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TV Guide Magazine Photoshoot Posted by: admin on Apr 26, 2013 at 3:38 PM Category: Photoshoots |
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Adam Covers “Nylon Guys” Posted by: admin on Mar 27, 2013 at 3:07 PM Category: Photoshoots |
 Gallery links: Mickey Rapkin spent some good time with this issue’s cover dude, Los Angeles born and raised Adam Levine, and discovered that there’s more to meets the eye with this guy. From forming his band in 1995 to selling 17 million records, then joining The Voice in 2011 most recently making the jump to the big screen he’s more than just a smooth talking chart topper. Yep, you read that right, Levine stars opposite Keira Knightly in film Can a Song Save your Life?, out later this year. Find out more about how the Maroon 5 singer and star of The Voice balances his multi-tasked schedule and how he still takes risks. On his busy life and success: “It’s a lot. But it might not be a lot someday. I don’t like to complain. You have this moment. It doesn’t last forever. You should probably try and enjoy it.” On dating and marriage: “I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?” On reports that Shakire is making twice his salary on The Voice: “She’s Shakira dude! She’s a fucking international superstar! I don’t care. It’s just money.” On Dealing with the paparazzi: “The more you make them look like fucking idiots, the better you are. It’s like intellectual warfare. Just don’t say anything.” |
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Adam Covers Hollywood Reporter Posted by: admin on Mar 06, 2013 at 6:20 PM Category: Photoshoots |
    Gallery links: From fading rock star to network savior, the Maroon 5 frontman and “The Voice” coach shares the secrets of his multiplatform success: “I don’t lie, and that’s unusual in a world of f—ing liars.” “This is so goddamn cool.” Adam Levine has peeled a jet-black leather jacket off of his tattooed biceps and is marveling from the stage at the 16,000 fans packed into New Jersey’s sold-out Izod Center. The Grammy-winning Maroon 5 frontman grins widely as the sea of twentysomething sorority types (and a few of their moms) stand before him cooing, “Aaaadam, Aaaadam.” On this late-February evening in East Rutherford, the eighth stop on the North American leg of Maroon 5′s latest tour, variations on “Marry me, Adam,” “Team Adam” and “Prom?” decorate signs that dot the arena’s rafters. Levine, 33, has been a rock star since he and some of his high school buddies began playing West Hollywood clubs as teens, but there’s no denying his stardom has rocketed into the stratosphere during the two years since he began as a “coach” on NBC’s runaway hit The Voice. A fourth cycle of the singing competition — its first with Shakira and Usher temporarily replacing Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green — begins March 25, and it can’t arrive soon enough for NBC, whose ratings have plummeted from first to fourth place without Voice and Sunday Night Football. Its dependence on the show has turned Levine into the improbable face — if not the savior — of the network. At the same time, Levine has parlayed that visibility into a booming business, with legions of young female fans and tentacles extending well beyond music. There’s a fledgling acting career, with an arc on FX’s American Horror Story: Asylum, a well-received hosting gig on Saturday Night Live and a film foray with John Carney’s recently wrapped Can a Song Save Your Life? opposite Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo. He recently rolled out a celebrity fragrance line, a planned fashion collection, a lucrative spokesperson deal with acne-product giant Proactiv and a record label to which Glee’s Matthew Morrison is signed. At press time, he also was negotiating a first-look overall deal at NBC to serve as a producer on future TV projects. All of that is on top of Maroon 5′s fourth studio album (released in 2012) and tour, both cheekily titled Overexposed, suggesting Levine and his longtime bandmates are amused by his ubiquity. |
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Sky Mag Article Posted by: admin on Feb 01, 2013 at 5:38 PM Category: Photoshoots |
 Gallery links: He fronts one of the hottest bands in the world, coaches would-be singing stars on The Voice, woos supermodels and dabbles in acting. Meet Adam Levine, a very famous man. When Adam Levine calls on a Monday in December, I can’t help but picture him in a telephone booth. After all, his band, Maroon 5, scored a huge hit in 2012 with “Payphone,” an airy little ballad on which Levine, in his signature tenor, cries, “I’m on a payphone, trying to call home.” In reality, the 33-year-old is on a cellphone at the LA studio where NBC films its wildly popular singing competition The Voice. It’s day one of the show’s two-day finale, and in a few minutes, he’ll head into a taping with fellow coaches CeeLo Green, Blake Shelton and Christina Aguilera. A young rocker named Cassadee Pope will win it all tomorrow night, but for now Levine is psyched for the three remaining contestants. “It doesn’t matter who wins,” he says. “They all have potential.” If he sounds like a life coach, well, that’s part of the job. In addition to offering musical tips to the show’s wannabes, Levine and the gang often dispense Oprah-isms on being your best self. Levine is particularly good at this. He’s effusive and genuine, funny and self-effacing. He’s also competitive, a risk-taker and supremely confident—traits that serve him well on a show where coaches pitch themselves to contestants, then try to steer them to glory (Team Adam won the first season, Team Blake the last two). |
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Adam Covers “Men’s Health” Posted by: admin on Jan 26, 2013 at 10:33 AM Category: Photoshoots |
