It's not often that a band catches a second wind. Let alone a third wind, and a fourth. But Maroon 5 is a band that's always blowing.
Each of the group's first two albums, 2002's "Songs About Jane" and 2007's "It Won't Be Soon Before Long," went platinum. Lead singer Adam Levine, with his syrupy falsetto and womanizing demeanor, again marauded onto the charts with 2010 single "Misery" and 2011 pop-rock virus "Moves Like Jagger." The latter became one of the best-selling singles of all-time.
Levine took on a new gig as a judge on singing competition "The Voice," and Maroon 5 rode that momentum into 2012's appropriately titled "Overexposed," yet another multi-platinum release. The band couldn't be stopped, and they got back on top of the world in 2013 with "Payphone," featuring Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa. That's around the time Maroon 5 came to Moline, a rare show, as reporter David Burke described it in the Quad-City Times.
An active, current rock band at the iWireless Center? That was a blue moon level event. Sure, The Mark knows a thing or two about rock and roll, but the venue's biggest gigs at the time were mostly by either country acts or legacy rockers — Eagles, Journey and Pat Benatar boasted some of the biggest turn-outs of 2013. Younger headliners, like 2010's Paramore or 2007's Fall Out Boy, were outliers.
Burke described a lunch conversation with iWireless Center executive director Scott Mullen about why that might be. "He brought up a point that I’d never co.
