You’ve got to think this is the last time we’ll see Maroon 5 before its extraordinarily handsome frontman, Adam Levine, ditches his bandmates and goes all Justin Timberlake. His gig as a judge on NBC’s American Idol knockoff, The Voice, is a strong hint that he’s working to develop his personal brand, and he’s got the charms, smarts and, not to belabor the point but good lord, the looks to pull it off. Train, a cheese-rock relic from the early ’00s, resurfaced a few years back with “Hey, Soul Sister,” a lazy, wet fart of a song that shot straight to the top of the iTunes 2010 most-sold list. We have not, it appears, seen the last of Train.
— David Hudnall
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