    Gallery links: Maroon 5 front man Adam Levine is a media multitasker: rock star, budding actor, king of reality TV. How does he hold it all together? With a centered attitude and a crapload of yoga. Adam Levine is standin on his head. He’s stock-still, breathing easily, his feet together. A dozen photographers and styists and assorted others scurry around, fussing, assessing, adjusting. Levine ignores them, his face focused and sphinxlike. Sure, it’s just a photo shoot. He’s done plenty in his nearly 15 years as a front man for the Grammy-winning, multiplatinum band Maroon 5, and even more of them since 2011, when he took up residence as one of four coaches in comically oversized, rotating red chairs on the singing-competition show The Voice, a runaway hit for NBC. A brief hour ago, he was relaxed and goofy, gamely striding through the photographer’s frame, flexing his tattooed arms and flashing muscleman poses. But this is different: It’s yoga. And when it comes to yoga, Levine doesn’t mess around. As the 33-year-old singer swoops, bends, and twists, Chad Dennis, a loquacious yoga teacher and fitness instructor who has been Levine’s private trainer for 5 years, offers some coaching advice: “Broaden out your collarbones. . .engage the toes. . .fire up the peroneals.” Cameras flash. The yoga asanas become tougher and more athletic: Warrior. Sage. Peacock. Monkey. At one point, the wiry 6-foot, 165-pound Levine balances his entire body weight on his arms. His torso and one leg are parallel to the ground, and the knee of his other leg is drawn up toward his chest. He’s a serious student of the art. Even extending his back into a crescent, balancing on his head, and twisting around himself like a cruller, Levine knows exactly where he is. It’s a skill he’s had to call on quite a bit lately. Between appearing on The Voice and touring with Maroon 5 (who will play more than 30 North American concerts between late December and early April), Levine is, by any measure, hyperextended. He has ventured into acting, including a role in the recently wrapped Can a Song Save Your Life? alongside Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo. He also has less official duties, of course, as fashion icon, boyfriend to some of the world’s most beautiful women, and object of lust to legions of female fans. It’s a wonder Levine can even breathe, much less as deeply and calmly as he’s breathing now. Yoga anchors his balancing act. “I have a hard time sitting still,” Levine says. “I can be all over the map. Yoga has given me the ability to be more focused and make better decisions that come from a clear place.” Yes, it keeps his stamina up, his physique toned, and his abs ripped. But many forms of exercise can deliver superficial results like these. “Maybe more than anything else,” says Dennis, “yoga teaches you to be still and calm under challenging circumstances.” |
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Adam Covers 7 Hollywood Magazine Posted by: admin on Jan 20, 2013 at 2:49 PM Category: Photoshoots |
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“The Voice” Season 4 Promo Pic Posted by: admin on Jan 03, 2013 at 1:04 PM Category: Photoshoots |
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GQ October 2012 Scan Posted by: admin on Oct 21, 2012 at 12:15 PM Category: Photoshoots |
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New “American Horror Story” Still Posted by: admin on Oct 12, 2012 at 8:52 AM Category: Photoshoots |
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The Daily Beast Interview Posted by: admin on Sep 16, 2012 at 7:37 AM Category: Photoshoots |
 Gallery links: This fall TV season, the Maroon 5 frontman returns as a judge on The Voice and stars in American Horror Story. He also has a new movie coming out next year. He talked to Ramin Setoodeh about juggling all these different acts. Unlike Jennifer Lopez or Britney Spears, Adam Levine didn’t need a career reinvention when he signed up as a judge on a TV singing competition. But of the four artists on NBC’s The Voice, he’s probably benefited the most. Once America got to know Maroon 5’s frontman as a laidback jokester with a competitive streak, his singing career has been on fire. “Moves Like Jagger,” which Levine debuted on the show in 2011, became the 12th most-sold downloaded song of all time. Overexposed, Maroon 5’s new album, has sold 500,000 copies since its summer debut, with two singles (“Payphone” and “One More Night”) currently on the top 12 of the Billboard Hot 100. Levine returns to his judge’s chair on the third season of The Voice next week, and he’s adding another TV role to his résumé: he makes his acting debut in the second season of FX’s American Horror Story in October, playing a lover in a 1960s mental asylum. He’s careful not to reveal too many spoilers. “I’m used to running my mouth and talking shit all day long,” he says. But now, “I’ve been traumatized by Ryan Murphy, who keeps things so heavily shrouded in secrecy, that I don’t even know what to say. Ever. About anything that happens on television.” Still, after talking to Ramin Setoodeh, he said a few things. Publicist: Ramin, you’re on with Adam Levine of Maroon 5. I hate it when you give me a formal introduction like that. Publicist: Sorry about that, Adam. I forgot. It makes me feel so lame. The Daily Beast: What kind of introduction would you like? Not that one, You’re on with Adam Levine of Maroon 5. I prefer, like, Here’s Adam. You know it was going to be me. Yes. I figured it was you. The Voice is returning for its third season, and it was just announced that you’re coming back with a three-episode premiere. What else is going to be different? What’s really cool, besides there being more of it, which is what everyone loves to see, is that there’s another