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Just because New Found Glory are getting love from the “TRL” crowd doesn’t mean they’re changing their ways or cleaning up their act. Sure, the band’s next video is for the song “Head on Collision,” one of the slower, more melodic tracks from their latest album, Sticks & Stones. But the clip, directed by the Malloys, will reveal a previously unseen twisted side of the group thanks to the help of schlock horror production company Troma Films, which provided the makeup and special effects for the video. “Me and our singer Jordan are really big fans of ‘The Toxic Avenger’… Read more »

There will be no more drugs and violence on Mexican radio stations in and around Tijuana. Baja California state radio stations signed an agreement Thursday to ban songs known as narco-corridos, and instead have decided to play only songs that promote positive messages and good values. They also urged Spanish-language U.S. stations across the border in California to do the same. Casio Carlos Narvaez, a representative of the Radio and Television Industry Chamber, said stations will not be able to compete if their U.S. counterparts don’t take the same step. “We should promote this self-imposed regulation to avoid converting into… Read more »

Online music company Liquid Audio Inc. on Monday rejected a buyout offer from one of its investors, choosing instead to amend a current takeover agreement that has been criticized by some major shareholders. Liquid Audio, based in Redwood, California, said the offer by Steel Partners II L.P. to buy it for $2.75 per share was inadequate. Steel Partners owns 9.1 percent of the company and has opposed Liquid Audio’s reverse-merger deal with Alliance Entertainment Corp. Under the amended terms of its deal with privately held Alliance, Liquid Audio now will first buy 10 million of its shares – about 44… Read more »

The Strokes may be the “it” band of the moment, but don’t expect them to be lining up studio sessions with “it” producers like Glen Ballard or the Neptunes. When the New York garage-rockers begin recording their second album later this summer, Is This It producer Gordon Raphael will again be behind the boards. “It’s not gonna be like, ‘Oh, now that we’re successful, we’re gonna work with all these super-producer guys that are going to make us a top-selling hit,’ ” singer Julian Casablancas said backstage at Saturday’s KROQ Weenie Roast. “That’s never been the goal for us. We… Read more »

Nine months after 9/11, Fred Durst is standing by his vow not to be a “hater,” despite what an interview in the July issue of Playboy might suggest. In the piece, Durst bashes Christina Aguilera, Kurt Loder and Filter’s Richard Patrick, but the interview was conducted long before the singer’s post-September 11 pledge to give peace a chance. “That interview is one-and-a-half years old that just got published with some extra comments about Wes [Borland],” Durst wrote on the official Limp Bizkit Web site. “I was really feeling negative about a lot of things back then.” One reason readers were… Read more »

Houston rapper South Park Mexican received a 45-year prison sentence Thursday (May 30) for “sexually assaulting” a 9-year-old girl, a spokesperson for Harris County 351st Criminal District Court confirmed. On May 18, a jury convicted the 31-year-old man of aggravated sexual assault of a child. The artist, born Carlos Coy, faced a possible life sentence. During Coy’s testimony, he maintained his innocence, according to AP. Coy was accused of assaulting the girl at his home, when she attended a sleepover for his daughter last Labor Day weekend. Coy added that many of the children who testified against him in seven… Read more »

Rocker Courtney Love will get her day in court next month after a Los Angeles judge on Thursday set a June trial for her countersuit against Universal Music, the world’s largest music company, alleging breach of contract and other claims. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Fumiko Wasserman on Thursday ordered lawyers for Love and Geffen Records, the Universal Music label named in the suit, to first meet on June 10 with a court-assigned mediator, said Barry Cappello, Love’s lawyer, following a half-hour status conference on Thursday. “These parties have not been able to agree that black is black and… Read more »

John Forté conducts all of his interviews by mail. Not because he’s shy or eccentric, but because he doesn’t have a phone. See, he’s the only Grammy-winning convict at Pennsylvania’s Lorreto Federal Penitentiary with a new album to promote. Forté, 27, was behind bars when his confessional second album, I, John, was released in April. That’s why he’s done most of the interviews about it via letters from his cell. “Spiritually, I’ve never been more free in my life,” wrote the former Fugees confidant, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison in November after being found guilty of possession… Read more »

Judy McGrath, President, MTV Networks Music Group, today announced that Brian Graden will take on additional programming, production, and development responsibilities for VH1, becoming President Entertainment, MTV and VH1. Graden will report to Judy McGrath in this expanded role at VH1 and will partner with Christina Norman, just named General Manager of VH1. Graden will continue to report to Van Toffler, President, MTV and MTV2 in his continued role at MTV and be based in both Los Angeles and New York. In making this announcement, Judy McGrath said, “Brian is uniquely suited for this role in taking VH1 to the… Read more »

Don’t blame the surreal imagery in Creed’s upcoming “One Last Breath” video on the painkillers Scott Stapp is taking for his injured neck and back. The singer drafted the bizarre treatment for the clip long before his car accident last month. And when he explained his ideas to director David Meyers, the two had a meeting of the minds. “We found out that we both have a love and affection for [surreal painter Salvador] Dali that we didn’t know we shared,” Stapp said. “I wrote my treatment for the video and sent it to Dave, and then he added his… Read more »