This year MTV is letting the fans decide who the nominees are for the VMA’s! Voting opens today for the Best Hip-Hop and Pop Video categories. Make sure to go to vma.mtv.com to vote for Counting Crows‘ video “You Can't Count On Me” in the Pop category.  Voting closes Wednesday 7/30 at 11 AM EST.

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“Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings is the story of what happens when all the bright lights start to burn instead of glitter and you become more of a part of the shadow they cast behind you than the person you are in front. Produced in two parts by Gil Norton & Brian Deck, it's about a flood of sin and liquor and dissolution and insanity and it's about trying to rebuild the life you wrecked in the wake of that flood. It's about the way it feels. It's about me.

It's a Counting Crows album. We're back. We were only ever as far gone as you can go.”

- Adam Duritz, Counting Crows

Watch the new video for "You Can't Count On Me"!

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Join Counting Crows as they perform songs from Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, their first studio album in five years, at the following Apple store locations. Space is limited, so be sure to arrive early. And please feel free to spread the word!


Dates and Times:
Thursday, March 27, 7:00 p.m. Apple Store, SoHo (New York)
Thursday, April 3, 4:00 p.m. Apple Store, The Grove (Los Angeles)
Sunday, April 6, 4:00 p.m. Apple Store, San Francisco (San Francisco)
Wednesday, April 9, 6:00 p.m. Apple Store, North Michigan Avenue (Chicago)


*Please note all of these are inside the Apple Store except for the Los Angeles one which will be outdoors.

(Click HERE to read Adam's full MYOVideo blog post)

"So this was the thinking: people like to make their own videos nowadays. All you have to do is look at YouTube and you know it's true. Sure, there are all the big expensive videos the bands make themselves, the ones MTV and VH1 play, but there are way way way more that people just make by themselves. There are millions of talented people out there and lots of them have cameras and computers so they make videos.

And that's when it occurred to me...What was the one thing all those people making their own videos and setting them to our songs had no access to?

Footage. It was so simple. Pure raw footage of the band. That's what all those people needed to really make cool videos. All they needed was footage...and we had a ton of it.

So welcome to the NEW Counting Crows Download Page. You can still come here and download the mp3's of '1492' and 'When I Dream of Michelangelo' but now you're going to get something extra. Beginning today, you're going to get raw footage of the band recording and playing the songs live. So you can do whatever you want with it. Make a video by just editing together the stuff we give you. Make up your own plot, act it out your self or with your friends and then insert the band footage into just like we do when we make OUR videos. Or just check it out and see what Immy looked like on a single take of a song. It's up to you. It's yours now.

When you're done, whether you make it with your cell phone or with a professional camera, share it with us and everyone by uploading it to the Counting Crows Video YouTube Channel here:

Counting Crows MYOVideo
www.youtube.com/countingcrowsmyov
ACCOUNT NAME: countingcrowsmyov
PASSWORD: satsun1492

We're going to try and give you different stuff every week or two for a while or until we run out of things we're actually 'allowed' to give you but it all starts right here with 4 different feeds of studio footage from '1492.'

Here's what you get:

1) Me
2) Immy tearing his guitar to shreds
3) Immy (he was pretty annoyingly everywhere on this song) pummeling his bass into pulp
4) Jim beating the living crap out of his drum kit.

So have fun. Enjoy. Make us something cool and then give it to us so we can show it to EVERYONE.

And stay tuned for the announcement in the next few weeks of what you're getting next...because we GOT more so you're going to GET more."

-Adam Duritz, Counting Crows

There will be a standard and deluxe version available, both links are below!

Standard version: iTunes

Deluxe version: iTunes Deluxe album

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On March 25, Counting Crows will release their fifth studio album (and their first in five years), Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, on Geffen/Interscope.

Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings is just your average brilliant, unsparing rock & roll song cycle about the high life and the low life, about sin and whatever the hell follows. This is an album with two distinct yet deeply related halves:

Saturday Nights -- the album’s angry, electric, dissolute opening salvo -- was produced by Gil Norton (The Pixies, Foo Fighters.) The more acoustic and folk-influenced Sunday Mornings was produced by Brian Deck whose past credits include Modest Mouse and Iron & Wine.

**Listen to 2 brand-new songs right now from Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings! 

“1492”

“When I Dream Of Michelangelo”

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Dated May 18, 2007 - Greenwich Village, NYC
Hey, it’s Adam, I just wanted to let all our fans know that Counting Crows will hit the road this summer on a tour of America’s baseball parks. We're starting on July 22nd in Wilmington, DE at Daniel S. Frawley Stadium, the Home of the Blue Rocks. We're gonna hit 23 different ballyards all across the country (they're all listed below), mostly in smaller towns.

