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Even though a bum knee kept singer Julian Casablancas from performing with his band on select dates of Weezer’s Enlightenment Tour, the Strokes will be back on their collective feet October 1 when they kick off a two-month victory lap around North America. The tour marks the one-year anniversary of the release of the Strokes’ debut, Is This It?, which has sold over 640,000 copies to date. The NYC garage poster boys are simply happy to be on the road again. “The album is being received a lot better then I dreamed of two years ago,” Casablancas said. “I really… Read more »

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 »

Most families spend the end of summer gearing up for school. The Carters are spending it preparing for the pop charts. Seven weeks before Nick Carter’s debut solo album is due, his younger brother Aaron will shake up the teen scene with Another Earthquake. Due September 3, Aaron’s fourth full-length will feature a collaboration with the Baha Men on “Summertime,” the album’s first single. Carter and the Baha Men shot a video for the song in the Bahamas last weekend, according to the singer’s Jive Records spokesperson. Another Earthquake also features production work from Rick Rock (Will Smith), Alex G… Read more »

Neko Case will release her third solo album Blacklisted, on August 20th. Recorded at Wavelab in Tucson, Arizona, Case cited the title track as representative of the wistful mood of the disc. “I was in Iowa City, Iowa when I wrote it,” Case says of the song. “I was feeling pretty sad, and it was before our show so I went for a walk – Iowa City is a very beautiful town – and I found this old train depot that was closed down. I was just kind of looking around and was overwhelmed by the place, and a lot… Read more »

Eminem, Papa Roach, Xzibit, and Ludacris hit the road together beginning in Buffalo on Thursday (July 18) as part of this year’s Anger Management tour. The trek stretches through mid-September, spanning 30 dates across the continent. Others on the bill include the X-Ecutioners and D-12. Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix said that his group jumped at the change to tour with Eminem ( news – web sites) this year. “You know, Eminem’s manager was like, ‘Who do you want to go tour with?’ He’s like, ‘Man, is Papa Roach available?’ So they call us and I’m like, ‘Yes! We will tour,… Read more »

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will launch an extensive tour in August to coincide with the release of The Rising, their first studio album together in 18 years. The Boss will again be backed by “Sopranos” co-star Steven Van Zandt (guitar), “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” bandleader Max Weinberg (drums), Roy Bittan (keyboards), Nils Lofgren (guitar), Garry Tallent (bass), Patti Scialfa (vocals, guitar), Danny Federici (keyboards) and legendary sax man Clarence Clemons, for what has been appropriately dubbed The Rising Tour. Despite enjoying success as a solo performer in the nearly 20 years since the E Street Band… Read more »

Scott Stapp has been given the go-ahead from doctors to hit the road, and that is exactly what he’s going to do. After postponing the initial second leg of the Weathered tour due to the singer’s back injury in a car accident on April 19, Creed have rescheduled the tour to begin July 11 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The new 30-date second leg will make up canceled shows in Indianapolis; Fargo, North Dakota; and Moline, Illinois; on a jaunt mainly through the Midwest and Northeast. Creed have also scheduled a third leg that will begin September 20 in San Antonio,… Read more »

Sonic Youth will take their sixteenth album, Murray Street, out on a twenty-two-date tour, starting August 1st in Dallas. The tour will be the group’s second as a five-piece, as the group brought producer Jim O’Rourke onboard while promoting their last studio record, 2000’s NYC Ghosts and Flowers. The dates will run through a September 1st appearance at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle and include a free concert at Central Park in the band’s hometown of New York City. The majority of Murray Street, which will be released on June 25th, was written last summer, and the band recorded the… Read more »

The good people of Buffalo may want to board their windows and lock up their pets. Eminem, Ludacris, Papa Roach, Xzibit and the X-ecutioners are headed to town to kick off their Anger Management Tour on July 18 at the HSBC Arena. So far, Em and company have lined up two months’ worth of dates for the trek, starting in the Northeast, rolling across the Midwest and down the Pacific coast before crossing the country again for a string of dates in the South. Rounding out the Anger Management bill are D12 and Obie Trice – who are expected to… Read more »

The Hives begin swarming the U.S. next week. Even though the Swedish rock band have been playing since they were seventeen-years-old, they are just now finding themselves pinned as rock’s next critical darling, alongside bands like the Strokes and the White Stripes. “We get asked a lot of times if we compare ourselves to those bands, but it’s hard to say,” says guitarist Vigilante Carlstroem. “We might have some of the same influences but we come to different conclusions.” And the Hives certainly are not an overnight success – their most recent album, Veni, Vidi, Vicious was recorded over two… Read more »