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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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Taking Back Sunday — New Again

It's been three years since Taking Back Sunday's Louder Now dropped, but New Again was well worth the wait. It's a bit of a departure from their previous work, since it's slightly harder and slightly more self-aware, but it's irresistibly catchy with the frank lyrics we've come to expect from Adam Lazzara and company. The album certainly...
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Taking Back Sunday's New Again

Taking Back Sunday — Where You Want To Be

Somewhere between "Anarchy In The U.K." and "All The Small Things," punk rock traded in its "fuck you" sneer for a "why me?" whimper. Making hardcore safe for Mid-western teenagers and Clear Channel radio programmers is Taking Back Sunday’s stock-in-trade and the Long Island five-piece’s second full-length...
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Where You Want To Be

I Read The News Today... For June 6, 2011

Here's the bad news: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are releasing another album. The good news is it's not titled Dr. Johnny Skinz's Disproportionately Rambunctious Polar Express Machine-head. Here's some more bad news: That long-threatened Limp Bizkit album is actually coming out. Gold Cobra's in stores June 28. Unfortunately, there's no "silver...
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I Read The News Today... For May 3, 2011

Holy shit! Eve 6 are back! If you can't remember who they are or just plain don't know, please watch the video below to familiarize yourself. Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor says if the group's upcoming tour doesn't work, "Slipknot might be over." Yet drummer Joey Jordison says the band will always exist "with Corey or without him." I...
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I Read The News Today... For April 26, 2011

Sloan tour dates! Sloan tour dates! Sloan tour dates!It appears bacteria are no longer eating Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman's flesh. He was back performing with the thrash legends at the Big Four show in Indio, Calif. this weekend following two months off the road because he contracted flesh-eating disease. What's even more metal than getting...
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I Read The News Today... For April 15, 2011

The Beastie Boys' Fight For Your Right Revisited 30-minute film is screening at Toronto's Royal Cinema on Wednesday. (More Canadian screenings will be held soon.) Hopefully, you get a ticket, otherwise your "future you" is stupid. —MuchMusic Bruce Peninsula member Neil Haverty's cancer is in remission! So to celebrate, the band have started...
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I Read The News Today... For April 14, 2011

Rihanna leads the nominees for this year's Billboard Music Awards, while Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber are also among those with ridiculous amounts of nominations. You're not alone if that makes you puke in your mouth a little. —Billboard LCD Soundsystem's final show earlier this month at New York City's Madison Square Garden will be...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 17, 2010

Do you have a beef you'd like to air publicly? Can you not get through a single day without kvetching? Do you have a grudge against someone and you're tired of carrying it around? Good! Composer Bryce Kulak's World Stage 2010-2011 Complaints Choir is for you. It goes down at various locations from March 21 to 26, and if you're interested in...
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Taking Back Sunday Live Album Coming

Taking Back Sunday recorded their set at this year's Bamboozle festival and will release it as a live CD on Oct. 6. Live From Bamboozle '09 will be exclusively available on iTunes. It sees the band playing to 30,000 fans at East Rutherford, N.J.'s Meadowlands Sports Complex on May 3 and features tracks from all four of Taking Back Sunday's albums...
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Taking Back Sunday Beyond The Drama

At a time when Taking Back Sunday just want to focus on their fourth studio album, New Again, the band continue to be plagued by the drama surrounding the messy 2007 departure of guitarist Fred Mascherino. Although he has since been replaced by Matt Fazzi (previously of Facing New York), it seems the media and fans are more interested in the...
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Taking Back Sunday Reschedule Toronto Show

Taking Back Sunday have rescheduled the Toronto show they were forced to cancel last month because singer Adam Lazarra fell ill. Lazarra was in a hospital emergency room the night of June 23, when the band were to play a show at Toronto's Kool Haus. They'll make up that date on Aug. 19 at the same venue. Tickets for the new date are on sale now...
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Taking Back Sunday Cancel Toronto Show

Taking Back Sunday were forced to cancel a show they were to play in Toronto last night when frontman Adam Lazzara fell ill and was taken to hospital. Lazarra was in the emergency room until after 8 p.m., but according to a post the band made on their official Facebook page, is "doing okay." Taking Back Sunday plan to reschedule the...
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Taking Back Sunday Are New Again

Taking Back Sunday will release their fourth album, New Again, on June 2 via Warner, and have announced European and North American tour dates that will keep them on the road from April 'til the end of June. The follow-up to 2006's Louder Now was produced by David Kahne (Sublime, The Strokes) in New York. It's the first album with guitarist/...
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Loose Ends: Nelly Furtado And Taking Back Sunday Act, Amy Lee Gets Engaged And Celine Dion Winds Things Down In Vegas

Nelly Furtado will make her prime time acting debut by playing Ava Grant, a shoplifter suspected of murder, in an episode of CSI: NY airing on CTV on Feb. 7. The singer previously played herself in a 2001 episode of the sci-fi drama, Roswell. Speaking of music artists on the small screen, Taking Back Sunday have been scheduled to appear on the...
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Taking Back Sunday Are Louder And Where They Want To Be

Taking Back Sunday's Where You Want To Be album debuted at #3 on the U.S. sales chart in 2004. Their new Louder Now album did even better, entering the chart at #2 south of the border following its April 25 release. "We did beat The Boss [Bruce Springsteen]," says TBS bassist Matt Rubano while sitting backstage before their recent...
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