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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 »

There are actors who sing and singers who act, but throughout pop history few entertainers have successfully balanced those twin careers. Neither could Hilary Duff, though not due to lack of effort. While her career as a pop diva skyrocketed – she released two platinum albums and a best-selling greatest-hits disc in just three years – the former Disney child star found her acting career stalling. Despite her considerable star wattage, Hollywood had difficulty seeing Duff beyond her past sugary sweet roles and good girl persona (no rehab or pantyless partying here). “It always shocks me the lack of openness,… Read more »

Teen starlet Hilary Duff claims she’s never had a problem with her weight, but feels pressure to be thin. The 19-year-old actress and singer told People Magazine that she’s either perceived as too fat or too thin in the media, which she says can be “judgmental and mean.” “And if you don’t like the way you look or feel insecure, when people say things about you – in magazines or just in everyday life – they can be hurtful. … But you’ll never make them happy,” she told the magazine. Duff, who has sold more than 13 million albums worldwide,… Read more »

Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden is facing questioning from police over a run-in with a paparazzi photographer on Saturday night outside Los Angeles’ famed Mr. Chow restaurant. According to Beverly Hills Police Department Lieutenant Mitch McCann, a photographer filed a report on Monday in which she claimed that Madden struck her on the left breast with the heel of his hand as he was escorting girlfriend Nicole Richie from the back door of the restaurant to his car. The photographer, whose name McCann declined to reveal, reportedly told TMZ that she suffered a welt on her chest from the incident that… Read more »