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Fresh off the 50-date Civic Tour 2002, Incubus have finalized plans for a new tour. Launching August 31 in Reno, Nevada, the Morning View fall tour will make stops throughout the U.S. and once in Canada, concluding in November. More dates will be announced in the coming weeks, and all dates and venues are subject to change. The plan for this outing is to hit the smaller cities the group missed on its last tour, bringing Incubus’ music to a larger audience. Morning View Tour Dates, According To Epic Records: 8/31 – Reno, NV – Lawlor Events Center 9/2 –… Read more »

In response to the overwhelming demand for “By The Way,” the highly anticipated new album from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Warner Bros. Records has embarked on an innovative outreach to fans entitled, “A Song A Day,” providing a special sneak peek at the band’s new material prior to the album’s release on July 9th. “A Song A Day,” which launched June 21st, allows millions of Chili Peppers fans to listen to a track a day from “By The Way” until the album hits stores on July 9th. “A Song A Day” has already garnered the participation of over 150… Read more »

Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger has started his own label and his first signing is Vancouver, Canada’s Theory of a Deadman. 604 Records is the new label founded by Chad and Jonathan Simkin. The debut release will be Theory of a Deadman’s self titled release on September 17. Theory of a Deadman recorded their debut at Vancouver’s Greenhouse Studios with Kroeger and Joey Moy (Nickelback, Default) co-producing. The first single “Nothing Could Come Between Us”, which goes to radio in late July. Lead singer Tyler Connolly, who handles most of the group’s songwriting, says: “A lot of the songs on the album… Read more »

Linkin Park’s Reanimation is one step closer to coming to life. The album, consisting mainly of new versions of tracks from the group’smultiplatinum 2000 debut, Hybrid Theory, has gone through the mastering stage, and a final track list has been settled upon, according to the band’s manager. The 20-track LP is due July 30. Linkin Park are the prototypical rap-rock hybrid (in fact, the group’s original name was Hybrid Theory), and Reanimation doesn’t do anything to change their stance on crossbreeding genres. While Hybrid Theory employed looped beats, scratching and other DJ techniques, courtesy of Joseph Hahn, Reanimation puts a… Read more »

While they’re not known for stepping up on soapboxes, Nickelback will include incisive commentary about domestic abuse alongside concert footage of the band in their next video, “Never Again.” Nickelback hope to augment the impact of hard-hitting lyrics – including “He’s drunk again, it’s time to fight/ She must have done something wrong tonight/ The living room becomes a boxing ring” – by filling the screen with captions delivering U.S. domestic violence statistics and slogans about spousal abuse. Nigel Dick (Britney Spears, Staind), who also lensed the band’s “Too Bad,” will direct the video. In addition to the commentary about… Read more »

While Default currently has no shortage of hit singles with both “Wasting My Time” and “Deny” grabbing precious airplay, the group is already planning the third track to be featured from its debut album, The Fallout. The band will likely release the ballad, “Live A Lie,” next-that is, if it performs well back home in Canada first. Default frontman Dallas Smith said-so far, so good. “We just released ‘Live A Lie’ in Canada so we’re gonna see how that one does. Right now it’s getting a great reaction just in Vancouver, because we were home last week and we were… Read more »

Rush drummer-lyricist Neil Peart hasn’t been giving interviews to promote the Canadian trio’s new album, Vapor Trails, because he doesn’t want to talk about the deaths of his wife and daughter, which sent the band into a five-year hiatus. However, he has issued a three-page statement via Universal Records Canada in which he talks about the record. Of the title, Peart writes: “A unifying theme sometimes appears in the collected songs and suggests an overall title, like Counterparts or Power Windows; other times a particular song seems emblematic, like Test For Echo or Roll The Bones. Neither approach seemed right… Read more »

The Australian rock trio Silverchair has canceled all their upcoming concerts because lead singer and guitarist Daniel Johns is suffering from a severe case of reactive arthritis. “I am truly sorry that I am not able to do the touring we had planned for so long,” the 23-year-old said in a statement released Friday. “I apologize for the inconvenience these cancellations will cause. I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.” Johns contracted the disease late last year, and has had trouble recently fighting the virus that triggers this… Read more »

Sean “P. Diddy” Combs is enjoying his biggest hit in five years with “I Need A Girl (Part One)” featuring Usher and Loon, which is currently Number Two on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The song is the lead single from the mogul’s latest collection, P. Diddy & Bad Boy Records Present…We Invented The Remix, which was released on Tuesday (May 14). Recently LAUNCH spoke with Combs, who explained that he seems to have success when speaking from the heart. “‘I Need A Girl’ was just me speaking from my heart. It was a remix off my original album… Read more »

Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Bo Diddley was honored last week, alongside Chuck Berry and Little Richard, with BMI’s Icon Award for his “unique and indelible influence on generations of music.” Diddley also received an honor earlier this year when former Clash frontman Joe Strummer cited the legendary guitarist as his hero in Mojo magazine’s 100th issue. In the Mojo article Strummer recalled riding in a bus with Diddley, who was sitting up late at night in a chair. “So I said, ‘You know you’ve got a bunk, don’t you, Bo?’ He said, ‘Come and look at this.’ He pulled back… Read more »