra tracks in another studio, put voices on at yet another studio and mix at still another studio. Sometimes 4-5 studio's and engineers can be involved in just one song!
Now, months of trying to get that perfect note, pitch, and sound level is all DONE! Then the copies are made (depending on who can make the BEST copies) & distributed to US - the FANS!
BUT before that, you need to lay out the CD cover & inserts, that's another time consuming process! (oh geezz here we go all over again, with an artist's point of view, lol)!
THEN promotional tours and touring, which halls have the best sound for our voices & etc...
SO by the time touring comes around do you think they'd be tired of hearing or singing those songs? Sometimes yes, but they do it all for YOU the FAN!
A review of the Malcolm in the Middle soundtrack - April 5, 2001
By Reviewed and written by Jon Young - for Newsday
"Malcolm" is one of the wittiest sitcoms to come along in years, and "Boss of Me", the snappy theme from They Might Be Giants, captures the show's irreverence perfectly. Few of the other 16 songs measure up, alas.
While tracks for Baha Men ("You All Dat") and Bare naked Ladies ("Falling for the First Time") are mildly entertaining, Travis' bouncey "We Are Monkeys" wallows in cuteness, and the Push Stars' sloppy "Drunk Is Better Than Dead" takes an amateurish stab at rap.
"The biggest surprise comes from, of all people, Hanson, whose soaring "Smile" approaches pure pop perfection. Even folks who hate "MMMBop" may find this gem hard to resist."
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