Gavin’s performances and Q&A from Sessions at AOL are now online! There are 6 live performance videos that you can stream here. The songs Gavin performed were: “Forever May You Run”, “The Trouble I’m In”, “Love Remains The Same”, “Drive”, “Comedown” and “Letting the Cables Sleep”. And you can also stream the Q&A from the website as well. Make sure you check them all out!

Gavin was interviewed on the show Mania TV today. You can check out the interview from the shows below. If the embedded videos don’t work, you can view the complete show here (ifull half hour show) and view parts of the show here (Myspace questions) and here (interview).

Gavin’s album, “Wanderlust” is now available to purchase in the USA (it will be available in the UK on June 9th). You can pick up your copy from any retailer or at Amazon.com. Happy Listening!

It’s hard to believe that Wanderlust is Gavin Rossdale’s first ever solo album. As former lead singer of Bush, one of the biggest post grunge bands on the planet and the husband of pop icon Gwen Stefani, Gavin has lived most of his adult life in the spotlight with others. But now for the first time he stands alone. A big step but one he was more than ready to take.

I Like Music caught up with the very lovely GAVIN ROSSDALE to talk about his brand new solo material, life in the spotlight and his future plans.

“I Like Music because… it takes me away.” GAVIN ROSSDALE

ILM: You release your very first solo album, Wanderlust, on June 9th. You’ve been in the industry for such a long time it’s hard to believe this is your first solo album, but it must be great writing music on your own terms? How’s it been?

GAVIN: Really good. I’ve been really lucky during my life as a musician in Bush and Institute as I wrote on my own terms as well. But, it’s weird, it’s only when I do all these interviews it’s starting to dawn on me what I’m doing, that this is what I’ve got myself in for.

Sometimes I get myself into these situations that are really extreme and they’re so extreme I don’t think about them, so it’s like the eye of the storm and doing this solo record is a bit like that. So everyone is like, ‘is it weird?’ And I’m like ‘no’, and then after many hours of interviews, I’m like… It is weird!

I miss my band and I loved being in Bush and I’m way too nostalgic and a bit too sentimental so I do miss doing this whole process with them. But it feels really natural, I’ve not forced anything. Probably, if anything I was trying to force Bush again.

I’m always the last person to let anything go. In any relationship I was in, I was always like not wanting them to end, no matter how destructive they were I’d be like, ‘no, I don’t want it to end.’

ILM: It does feel like a natural progression though.

GAVIN: Yeah, it feels really natural. I wanted to make that kind of record where you sit with your core producer and get different musicians in, so it’s been really good and an easy process as well with Bob Rock.

ILM: Yeah, you’ve written a mature, honest and compelling album; a fusion of anthemic rock and heavier sounds … which track has been the most fun to lay down in the studio?

GAVIN: I think Future World because it sits in the middle of the record and it sums up the aesthetic of the record. It sums up my obsession with the past and the future and the world of feelings and technology and how twisted and exciting life is.

What used to happen when I was in Bush was that we’d get to a point where I’d get some dark broods going and I’d be like, ‘let’s bring the guitars out, let’s focus on the atmospherics a bit, but, because I did the Institute record which was much heavier, it meant that I was able to be free of the guitars to a certain degree in this.

I’ve got a few guitars and a few heavier tracks in this, but it really was about making it cinematic and universal and I feel that with Institute I may’ve done the unthinkable and lost the girls because it was a bit too hard; every girl I played it to was like, ‘ooh’.

So it was really nice singing against the bass and writing a few songs on bass, which gives it a whole different feeling.

ILM: Kind of letting your songs breathe then?

GAVIN: Yeah, exactly.

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Waking up next to a flourishing artist when your music career is in limbo can’t be much fun, but Gavin Rossdale never lost focus. The former Bush singer kept on writing and recording in his LA home studio while wife Gwen Stefani was out becoming an international icon.

Now it’s his turn.

“I been gone too long,” exclaims Rossdale, who repeats that phrase on a few of the hooks from his first solo album, “Wanderlust,” out Tuesday. “I would look at artists and bands playing live shows and get slightly pissed off that I wasn’t doing that. I missed that tremendously.”

Rossdale’s first hiatus came in 2002, when Bush broke up after selling almost 12 million albums and spawning seven Top Five hits, including “Machinehead” and “SPwallowed.”

He got an itch a few years later and formed Institute, which split after one album in 2005. Then he met famed producer Bob Rock (Metallica, Aerosmith) and found a musical match.

“I knew [Rock] was the guy the second we spoke,” says Rossdale, 42. Their efforts gave birth to 13 tracks, including the aggressive “Some Days,” a warm and fuzzy gem in “Drive” and a drug-infused sing-a-long dubbed “Another Night in the Hills.”

“Working on films was a great experience, but nothing compares to making music,” says Rossdale, who landed roles in “Constantine,” and the upcoming “Frost Flowers.” “I did feel like an adulterer at some points. I knew I needed to get back into the studio.”

From the New York Post