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"Click to listen to PusherJones&amp;apos; &amp;apos;Count Me Out&amp;apos;\r\nWith Velvet Revolver seemingly still on hiatus, guitarist Dave Kushner has assembled a new project that resembles a set-up akin to Gorillaz &amp;#x2013; an &amp;quot;animated&amp;quot; rock band called PusherJones, featuring The Simpsons&amp;apos; creative director Dave Warren, singer Frankie Perez (Camp Freddy and Scars On Broadway), bassist Scott Shriner (Weezer) and drummer Joey Castillo (Queens of the Stone Age). The group&amp;apos;s first single, &amp;quot;Count Me Out,&amp;quot; will be issued on May 1st, but you can listen to it exclusively here on RollingStone.com.\r\nKushner describes the band&amp;apos;s sound as &amp;quot;A cool riff-rock thing. We&amp;apos;re all influenced by everything from Zeppelin and Sabbath to newer bands,&amp;quot; he says, adding that the lyrics for &amp;quot;Count Me Out&amp;quot; chronicle a fish-out-of-water story about the genesis of the band. &amp;quot;A lot of it has been based on different stuff that has happened to me or stuff I&amp;apos;ve heard being in Velvet Revolver for eight years,&amp;quot; says Kushner. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s basically about a big, notorious rock band, and there&amp;apos;s a new guy that&amp;apos;s coming into the band. You&amp;apos;re basically seeing all of the dysfunction and insanity, and the things that make for great rock bands through the eyes of the new guy.&amp;quot;\r\nUnlike Gorillaz, PusherJones hope to become an honest-to-goodness cartoon. Kushner is currently shopping around a pilot episode in the hopes of landing an animated TV series about the trials and tribulations of a famous rock band. &amp;quot;The original concept was for a Gorillaz-type thing, animated,&amp;quot; Kushner says. &amp;quot;Basically, me and Dave Warren became friends through Don Bernstein, who used to buy all the memorabilia for the Hard Rock. Dave worked on the The Simpsons, and then he and I started talking about stories and different ideas. It eventually became an idea for a TV show, but then we thought, &amp;apos;The music has to be as good as the animation.&amp;apos;\r\n&amp;quot;Count Me Out&amp;quot; will appear on the star-studded Avengers Assemble soundtrack on Hollywood Records. Sometime later this year, the quintet will also issue a five-song EP on a label yet to be determined. Kushner hopes that the band will eventually play shows or record a full-length at some point, too. &amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s the hope, that we can do that,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;Who knows what Weezer, Queens of the Stone Age, or Velvet Revolver are going to do next? It&amp;apos;s just a matter of getting everyone&amp;apos;s schedules and ducks in a row.&amp;quot;\r\nOn Velvet Revolver&amp;apos;s current plans, Kushner says, &amp;quot;Again, anything&amp;apos;s possible. I can&amp;apos;t really say for sure. After we did that benefit a couple of months ago, the rumors and everything started swirling. Everyone&amp;apos;s kind of fragmented right now. People are all still talking, so that&amp;apos;s a good thing.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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