The Calling

And that was a one hit wonder.

I think that band is called The Calling.

So I'm just going to throw that out as a guess.

I'm going to say The Calling.

If I could, then I would.

I'll go wherever you will go.

Yes, way up high or down low.

It is the calling.

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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.

It was produced by John Fields, and it's led by the new single, Dust.

If you've not heard it, you should get your ears on it right away.

Right.

Hey, we, you know, we're going to get to the album, but we would like to start to get people familiar with artists.

Dan Miller was born in 1967, longtime touring guitarist and multi-instrumentalist for the band They Might Be Giants.

Nate Wood was born in 1979, multi-instrumentalist who played drums in the alt-rock band The Calling and also co-founded the Grammy Award-nominated jazz rock group Knee Body.

A$AP Rocky was born in 1988, Harlem-born rapper, fashion icon, member of A$AP Mob.

Lil Tracy was born in 1995, pioneer of the SoundCloud emo rap movement, had collaborations with the late artist Lil Peep on tracks like Awful Things.

OK, Met Zone, the two songs earning zero points for their respective decades.

In this Met Zone, we have Slade for the 1970s with Take Me Back Home, and we have The Calling from the 2000s with Wherever You Will Go.

Comments for Slade, then.

Malcolm the Break Doctor says...

Zone.

I'm devastated about what you're about to say.

I can't believe the calling's in the Met Zone.

Your beloved The Calling.

How much of that was because of the advertisements with Jolene Ballack getting like oiled up by Conor Trenier? Yeah,

that song by The Calling, wherever you will go.

which was on my Winamp player all the time in college when this aired.

I got to talk about, if you haven't heard the Rick Berman interview, you should check it out.

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.

And then in 2013, during one of The Calling's attempted comebacks, he was abducted, beaten, and robbed after a show in Michigan.

There have been some pretty incredible highs and some really dark lows.

And now, after 22 years without releasing a new album, The Calling is back with a brand new record.

Right now you're listening to a track from that new album.

Yeah

... for example, I love that song by The Calling, Wherever You May Go.

Do you know that song?

The dun dun, ba ba da da.

I don't know what's going on.

Perhaps I need a wellness check.

But to me, you are beautiful, The Calling, Wherever You Will Go.

And also do you, I mean, I don't know about you-

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.

He mused, there is, of course, all the changes in the music business, but there's also what I've been through.

The first two The Calling records had this huge success, and I went to do a solo record, and I had this hit with Santana.

That was in 2005.

I was going to do the solo record and then come back to The Calling's third record.