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Now that pop music has been peppered with so many Avril clones, these days Lavigne is acting out her best Green Day, Bob Dylan and Metallica impressions. Lavigne’s covers of songs by those artists appear on the bonus audio disc that comes with “My World,” the singer’s first DVD, due November 4, according to an Arista Records spokesperson. Green Day’s “Basket Case” was a staple of her live set, while her version of Metallica’s “Fuel” was performed at the mtvICON tribute to the metal band in May. “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” recorded while on tour in London, appeared on the… Read more »

Avril Lavigne and the Neptunes are going to each release a DVD later this year, under a deal Arista Records has made with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Lavigne’s DVD is of a live concert, and the Neptunes are releasing a straight-to-DVD movie. Lavigne’s My World is her first live concert DVD, and it features behind the scenes footage, five music videos, and a bonus six song CD. The concert was filmed in Buffalo on May 18, the closing night of her five-week North American Try To Shut Me Up tour. Performances include “Complicated,” “Sk8er Boi,” “I’m With You,” “Losing… Read more »

While most artists wait to put out a live album until several years into their careers, Avril Lavigne has decided one year on the scene is long enough. The 18-year-old singer has announced plans to release a live CD and DVD titled My World in either September or October. The performances were recorded during the pop star’s recently completed North American headlining tour. The DVD of My World will include backstage footage and interviews with Lavigne, in addition to the live performances. The “Complicated” singer is currently working on the follow-up album to her multi-platinum debut, Let Go. Lavigne said… Read more »

Avril Lavigne probably never went to band camp, but that didn’t disqualify her from the soundtrack for “American Wedding,” the third slice of celluloid from the “American Pie” series. The previously unreleased Avril song “I Don’t Give” will be featured on the disc, which comes out July 22. The track was recorded during the session for Let Go, and is about an independent girl who refuses to be played. “You know I’m not gonna cry/ About some stupid guy/ A guy who thinks he’s all that,” she sings in the chorus. The 17-song “American Wedding” soundtrack also features an unreleased… Read more »

Avril Lavigne is the subject of the new television special, Avril Lavigne: Anything But Ordinary, airing Sunday (June 8) on the ABC-Family cable network at 9 p.m. ET. The show chronicles Lavinge’s childhood growing up in Canada, her family life, and her music. The “I’m With You” singer told the program she’s living the life she’s always dreamed. “I have this awesome opportunity to fulfill my dream,” she said. “I am all over the place, flying here and there, going through different stuff every day.” During the show, the 18-year-old singer confides that she used to fantasize about being a… Read more »

Pop singer Avril Lavigne performed a free concert for students at a high school that won a radio contest. Teens flocked to the Dunkirk High School gymnasium Monday to hear the 18-year-old Canadian, who wore an oversized red T-shirt, baggy pants and a pair of vintage sunglasses. “I think it’s the fact she’s our age and being herself,” said junior Katie Abramowicz. “Her fame is not based on her looks. She’s original in her music and the way she dresses.” The students won the regional High School Spirit Contest sponsored by Buffalo’s Kiss 98.5 by collecting about 950,000 index cards… 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 »

Demurely clad in a simple yellow T-shirt and black bondage pants, Avril Lavigne didn’t need to frolic about in choreographed routines to impress her minions. A simple rock show, devoid of flash and fancy moves, demonstrated her back-to-basics intentions, and the audience, composed mostly of straight-haired teenage girls at their very first concert (with chaperones, of course), responded like it was watching the Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964. “I touched her hand, the one with the blue wristband!” gushed Madison, 10, from Toronto. It wasn’t the last time she and the dozens like her rushed down the… Read more »

Multi-platinum recording artist/skater girl Avril Lavigne has called upon fellow Canadians Simple Plan to join her on her first-ever, North American headline tour. Dubbed the “Try To Shut Me Up” tour, the dates kick off April 15th in Cleveland and will continue through May 17th in Philly. The tour, also featuring pop-punkster’s Gob, is expected to be one of the hottest tickets in town and shows are already selling out. Simple Plan will perform songs off their debut album “No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls,” featuring the massive hit single and MTV staple “I’d Do Anything.” The band’s album, which entered… Read more »

Among the many things complicated for Avril Lavigne – stuff like new romances and pronouncing the names of rock legends – performing onstage isn’t one of them. The 18-year-old rocker said that “being up onstage is the best part of being a musician” and “everything else is annoying” in a recent online chat. When her first North American headlining tour begins April 11 in Montreal, fans will see for themselves how performing in front of thousands can put a smile on her face. Twenty-two shows are lined up for the trek thus far, according to Lavigne’s publicist, with a few… Read more »