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After nine months of recording with at least five different guitar players, Limp Bizkit still aren’t finished with their new album. Fred Durst has set aside the 19 tracks already recorded and is starting fresh with new guitarist Mike Smith, formerly of Snot. “The chemistry with our new guitar player, Mike, is so dope that we are spending the next couple weeks writing a new album!” Durst wrote on Limp Bizkit’s Web site Wednesday. With less than three months before the band heads out on the Metallica-headlined Summer Sanitarium Tour, Durst nevertheless promised to have what had been tentatively titled… Read more »

After a nationwide talent search failed to yield a replacement for guitarist Wes Borland, Limp Bizkit has chosen former Snot axeman Mike Smith as his successor. Smith made his Bizkit debut last Sunday, when the group played live as part of Wrestlemania XIX in Seattle. “We really like jamming with Mike,” Bizkit frontman Fred Durst said on the band’s official Web site (http://www.limpbizkit.com). “He’s dope. This you will find out soon enough.” The band is still working on material that will appear on its upcoming Flip/Interscope album, due June 17. Durst has repeatedly offered different titles for the set, including… Read more »

Avril Lavigne, Korn, Limp Bizkit and Sum 41 are the first batch of those slated to pay tribute to Metallica in “mtvICON: Metallica,” the third installment in MTV’s annual series. The artists will perform Metallica covers before an audience on May 3 in Los Angeles for the taped 90-minute special, which will air May 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, according to a network spokesperson. Metallica – singer James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and new bassist Robert Trujillo – will cap off the concert with a performance themselves. Additional performers and artists who will give testimony to the… Read more »

A columnist at the New York Post has run an article called “Don’t Aid These Saddam Lovers” in an attempt to start a boycott against celebrities who have made their anti-war feelings known. Richard Johnson-who usually writes gossip for the tabloid-style newspaper-has apparently branched out into political commentary, and urges his readers to stop supporting movies, television shows, concerts, and albums by artists Johnson deems unpatriotic. Among the targeted stars are Fred Durst and his band, Limp Bizkit-whose fans, Johnson implies, are too stupid to even “know what Iraq is”-as well as Samuel L. Jackson (called a “drone” in the… Read more »

It looks like capitalization and spacing is no good any more for Fred Durst. He posted a message on Limp Bizkit’s Web site saying the band will now be known as limpbizkit with no capitals and no space between words. He gives no reason for the change. He seems to like playing around with words lately, given the changes he makes to the new album’s title. This week he said it would not be called “Bipolar” but instead “Fetus More.” He’s changed his mind again and now he’s calling it “The Search for Teddy Swoes.” Durst promises “it will all… Read more »

Limp Bizkit has announced that Bipolar will be the title of its next studio album, due out May 13. None of the tracks to appear on Bipolar have been announced, but Limp Bizkit has posted a new song, titled “Just Drop Dead,” on the band’s official website (limpbizkit.com). In a written introduction to the song, frontman Fred Durst notes, “It’s a crazy world we live in, and too many people can’t be honest. Everything happens for a reason.” Durst concludes, “This is raw, unmixed, and straight from the studio.” Durst reveals the inspiration for “Just Drop Dead” came from “someone… Read more »

Linkin Park’s new album, Meteora, is at the pressing plant right now waiting to be multiplied and distributed around the world, according to DJ Joe Hahn. The band will tour all kinds of venues. “We’re going to start off small, do some theater shows, and then when Projekt Revolution rolls around, those are arena shows,” he said. Hahn then told us Linkin Park is going to team with some of rock’s biggest hitters for a stadium tour. “Once we hit the summer we’re going to do a stadium tour with Metallica and Limp Bizkit,” Hahn said. “We’re excited about all… Read more »

Limp Bizkit vocalist Fred Durst settled a $5 million lawsuit filed by a young woman who was hit in the face with a microphone he threw to the side of the stage. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Lighting technician Connie Paulson contended that Durst threw a microphone at her with “no provocation” and with “disregard,” knocking a tooth out, breaking her nose, and causing two black eyes after the band’s Birmingham, Alabama appearance on the Anger Management Tour in 2000. Allegedly in a “fit of rage” Durst hurled the microphone towards the side of the stage as… Read more »

Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst settled a $5 million battery lawsuit filed by a former lighting technician who claimed he hit her and broke her nose during the “Anger Management” tour, their lawyers confirmed Tuesday. Terms of the settlement, reach last month, were not released. “It’s a confidential settlement, and they’re going on with their lives,” said Connie Paulson’s attorney, Lawrence Ecoff. Paulson sued Durst in November 2001 in Los Angeles Superior Court. She alleged the singer had a “fit of rage” and threw a microphone that hit her in the face as she was dismantling lights after a… Read more »

After enlisting the help of fans to appeal for the return of his ex-guitarist on Friday, Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst has now reported on the band’s official Web site that the plan to lure back Wes Borland has failed. “I’m glad that you people read my news recently about Mr. Borland,” he said in a post on Monday (May 27). “He’s received your emails and has responded negatively, but that’s no reason to give up. He replied by saying that 75 percent of all his emails were telling him to never be with Limp Bizkit. I’m glad some of you… Read more »