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Blink 182 feels comfortable following Green Day on the Pop Disaster tour partially due to the fact that Travis Barker’s drum set is a show-stopper. Barker’s drum kit rotates, spins, and elevates over the stage during the band’s performance. Blink 182 singer/bassist Mark Hoppus revealed where his wacky drummer got the idea. “Travis is a big fan of Tommy Lee and I think he wanted to try and outdo him for the drum stunt thing. I haven’t actually ever seen the Tommy Lee thing, but I think it would be pretty f-king hard to beat what Travis is doing right… Read more »

When Dick Clark first pitched “American Bandstand” to ABC as a national series in the 1950s, network executives yawned. “I still have the letter, still have it framed in my office, which in effect said ‘Don’t call us, we’ll call you. Thank you, and it’s nice to see your dance party,’” Clark recalls. When he proposed a 50th anniversary special, Clark found out how little television had changed. Despite the show’s iconic place in pop culture, he had to argue the case of “American Bandstand” all over. An idea that was once ahead of its time was now hopelessly behind… Read more »

Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington has been crowned one of the most successful figures in modern rock. Now he has an heir. Bennington’s wife, Samantha, gave birth to the couple’s first son on April 19. “He’s happy, healthy and cute as can be,” the band wrote on its official Web site. “The whole family will be on the road during the next Linkin tour.” The child’s name was not disclosed. Of course, the next Linkin tour is a while off, since the band is in the studio working on the follow-up to its multiplatinum debut. The group hopes to have… Read more »

Dick Clark is suing the operator of the historic Queen Mary ocean liner, alleging that fraud and breach of contract prevented construction of a music-themed museum as part of a $150 million tourism project. The Superior Court lawsuit filed this month by Delaware-based Dick Clark Communications claims Queens Seaport Development breached an October 1999 agreement to develop and maintain Dick Clark’s Great American Music Experience. The project was to include the refurbishment of the adjacent Queen Mary Hotel and the development of nearby shops, restaurants and attractions, the lawsuit said, adding Queens Seaport agreed to give Clark’s firm $15,000 in… 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 »

Since the alleged R. Kelly sex tapes first hit the media two months ago, the primary question has been if the girl featured on the 27-minute tape, currently under investigation by the Chicago police, was actually underage, since her identity had been kept hidden. While her immediate family – as well as the girl herself – have yet to step forward, a former protégé of R. Kelly has told a Los Angeles radio station that the girl on the tape is her niece, whom she says was 14 at the time the tape was made. Sparkle, who had a hit… Read more »

Pink has signed a marketing agreement with health-and-fitness service provider Bally Total Fitness. The terms of the agreement call for a creative collaboration between the singer and Bally on a new hip-hop dance aerobics class called Get Your Body Started, and a national dance competition. In addition, Pink will be seen and heard in national and local print-and-television advertising for the fitness company, and she and her music will also be featured in a radio campaign. In return, Bally will serve as the presenting sponsor of Pink’s upcoming North American headlining tour, Pink: The Party Tour 2002, which will kick… Read more »

Linkin Park, the Southern California rap-rock band that earned a Grammy in the hard-rock category for “Crawling,” has a double threat behind the turntables. In addition to DJ duties, Joe Hahn takes an active role in the band’s videos. “We’re very excited to have someone in the band who has a direct influence on what comes out of the band visually,” bassist Phoenix told The Associated Press. Hahn co-directed the “In the End” video as well as the European release “Papercut,” and he had a hand in videos for “One Step Closer” and “Crawling.” All of those songs appear on… Read more »

Aaron Lewis owes much of his recent success to the Family Values Tour 2000 album, which featured his acoustic “Outside” single, so it’s fitting that the Staind singer is all over the record from the 2001 outing. Family Values Tour 2001, due May 7, features Lewis solo again on “Black,” with Staind on “Fade” and “It’s Been Awhile,” with Stone Temple Pilots on their classic “Creep,” and with Linkin Park on “One Step Closer,” according to Elektra Records. The album, the third spawned from the Family Values tour, also features a notable collaboration between Stone Temple Pilots, who slammed rap-rock… Read more »

Linkin Park will play a benefit concert planned by Los Angeles-area teens for Los Angeles’s first pediatric hospice, to be held at the House Of Blues on the Sunset Strip on March 4. The “Young Angels Concert,” to benefit the city’s TrinityKids Care, is open only to students and their families, with tickets starting at $85. Admission includes a buffet dinner, while all proceeds will go to the hospice. The concert is the fulfillment of a community service project by a dozen 13-year-olds at the Mirman School in West Los Angeles. “Linkin Park says everything that people our age think… Read more »