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When it debuts Tuesday on the Web, My Damn Channel will become the latest attempt by Hollywood professionals to cash in on the huge popularity of online video. Comedian Harry Shearer, filmmaker David Wain and music producer Don Was, among others, also hope to find creative freedom seldom offered by traditional media companies. The site is the brainchild of former MTV and CBS Radio executive Rob Barnett, who believes Internet audiences want to see professionally produced shows other than network TV fare. “The old media companies don’t know how to program for this medium,” Barnett said. “There is a focus… Read more »

The All-American Rejects will be honored with ASCAP’s Vanguard Award at the 24th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards, which will also salute the songwriters and publishers of ASCAP’s most performed pop songs of 2006. The invitation-only event will be held on April 18, 2007 at The Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. The band’s principal songwriters Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler will also receive two ASCAP Pop Awards for “Dirty Little Secret” and “Move Along,” and will perform during the awards ceremony. Other 2007 ASCAP Pop Award-winning songwriters scheduled to perform are: The Fray’s Joe King and Isaac Slade (“Over… Read more »

New tracks from Gym Class Heroes, Cobra Starship and Big City Rock will be found on the soundtrack for “TMNT – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Music from the Motion Picture,” due March 13 from iTunes and March 20 from traditional retail via Atlantic. Other artists on the soundtrack include Jet, Pepper, Meg & Dia and Amber Pacific. The iTunes release will include an exclusive acoustic version of Amber Pacific’s “Save Me From Me,” along with an in-studio video recording of “Fall Back Into My Life.” The album includes excerpts from the film’s score, composed by Klaus Badelt. “TMNT” features narration… Read more »

With its monster-selling Vertigo world tour complete, U2 may be ready to rock less, according to frontman Bono “Our band has certainly reached the end of where we’ve been at for the last couple of albums,” the newly dubbed honorary knight said during a BBC Radio interview earlier this week. “I want to see what else we can do with it, take it to the next level; I think that’s what we’ve got to do.” Asked if that might mean a move away from rock ‘n’ roll, Bono replied, “We’re gonna continue to be a band, but maybe the rock… Read more »

Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band “The Ramones” that influenced a generation of rockers, has died. He was 55. Ramone, who had been fighting a five-year battle with prostate cancer, died in his sleep Wednesday afternoon at his Los Angeles home surrounded by friends and family, said the band’s longtime artistic director Arturo Vega. “He was the guy with a strategy. He was the guy who not only looked after the band’s interest but he also was their defender,” Vega said in a telephone interview from New York. Ramone, whose birth name is John Cummings, had… Read more »

Last night (October 15), Ozzy Osbourne issued a surprising press release which said that, on the advice of his personal physician, he has postponed his upcoming European tour, which was set to begin in Dublin on October 22. Ozzy said, “I have been in Boston for the last three weeks having medical tests for a tremor which has become markedly worse over the last two years. I was at the point where it felt as if this problem was practically destroying my life along with my self-esteem. I was no longer comfortable being around people, which, as you can imagine,… Read more »

Are Sum 41 turning into churchies? Our favourite goons from Ajax, ON have been studying up on Christian rock as of late – but don’t expect to see them strutting around wearing studded WWJD wristbands any time soon. Deryck, Brown Sound, Cone and Steve-O haven’t become born-again Christians, they just play them on TV – specifically on a new episode of King Of The Hill. All four Sum boys have donated their voices to the November 9 episode of Fox’s King Of The Hill, titled Reborn To Be Wild. Sum 41 play a gang of Christian youths who express their… Read more »

Three months after four fans sued Creed alleging that Scott Stapp was so wasted he couldn’t perform at a December show in Chicago, the band’s singer has responded and denied the allegations. In fact, Stapp told the Orlando Sentinel on Monday that, quite to the contrary, he was offering an over-the-top, dramatic gesture meant to convey the difficulties he was facing in his personal life at the time. In a pair of lengthy voice mails the singer left with the paper, Stapp said that what fans mistook for him passing out onstage during the song “Who’s Got My Back” was… Read more »

Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong is turning to Charles Manson for salvation, and he’s bringing Kelly Osbourne and members of Blink-182, Green Day and AFI along for the ride. When he finishes this year’s Vans Warped Tour, Armstrong will put the finishing touches on the upcoming stop-motion animated film “Live Freaky! Die Freaky!” in which Manson surfaces in a post-apocalyptic wasteland to guide a group of survivors who are desperately searching for a spiritual leader. Armstrong is producing the film for his Hellcat Pictures company. The movie was written and directed by John Roecker, an independent filmmaker in Los Angeles who… Read more »

Papa Roach spent some time in the studio with the Neptunes last week, recording a song for the soundtrack to “Biker Boyz,” starring Laurence Fishburne and Kid Rock. Jacoby Shaddix and company shacked up with producers du jour Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo in Los Angeles’ Record Plant, according to a DreamWorks Records spokesperson. The resulting track, tentatively titled “Don’t Look Back,” is slated for the “Biker Boyz” soundtrack, due January 28. The album’s other tracks had not been finalized at press time. “Biker Boyz” stars Fishburne as Manuel “Smoke” Galloway, leader of a black motorcycle club. Rock, following up… Read more »