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Nickelback is on the cusp of releasing their 11th studio album, with 'Everything Under The Sun' slated to arrive on October 30. Along with a massive upcoming tour, the band is firing on all cylinders, but stopped down long enough to talk with Abe Kanan about their new project, and how a relationship with WWE and Triple H helped them land a surprise #1 hit.
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00:00it's Abe Cannon this is very exciting you don't often get all four members of Nickelback Mike
00:04Ryan Chad and Daniel they're all here and it's a very exciting time because the new album
00:09is coming out everything under the sun October 30th I got to hear six songs and these are going
00:18to be some of the biggest songs in Nickelback history oh thanks that's some big that's some
00:29Wrestlemania right you put out the first song it bones for the crows this the album wasn't done
00:36does Triple H just call you guys and he's like hey man what do you got or how did that
00:40work that's
00:41pretty much it I think actually yeah yeah we have a relationship like our manager's got a really good
00:45relationship with the guys and so I think every time they need a song I think they make the rounds
00:50and they're like can someone please give us some material and so uh our manager fired over a song
00:58that was done and they're like we love it we're gonna we want to just use this right away and
01:03um
01:05we were like a little concerned about that and like well that's not the first single and we're not
01:11ready and yeah the rest of the record's not even done um and they're like well you know we're gonna
01:17promote the hell out of it so just like give us the give us the tune and um and then
01:21we decided we
01:22were ready yeah so that kind of happened and then so then Canada being our home nation
01:32radio stations start like a smattering of them start picking up the song and no one's working
01:37this thing like we we hadn't even we were still working through a record deal at that point we
01:41hadn't even we hadn't even signed a deal with the company we're with now we signed a deal signed a
01:45deal
01:45with virgin and um uh but they're like so i go well this is silly like we can't we can't
01:54uh have the
01:56the song just kind of get out there and so our lawyer who's been our lawyer for 30 years
02:04he says uh and we own he and i co-own you know 604 records together a local record company
02:11in
02:11vancouver he goes well i'll just get on the phone i'm just gonna start calling uh program directors
02:17across the country and i'm just gonna see if i can do something with this song and i'm like
02:21you're that seems weird like our lawyer so yeah he takes the baton and starts running with this thing
02:30and uh he's okay uh you're gonna be number 11 next week and it's like wow really and he's like
02:41yeah
02:41there's only like three or four stations that haven't jumped on board yet and so he calls all
02:45these and one of the program directors says i couldn't find the song anywhere i had to pay i
02:51had to pay to download it we'll give you your buck back you know and uh so uh we we
03:02just like well
03:03that's kind of nice like it's going to get a little bit of play it's going to do something
03:08and uh he he then he does he jumps on this group email and he says well just so you
03:14know
03:15you know following week you're going to be number one next week and we're like no way he's like yep
03:20i got you number i got you a number one on a song that nobody was even gonna work it
03:25wasn't even
03:25supposed to be a single we're just like dude that's insane and then the following week he goes uh
03:31back in the group chat well your lawyer just got you uh two weeks at number one he's insufferable
03:37if you can't tell like he's insufferable he's a really new tech what a guy no one to pay people
03:42no one waves his pom-poms harder than he does he just threatened to sue them all yeah that's how
03:46we got so you have to know this guy i can just imagine people taking the call they just see
03:50it
03:50says simpkin they're like oh god um we love to bash you you just mentioned this went on for weeks
03:59this went on for weeks though it went week after week after week he got tired of saying hey you
04:05just got three weeks at number one he's like i'm just gonna i'll show myself out he's like i'm not
04:09even gonna say that he's like now you guys are at four weeks at number one on a song that
04:13nobody was
04:13gonna work and we're just like are you kidding me that he just stopped doing it and i don't know
04:18how
04:18long i think the song the song's still top 10 in canada and it's like we don't even this isn't
04:24that
04:24song's never we're never gonna play it live uh but there you go it adds new pressure to the new
04:30team to perform as well as our lawyer did on the radio campaign so we'll see how that goes if
04:36if they
04:36don't match him we're never hearing the end of this one it was it was the perfect song to see
04:43like
04:44brock lesnar and opa femi and roman reigns and cm punk you guys just mentioned the nickelback group
04:49chat right do you guys get together often when you're not touring or recording music all four of
04:54you oh we live in a house together band house we have all our toothbrushes lined up in the bathroom
05:01and yeah no we everybody has their own towel you know everybody is usually like a we hit the ground
05:07right yeah sure everybody can i mean everybody's got their own things going on for sure mike's in la here
05:11we can like when management needs to get a hold of us they can barely track the band down you're
05:17impossible to get a hold of that's by design like and it says it says uh it's a satellite signal
05:26only
05:26and like he'll be in the bush camping like we were just trying to get a hold of you for
05:30a week straight
05:31i called your wife and like we couldn't get he could not be he's very clever you can't get a
05:36hold
05:40yes he's practicing out there i'm sure so so the new album everything under the sun so first song
05:47bones for the crows then you put out this super heavy rattle the cage which we play on 98 rock
05:52like
05:52all the time awesome second song everyone loves it that's the official first single i guess right
05:59for everything under the sun yes right that's the official first single is rattle the cage yeah
