{"id":496178,"date":"2026-06-16T20:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/496178\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:55:08","slug":"bushs-gavin-rossdale-i-just-laugh-at-the-fact-that-i-keep-making-the-music-heavier-and-heavier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/496178\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSH&#8217;s GAVIN ROSSDALE: &#8216;I Just Laugh At The Fact That I Keep Making The Music Heavier And Heavier&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6km0ZpxkjlQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mark And Me<\/a> podcast, BUSH frontman Gavin Rossdale spoke about his songwriting process. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): &#8220;For me, music is just a brilliant voyage. I know a lot about music, and I know there&#8217;s massive gray areas, and I think the most interesting stuff comes out of the gray areas and the alchemy of things. And so for me, it&#8217;s like a constant challenge to just try and be as interesting to myself and as exciting to myself as a lot of young bands that I think are really amazing and very inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing that I&#8217;m sort of proud about is that I&#8217;ve never rested on anything,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always pushed myself. I still do. It&#8217;s torturous writing new songs and finding new ways to be good and basically be surprising and nothing is the same.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been playing a lot recently off of [BUSH&#8217;s latest] record, &#8216;I Beat Loneliness&#8217;, and it just makes me\u2026 It&#8217;s weird, having brought the record out last year, be on tour, see some great bands out there, reflect on our own show, and just think about what I could do better. And it&#8217;s funny, &#8217;cause sometimes people come up to me, they say, &#8216;What advice would you give to us?&#8217; And it&#8217;s all I ever do, and that is try to make the music that I wanna hear. That&#8217;s the challenge. I can make a track at home and it functions, and I go, &#8216;No.&#8217; So every track, whether people like it or not, I&#8217;ve sort of challenged myself, do I wanna hear that? When I play that back, is that sort of exciting? When I&#8217;m in the car just driving nowhere, is that what I wanna hear and wanna listen to? And at the time it is, and then weirdly, take a year of touring like we&#8217;ve just done, I&#8217;m itching to go back to get right what I think I can change, what I can do. And I&#8217;m in the middle of that head space now. I&#8217;ve written a bunch of new songs, but I go, &#8216;Oh, they weren&#8217;t right. Gotta go back, do that.&#8217; So I just find it really fascinating. I think it&#8217;s like creativity. I do it because it saves me. I do it because it is an outlet, and I think if I didn&#8217;t have that outlet, I don&#8217;t know who would suffer the most, but maybe myself. So I just I find it really good, like cathartic. It&#8217;s like having a tap, and it&#8217;s just exciting. And the funniest thing is that I just laugh at the fact that I keep making the music heavier and heavier, because it&#8217;s just so much more fun than trying to sort of do campfire music, which some people do really well. But I just wanna do stuff that makes me laugh, &#8217;cause it&#8217;s so heavy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BUSH&#8217;s tenth studio album, &#8220;I Beat Loneliness&#8221; came out in July 2025 via earMUSIC. The LP was produced by Rossdale and Erik Ron (PANIC! AT THE DISCO, SET IT OFF, BAD OMEN).<\/p>\n<p>2024 marked the 30th anniversary of the release of BUSH&#8217;s six-times-platinum debut album, &#8220;Sixteen Stone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>BUSH released &#8220;Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023&#8221; in November 2023 via Round Hill Records. The set included a new song called &#8220;Nowhere To Go But Everywhere&#8221;, which was written by Gavin and produced by Rossdale and Corey Britz.<\/p>\n<p>BUSH&#8217;s current lineup consists of Rossdale, Chris Traynor (guitar),Corey Britz (bass) and Nik Hughes (drums).<\/p>\n<p>BUSH broke up in 2002 but reformed in 2010, and has since released six albums: &#8220;The Sea of Memories&#8221; (2011),&#8221;Man On The Run&#8221; (2014),&#8221;Black And White Rainbows&#8221; (2017),&#8221;The Kingdom&#8221; (2020),&#8221;The Art Of Survival&#8221; (2022) and &#8220;I Beat Loneliness&#8221; (2025).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Black And White Rainbows&#8221; was crafted after Rossdale went through a divorce with pop star\/reality TV judge Gwen Stefani in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Chapman Baehler (courtesy of Cosa Nostra PR and earMUSIC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a new interview with the Mark And Me podcast, BUSH frontman Gavin Rossdale spoke about his songwriting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-496178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}