Third Eye Blind taking laid-back approach to album

For the new album "Blue," Third Eye Blind is being unconventionally cautious about issuing tracks from the album. Both singer Stephan Jenkins and guitarist Kevin Cadogan say they approaching the promotion of the album more in its entirety. They said that the first "single" from the new set, "Anything," isn't really a promotional tool. "It's just the first advance song that went to radio and we didn't think about it that much," Jenkins said. He added that the band has declined to do a video for the song, a move the band's record company didn't approve of. "There's a lock-step way that everybody has to put their album out and it's not like we're some dogmatic band," he said. "I respect bands like Fugazi, but we're not them. We're just trying to do things in our own way. Because our first album was successful, we could have gone out and made the million-dollar video and have sort of the big splash and all those kinds of things. We're not a media band.

We're not a band that's based on hype." Jenkins adds, "We didn't want the wrapping to precede the package." The song "Anything" sits at No. 15 on the Billboard modern rock chart in only its second week of release.