Between headlining last weeks’ Bamboozle festival in New Jersey, touring various college campuses, and making their debut Hot 97 Summer Jam performance next month, Gym Class Heroes have found several avenues to spread their music to the masses. Also, it has given them chances to work on new tracks off of their third studio album The Quilt, due out in June.

“The college tour has been kind of a warm-up for us. We’ve been playing four or five new songs. We have more prepared, but we find that some songs almost don’t translate to the live show as well [right now],” drummer Matt McGinley told Rolling Stone recently.

This may have something to do with the overall scheme of the records, as group leader and emcee Travis McCoy expressed this albums’ significance in light of recent events. “Some of the songs are a little moody. Not that this album has dark undertones, but this past year has been so crazy for us with success and personal things, like my cousin committing suicide last November. It bubbled to a point where I went out to record in L.A. and I freaked out. I was so excited, but I was going through so much shit emotionally so I jetted out of L.A. and went back to Miami.”

In Miami, McCoy got a chance to hook up with Dre (of Cool & Dre) and Busta Rhymes in the studio, which subsequently led to a record being created in mere days. The track, tentatively titled “Peace Sign,” will feature a verse from Busta that McCoy stated, “has that hyped ‘95 animated Busta that I’ve been in love with forever.”

The Quilt is scheduled for a June release date.

Reported By Edwin Ortiz