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Linkin Park will be headlining the upcoming Livid Festival in Australia. The band will be joining the bill that already includes the White Stripes, Jurassic 5, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the Roots and Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Living End. The Livid Festival will make three stops-October 11 in Sydney, October 12 in Melbourne and October 18 in Brisbane. Linkin Park is currently on Metallica’s Summer Sanitarium tour, which stops in Seattle, Washington on Thursday (August 7). They’re touring in support of their album Meteora, which includes the track “Faint” which peaked at Number One on Billboard’s Modern Rock tracks.… Read more »

A.F.I. fans should check out the import section of their favorite record store for the upcoming Australian CD-single release of “The Leaving Song Part II,” from the band’s current album Sing The Sorrow. The Australian CD, which will be released on August 4 to coincide with the band’s tour there, includes three additional tracks-demo versions of “This Celluloid Dream” and “Synthesthesia,” plus a CD-ROM video for the band’s first single from Sing The Sorrow, “Girl’s Not Grey.” On the home front, “The Leaving Song Part II” is currently at Number 25 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart. A.F.I. has been… Read more »

Avril Lavigne concludes her first ever North American headlining tour on Sunday (May 18) with a concert at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York. The “I’m With You” singer has performed more than 30 concerts since the tour began on April 9 in Toronto. Lavigne’s tour was to promote her multi-platinum debut album Let Go. The singer said that when she began to write the album, she didn’t have any set messages she wanted to convey. “I don’t ever plan, ‘Ok, I’m gonna write a song about that ex-boyfriend,’ It’s not like that, or ‘I’m gonna write a song… Read more »

Actor Guy Pearce has agreed to appear in the next Silverchair video. Pearce, best known for his work in The Time Machine, Memento, LA Confidential and Priscilla Queen of the Desert, will feature in the ‘Across The Night’ clip. “I particularly wanted people to hear this song. It’s one of my favourites”, Daniel Johns explains. “I wanted to do a really special video for it so it was great to be able to have Guy involved. I’ve always liked his movies and I think he helped us make something which is visually a lot more memorable than just another music… Read more »

Throughout their upcoming tour, Pearl Jam will give fans who pre-order recordings of their shows access to unmastered MP3s of the concerts just hours after the music’s over. As a sequel to the 2000 series of 72 double-disc (well, one was triple-disc) “official bootleg” albums chronicling their world tour, Pearl Jam will sweeten the pot with the Web promotion, in addition to the promise of delivering the limited-edition CDs within seven to 10 business days. Fans who pre-order CDs of a show can access the unmastered MP3s a few hours after that night’s performance via three sites – www.pearljam.com, www.tenclub.net… Read more »

Eddie Vedder and his Seattle-based rock group Pearl Jam are letting fans know they’re still alive. The band plans to launch a 48-city North American tour in April at the Pepsi Center in Denver in support of its latest album, “Riot Act,” after a swing through Australia and Asia in February and March, the group announced on Thursday. The North American outing will be broken into two legs, the first wrapping May 3 in State College, Pennsylvania, and the second starting May 28 in Missoula, Montana, and winding up July 9 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. According… Read more »

They might have called their new album Sticks and Stones so that if critics trashed it they could retort by sneering, sticking out their tongues and saying, “names will never hurt me.” But that’s not the reason. For New Found Glory, names are as dangerous as flung fists, and throughout the record they reveal how damaged they’ve been by barbed words. “On the cover of the record we have a little girl beating up a guy,” guitarist Steve Klein explained recently. “When we were younger, relationships with girls were a lot easier. You could hit each other and it would… Read more »

Modern rock act Incubus will kick off a North American tour April 11 in Portland, Ore., in support of its latest Immortal/Epic set “Morning View.” The 50-date tour will be sponsored by Honda Civic, which put Blink-182 and Everclear out on the road last year on separate tours. An exclusive weeklong online ticket pre-sale will launch at 10 a.m. ET Saturday (Feb. 16) at civictour.com. “The band is really excited to be involved with Honda and the Civic Tour because it gives us a chance to play much bigger venues at a ticket price [$25] that we think is very… Read more »

Republic/Universal recording artist Powderfinger recently won six ARIA’s (Australian Record Industry Awards), more than any other artist this year, for their critically acclaimed album Odyssey Number Five. The Brisbane quintet received awards in the categories of: Album of the Year, Best Rock Album, Record of the Year (“My Happiness”) Best Group, Highest Selling Australian Album and Best Cover Art. Odyssey Number Five is Powderfinger’s first release in the U.S. and their fourth multi-platinum release in their native Australia. In 1999 Powderfinger won ARIA’s for their album Internationalist including Album of the Year, Best Rock Album and Song of the Year… Read more »

Australian pop music duo Savage Garden, with global sales of 20 million records in four years, have split. Band member Darren Hayes will embark on a solo career and Daniel Jones, preferring life outside the public eye, has returned home to Brisbane, where the two first met through an advertisement in a local music magazine. “We achieved something so great in a short period of time that we had to look for something else,” Jones said on Friday. “We’ve both had a lot of success together. We’ll probably have a lot of success independently in the future.” Savage Garden’s single… Read more »