One of the reasons I'm so excited about this little jaunt we've decided to call "The Rock 'n' Roll Triple Play Ballpark Tour" is that we got really lucky and talked both Live and Collective Soul into coming along for the summer. We've even got Third Eye Blind hopping on for a few shows. Most of you probably know that Live are both old friends AND old touring partners of ours. We spent the summer together when CC was touring on our 3rd album "This Desert Life". What you may not know is that on Saturday, May 21st, 1994, Third Eye Blind played their 1st show ever opening for Counting Crows at the historic Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. We've never toured with Collective Soul before but we've played festivals together and…well, they're just a great band.

The other reason I'm really excited about this summer is that I grew up in a college town and I've always loved those kinds of places. That's why Counting Crows has always done so many tours outside the big cities. I'm definitely a city boy myself. Hell, I live in New York City. But this is a big country and, as much as I love a city, too many bands forget that there's a hell of a lot of America out there that's not New York or Chicago or LA. We haven't forgotten that and we're never going to forget it.

So if you live in Pawtucket, Rhode Island or Fargo, North Dakota or Sedalia, Missouri or Sauget, Illinois or any of the other 20 or so yards we'll be playing this summer, then we'll see you there. If not, get in the car and take a drive. Like I said, it's a big beautiful country. You ought a see it anyway. That's what I'm gonna do.

Okay. So that's settled. Now on to the "press release" part of this...uh...press release. I didn't write this next part but it's still important (it's got all the tour dates, after all) so read the whole thing. Anyway, this is the end of my personal compositional involvement (note the big word usage). It's been nice talkin' at ya. Here's the rest:

Counting Crows hail from the San Francisco Bay area and consist of Adam Duritz (vocals and piano), Jim Bogios (drums), David Bryson (guitar), Charles Gillingham (keyboards), David Immergluck (guitar), Dan Vickrey (guitar), and Millard Powers (bassist).

Counting Crows success dates back to their 1993 debut album August And Everything After and the hit single “Mr. Jones.” Subsequent albums include Recovering the Satellites (1996), which included the hit song “A Long December”; Across A Wire: Live in NY (1998); This Desert Life (1999) and Hard Candy (2002), which featured the band’s Top 10 cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi”. In 2004 the band released their first ever “Best Of” set Films About Ghosts, which featured songs from every phase of Counting Crow’s recording career, followed by the live album *New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 2003, which appeared in 2006 and was greeted with universal awe and acclaim (This is Adam again. Okay, I admit I added the end of that last sentence. It just sounded better that way).

The band’s most recent successes include a # 1 hit with the song “Accidentally In Love,” the opening theme for the movie Shrek 2, which aside from selling over a million records, garnered nominations in 2005 for a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award (none of which we won, which still pisses me off-sorry, Adam again). Counting Crows has sold over 20 million records worldwide (I didn’t write that but it’s cool, huh?).

Tickets for all shows begin going on sale in June, check www.countingcrows.com for on sale dates and fan club pre-sales. All children under 12 will be admitted for free! A complete listing of dates is below:

July 22nd Daniel S. Frawley Stadium in Wilmington, DE
Home of the Blue Rocks
July 24th Classic Park in Eastlake, OH
Home of the Lake County Captains
July 25th Consol Energy Park in Washington, PA
Home of the Wild Things
July 27th Fifth Third Field in Dayton, OH
Home of the Dragons
July 28th Fifth Third Ballpark in Comstock Park, MI
Home of the West Michigan Whitecaps
July 31st Jerry Uht Park in Erie, PA
Home of the Seawolves
August 1st Dunne Tire Park in Buffalo, NY
Home of the Bisons
August 3rd Louisville Slugger Field in Louisville, KY
Home of the Bats
August 4th Victory Field in Indianapolis, IN
Home of the Indians
August 7th GCS Ballpark in Sauget, IL
Home of the Gateway Grizzlies
August 8th Drillers Stadium in Tulsa, OK
Home of the Drillers
August 10th Sedalia, MO – without Live/Collective Soul or TEB
August 11th Principal Park in Des Moines, IA
Home of the Iowa Cubs
August 14th Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, MD
Home of the Ironbirds
August 15th Harry Grove Stadium in Frederick, MD
Home of the Keys
August 17th MerchantsAuto.com Stadium in Manchester, NH
Home of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats
August 18th New Britain Stadium in New Britain, CT
Home of the Rock Cats
August 21st Blair County Ballpark in Altoona, PA
Home of the Curve
August 22nd First Energy Park in Lakewood, NJ
Home of the BlueClaws
August 24th McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, RI
Home of the Paw Sox
August 25th Dutchess Stadium in Wappingers Falls, NY
Home of the Hudson Valley Renegades
August 27th Syracuse, NY – without Live/Collective Soul or TEB
August 28th Allentown, PA- without Live/Collective Soul or TEB
August 30th Memorial Stadium in Ft. Wayne, IN
Home of the Wizards
September 1st Midway Stadium in St. Paul, MN
Home of the Saints
September 2nd Newman Outdoor Field in Fargo, ND
Home of the Redhawks

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