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Southern California ska-punk stalwart Reel Big Fish has been blazing a trail of angst-filled, shenanigan-loaded rock for 15 years now. And it seems their legendary summer treks are always a rite of passage for fans. This summer will be no different when the band takes its hi-jinx brand of ska/punk rock to the main stage of the Vans Warped Tour on a daily basis. Touring in support of their self-produced Monkeys For Nothin’ And The Chimps For Free release, singer Aaron Barrett is anxious to hit the road. ” We can’t wait to get back out on tour and get… Read more »

Paris and Nicole spending the summer traveling across the country together in a rented caravan…Where have we heard that one before? The on-again BFFs may be entering rerun mode this summer, potentially joining their respective beaux on the road when pop-punk rockers Good Charlotte embark on a 32-date North American tour. Joel and Benji Madden, along with below-the-line bandmates Billy Martin, Paul Thomas and Dean Butterworth, are set to coheadline the Soundtrack of Your Summer tour along with rockers Boys Like Girls. Whether the Madden boys are joined by their celebutante paramours or even still with them (we’re looking at… Read more »

New York rock band Interpol will return to duty this summer for a run of European and North American festival dates, beginning July 3 in Norway. The trek will likely be the last in support of the band’s 2007 album, “Our Love To Admire,” before it gets busy on its next album. The only North American date confirmed so far is the Pemberton Festival in British Columbia on July 26. “We didn’t really do much of the summer festivals last year,” drummer Sam Fogarino told Billboard.com. “It will be the last hit-it-home, end-on-a-good note.” The new album, its first for… Read more »

After Velvet Revolver wraps a spring tour in support of its second album, “Libertad,” frontman Scott Weiland will rejoin his former bandmates in Stone Temple Pilots for a handful of summer reunion shows, guitarist Slash told Billboard.com. STP broke up in late 2002; the band’s last album was the previous year’s “Shangri-La Dee Da.” No other details have yet been revealed about STP’s plans. In the meantime, Weiland and his Velvet Revolver bandmates are still plugging away in support of “Libertad” with dates that run through early April. There’s also the hope that recording for album No. 3 could begin… Read more »

BURBANK, CA–May 3, 2007 — Following on the heels of a triumphant appearance at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival, Jack’s Mannequin, the side project of Something Corporate singer-keyboardist Andrew McMahon, will make the rounds of this summer’s major music festivals, including The Bamboozle in East Rutherford, NJ, on May 6th, Summerfest in Milwaukee, WI, on June 28th, and Lollapalooza in Chicago, IL, on August 3rd. McMahon formed Jack’s Mannequin with guitarist Bobby Anderson, bassist Jonathan Sullivan, and drummer Jay McMillan in Orange County, CA, in 2004. In June 2005, the day the band finished mastering the last… Read more »

Silent Envy is going out on tour with Scarlet Grey in May for a quick West Coast run. Silent Envy then heads to the East Coast and then Warped Tour in June and July. Dates for the Silent Envy/Scarlet Grey Tour are: 5/04 – Berkeley, CA 5/05 – Red Bluff, CA 5/10 – Grants Pass, OR 5/11 – Lebanon, OR 5/12 – Tacoma, WA 5/14 – Portland, OR 5/16 – La Grande, OR 5/17 – Boise, ID 5/18 – Nampa, ID 5/19 – Provo, UT 5/20 – Bountiful, UT 5/21 – Salt Lake City, UT

Sure, they say it every year: This summer’s Ozzfest will be like none that came before. But this time, it’s true: Admission will be free. Yes, free. At a press conference held in Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon (February 6), festival co-founder Sharon Osbourne announced that, in response to the ever-escalating costs of concert tickets, admission to this year’s Ozzfest – which will be headlined by Ozzy Osbourne – won’t cost fans a dime. “For the last few years, ticket prices have steadily climbed as artists demand more and more money for summer tours,” she said in a statement. “We certainly… Read more »

A deal is almost set for David Lee Roth to return to the Van Halen fold for a summer tour of amphitheaters, sources told Billboard.com. They said a contract could be signed as early as Wednesday for tour promoter Live Nation to produce a 40-date trek, which would mark Roth’s first outing with the rock band in more than 20 years. Spokeswomen for Roth and the band said they were unable to provide any confirmation. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen’s 15-year-old son Wolfgang has stepped in for original bassist Michael Anthony in the new incarnation of the group, which also features… Read more »

If there’s a self-fulfilling prophecy in the musical landscape of the year, it’s the way the Virgin debut band THE SUMMER OBSESSION is coming into its own, with its crunchy pop-rock combination of guitar, electronics, and faultless songwriting, during the dog days of 2006. The Florida-based quartet — Luke, on keyboards and vocals; Chris, formerly of Good Charlotte, on drums and “shenanigans”; Fin, on guitar and vocals; and Christ, on bass, with Josh Abraham (Velvet Revolver, P!nk) producing and Ryan Williams engineering (OutKast, Rage Against the Machine) — will release the album “THIS IS WHERE YOU BELONG” on Virgin Records… Read more »

The Academy Is… and Plain White T’s recently announced a series of dates with Days Away and June: July 6, 2005 – Des Moines, IA – House of Bricks July 7, 2005 – Minneapolis, MN – The Ascot Room July 8, 2005 – Freeport, IL – Freeport Convention Center July 9, 2005 – LaCrosse, WI – The Warehouse Nightclub July 10, 2005 – Grand Rapids, MI – Intersection July 12, 2005 – Toledo, OH – Headliners – 650 July 13, 2005 – Columbus, OH – The Basement at Newport Music Hall July 14, 2005 – Lancaster, PA – Chameleon Club… Read more »