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Call them the new poster boys of pop punk. Dub them bearers of a torch once carried by Green Day and Rancid. Pronounce them the best thing to happen to the genre since the invention of the pogo. Just don’t call New Found Glory the next big thing. “I’d hate to be the next big thing,” singer Jordan Pundik said. Rather than ride a rocket to the top, Pundik and bandmates Cyrus Bolooki (drums), Chad Gilbert (guitar), Ian Grushka (bass) and Steve Klein (guitar) adopt a policy of slow and steady, careful not to suffer from overexposure. “Our videos aren’t… Read more »

Sprint Corp. on Wednesday said it would offer Listen.com’s Rhapsody music subscription services to its broadband customers, joining a growing list of such providers to provide music services. Sprint also said it would offer its PCS wireless customers Rhapsody 411, a music information service, including album reviews, artist recommendations, album art and full-color artist photos directly from their phones. Sprint is the second wireless company to offer Rhapsody 411 after AT&T Wireless Services Inc, underscoring the trend that wireless carriers are increasingly looking to offer music features. Sony Corp., for instance, recently bought a provider of cellphone ring-tones while two… Read more »

Paul McCartney defended his decision to reverse the order of the famous Lennon-McCartney songwriting credit and on Wednesday urged Yoko Ono not to overreact. After 40 years of second billing to John Lennon, McCartney has turned the tables on his late Beatles collaborator in his new project. “Back in the U.S. Live 2002,” a two-CD live album, includes 19 classic Beatles songs billed as written by “Paul McCartney and John Lennon.” “There’s no question this is an attempted act of Beatle revisionism,” said Elliot Mintz, spokesman for Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono. “And it does appear to be an attempt to… Read more »

When Guns N’ Roses announced they were going on tour this fall after a nine-year hiatus, fans of the heavy metal band snapped up tickets. Axl Rose was back and there was talk of a new album. But the comeback has been no “Paradise City.” Rose, the mercurial frontman whose disappearing acts have long irritated fans, failed to show up for the opening show Nov. 7 in Vancouver, prompting thousands of ticket holders to riot outside the venue. The band was a no-show again last week in Philadelphia, and fans got unruly. By then it became apparent that the “Chinese… Read more »

R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Matt Damon, Kim Basinger and Samuel L. Jackson, along with 100 other celebrities, have signed a letter urging President Bush not to go to war with Iraq. “We feel that military action in Iraq will allow the terrorists to fan the flames of anti-American sentiment and further destabilize the Middle East,” one of the letters signatories, actress Janeane Garofalo (“Reality Bites”), told CNN. The letter’s contents were announced in a press conference Tuesday (December 10). “War talk in Washington is alarming and unnecessary,” reads the letter, which was put together by Artists United to Win Without War,… Read more »

Dashboard Confessional and Jack Johnson played acoustic, and Beck and Coldplay celebrated Christmas, but otherwise KROQ-FM’s annual Almost Acoustic Christmas was a two-day, 20-act festival all about rocking. And the sold-out event was certainly crammed with rock and roll moments, particularly the announced live debut of Audioslave (they played a secret club show the night before), and an amusing rendition of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” orchestrated by Beck and the Flaming Lips and featuring Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba, Johnson and a horribly off-key Juliette Lewis. (Click here for photos from the show.) Audioslave were the talk… Read more »

He won’t explain the meaning, but Chris Carrabba has chosen A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar as the title for the next Dashboard Confessional album. Carrabba has demoed more than 40 songs for the album and will record 14 or so with his band in January, he said. “It’s a little more dynamic, but it’s been increasingly getting that way since we started,” Carrabba explained backstage at KROQ-FM’s Almost Acoustic Christmas. “With every EP we’ve done, it’s gotten a little more diverse. And [this album will be] very rich and eclectic sounding.” The singer/songwriter’s lyrics, which have tended… Read more »

British rock band Oasis is to return to the stage in Wales on Sunday to finish a European tour after a brawl in a Munich bar forced two shows to be canceled. Wildman vocalist Liam Gallagher, 30, lost two teeth in the fight on December 1, leaving him unable to sing in two scheduled German shows. But a band spokesman said on Saturday dentists had repaired the damage and the final, British leg of the two-month tour would go ahead. “The Oasis UK tour will therefore be going ahead as planned, starting this Sunday,” he told the band’s Web site… Read more »

Though some artists have been known to exaggerate a broken heart for the sake of art, the All-American Rejects have no need for such artistic license. For them, the truth is often sadder than fiction. “There’s rarely a happy ending in any of my songs,” singer/bassist Tyson Ritter said. “As far as the guy getting the girl in the end, it’s all fictitious. It’s all made up in my mind, I guess; all wishful thinking.” Such weighty fare fills the self-titled full-length debut by Ritter, 18, and multi-instrumentalist Nick Wheeler, 20. Two kids from Stillwater, Oklahoma, shouldn’t know so much… Read more »

Amid a week full of music-related TV specials, U2 offers U2’s Beautiful Day, a one-hour special from the homecoming concerts at Ireland’s Slane Castle in 2001. Besides footage from the shows on August 25 and September 1, the broadcast-at 10 p.m. ET Friday (November 29) on CBS-includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the band. U2 guitarist the Edge said that the Slane concerts were among the most memorable moments on the lengthy tour in support of All That You Can’t Leave Behind. “They were very emotional, and came at the, towards the end of a very long tour, but playing… Read more »