Third Eye Blind To Record EP In June?

Third Eye Blind might finally be entering a recording studio to work on a long-anticipated EP to feature the original version of its controversial song "Slow Motion" and several new tunes. It was last November that the group first suggested the project as a means to get the unedited version of the song -- whose lyrics suggest a schoolyard shooting -- to the public after the track was deemed too graphic for inclusion on the band's second album, Blue.

LAUNCH asked Third Eye's Arion Salazar if, after all this time and talk, was the EP still going to happen? "Oh yeah," enthused the bassist. "If it didn't, we would look like right a--holes, wouldn't we? We've been talking and talking and talking and then... no, no, we're gonna it together. We have a lot of tunes that we got to get into the studio and record. In this next month that we have these few dates we'll probably be in the studio on the off days, recording the EP."

The EP would be released independent of the band's record label, Elektra Entertainment.

Meanwhile, Third Eye Blind was honored this week at the 48th Annual BMI Pop Awards in Los Angeles for one song that did make it onto one of the band's actual albums -- the hit "Jumper," from the group's self-titled debut album.

Third Eye Blind will be hitting the road again this summer for a tour in larger venues. Look for the band to appear on The Late Show With David Letterman on June 27.
~Neal Weiss and Craig Rosen, Los Angeles