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Pink took home two blimp-shaped Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California on Saturday (April 20), winning for favorite female singer and favorite song for “Get The Party Started,” which she performed at the event. Pink also had the honor of being hit with Nickelodeon’s trademark slime onstage after her performance at the 15th annual event. Usher won the award for favorite male singer, which he accepted with fellow nominee Lil’ Bow Wow by his side. Usher also performed his hit “U Don’t Have To Call” during the show. The Baha Men won for favorite band, and Destiny’s Child… Read more »

Fieldy’s Dreams was hardly a home run when the project debuted early this year, but the Korn bassist is not about to hang up his hip-hop hat. At Saturday’s ESPN Action Sports and Music Awards, where he performed in an all-star rap-rock band with Jay-Z and others, Fieldy said he planned to start work on his second solo album sometime this year. “[Korn is time-consuming], yeah, but we have a lot of downtime,” Fieldy said before the show. “So there will probably be some more stuff from me.” Fieldy, a self-described Rock N Roll Gangster, has been staying up in… Read more »

When the Florida Marlins won the 1997 World Series, it was No Good’s remix of Luke Campbell’s “Raise the Roof” that blasted from the system at Pro Player Stadium. When the Miami Hurricanes won the national college football championship earlier this year, No Good’s “Ballin’ Boy” served as their theme song. As if that wasn’t enough to cement this particular sports-and-hip-hop connection, ESPN picked up “Ballin’ Boy” to play over its March Madness spots during this year’s NCAA hoops tournament. And No Good capped things off by performing the single – already a club staple in their hometown of Miami… Read more »

One man largely symbolizes the divergent fortunes of sister stations MTV and VH1. Can you believe it’s Ozzy Osbourne? MTV has him, and the reality sitcom starring the frazzled heavy-metal legend and his family has become the kind of water-cooler hit that cable executives only dream of. “The Osbournes” has helped MTV build the biggest audience in its history. VH1 doesn’t have him. It doesn’t have much of anything else that people are talking about, and that’s reflected in sinking ratings and management uncertainty over the future. The two Viacom-owned companies are racing in opposite directions. “Things seem to be… 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 »

It’s Bad English meets Van Halen. Neal Schon and Deen Castronovo, of Bad English, have teamed with Sammy Hagar and Van Halen’s Michael Anthony for a supergroup with a working name of Planet Us. Hagar’s Web site and Schon, via the Journey Web site, both say the group has completed a two-song demo tape at Hagar’s home in Marin County, Calif. One song, tentatively called “Vertigo,” will be presented for consideration on the “Spiderman” soundtrack this summer. The group wants to tour but will have to schedule around Hagar and Journey, both of whom plan individual tours this summer.

An unidentified man was caught camping out in the carport of Britney Spears’ Hollywood Hills home, Los Angeles police say. The man, who has previously shown up uninvited at chez Spears, had allegedly set up house in the popster’s garage when Spears’ private security detail spotted him and called police at about 11 a.m. Tuesday. The security team detained the man until police arrived to take him away. However, the guards declined to press charges. A police spokesman says the man has been caught trespassing at the Spears abode at least once before and will be evaluated at a local… Read more »

Boston-area band Godsmack is celebrating the Super Bowl victory of hometown football team the New England Patriots, who beat the St. Louis Rams on Sunday (February 3). Singer Sully Erna revealed that he won $1,750 on the Patriots. “A friend of mine called in the bet and I think it went through (Las) Vegas, but it was… I’m kind of bummed, I guess. Last week they were paying 950-if you bet the game straight up, no points, they were paying 950 for every hundred, and then it went down to five for every hundred. And then I called in thinking… Read more »

An Australian firm said yesterday that it has purchased and restarted KaZaa, the Dutch-born Internet file-sharing program that the world’s biggest media companies have sued for becoming the new Napster. Sharman Networks Ltd., a privately held multimedia company, purchased certain assets of KaZaa BV, including the popular KaZaa Media Desktop file- sharing program, Sharman chief executive officer Nikki Hemming said in a news release. KaZaa stopped all downloads of the free Media Desktop program last week pending a Dutch judge’s ruling in a copyright infringement case filed against the company in the Netherlands. But Sharman Networks resumed downloads yesterday morning,… Read more »

Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda and DJ Joe Hahn have recorded a track with hip-hop turntablists X-ecutioners for the group’s Built From Scratch, which is set for a February 26 release. Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson revealed that Hahn was instrumental in the track and in directing the song’s video. “The song that we’ve collaborated with them is finished. It’s the X-ecutioners featuring Mike and Joe and it’s going to be in the X-men’s record entitled Built From Scratch,” he said. “The song is called ‘It’s Going Down.’ We’re actually filming a video… It’s going to be a really cool video,… Read more »