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Since helping launch Avril Lavigne to pop stardom, the Los Angeles-based production trio the Matrix has worked with everyone from Ricky Martin to Britney Spears to David Bowie. “Somebody said we were the hottest production team in the world the other day,” says Lauren Christy. “We just laughed.” Up next for Christy, her husband Graham Edwards and Scott Spock is a trip to Spain to work on Shakira’s second English-language album. “She’s such a great writer,” Christy says. “She might have ideas she wants us to flesh out with her. We’ll probably just wing it.” The three are also serving… Read more »

Now that he’s flying high with a hit record and one of the only successful tours of the summer, Justin Timberlake is unstoppable and afraid of nothing – not even a little SARS. The pop star will join the Rolling Stones and a host of other artists and celebrities at an eight-hour concert in Toronto on Monday to revive tourism and spirit in the city following the wane in both that hit after the city was hit by a highly publicized outbreak of the infectious disease SARS. The event will take place at Downsview Park and will be hosted by… Read more »

Alt-metal act Alien Ant Farm is preparing to return to touring for the first time since a bus accident left lead singer Dryden Mitchell with serious spinal injuries more than a year ago. The North American run will kick off July 5 in Las Vegas and close Aug. 3 in Houston. A European tour with stops at England’s Reading and Leeds festivals will follow. Mitchell still has some trepidation about the travel involved with touring, a fact he realized recently when visiting the band 311 at one of its gigs. “When I stepped onto their bus, I had this really… Read more »

After weeks on the festival circuit, Evanescence are set to embark on their first large-scale headlining tour. Amy Lee, Ben Moody and company will top the marquee on the Nintendo Fusion Tour, a multi-band music-and-gaming fiesta promising to visit 25 North American cities, according to a Nintendo spokesperson. Although an itinerary has yet to be solidified, the trek gets rolling August 4 in Los Angeles and is expected to wind down in late September in the Northwest. After playing a handful of shows in Spain and the U.K. last week, Evanescence were forced to cancel a run of shows in… Read more »

A little over a year since a bus accident nearly prevented him from ever walking again, Dryden Mitchell and Alien Ant Farm are ready to strut their stuff on a monthlong U.S. tour. The singer and his bandmates – Terry Corso (guitar), Tye Zamora (bass) and Mike Cosgrove (drums) – will hit the road starting July 5 in Las Vegas and ending 21 dates later in Houston, according to their DreamWorks publicist. Although they performed a show in December and another impromptu gig last month, the tour is the band’s first since a May 2002 bus accident in Spain in… Read more »

After a two-year recording hiatus which included injuries sustained in a serious bus accident, Alien Ant Farm will release their sophomore effort truANT on August 19. “These Days,” the band’s first single from truANT, will go to radio in July, and the group will tour this fall in support of the new album. Tour dates will be announced Friday (June 6), according to the group’s publicist at Dreamworks. Alien Ant Farm released its debut album ANThology in 2001, and the record took off on the success of its second single, a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal.” The single reached… Read more »

Beatles fans received a double treat Tuesday with announcements of a new world tour by Paul McCartney and the release of a DVD of a 1994 jam session by McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. McCartney said he plans to include several Beatles songs in his first British tour in a decade, scheduling 22 songs from his Fab Four days for each two-and-a-half hour arena concert. Seven dates in April have been announced for the “Back in the World” tour, including stops in London and Manchester, northern England. McCartney then plans to tour France, Spain, Germany and Scandinavia. The world… Read more »

The recording industry directed its anti-piracy campaign at large companies in the United States, Europe and Asia on Thursday, warning them that employees are illegally downloading music on company time. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a global trade group representing the major music labels, said it had begun issuing brochures to thousands of companies spelling out the legal and technological dangers of giving employees access to online file-sharing networks. “We were surprised to see that peer-to-peer services are being accessed by a lot of companies’ computer networks,” Allen Dixon, general counsel at IFPI in London told Reuters.… Read more »

Alien Ant Farm will take the stage Saturday for the first time since a bus accident in May left singer Dryden Mitchell with a broken back and injured the rest of his bandmates. The group will perform at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, California, as part of manufacturer Drum Workshop’s annual Drum Day L.A. benefit. Mitchell said the set won’t be a typical Alien Ant Farm show, since it’s really drummer Mike Cosgrove’s day in the spotlight, so they’ll likely jam and play songs that contain challenging time signatures. Although he made a surprise appearance with 311 on… Read more »

Papa Roach Kicks Off European Dates After a pair of shows in Japan this week, Papa Roach takes its tour in support of its latest album, Lovehatetragedy, to Europe beginning Sunday (October 6) in Helsinki, Finland. Dates on the continent and in the U.K. run through the first week of November. Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix said that the response overseas to his band has always been good, maybe even better than back home in the States. “In Europe people aren’t as jaded, you know? It’s like in the States every week you’ve got that cool tour coming through your… Read more »