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As the 2003 Civic Tour rolls to an end, nearly 400,000 music fans were entertained by one of this Spring’s best-attended tours featuring co-headlining bands New Found Glory and Good Charlotte, leaders in the new wave of pop-punk music that has taken over radio and television. Civic Tour sold-out 34 of its 50 dates in key markets such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Dallas, Denver and San Jose, proving once again that Honda continues to bring the youth market the coolest breakthrough acts on the music scene. The San Antonio Express-News took note of success of the Civic… Read more »

Liam Lynch was onstage about two minutes total, yet it was his song that best summed up Saturday’s 11-hour KROQ Weenie Roast. It was truly the “United States of Whatever.” As in, whatever goes. Good Charlotte unplugged, Pink got the party started with the Transplants, and Jane’s Addiction played unannounced, proving nothing was off-limits at the trend-setting radio station’s 11th annual summer festival. The lineup itself was a little bit of whatever, and certainly more diverse than last year’s “diet Ozzfest,” as Jack Osbourne called it. All three stages showcased a variety of bands, although it was surprisingly the main… Read more »

In a pop-punk field increasingly populated with interchangeable sound-alike bands, Good Charlotte has made a bid to break away from the pack with its second CD, “The Young & the Hopeless.” Lead singer Joel Madden, who along with twin brother Benj writes the group’s songs, credits Eric Valentine, the producer of “The Young & the Hopeless,” with helping to expand the group’s musical horizons. “He challenged me to write different songs than just a bunch of songs that were kind of the same thing,” Joel Madden said. “He was like, ‘Why don’t you try writing some songs that you wouldn’t… Read more »

Two bands have been comrades ever since Madden brothers became fans of Mest’s 2000 major-label debut. In the clip for “Jaded (These Years),” Mest reminisce about what life was like viewed through innocent eyes. It could have been a cliché that dates beyond Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days” were it not for the fact that Mest singer Tony Lovato’s eyes were never that innocent. “I didn’t grow up like normal kids, who go to high school, turn 18 and leave home to go to college,” Lovato said. “I always hung out with older kids. By the time I was 12, I… Read more »

Army Of Me, Ben Lee, and Good Charlotte have announced an all acoustic evening at the TLA in Philadelphia, PA on May 5. The show is a benefit to raise money for Positive Force (http://www.positiveforcedc.org), a DC based charity for the elderly and homeless. Tickets are $29.50, and they go on sale today at noon. For more information, visit http://www.electricfactory.net/event_detail.asp?id=2103.

When Good Charlotte last played here in October 2002, their “Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous” was about how the other half lives and they barely filled the 1,500-capacity Rave in Milwaukee. Since then, of course, the band’s sophomore album, The Young and the Hopeless, has gone platinum, and this time through the Brew City they moved upstairs to the much larger Eagles Ballroom, where they sold out 4,000 tickets in a couple of days and packed the place for Friday’s show. They had a little help from their friends this time, too, as they were joined by New… Read more »