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"There's a lot going on, and it mostly happens at 3am when everyone else is asleep."
 
So says Jonny Dubowsky, lead singer of Jonny Lives! And founder of Rock n Renew, a non-profit that educates, empowers and engages youth -- through their interest in art, music and pop culture -- to take action on climate change.

If Iggy Pop met Al Gore and then cross pollinated with the Kinks it would only begin to explain Jonny Lives. Dubowsky is a new type of environmental activist -- one who has played CBGB and Conan O'Brien, toured the country in a biofuel bus, and held classes on sustainability backstage at rock concerts and other unconventional venues. Hailing from the same scene that championed The Strokes, the Mooney Suzuki, Fountains of Wayne, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jonny Lives! takes cues from the Brit-pop, rhythm 'n' blues, and LES punk scenes of the 60's and 70's and updates it with unbridled, anthemic rock.
 
Road-testing in the UK proved that Jonny Lives! is on to something. NME Magazine raved: "Jonny Dubowsky quakes like a hairless hellcat," and "Jonny Lives! are so pant-droppingly brilliant that this reviewer has just been ordered to sex them down so you don't eat the magazine from sheer lust and excitement. So yes, ahem, Jonny Lives! Quite good. Ones to watch."
 
NME also wrote "indeed Jonny does live... but we had no idea he was in a shit-cool NY rock and roll band... On 'Get Steady,' Jonny Dubowsky manages to sound exactly like 'Raw Power' era Iggy."

The band is making the second album in Hawaii and Los Angeles, has a new record label (the same label that originally signed them back in 2005) and the new version of the Rock n Renew tour to accompany the release of the record in the Spring of 2009.