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Blink And Weezer Show Is Awesome Nostalgia

Nothing could have set the scene better for this glorious jaunt down memory lane with a sold-out crowd of 16,000 people to the front of me, a couple good friends at my side and the brilliant lights from the Canadian National Exhibition to the right. Chester French opened with a mediocre performance despite the fact their usual two-piece was...
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Blink-182 — Greatest Hits

Blink-182 were always a singles band, and you'd likely be surprised how well you know the songs revisited here. After all, at the height of their popularity, the pop-punk trio's hits were as overexposed as any Britney track. This comp runs chronologically, allowing the limited fan to decide which phase was the annoying one; was it their too-pop,...
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Blink-182 - Greatest Hits

Box Car Racer — Box Car Racer

What do you do if you’re a member of one of the most popular rock bands in recent memory? Well, if you’re Tom DeLonge, frontman of SoCal punkers Blink-182, you start another band. Box Car Racer is made up of DeLonge on bass and guitar and fellow Blink member Travis Barker on drums. The music isn’t that far off from what Blink has been recording,...
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Box Car Racer - Box Car Racer

Blink-182 — Take Off Your Pants And Jacket

When wandering in immature pastures, nine times out of 10 you'll be greeted by Blink-182, who cheerily wave their arses in the air at any hapless fuck wandering by. While Take Off screams "summer album sales," you can bet these boys are eyeballing the angry Christmas song racket with "Happy Holidays, You Bastard" — despite the...
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Take Off Your Pants And Jacket

New Blink-182 Album Called Neighborhoods

Apparently Neighborhoods is this year's Suburbs. We're not talking in terms of musical similarity, of course, since Blink-182 and Arcade Fire have nothing to do with each other in that department, save both being rock bands. But since Blink-182 have titled their first album in eight years Neighborhoods, we have to wonder if bands naming their LPs...
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I Read The News Today... For July 13, 2011

The Drums are back with a sophomore album called Portamento on Sept. 13. Regardless of what it'll sound like, Manic Street Preachers bassist Nicky Wire will probably still say there's "no soul in that band." The third in Radiohead's series of 12-inch vinyl remixes of tunes from this year's The King Of Limbs is out "in two weeks." Yeah, there's no...
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I Read The News Today... For May 25, 2011

Chilly Gonzales rapping is like a shark. A great white shark... tearin' up a whole school of fish. Hard Core Logo II was secretly screened in Toronto last week! What could this meaaaaaaan?! Imagine being such tuff bizness that you can knock someone's teeth out just by hugging them. Elbow bassist Pete Turner did that to Everything...
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Musicians Step Up For Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami Relief

We doubt there's anyone out there who hasn't heard about what happened in Japan last week, but just in case, here's a recap for those who live under a boulder:An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9 occurred off the Pacific coast of Japan near the city of Sendai on Friday afternoon. It triggered a tsunami which has caused extensive damage, flooding...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 15, 2011

A remix album of Daft Punk's score for TRON: Legacy will be released on April 5, the day the film is released to DVD and Blu-ray. It'll feature 14 re-workings of tunes Guy-Manuel De Homem Christo and Thomas Bangalter composed for the movie, along with alternate takes. If you head to tronsoundtrack.com and pre-order the DVD, you'll get the remix...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 19, 2010

The Golden Dogs have announced a handful of Ontario dates that will take place in the province next month and in January. No, you can't bring your golden retriever with you, likely because of city bylaws at every venue. —MySpace Said The Whale won $75,000 from 100.5 FM The PEAK's The PEAK Performance Project. You can hear a new Said The Whale song...
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The Golden Dogs (Photo by Joseph Fuda)

I Read The News Today... For Aug. 30, 2010

Kanye West and Jay-Z are working on a collaborative album that's reportedly called Watch The Throne. It remains to be seen whether Kanye will interrupt Hova's rhymes about being the greatest rapper of all time. Twitter Axl Rose is really pissed off at the organizers of this past weekend's Reading and Leeds festivals in England. They...
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I Read The News Today... For June 23, 2010

Blink-182 singer/bassist Mark Hoppus is getting his own weekly TV show on Fuse, the station that used to be known as MuchUSA south of the 49th parallel. Expect plenty of poo and pee jokes. —Alternative Press Wintersleep have announced some European and North American tour dates for this fall. They'll link up with The Besnard Lakes for some of...
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Blink-182's Mark Hoppus

I Read The News Today... For June 1, 2010

Temptations lead singer Ali-Ollie Woodson passed away from leukemia on Sunday (May 30) night. —New York Daily News Apparently not content to have one fragrance, Avril Lavigne is launching another. It's called Forbidden Rose and smells like "red apple, winepeach, black pepper, lotusflower, heliotrope, shellflower, praline agreement,...
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Amy Millan, Arcade Fire, Plants And Animals, Blink-182, Wyclef Jean Working For Haiti Earthquake Relief

The earthquake which has created a humanitarian disaster in Haiti has prompted celebrities to organize relief efforts through benefit shows, swag and telethons. Plants And Animals and Amy Millan will headline a benefit show for the Caribbean island nation at Montreal's Club Lambi on Saturday (Jan. 17). Arcade Fire's Jeremy Gara and Tim...
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Plants And Animals (Photo by Caroline Desilets)

The Ten Funniest Dudes In Rock

Stand up comedy and rock 'n' roll are a lot alike. George Carlin was raging against the machine long before Zack De La Rocha and Tom Morello weren't doing what you told them. Mitch Hedberg rocked the mic with an original delivery that was stripped down and raw, much like a punk rock band out of Queens, N.Y. Just as stand up comedians can...
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Josh Homme

Travis Barker Settles Airplane Crash Lawsuit

Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has settled a lawsuit he filed over the 2008 plane crash that left him with third-degree burns and killed four other people. William L. Robinson, who represents some of the defendants, says the details of the settlement will stay confidential, according to Billboard.com. On Sept. 19, 2008, Barker was a passenger...
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Blink-182 Bassist Mark Hoppus Hearts Japandroids

Mark Hoppus is really impressed with Vancouver's Japandroids. The Blink-182 singer/bassist just launched a new column, Hopp On Pop, which appears on Spin.com, and his first installment is about just how much he loves the duo of guitarist Brian King and drummer David Prowse's music, and says he has his hair dresser to thank for getting him into...
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Japandroids (Photo by Leigh Righton)

DJ AM's Death Prompts Blink-182 Show Cancellation

Blink-182 pulled out of the show they were to play yesterday in New York City so they could mourn the late DJ AM. DJ AM died of what's thought to be a drug overdose on Friday night. The DJ born Adam Goldstein was good friends with Blink-182, especially drummer Travis Barker, with whom he performed as TRV$DJAM and survived a plane crash that...
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DJ AM Found Dead

DJ AM, who along with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker was one of the only survivors of a plane crash that killed four other people in Columbia, S.C. last September, died of a suspected drug overdose on Friday night. The DJ born Adam Goldstein, 36, was found dead in his New York City apartment along with prescription drug bottles and a crack pipe...
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Blink-182 Documentary Trailer

Here's the trailer for The Blinkumentary, a documentary film about Blink-182's reunion. It doesn't have a release date yet.
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