COLLECTIVE SOUL IS COLLECTIVE SOLE FOR KENNETH COLE

On Wedensday, March 8, Collective Soul, famous for its 90s hits “Shine” and “The World I Know” among others, played a special charity/private party at the Kenneth Cole store in Rockefeller Plaza. The band soundchecked before the store closing at 5:30 for the event.

Collective Soul formed their own label after parting ways with Atlantic and released the album, From The Ground Up, in 2005. The band followed that with a DVD. Dean Roland, oine half of brother combination that powers the band, told us how the band got involved with Kenneth Cole.

“Um, I’m not really sure exactly how…what connections brought us together, but we’ve been fans of Kenneth Cole for as long as I remember and we had the opportunity to do a store opening a little while back. And this charity event came up and we jumped on it.”

Brother Ed Roland compared doing a show in a retail store to one of the band’s concerts.

“It’s a little quieter, you know, it’s a little more acoustic. Usually it’s a party, it’s a gathering so you don’t want to overtake, volume wise, conversation. So you knind of more or less sit in the bacground. Background music is what we are.”

After working the road hard supporting From The Ground Up and their Home DVD, the band will take some time off and focus on their next record.