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Papa Roach, Ja Rule, Shakira, Nas, Sum-41, and X-Ecutioners have joined the lineup for MTV’s upcoming mtvICON salute to Aerosmith. As previously reported, Kid Rock, Train, and Pink will also perform Aerosmith songs at the event, to be taped April 14 in Los Angeles and airing three days later on MTV. Inaugural mtvICON honoree Janet Jackson will offer a testimonial, as will Fred Durst, Dana Carvey, Method Man, and frequent Aerosmith video star Alicia Silverstone. Sum-41, Ja Rule, and Nelly have teamed for a special recreation of Aerosmith’s classic “Walk This Way” video, which originally featured Run-DMC. The new clip… Read more »

Papa Roach will release the follow-up to their triple-platinum debut, Infest, on June 25th. The album, lovehatetragedy was produced by Brendan O’Brien, who’s worked with Pearl Jam and Rage Against the Machine. Next month, the band will head to Atlanta, where singer Coby Dick – who is now going by his birth name, Jacoby Shaddix – will finish recording his vocals. The track listing is still tentative, but the album is expected to be finished by March. According to Shaddix, many of the album’s songs were written while touring with Ozzfest. “Decompression Period” is about the pressures of being in… Read more »

Canadian singer Alanis Morissette, U.S. bands Korn and Papa Roach, and Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters will be among the featured stars at the Caracas Pop Festival in March, organizers said on Friday. The second annual edition of the festival – which last year attracted Oasis, Sting and Christina Aguilera – will take place in a 35,000-seat open-air stadium near Venezuela’s steamy Caribbean capital Caracas. Morissette, who won four Grammy awards with her 1995 album “Jagged Little Pill,” will perform songs from her latest production, “Under Rug Swept,” which is due to be released in February, organizers said. The festival… Read more »

One might expect Papa Roach, who toured for two years behind their multiplatinum major-label debut, to take some recovery time and leisurely write and record their follow-up. One might be wrong. As a matter of fact, Vacaville, California’s most famous export has nearly finished recording a new album after only three weeks in the studio. It’s expected in stores by June. “We really expected it would take longer, but everything is going so well,” drummer Dave Buckner said late Wednesday night after playing a few songs at a North Hollywood studio. “A lot of bands come into the studio and… Read more »

Sacramento quartet Papa Roach will enter the studio this fall to record the follow-up to last year’s debut, Infest. Brendan O’Brien, who has worked with Ringo Starr drum beat so it”s called ‘Ringo,’ and there’s another called ‘AA.’” As a result of Papa Roach meeting various artists via summer music festivals, Buckner says they’re considered bringing guests into the fold. ” Bjork would be cool,” he says. “Tobin’s been writing these songs, and you could almost hear Bjork’s voice singing harmonies on it.”

A wrist injury sidelined Papa Roach drummer David Buckner on the group’s Raid The Nation tour earlier this year. However, after a little bit of time away and some rehab, Buckner and Papa Roach were able to play OzzFest, which wrapped up Sunday (August 12) in New Jersey. Bass player Tobin Esperance was asked by LAUNCH how Buckner’s wrist is holding up, and if it has affected the band’s performance. “No, no; I mean it’s not so bad now that we’re only doing 35-40 minutes I think. We’ll see when we have to do headlining sets, but right now everything… Read more »

Papa Roach will release a DVD this fall. The work is intended to serve as a companion piece to their break-out, triple platinum album Infest. The DVD will be a rock-umentary of sorts chronicling the past two years surrounding P-Roach’s success. It will include behind-the-scenes footage, TV appearances and the “Last Resort,” “Broken Home” and “Between Angels and Insects” videos. The band is inviting fans to contribute their own personal VHS footage of all things Papa Roach, including live bootlegs of shows, backstage shots, themselves at a concert, or simply telling the camera what Papa Roach means to them. Submissions… Read more »

Papa Roach is taking advantage of the downtime on OzzFest to work on the follow-up to its double-platinum 2000 DreamWorks debut album, Infest. P-Roach frontman Coby Dick tells LAUNCH that the album is expected to hit the streets, “June, next year, hopefully.” Dick tells LAUNCH about trying to create an album while on the road. “We’re writing it on tour.,” he says. “A good environment, you know. Lots of drugs, lots of alcohol, lots of rock ‘n’ roll. It’s good.” Infest has remained on the Billboard 200 album sales chart for 61 weeks. The album currently checks in at Number… Read more »

Papa Roach have cancelled the second leg of their Raid the Nation tour because of a wrist injury sustained by drummer David Buckner, according to the band’s publicist. The 13-date second leg of Raid the Nation, which was to include openers Fear Factory and Alien Ant Farm, was scheduled to begin April 24 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and wind down May 11 in Phoenix. Afterward, Papa Roach are slated to perform at two radio festivals – May 12 and May 19 – commitments their spokesperson said they will still fufill. Not to disappoint fans, Fear Factory plan to hit the… Read more »

Alt-metal act Papa Roach will hit the road in March on what the band has dubbed the Raid The Nation tour. Supporting will be Orgy and Alien Ant Farm, the later being the first signing to Papa Roach’s New Noize imprint. The tour will kick off March 17 in New Orleans. Papa Roach, which also has plans to join the mainstage line-up of this year’s Ozzfest, is nominated for a best new artist Grammy. The band’s DreamWorks album “Infest” peaked at No. 5 on The Billboard 200 last August, and has sold 2.8 million copies in the U.S., according to… Read more »