Tonic Flexes D.I.Y. Muscle For "Sugar" Coated Album
Tonic's "You Wanted More" has worked its way up to number three on Billboard's Modern Rock charts, outpacing the cinematic performance of "American Pie," the film which the song was recorded for.
The Los Angeles-based band has finished recording the long-awaited follow-up to its 1996 debut, "Lemon Parade," an LP it has dubbed "Sugar," and Tonic hopes to have the new album out by the end of the year via its new label, Universal Records.
Tonic is currently in New York City mixing "Sugar," which the members recorded and produced by themselves at Kingsway Studios in New Orleans earlier this year.The band originally planned to work with "Lemon Parade" producer Jack Joseph Puig on album number two, but was forced to man the studio consoles itself when a scheduling conflict prevented Puig's involvement."We learned a lot making the first record with [Puig]," guitarist JeffRusso told
the MTV Radio Network, "and we wanted to kind of be able to do [the second record] by ourselves, and I think it's working out really well. So, we're really happy [with the end results]." [RealAudio]
While in Gotham, Russo, frontman Emerson Hart, and bassist Dan Lavery took a break from the mixing sessions to catch the Goo Goo Dolls/Sugar Ray/Fastball tour when it rolled into the Garden Sate Amphitheater in Holmdel, New Jersey over the weekend
