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Twelve hours, four stages and more than 40 bands marked the end of the three-day Skate and Surf Festival on Sunday. Held at the Asbury Park Convention Hall, the second installment of the now annual event featured performances from Bouncing Souls, Face to Face and the Descendents, among many others. While the Warped Tour travels from town to town with many of skateboarding and BMX culture’s best-known athletes and favorite artists, the stationary Skate and Surf tends to be more down-home, offering quarter-pipes and rails to anybody bold enough to show up with a bike or a board and a… Read more »

Incubus kicks off its largest tour to date at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon on Thursday (April 11). The tour, in support of its current album, Morning View, will visit arenas in 49 cities in North America through early July, with open dates on the calendar expected to be filled with yet more shows. Incubus’s hometown friends and soundalikes Hoobastank serve as the opening act from April 11-May 15, while the group’s Epic Records labelmates Phantom Planet sign on May 24-July 3. Frontman Brandon Boyd said that playing in such large venues offers its own unique challenges. “When we… Read more »

You may never have washboard abs like Britney Spears, but soon you can fill your belly at her restaurant. The pop singer is opening an American bistro in midtown Manhattan called Nyla – for New York, Spears’ new home, and Louisiana, her home state. Nyla will occupy space in the Dylan Hotel that formerly housed Virot, an upscale French restaurant that closed shortly after Sept. 11. It’s scheduled to open in May. “Virot didn’t have the hipness I was looking for,” Morris Moinian, owner of the Dylan Hotel and a partner in the restaurant, told The New York Times for… Read more »

Riddlin’ Kids, the ferociously melodic powerpunk band from Austin, Texas, are preparing to start touring in earnest in anticipation of the June 4 release of Hurry Up And Wait, their album debut on Aware/Columbia Records. They will be part of the Warped Tour starting mid-July; preceding the Warped dates, the group will tour with Mest and Dynamite Boys beginning in early April. The first single from their upcoming album is “I Feel Fine.” The music video for “I Feel Fine” is being filmed by Smith N Borin of Geneva Films on April 1 in Los Angeles. Last summer, the band… Read more »

While they won’t have Linkin Park and Staind along for the ride this time, Stone Temple Pilots will return to the road next month for a 16-date tour. The band, which headlined the Family Values Tour last year, will make several festival appearances and will play more intimate headlining gigs dubbed “A Night With Stone Temple Pilots,” according to the group’s management. STP tentatively plan to spend the summer working on their sixth album, but got a head start earlier this month when they laid down a track in Los Angeles. A live version of the fatalistic love song “Wonderful”… Read more »

Stone Temple Pilots will be playing various festivals this spring, including Atlanta’s Music Midtown, but the band is taking the summer off. Singer Scott Weiland revealed that the band actually turned down the OzzFest in favor of hitting the studio. “You know we were asked to play the OzzFest, but we turned it down,” he said. “And it’s not because we don’t think OzzFest is a viable tour, it obviously is a viable tour. It’s been around for quite some time, now and it’s pretty successful and not to mention lucrative. But lucrative is not always the best reason to… Read more »

Garbage will headline a series of North American shows beginning April 19th in Toronto. Shirley Manson and company, who last toured the U.S. on the third leg of U2’s Elevation tour, will play more intimate club venues on this outing. The dates come in continued support of their October 2001 release, Beautiful Garbage. More dates will likely be added to the stretch, now scheduled to wrap up May 10th in Milwaukee. Garbage Tour Dates: 4/19 – Toronto, Kool Haus 4/20 – Cleveland, Agora Theatre 4/21 – Detroit, State Theatre 4/23 – Plainview, NY, The Vanderbilt 4/26 – Philadelphia, Electric Factory… Read more »

When a “supergroup” finds success, it often leads to rumblings about whether the bandmembers are going to leave their bread-and-butter outfits to focus on their new baby. Especially when the musicians start griping. For example, during recent interviews about their side project Down, Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown have been questioning the longevity of Pantera and confirming that the band is on shore leave. “With the last record, we were kind of like, ‘That’s the best we can f–in’ get it. What are we gonna do now?’ ” Brown said, relaxing in a deluxe hotel suite in… Read more »

A week after paying Mariah Carey nearly $30 million to walk away from her contract, EMI Recorded Music CEO Alain Levy took the wraps off a massive restructuring at the top of the company’s North American unit, marking his most aggressive moves yet to yank the British music major out of a persistent financial slump. Levy’s plan infuses EMI’s U.S. executive suite with new blood: His longtime deputy David Munns becomes chairman and chief executive of EMI North America, overseeing the flagship Capitol Records and Virgin Records America imprints. Veteran producer Matt Serletic has been named chairman and CEO of… Read more »

The guitar pop of Weezer has been interpreted by a cast of underground rock bands for the collection, Rock Music-A Tribute To Weezer, due February 5 from Dead Droid Records. Songs featured include, “Say It Ain’t So,” by Further Seems Forever; “Susanne,” by Midtown; and the Weezer rarity “Jaime,” as interpreted by Dashboard Confessional. A vinyl version includes two extra tracks. The complete track listing is: “My Name Is Jonas” (Affinity), “No One Else” (Piebald), “Holiday” (Glasseater), “Surf Wax America” (Grade), “Say It Ain’t So” (Further Seems Forever), “The World Has Turned” (Christopher John a.k.a. Elliott), “Susanne,” (Midtown), “Jamie” (Dashboard… Read more »