06:04yeah that was uh that was uh okay an old an old riff that we'd had kicking around that's that's
06:10actually one of the longest i don't know if it's the longest but you know you don't throw anything
06:14away so chad did this riff from years ago and it's the longest yeah that's been around i think
06:20finally something you tried everything's with it and finally found something that everybody was like
06:24this is this work well you can everybody can kind of tell like this works and it's here it is
06:28it's
06:29it's pretty great and i love that you guys came out with something so heavy because you're now and
06:35i'm going back and forth with the next two singles because i heard leave me behind i'm like this is
06:40awesome then i heard make me love you and i'm like make me love you is going to be a
06:46massive hit but
06:46then i'm going back and forth between leave me behind and make me love you and i do agree
06:52the number two single leave me behind this sounds like like the intro for like uh deadliest fetch or
06:59something that first riff and i think this is gonna be a massive hit for you guys oh thank you
07:04we just keep saying these things for the rest make it happen make it manifest this uh thank you
07:11that's amazing uh we had we had fun making this record because there was no like we have that
07:20luxury like there was no one like okay you you have to have this record done by such and such
07:25a date
07:25there's no hurry there's no pressure there's no it's like and then what happens is this is the first
07:31time we're gonna have more than 11 songs on a record traditionally we always just do
07:3811 tunes it's like this weird nickelback tradition it's just like no it's gotta be 11
07:43uh and we squeeze out the 11th at the last minute yeah 11th hour and then we yeah we're usually
07:49like
07:49hey we need another tune here guys leave me behind's awesome and then we have make me love you that'll
07:53be
07:53the third single i'm telling you make me love you leave me behind are gonna be two of the biggest
07:58nickelback songs ever that would be fantastic we we'll leave that up to the people but i'm glad i love
08:03your optimism thank you for the yelp review yeah that's kick ass five stars got a five star uber
08:09would eat here again man and this might be is it the biggest nickelback forever because you guys are
08:16playing raymond james stadium where the tampa bay buccaneers play how many football stadiums have you
08:21guys played in the past the last show we played our very the last the very last show of of
08:27uh 2025
08:29we played in uh phoenix um enough to make me think that i don't want an eagle ramp on those
08:36ones
08:36it's hard to get back to the microphone not just that when you get that far away it's like i
08:40gotta
08:40get back for my part if your ears aren't sealed directly you start to hear echoes and voices and
08:46create and you're just like you get you can get lost pretty easily the pitfalls of playing stadiums
08:50oh i know no one's gonna the heartache but anyway cry for us please it's a it's a it's a
08:57massive world
08:58tour you guys are doing over 70 shows the album comes out the day before halloween everything under
09:03the sun october 30th why not just put it on halloween guys it might have been awesome you'd have to
09:08talk
09:08to the label about that one we're just we're we're in charge of creating it uh that once we turn
09:13it over
09:13to a label uh they get to they get to put all that stuff they they slot that and so
09:19we just you know
09:20we just run with it well what it really is is that we made the deal with the devil so
09:24we have to put it
09:26out on devil's night devil's night you can figure out the rest so i have four ideas i know touring
09:34is
09:34expensive right i have four ideas for you guys that i think will make you an extra 20 million dollars
09:40on
09:40this tour do tell go on okay so the first one is the nickelback quesadilla that you sell at shows
09:50with a billy gibbon sticker on the quesadilla not bad right right yes yes it's on the whiteboard okay
09:57okay next put a pin in it so okay then so okay so polaroid just did a deal with pokemon
10:03right with the
10:04instant cameras why not have nickelback instant cameras when you play photograph and you'll sell
10:1010 000 per arena everyone pulls out their instant camera when you guys do photograph it's becoming
10:16a thing that's uh we're gonna do something very similar to that have you been reading our
10:20plan that's that's pretty good no um that's you're hired okay we do have something in the works
10:26that's that's it's very insightful brad he's gunning for your job okay
10:31yeah exactly he's like management just just off frame you're a mark just out of frame and they're
10:37like but before we have you killed can you tell us about the other two great ideas yeah
10:43yeah okay okay so affliction t-shirts a lot of nickelback fans used to wear affliction why not
10:49team up with affliction and sell a nickelback affliction t-shirt at the concert they're making a
10:54comeback are they making a comeback next idea yeah that's your number they used to uh you just
10:59assured your life is probably safe now they they uh he's got one more come on here they used to
11:05send
11:06us stuff all the time like in the early 2000s when they're really yeah when they're really big
11:10i think they send box not stuff to everybody yeah okay the last one and it is a stupid term
11:17a lot of
11:18people call nickelback dad rock right so yeah you go to certain concerts they have the baddie section
11:23why not have the single dad section and call them the single backs or the single dads and you have
11:30your own section of those dudes nickeldads we've been referred to as divorce dad rock so you know
11:36maybe there's something yeah yeah a little section for those dudes and then you can highlight those
11:42guys at each show just like you know most people bring in hot chicks and we know these are the
11:45baddies
11:45you have your single backs or your single dad we're just gonna have a single dad we're gonna have a
11:51pen of
11:52really pudgy guys yeah i don't know how we old dudes here i don't know how we monetize that but
11:58uh
12:00we'll chew on it thanks thanks for your input babe all right sorry i i just said before i was
12:04thinking
12:04i'm like maybe you know a little extra cash for you guys thank you
12:07you