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At least for a while. Im sure youve all heard the updates regarding the plane crash that injured drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM. Im not gonna write anything about it, because I hate when people do that. There aint much to say. Instead, Im just gonna post a few rad videos featuring Travis beatin up them skins and hope that we see these two great talents back in action as soon as possible. My only regret is that I dont have any licensed Transplants videos. I freakin loved the Transplants!Heres ONE(link)And ANOTHER(link)One More For GOOD MEASURE(link)...

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Photo: LeSegretain/AFP/Getty Madonna may have toyed with dominance and submission on this year’s Hard Candy, but there was no question who was carrying the cane at the first New York City date on her Sticky & Sweet Tour last night (the trek’s second stop in the States). Emerging on a throne to the thumpy sound of “Candy Shop,” the 50-year-old singer kicked off a tightly choreographed two-hour set designed to accentuat...

Photo: Gottschalk/AFP/Getty Depeche Mode have reupped their contract with EMI Music, adding an worldwide exclusivity clause that will allow the major label to release the band’s music in the U.S. for the first time. Depeche Mode has been on the roster of EMI’s Mute label since their debut single “Dreaming of Me” for U.K. releases, but relied on labels like Warner’s Sire Records and Reprise Records for their North Ame...

Photo: Rozman/Warner Bros Kanye West premiered his new video for “Love Lockdown” today on Ellen. Like the three “Flashing Lights” videos before it, “Lockdown” makes for a strange viewing, with a despondent West loafing around depressed in a white room surrounded by a bunch of African tribes and 15-foot women covered in Day-Glo paint. That’s essentially the plot. At the halfway mark, a spaceship inexplicab...

A man now reduced to whipping soccer hooligans into a froth. McCain began this campaign promising, “I?m going to treat my opponents with respect and demand that they treat me with respect.? Now he’s letting his audience fill in the question, “Who is the real Barack Obama?,” with the war whoop of “terrorist!”

The latest entry in Bob Dylan’s “Bootleg Series” leads the slate of new releases hitting stores today. Dylan’s Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 collects three discs worth of outtakes, b-sides and live tracks from his late-career resurgence, starting in 1989. Mikal Gilmore says “This collection bears witness to Dylan’s reclamation of voice and perspective. He had been a singular visionary who upended ...

• New Reviews: Bob Dylan, Oasis, Rise Against • Madonna Brings “Sweet” Tour to NYC • Slash on Custom Guitars, Solo Album • In the Studio: Mastodon Go Melodic • Kanye Premieres Video on Ellen • Weezer’s “Troublemaker” Breaks Records • Depeche Mode Plan Album, Tour in 2009 • R. Kelly Wins Lawsuit Against Promoter • News Ticker: “Weird Al,” Tenacious D To...

Photo: Hogan/Getty As an iconic axeman, Slash needs guitars. So when his beloved 1991 Gibson Les Paul “Goldtop” was stolen in 1998 and never recovered, he turned to Gibson to recreate the classic guitar, which he used on some of Guns N’ Roses’ most epic tunes. The guitar company obliged, and now the same Slash signature model is being released for public consumption from Gibson, carefully customized to Slash’s specif...

Photo: Jimmy Hubbard Mastodon can trace the origins of their fourth album to the pavement in front of the Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas. That’s where the Atlanta metal band’s guitarist-vocalist, Brent Hinds, was attacked and cracked his head open during a drunken altercation following the MTV VMAs in September 2007. Hinds suffered brain hemorrhaging, and then, as he recovered, he was plagued by vertigo. “I was dizzy for eigh...

R. Kelly was awarded $3.4 million in back pay from his most recent tour after the tour’s promoter “swindled” Kelly and others involved. Kelly’s legal dispute with promoter Rowe Entertainment dates back to February, while Kelly was still on the road. Leonard Rowe was accused of selling shares of Kelly concerts in exchange for cash investments, but then falsely told the investors that the concerts lost money. “I agree...

