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MTV: Music Television will premiere its most recent original movie for television, “Wasted.” The movie, directed by Stephen Kay (The Last Time I Committed Suicide), stars Summer Phoenix [The Laramie Project, The Believer], Nick Stahl [In the Bedroom, Bully], and Aaron Paul [“Judging Amy”, Whatever It Takes]. Based on extensive research, “Wasted” chronicles the resurgence of heroin use among young people in recent years. With a cheap price tag and an enhanced purity-enabling users to snort the drug and do away with the stigma of the needle-heroin proved irresistible to high school students with money to spend, time on their… Read more »

For certain punks, there was no Bad Religion from 1996 through 2001. During that dark period, co-songwriter Brett Gurewitz split the seminal act he co-created with his pals in high school. He was disenchanted with the band’s major-label deal (at Atlantic), overwhelmed by the sudden hugeness of Epitaph – the label he founded to release Bad Religion records and eventually home to Rancid and the Offspring – and increasingly strung out on smack. The band would release two albums in his absence, both guided solely by the vision of Gurewitz’s estranged collaborator, Greg Graffin. Both records – 1996’s Gray Race… Read more »

U.S. band Backstreet Boys Thursday brushed aside a jibe by Oasis star Noel Gallagher that they “can’t sing, can’t play, can’t dance,” and said the British guitarist should “go back to London.” “His opinion doesn’t mean anything to us,” Kevin Richardson told a news conference in Caracas, where the popular Florida quintet were due to give two concerts over the weekend. Backstreet Boys were asked about scathing comments made about them by Gallagher in January, when he called their songs “rubbish” and said they “should be shot.” “He should just go back to London,” Backstreet Boys’ A.J. McLean retorted Thursday.… Read more »