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Pop-punk group Lit will take a brief detour from its headlining tour to reunite with Kid Rock for three arena shows this coming weekend, beginning Thursday (May 9) at Philadelphia’s First Union Spectrum. The Orange County band, touring in support of its latest album, Atomic, will also appear as Rock’s opening act at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Friday (May 10) and Fairfax, Virginia’s Patriot Center the following night (May 11). Lit has served as Rock’s support act for several shows in recent months, so the group knows what to expect. As to how to approach it, bassist Kevin… Read more »

After more than five years as host of Nickelodeon’s “Blue’s Clues,” Steve Burns is passing the leash to his successor and passing the mic to himself. Burns, who along with animated canine Blue has solved nearly 100 puzzles since the children’s show premiered in December 1996, is now facing a quandary that has baffled just about anyone who ever wanted to form a career around picking up a guitar: how to get signed. The 28-year-old Brooklyn, New York, resident has recorded 11 tunes, some of which are posted on www.steveswebpage.com, for an LP titled Songs for Dustmites. That was the… Read more »

For those who think rap-rock is just about tapped out, Quarashi would like to present their spin on the genre. “We’re trying to do rap music the way Joey Ramone would have done rap music,” said Sölvi Blondal, the band’s producer and drummer. “What we are trying to do is punk-rock rap music, but a little bit more 1990s, like when Public Enemy was doing Fear of a Black Planet and when Cypress [Hill] was coming up with their first album. We tried to approach that style…. We didn’t want to be like Limp Bizkit or these bands that are… Read more »

British pop trio BBMak have a six-string surprise in store for their fans, as their second album promises to be more of a guitar-driven affair. BBMak, known for being one of the few pop groups to play their own music and write their own songs, have spent the last two weeks putting the finishing touches on the follow-up to 2000’s Sooner or Later, according to a Hollywood Records spokesperson, who described the effort as being laced with guitar throughout. The as-yet-untitled LP is expected to be released in September, and a single – a video for which is being planned… Read more »

Twelve hours, four stages and more than 40 bands marked the end of the three-day Skate and Surf Festival on Sunday. Held at the Asbury Park Convention Hall, the second installment of the now annual event featured performances from Bouncing Souls, Face to Face and the Descendents, among many others. While the Warped Tour travels from town to town with many of skateboarding and BMX culture’s best-known athletes and favorite artists, the stationary Skate and Surf tends to be more down-home, offering quarter-pipes and rails to anybody bold enough to show up with a bike or a board and a… Read more »

Cowboys have to deal with the hazards of subduing charging bulls, getting their spurs caught in their lassos and keeping cold bottles of beer from exploding during especially rigorous horse rides. Some, like Kid Rock, also have to contend with copyright infringement lawsuits. Relatively unknown songwriters Brian Chatton, Nico Ramsden, Nick Richards and Jeff Seopardi, who recorded under the name Boys Don’t Cry, are suing the maverick rocker over his 1998 song “Cowboy,” contending that it plagiarizes their 1986 synth-pop track “I Wanna Be a Cowboy,” which reached #12 on the Billboard singles chart. On April 17, Microhits Music Corp.,… Read more »

With the outrageous success of MTV’s The Osbournes, it seems everyone has Ozzy Osbourne fever these days. On Wednesday (April 17) night at New York’s Beacon Theater, Kid Rock popped onstage with Gov’t Mule to perform “Sweet Leaf” and “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath, Osbourne’s former band, as well as Marshall Tucker Band’s “Can’t You See.” According to a source at the show, Kid Rock – recently engaged to Pamela Anderson (allstar, Miss Truth, April 15) – left midway through “War Pigs” because he didn’t know the words. The string of dates that Gov’t Mule is currently on features former… Read more »

A near-capacity crowd at Key Arena greeted headliners Incubus Friday night with open arms and open eyes – and deafening, wall-vibrating screams. Thousands of hollering fans – many encased in freshly purchased T-shirts from the merch tables – couldn’t be wrong: After more than a decade in the business, and years of touring far smaller venues with middling success, the band from sleepy Calabasas, California, has most definitely arrived. But before they took to the stage, their So-Cal neighbors, Hoobastank, warmed up the Key with a thunderous half-hour set. The foursome had no problem filling up the arena with their… Read more »

The history of Rock has a new chapter. Pimp of the nation Kid Rock proposed to his girlfriend, Pamela Anderson, in the Las Vegas desert on Thursday night. Anderson flew out for Kid Rock’s performance on April 6 at Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel, and the couple remained in the city for the week. They were alone under the desert stars when Rock proposed and slid a rock onto the actress’ finger, said Anderson’s publicist Marleah Leslie, who added that the couple is “extremely happy.” No wedding date has been set. Rock, 31, and Anderson, 34, have been dating since April… Read more »

Rock legends The Eagles are planning to hit the road again. Billboard reports that the final dates of the tour are still being worked out, but the band will hit mostly secondary markets. The Eagles will likely start off in Reno, Nev., and play about 30 dates. They are still working on a studio album, their first since “The Long Run” in 1979. Don Henley says he expects it to come out early next year.