feature that’s important to the show’s continued success. You can steal people in the battle round—we have to let people go, inevitably, and when that happens, they brought the buttons back for another round of negotiations. It keeps things interesting throughout that process, which in the past has become slightly dull. There’s a euphoric fun thing with the button that people tend to miss. Why is Christina Aguilera so mean to you on the show? She’s not mean to me. Christina Aguilera and I are friends. She’s awesome. She and I had a rough start, but it wasn’t even that rough, it was just totally sensationalized. I love that woman. Do you think she has a crush on you? No. I think she’d probably say “ewww!” if you asked her that. Had you been a fan of reality singing competitions before you did The Voice? I had not. To be quite frank, I wasn’t interested in being part of one. Timing is such an interesting thing. What seemed like a cool idea at one point in my life might have seemed like a joke at another. It was a really unique and soulful premise: that you weren’t able to see the person singing, you were just listening. I really dug that. In a pop landscape, where being attractive and the right weight and the right look—and all that bullshit—play a huge role in people’s success, which is something I do not deny, I liked the fact that we were returning to the purity of what a great voice was, regardless of what the appearance may be. Do you think the show has helped your career? I think it absolutely has helped our career. I think there’s no doubt about that. Things were fine with the band. It wasn’t like we didn’t have success and weren’t satisfied, but I felt like we were at a bit of a crossroads trying to figure out the next move. We were searching a little bit, and [The Voice] changed our career profoundly. It got my face in everyone’s household. It got our music all over the map. What was interesting, our music was already quite big. But people discovered and rediscovered who we were and what we did and got to know me. I always felt like I was slightly misrepresented. How were you misrepresented? Maybe not misrepresented. Just not represented, period. I hadn’t really been able to have a—pun intended—voice, and be able to talk. The first two winners of The Voice have yet to make it big like, for example, certain winners of American Idol. I think the show needs to do things better to help see it through. However, that being said, I also believe people need to understand that launching someone into the stratosphere and creating a huge success is one in a million. It’s not a factory. It’s not a machine. Having been in a band for however long, you release a single, and sometimes it does really well. Sometimes no one gives a shit. We’re two seasons in. You’ve got to give us a minute. I think American Idol got very lucky in having Kelly Clarkson. Kelly Clarkson was the first winner, right? Yes, she was. Are you still in touch with the winner that you “coached” from Season 1? Yeah. It makes me sad when I see Javier [Colon] isn’t having the career we want him to have. I’m going to do everything I possibly can to help him. We just took him on tour in South America. I’m passionate about seeing talented people succeed. What people also need to understand is that it’s a TV show. It would be really great if they could help launch the careers of the artists after the show is over, but you know what happens when the show is over? It’s time for the next season. All that being said, I do believe somebody is going to break through. How is American Horror Story going? We actually just finished it up. It’s done. It’s amazing. I’ve been having the greatest time. I’m slightly apprehensive, because I don’t know if I want to watch myself. Did you watch the first season? I didn’t. I told Ryan that, too. I said, “Look man, I’ve never seen it.” I tried to watch it. It scared the shit out of me. I don’t like that kind of stuff. It bugs me out. Then why did you do it?! I thought to myself, if I did it, I wouldn’t think it was frightening anymore. Did you shoot any nude scenes? No nude scenes. There’s a very naked picture of me [on the cover of Vogue Russia] that I had no idea would circulate all over the place the way that it has. I don’t know if I need to be taking my clothes off any time soon. So you must feel bad for Prince Harry. I’m just happy I wasn’t that kind of naked. It wasn’t like I was literally caught with my pants down. You also appear in an upcoming movie, Can a Song Save Your Life, directed by John Carney. How did you learn how to act? Did you take classes? Now that I’ve done it, I can say I’ve never acted a day in my life. I walked on set of a movie. I don’t know how it happened, but I just did it. I said OK, if I’m really a good actor, I’ll be able to pretend I’m a good actor, and it worked. I hope I don’t suck. I haven’t seen any footage. I thought it would probably be a better idea to pretend it wasn’t happening. During the Republican National Convention, you tweeted that Paul Ryan reminded you of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. I did not tweet that! I had everybody guess [which Christian Bale character he reminded him of] and they all guessed correctly. It was a joke. The dude talks about his body fat and shit. You’re like, “Are you kidding me, buddy?” He’s basically said things in several interviews that if you compiled them, literally sound like a monologue from that movie. What’s the secret to Adam Levine scruff? It’s called laziness. Really? That’s all? You don’t trim? Well, I mean I trim it down every once in a while. Never shave in the morning. That’s always bad. That’s the one piece of advice for all you shavers out there. But most people shave in the morning. I shave at night, because then it starts growing in by the morning. |
