Ohio’s Hawthorne Heights will be headlining the Summer Of Hope Tour starting June 1st. The band have also announced a June 5th release date for Hope, the follow-up to 2011’s Hate, and the 2nd in the band’s planned trilogy of EP’s.
Paramore singer Hayley Williams regularly tweets about movies, rants about UFC events and exchanges inside jokes with her own band members, but posting a video is uncommon.
The last time Paramore hit the road to support its Brand New Eyes album, it was a less-than-smooth trip.
Robert Knox, an 18-year-old actor set to appear in the next Harry Potter film, was fatally stabbed outside a London pub on Saturday. According to British media reports, the actor was part of a brawl that sent five males to the hospital, including a 21-year-old who was arrested on suspicion of murder after being treated for facial injuries. Knox, who appeared in the 2004 film King Arthur, plays Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the penultimate film in the series. The film is scheduled for release later this year. He had also been signed for… Read more »
The next batch of painful “Jackass” stunts is coming to a computer screen near you. The first two films – spun off from the former MTV series – co-starred Johnny Knoxville and his gang of gross-out pranksters as they performed stunts to the delight of their youthful fans. But for the sequel “Jackass 2.5,” the dirty daredevils pull a new stunt: bypassing the movie theater entirely. “Jackass 2.5” will instead be released to the Internet. The feature – which combines unreleased footage from “Jackass Number Two” and new content – was announced Thursday as a joint venture between Viacom-owned Paramount… Read more »
After a successful tour in Australia and Brazil, Jive/Zomba Recording artists Three Days Grace are gearing up for their upcoming tour with Evanescence and Seether. The tour kicks off July 13th in Minneapolis, MN and will hit over 12 US dates. Three Days Grace will be headlining US dates in June and July before the Evanescence/Seether tour begins. Nearly a year after their debut self-titled album, Three Days Grace was released, their first album has been certified Gold by the RIAA, selling over 500,000 copies. The band’s first single “I Hate Everything About You” continues to receive increases at mainstream… Read more »
Prince is taking that little red Corvette out of the garage again. On the heels of his blistering Grammy “Purple Rain” performance, the ’80s funk legend has announced he will hit the road with the New Power Generation for his first major arena tour in six years in support of his new CD, Musicology. To help hype the tour, Prince says the upcoming gigs may be the last time fans get to see him jam out some of the best-known hits live. That presumably means that tunes like “Little Red Corvette,” “1999” “Purple Rain,” When Doves Cry” and “Let’s Go… Read more »
The fallout over Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s racy Super Bowl halftime performance continues, as a Tennessee woman has filed suit against the pair as well as halftime show producer MTV, broadcaster CBS and parent company Viacom. Knoxville native Terri Carlin filed a proposed class action lawsuit in a U.S. District Court on Wednesday, charging the accused with causing her and “millions of others” to “suffer outrage, anger, embarrassment and serious injury.” The suit reportedly seeks billions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages. The incident has caused ripples throughout the country. Congress is entertaining a bill that would increase… Read more »
A grand jury has indicted a Johnson City man on charges that he tried to blackmail a gospel singer by threatening to reveal the performer is gay. Walbert Keith Farmer, 39, was arrested by FBI agents earlier this month and indicted last week on federal extortion charges. Farmer is accused of demanding nearly $15,000 from Kirk Talley, a Dove Award-winning and Grammy-nominated singer who lives in Kodak, in exchange for not telling Talley’s recording company about his sexual conduct. Farmer met Talley in an Internet chat room, Farmer’s attorney Scott Pratt said. Talley told the FBI the Internet was the… Read more »
Clear Channel Entertainment is pleased to announce that the co-headline tour of Aerosmith and KISS will continue it’s trek across the U.S. with the addition of 24 dates. The critically acclaimed summer tour kicked off in Hartford, CT on August 2nd with a bang! Rolling Stone Magazine classified the tour as the “summer’s biggest tour” and Billboard Magazine stated that the “Aerosmith/KISS co-headlining package stands out for its sheer star power.” Selling out across the U.S., Aerosmith and KISS have decided to extend their co-headlining tour until the end of the year. Clear Channel Entertainment, the world’s leading promoter and… Read more »
