Alex Band

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Alex Band is the founder and unmistakable voice of the L.A. rock band The Calling, whose global breakthrough, wherever you will go, spent 23 straight weeks, number one on Billboard's Adult Pop Airplay chart, has crossed a billion Spotify streams, and helped propel the band to more than 10 million albums sold worldwide.

After some label battles stalled by the band's momentum and a Parkinson's diagnosis forced Alex into a years-long fight to regain his motor skills, he eventually found his way back to the stage.

And now The Calling are returning with their first full-length album in 22 years, Before the World Turns to Dust.

Welcome back to Pop Fuss Music Talk.

Today we're talking with Alex Band, lead singer of The Calling.

Alex has had one hell of a ride of the past 15 or 20 years.

He was diagnosed with Parkinson's, only to later discover that the diagnosis itself was in question.

We also talked about the band's new fan contest, which includes some seriously cool prizes.

And we also get into the agenda for The Calling throughout the rest of this year and into 2027.

So please enjoy our chat with Alex Band of The Calling.

Welcome, Alex.

I love you guys, I'm sorry, and I promise we'll be back next year to do this properly.

Alex Band has been trying to release the new The Calling album for 10 years and has had to sell funded in order to get it on the shelves.

The record is titled Before the World Turns to Dust and will drop this Friday, 25 September, 26, but frontman Alex has had difficulties finding the perfect people to work with.

He opened up to the Indie Review about working on the record, as he said it wasn't until he found two individuals that would gel with him in the group that he felt ready to start.

My name is Ryan Pack and this is Soundtrack Your Life.

Today our guest is Alex Band, lead singer and guitarist of The Calling.

The Calling has a new album called Before the World Turns to Dust out on September 25th.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yes.

So Alex Band, what three songs have you chosen for us today?

So one of my favorite songs, and I got to perform this with Steven Tyler from Aerosmith.

Hello and thank you for listening to episode 646 of 60MW.

I'm Dave and this is another of our interview shows and in this one I chat with Alex Band of The Calling all about the upcoming album Before The World Turns To Dust which is going to be released on September the 25th via TLG Virgin Music Group.

As you'll hear I was lucky enough to be sent an advanced copy of it and I love it.

And if you're a regular listener, you'll already know my music tastes.

And of course, on an interview show, I am kind of want to go off on a few different tangents.

And we do that, of course.

So please sit back, relax and get comfortable as I spend a little bit of time chatting with Alex Band.

Alex, thank you for giving me some time today.

Oof.

The South Korean and Japanese editions of Orianthi's Believe album contain a bonus track called Don't Tell Me That It's Over that's co-written by Alex Band of what band that we did a past episode of One Hit Wonder about?

All right.

At least I know this one, 'cause his dad made some of my favorite horror movies.