Adapting to the Internet’s power of immediacy, “Weird Al” Yankovic has parodied T.I.’s current chart-topping single “Whatever You Like.” Tenacious D will release their Complete Masterworks 2 on November 4th. The DVD set will feature the duo’s 2007 Seattle concert, a documentary from their film The Pick of Destiny plus numerous TV performances. According to Dire Straits bassist John Illsley, frontman Mar...

Having already found viral success with their “Pork and Beans” video, Weezer is taking on the Guinness Book of World Records in the video for “Troublemaker.” In fact, a Guinness official was on hand during the day-long shoot in a Los Angeles parking lot to witness the band and a throng of fans break such storied records like Largest Game of Dodgeball (two teams of 50 people), Most People in a Custard Pie Fight (120 pie th...

Photo: MTV Games If you’ve already mastered every instrument for every song on Rock Band 2, game makers Harmonix and MTV Games have figured out a way to make your gaming experience all the more better: By allowing you to order merchandise bearing the fake logo of the fake band you create. You can even order an action figure of the 3D character you built to faux-shred your way through Guns N’ Roses’ “Shackler’s Reveng...

Photo: Winter/Getty Kanye West took the stage at a T.I. concert this weekend in Los Angeles to perform a pair of new songs and announce that his new album 808s & Heartbreak will be out on November 25th. 808s was originally slated for a December release, but West pushed up the date to the tentative “November Something.” “I just pushed my album up to November 25th. Can I sing y’all my second single?” West asked th...

Photo: Vasquez/Getty Scars On Broadway have canceled their North American tour after singer/guitarist Daron Malakian decided “his heart wasn’t into touring” with the side project, the band said in a statement. The collaboration between Malakian and drummer John Dolmayan had planned to embark on their tour on October 19th, but the trek, and the duo’s Jimmy Kimmel Live performance on October 14th, have both been canceled wit...

Photo: Mazur/Wireimage Madonna launched the North American leg of her “Sticky & Sweet” Tour at the sold-out Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Rock Daily will provide a full report of tonight’s show at Madison Square Garden, but until then click below for a gallery of amazing images from the Material Girl’s concert, including her excellent Slash impersonation. • Photo Gallery: Madonna Brings Her “...

“Get registered, get focused, make sure we vote,” Jay-Z told the crowd at his “Last Chance for Change” voter registration concert yesterday in Miami. “My job is not to tell you who to vote for — I’m voting for Barack Obama — but the important thing is to get registered and make sure our voices be heard.” Jigga balanced all the political talk with high-powered versions of “Roc BoysR...

Photo: Retna With the baseball playoffs in full swing, last week we asked the readers to tell us their sports anthems. After sorting through information like the Vancouver Canucks’ goal song and what Dio song the Phillies’ Pat Burrell comes to the plate to, we can reveal that Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle” is your favorite stadium rocker, beating out a pair of tunes by AC/DC, Metallica and the White Str...

The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde turned 57 last month, but that hasn’t stopped her from putting together the punchiest Pretenders album in years. Despite being a hardcore vegan, she also still indulges in a few vices. “To warm up, I smoke Bugler tobacco,” she explains. “It’s a shame, really. But it’s rock & roll — if you need to warm up, God help you.” Click below for the full interview wi...

The Pretenders latest album, *Break Up the Concrete* hits stores tomorrow, but weve got the whole record for you to hear right now. Click below to listen to each of the records 11 tracks, and check out our Q&A with Chrissie Hynde and behind-the-scenes footage of the bands Boots of Chinese Plastic music video. • Behind the scenes of the Pretenders Boots of Chinese Plastic music video • Q&A: Chrissie Hynde on Opening a Vegan Restaur...

Photo: Dreyvitser/WireImage On Friday, the Roots opened their co-headlining tour with Gym Class Heroes at Baltimore’s Ram’s Head Live, testing their rep as the best live act in hip-hop with a jam-laced set short on hits and heavy on mind-numbing instrumentals and off-the-wall covers. As the 24-date tour works its way around the country, the band will learn whether or not its loyal fans — some of who were spotted in Baltimore wea...

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