Adam Green Goes Hollywood

After spending the past year touring, gonzo singer-songwriter Adam Green postponed dates for his fall European tour to focus on recording the follow-up to his third effort, 2005's Gemstones, due for release in March.

The former Moldy Peaches singer says he's halfway through recording his new album, after popping in and out of a New York studio throughout the summer to lay down a handful of tracks. Among them are "Hollywood Bowl," a tune about "dancing, teenage arcades and bowling," and "Novatell," inspired by a day hanging out with another sardonic singer-songwriter.

"When I was nineteen, Beck tried to take me into the [Scientology] Celebrity Centre," says Green. "I met a bunch of people, but I decided that it wasn't for me. I don't think I could get any kind of religion -- I never felt like I belonged to any kind of group other than my family."

While artists often boast of having dozens of songs to choose from before hitting the studio, Green prefers to take his time on each track. "The truth is, I don't really write that many songs," he says. "For Gemstones, I wrote about seventeen, and only two didn't make it. I wouldn't put all that time into writing a song if I didn't think it was going somewhere."

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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