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Good Charlotte is about to start work on its next album, the follow-up to the band’s multi-platinum second release the Young And The Hopeless. They have written a lot of songs already and plan to do more while on the road this fall. Their tour kicks off in Madison, Wisconsin on September 18, and wraps in Grand Prairie, Texas on November 11. Guitarist Bill Martin is excited about the new material, and plans to record in practice rooms and soundchecks while on the road. He told MTV, “We have all gotten a lot better on our instruments, and we really… Read more »

Blink 182 and Taking Back Sunday are set to perform a benefit concert on September 6 in San Diego for professional surfer Jason Bogle, who suffers from a rare kind of bone cancer called Ewing Sarcoma. At the same time, Blink 182 is readying the release of a new self-titled album, the follow-up to 2001’s Take Off Your Pants and Your Jacket. The set hit stores on November 18. Some parents who take their kids to Blink 182’s shows are often surprised at the giant burning expletive in the background, but band members Mark Hoppus and Tom Delonge revealed that… Read more »

British rock band The Darkness struck a blow for the big hair, skin-tight catsuits and wailing guitar solos of the 1980s Thursday, outshining rivals at Britain’s biggest heavy metal awards. The much-hyped quartet won two awards, for best album and best live act, at music magazine Kerrang!’s 10th annual ceremony in London. It was a far cry from the band’s humble roots in rural Suffolk, eastern England, where lead singer Justin Hawkins and the band used to perform before tiny audiences in bars. “We’ve always behaved like stadium rockers, even at the beginning when we were playing in pubs,” Hawkins… Read more »

Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland dodged a bullet on Thursday when a judge sentenced him to three years of probation for his May drug arrest. Weiland appeared in a Pasadena, California, courtroom on two felony possession charges and was sentenced to probation, which includes court-monitored individual and group counseling sessions, mandatory Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and random drug testing, according to a spokesperson for the Pasadena district attorney’s office. The singer must also continue to attend a drug-rehabilitation program as a condition of his sentence. If he completes all the terms of his probation within the first year, the case could… Read more »

When there’s a major power outage like the one that occurred on Thursday (August 14) in Toronto, people are forced to go without a lot of amenities – there’s no air conditioning, no computer access, no television, no stove cooking, no refrigeration. And, if you’re a music fan, there’s no amplifiers, PA systems or electric guitars – in other words, no rock concerts. There were a number of concerts put on hold in New York and Detroit (including the much ballyhooed Stooges hometown reunion show) and there were also various postponements in Toronto. Most of the most high-profile casualties took… Read more »

The largest North American power blackout in history plunged more than 50 million people into darkness in a 9,600-square-mile swath from the East Coast to the Midwest and Southern Canada on Thursday, affecting everything from subways in New York to the water supply in Cleveland. The outage also cut the power to a number of summer tours, knocking Bob Dylan and Tori Amos offline and sending many other bands scurrying for backup plans and places to crash for the night. An eagerly awaited hometown reunion of punk pioneers the Stooges, scheduled to play their first Detroit show in more than… Read more »

The backstage area of this year’s Vans Warped Tour often resembled a punk-rock frat party, according to Thrice frontman Dustin Kensrue. There was plenty of partying and more than a few juvenile practical jokes perpetrated by the bands and their crews. Such situations can be flat-out dangerous, and sometimes injuries ensue. A few weeks ago, Thrice drummer Riley Breckenridge damaged his back while reaching under the band’s bus. Was he looking for water balloons filled with sour milk to throw at the members of Pennywise? Nope. He was trying to remove his suitcase from the storage compartment, and in the… Read more »

The father of pop stars Nick and Aaron Carter faces a criminal charge for allegedly shoving his wife to the ground during an argument over their separation, authorities said. Robert G. Carter, 50, was arrested Thursday after the fight with his wife, Jane Carter, at their Marathon home, Monroe County sheriff’s spokeswoman Becky Herrin said Monday. He faces a misdemeanor domestic battery charge, punishable by up to a year in jail. The Carters told deputies they were arguing over dividing up their personal belongings under their separation, according to an arrest report. Robert Carter became angry when he noticed pictures… Read more »

Two more dates on the Christina Aguilera/Justin Timberlake tour have been postponed in the wake of last Saturday’s lighting grid collapse in Atlantic City, N.J. Scheduled concerts for Wednesday in East Rutherford, N.J. and Thursday in Hartford, Conn. have been postponed, as was Monday’s show, originally set for Albany, N.Y. Six U.S. dates remain for the Justified and Stripped tour, scheduled to wrap Aug. 24 in Saint Paul, Minn. Aguilera’s official Web site (http://www.christinaaguilera.com/) labels the postponed dates “canceled,” but previous statements issued from Timberlake’s publicist urged fans to keep their tickets in case of rescheduling. The tour is scheduled… Read more »