Yesssss, Bob Rock's at the helm for this one too!!

Expect new 311 album by this summer!!

311 have finished recording their new album, and it sounds amazing! Currently the band is in the studio working on the mixes. The band is incredibly excited and we can't wait for you to hear it! There is no album title nor definite release date yet, but at this time we're hoping for a June/July release. Get ready for new 311 music!

311 and Sublime with Rome will join forces for Unity Tour 2011.

The tour hits amphitheaters nationwide from July 8 in Bonner Springs, KS to August 26 in Seattle, WA. 311 will be touring in support of a new album that is due out this summer, produced by Bob Rock. Vocalist Nick Hexum commented, "Summer Unity in full effect! We're thrilled that Sublime with Rome is on the 2011 Unity Tour. 311 & Sublime with Rome seems like the perfect outdoor summer party. The 311 Nation is growing stronger every day and we're excited to see you all at the shows

They also just recently held a 311 cruise, highlights of can be seen below:




They also debuted 2 new tracks!
Wild Nights & Time Bomb

I just hope that Bob Rock lets Sexton and Wills swing on this one.

Rock's so much of a metal producer that he drowned out Sexton and Wills with guitar feedback washes; not a good thing for the 311 sound IMO.

Liked the stuff they did with Tim Kahne, actually think "First Straw" is one of their finest tunes.

Rock (I often write Bob Cock actually) ruined many a band, reducing Metallica and The Cult (among others) to plodding boring straight rockers.

He's especially adept at ruining good rhythm sections, He likes everything basic and simple so it "rocks" more. I say bullocks to that.

Welp, there's no way this will suck.

i'll always be a fan of these guys, but the last album i enjoyed by them was "From Chaos", so i don't have a lot of expectations for this album.
but i'll definitely go see them if they play in Toronto because their live show is still top notch.

EXCLUSIVE: 311 Debut Funky New Single


By William Goodman on June 3, 2011

More than 20 years into their career, Omaha, Nebraska's reggae-and-rap rockers 311 -- the guys who blew up in the mid-'90s with hits like "Down" and "Beautiful Disaster" -- are back with their 10th studio album, Universal Pulse, out July 19. But why delay the good vibes? SPIN.com has an exclusive stream of the LP's first single, "Sunset in July," below.

The track is classic 311: head-bobbing rhythm, heavily distorted guitars, funk bass, and a feel-good sing-along chorus: "Watching you dancing and having the time of your life!!!"

Singer-guitarist Nick Hexum explains the track: "[It's] about how the more fun you have, the faster life flies by. Most nights in July we're on stage as the sun is setting. You can actually see the crowd losing their inhibitions as the daylight fades away. We get off on watching the crowd at our shows, which inspired the song's chorus. People in the first few rows look like they're in another dimension. Maybe they're high -- but we like to think it's the power of music!"

Hexum says he wrote the song "while speeding around Angeles National Forest. I would write a couple lines and then haul ass around mountain curves until the next line would come to me. It's a great way to write!"

Universal Pulse was recorded at Hive Studios in Los Angeles, the band's new home base, with producer Bob Rock (Aerosmith, Metallica), and is a musical "look back" for 311, says Hexum. "We wanted to bring back that shuffle feel. Our old stuff had a lot of that. We bring it back on 'Sunset in July,' as well as some heavy guitars. It's an upbeat song that will be great to play live."

311 are hitting the road this summer for their annual Unity Tour, which features openers Sublime With Rome. And from August 4-6, the quintet will host the first-ever 311 Pow Wow Festival in Live Oak, Florida. The three-night event will feature four sets from 311, including a performance of their million-selling 1997 hit release Transistor in its entirety, as well as sets from other acts like the Deftones, Reel Big Fish, the Dirty Heads, Ozomatli, and SOJA.

Listen here

i like it.

Transistor in its entirety would be pretty awesome

Not bad, I kinda like it.

not too shabby. uplifter was great, so I have hopes this will be decent.

311 are set to release their new album, Universal Pulse, on July 19 via their own 311 Records (distributed by ATO Records). The record only has eight songs, and singer Nick Hexum tells Billboard, "There was just a general 'Let's put quality over quantity' this time. It's kind of an experiment. We feel that people will want to hear it again, and I find that as pop culture goes further people's attention spans get shorter. So we'd rather do more frequent albums rather than 'Uplifter,' which took four years. Yes, that's a longer album, but I think of our fans had to choose they would want to hear what we are doing more often rather than wait for a longer album." 311 will be on tour all summer alongside Sublime With Rome for the Unity Tour 2011, along with their own Pow Wow Festival in early August in Live Oak, FL.

what album is that on the bottom row (3rd one) that looks like Transistor but says "live" on it? i've never seen/heard of it... i thought they only had the one live album?

I think it's a Japanese import of the US "live" album release.

man, after From Chaos i really started losing interest in these guys... i still got evolver and don't tread on me, but i just couldn't get into them, and there were a few years where i basically stopped listening to them altogether... but then i saw them live again (i believe it was 2009) and they completely won me over again... they're still such an incredible live band.

i always seem to listen to them a lot in the summer... they just have that sort of feel... i am looking forward to the new album, but i'm not expecting anything amazing. but their stretch from Music -> Soundsystem is pretty great (i kind of want to put From Chaos in there, but that's where i began to notice a pretty big drop-off).

Yeah, tell 'em, Steve-Dave!

I WANT TO GO TO THIS

I listened to the first two songs on this album, and couldn't take anymore... Just didn't seem like 311 to me.

The first two songs are pretty bad. So is track 6. The rest are decent enough. This isn't Transistor, but those days are long gone. I like the last 2 songs best.