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It may have been Super Bowl weekend, but the big event for thousands of mostly tween-age girls had nothing to do with football. Instead, all eyes at the Gibson Amphitheatre were focused on three relative rookies known as the Jonas Brothers, who played three sold-out shows there this weekend. After selling out their first show at the 6,000-seat theater in a two minutes — the fastest sellout in the venue’s 36-year history — the Jonas Brothers added two more shows that also sold out. Not quite as impressive as Garth Brooks’ recent five shows in two days at Staples Center,… Read more »

Panic! At The Disco will headline the eighth annual Honda Civic Tour, scheduled to visit about 45 cities in North America, beginning April 10 in San Francisco. The trek will support the Las Vegas four-piece’s second album, “Pretty. Odd,” due in stores March 25. It will end June 14 in Anaheim. A full itinerary will be unveiled in February. The tour will primarily play theaters and scaled-down arenas. Tickets will be priced between $25 and $35. “Pretty. Odd” is the follow-up to 2005’s “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out,” which has sold more than 1.7 million copies in the United… Read more »

Pop super star Christina Aguilera, 27, has finally given birth to a healthy baby boy.According to the singer’s website, the baby was born on Saturday night and weighed 6 pounds 2 ounces and measured 20.5 inches. The web site’s announcement aid, “Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman are proud to announce the birth of their son Max Liron Bratman. He is a beautiful, healthy baby boy.” Bratman, 30, and Aguilera have been together and married since 2005 and this is the first child for the happy couple. Her pregnacny was put into the spotlight back in July. Surprisingly, it was also… Read more »

Socialite Nicole Richie and her rock-star boyfriend became the parents of a daughter in Los Angeles on Friday, People magazine reported. Harlow Winter Kate Madden was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, People said, quoting a spokesman for Richie’s manager. It is the first child for Richie, 26, and Joel Madden, 28, the lead singer of pop-punk band Good Charlotte. Richie, the adopted daughter of singer Lionel Richie, has become a tabloid staple in recent years on account of her party-hopping lifestyle, stick-thin figure, and fractured friendship with Paris Hilton, her co-star in the reality TV series “The Simple Life.” A… Read more »

Atreyu’s Lead Sails Paper Anchor rocketed onto Billboard’s Top 200 this week at No. 8, and Billboard’s Rock and Hard Rock Album charts at No. 1, making it the highest-charting album of the band’s career. The debut is also significant in that Atreyu distinguish themselves as one among a very short list of hard rock acts to have debuted in the Top 10 this year. News of the album’s explosive arrival follows a flurry of headline-making moves for Atreyu, who were recently named as a headliner on one of the biggest tours of the new year: “Rockstar Taste of Chaos… Read more »

Acclaimed metallic rock act ATREYU have announced plans for a headlining tour in support of their upcoming Hollywood Records debut, Lead Sails Paper Anchor. The much-buzzed-about album arrives in stores on August 28th and the tour begins September 9th at the Big Easy in Boise, ID, with openers Haste The Day, It Dies Today plus a special guest to be announced. Atreyu, who will grace the October cover (on stands Aug. 21)  of Revolver magazine, are currently previewing select songs from the new album while on the Family Values Tour, which sees them third on the bill and sharing the… Read more »

Nicole Richie has been sentenced to four days in a Los Angeles jail as a result of her DUI arrest back in December.That was the verdict handed down to the black-clad reality-TV star – who arrived at the L.A. Superior Court five minutes early (unlike her pal Paris) accompanied by her beau, Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden – by an L.A. court commissioner on Friday morning (July 27). The court also sentenced Richie to thee years’ probation, fined her $2,048 and ordered her to attend a 21-day alcohol-education program. Richie, who pleaded guilty to the DUI charge, must report to… Read more »

Nicole Richie’s not-so-simple life has apparently gotten a lot more complicated.The socialite and reality-TV mainstay is pregnant with a child by Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden, TMZ.com reported Tuesday (July 3). The 25-year-old Richie has reportedly been dating Madden for more than six months. Rumors of the pregnancy have circulated for several months – spurred, no doubt, by Richie’s noticeably swelled belly. Neither her nor Madden’s representatives would confirm the news at press time. There may be more good news for the expecting couple: The pregnancy comes on the heels of recent reports from In Touch Weekly that Madden and… Read more »

Internet radio is not as big as terrestrial radio. In fact, it takes the combined audience of every station on shoutcast.com to equal the listener numbers KROQ, the nation’s top Rock station. That’s not to say that some station owners do not one day dream of becoming as large as their traditional terrestrial counterparts. However, the royalty rates being demanded by the RIAA will not only put many internet radio stations out of business, but will also ensure that internet radio will never, ever become that large. The process in which internet radio rates have been presented to the public… Read more »

Australian singer/songwriter Ben Lee has drafted Mandy Moore and Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden for his next album. “Ripe,” the follow-up to 2005’s “Awake Is the New Asleep,” is due out September via indie label New West. Moore, who is gearing up for the release of her own album in June, guests on the track “Birds and Bees,” which Lee likens on his blog to “Summer Lovin”‘ from the musical “Grease.” “Mandy was very sweet and did her best Olivia Newton-John for me,” he writes. Madden, meanwhile, co-wrote the tune “Love.” Other contributors include Nickel Creek’s Sara Watkins (who played… Read more »