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"facebook dialogPinterest\n\nAmerican Hi-Fi releases its fifth album, Fight the Frequency, today. The Boston-bred band has been together for over a decade and has released some classic pop-rock hits like &amp;quot;Flavor of the Weak.&amp;quot; Hi-Fi\u2019s members have also all found success with side-projects and worked in roles all across the music industry (including playing alongside Miley Cyrus).\n\nWe talked to Stacy Jones, Hi-Fi\u2019s lead singer and songwriter, a few weeks back and got the story behind the great new record-- and also heard about his early experience with kitsch-disco legends ABBA and quest to make sure that Miley Cyrus eats well...\n\nTV: So after a pretty solid decade working together, are the other Hi-Fi guys like your second family now?SJ: Totally, it\u2019s like a brotherhood and then it\u2019s also this totally awesome boys club that we have. That\u2019s something I\u2019m really really grateful for. We\u2019re in a situation where we can kind of do what we want with Hi-Fi now. We all do other things as well, so it really is a great situation to be in creatively and emotionally.\n\nSo you guys have the new album, Fight the Frequency, and it\u2019s the first one you\u2019ve put out in a good few years. Is there a new Hi-Fi sound on this record?With the record we kind of went back to how we started. It kind of sounds likes our first album in a couple of ways and I think that across the board that\u2019s probably our favorite record. I mean, I really liked our second record, but there\u2019s something about the first one that I think even a lot of our fans would agree had a certain &amp;quot;thing&amp;quot; and I think this album has that &amp;quot;thing&amp;quot; as well, just in terms of the songwriting approach. We got back to our roots a little bit.\n\nWould you say you have any favorite songs on this album?You know, I went through some personal stuff during the making of this record--darker times in my life--and that\u2019s on there, which makes it difficult to pick a favorite. I kind of went into myself a little more and didn\u2019t hide behind certain cryptic lyrics. **\n\nWhat has the band been up to over the past few years, leading up to recording the new album? **In 2005, I called our manager and said, &amp;quot;Hey, I need to take a break for a little while&amp;quot; as we\u2019d been on the road so much. I have a little studio in LA and so I started producing records and writing for other people, which led to what I\u2019ve been doing for the last 3-4 years--I\u2019ve been the musical director and drummer for Miley Cyrus. Working with her has been awesome and definitely a career highlight for me; and the Miley connection is interesting because she\u2019s one of the reasons that American Hi-Fi hasn\u2019t done anything for four years, as Jamie and I have been so busy working with her. But at the same time if we weren\u2019t working with her I don\u2019t think this American Hi-Fi record would exist right now!\n\nRead on for more of Stacy\u2019s insight on touring with Miley..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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