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I Read The News Today... For March 21, 2011

Tool Lite A Perfect Circle are coming to a North American city near you. It's just like 2002 all over again! Yeah!!! —Spin A man's ear is being used to blow up balloons in this Cars video, there's some sort of marble rolling around, an evil scientist and... I don't... ... ... goddamnit, just watch it: Did you miss that Yuck show in...
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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 Jan. 5, 2011

City And Colour's Dallas Green and Shad will release a collaborative EP, Two Songs, on Jan. 11. It features, yes, two songs: a new track and a remix. You can preorder it here and here. All the proceeds will be donated to Skate4Cancer. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead will hit the road with Surfer Blood this spring. Trail Of Dead will...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 30, 2010

Slipknot are working on a new album, despite being unsure of their future earlier this year following the death of bassist Paul Gray. BillboardAlexisonfire will end their tour in support of Old Crows/Young Cardinals by playing a show in their hometown of St. Catharines, Ont. on Dec. 19. They'll perform at CAW Hall. Tickets go on sale through their...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 19, 2010

Wyclef Jean's in hiding in Haiti after receiving several death threats and messages from people who said he should leave the country. He says he wants to run for president in the country's elections, which take place Nov. 28, but his run has been criticized by the likes of fellow former Fugees member Pras and Arcade Fire's Win Butler....
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I Read The News Today... For July 21, 2010

La Roux are la-leaving la-Lilith Fair. —SpinnerArcade Fire have put snippets of their The Suburbs album up on their website. So now you can frustrate yourself trying to imagine what the full songs sound like. You can also stream Arcade Fire's Aug. 5 show at New York City's Madison Square Garden live on YouTube. OMG, it'll be just...
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I Read The News Today... For May 20, 2010

Students in Macclesfield, England, are writing a Joy Division-inspired symphony as a tribute to late singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide 30 years ago this past Tuesday (May 18). —BBC News A public memorial for the late Ronnie James Dio will be held on May 30 in Los Angeles. —MTV News Mick Jagger would like drugs to be legalized on Britain'...
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Travis Barker Vs. Paparazzi

Someone's been taking cues from Sean Penn and Kanye West: the usually calm and collected Travis Barker exploded on a couple of paparazzi on Sunday (Feb. 21) when the drummer noticed a videographer filming him and his children after a meal in Calabasas, Calif. In the video below, the Blink-182 drummer can be seen exiting the restaurant with his...
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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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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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Travis Barker Giving Away Cadillac

Travis Barker just wants you in his Caddy. The Blink-182 drummer/+44 founder/plane crash survivor is holding a contest to give away a vintage, cherry red 1966 Cadillac Coupe DeVille valued at over $80,000 U.S. (about $86,000 Canadian). The contest runs until Sept. 21 and the winner will be announced the next day. Visit the contest website to...
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Travis Barker: Blink-182 Won't Reunite

Travis Barker says Blink-182 won't reunite, despite recent rumours to the contrary. TMZ.com questioned Barker about a possible Blink-182 reunion while he was walking through a Calabasas, Calif. parking lot, and his response was negative. "No," he said. "We're friends, though, everyone's getting along pretty good." Barker's...
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Travis Barker Sues Over Plane Crash

Travis Barker filed lawsuits as fast as he drums on Friday in connection with the injuries he sustained in a Sept. 19 plane crash. The former (and maybe future?) Blink-182 drummer sued: Canadian aerospace company Bombardier Inc., which manufactured the doomed Learjet in which he was a passenger; charter company Global Exec Aviation, which owned...
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Will Blink-182 Reunite?

Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker's plane crash has triggered a Blink-182 reunion of sorts... but it's an off-stage one. Former Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus wrote in a Nov. 18 blog entry that he and Barker had been talking with former bandmate Tom DeLonge and had even "hung out for a couple hours," which Hoppus says led to...
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Barker Wants To Start Recording

Although +44 are on a break while drummer Travis Barker heals from the plane crash he survived at the end of September, Mark Hoppus has written new material and can't wait to begin working on a new album. Hoppus told MTV News that he regularly speaks to Barker, who's currently recovering at his California home. Barker and DJ AM both suffered...
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Barker Out Of Hospital

Travis Barker was released from hospital on Friday. Barker finally got out of Sherman Oaks, Calif.'s Grossman Burn Center after having been there for nearly a month. He was admitted there after a Sept. 19 plane crash that left him with second- and third-degree burns. Before he was transferred to the Grossman Burn Center, Barker was treated at the...
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Moakler Had "Gnarly Feeling" About Plane

Shanna Moakler, former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker's ex-wife, said a bad feeling prevented her from being on board the plane that crashed carrying Barker, DJ AM and others. Barker, DJ AM and two members of Barker's crew were leaving Columbia, S.C. en route to Van Nuys, Calif. when the plane they were in crashed while it was leaving the...
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Barker Blogs About Recovery

Travis Barker has spoken out a bit more about last month's plane crash which claimed the lives of two of his friends and left him and DJ AM (real name Adam Goldstein) in hospital recovering from severe burns. Barker underwent his seventh surgery on Monday and says he's now able to move all of his fingers on his right hand. Barker suffered second...
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Travis Barker Recovering And Eating Meat

Cross out one contender for Peta2's "world's sexiest vegetarian" title next year. Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, who's recovering from injuries suffered in a Sept. 19 private jet crash, has started eating meat again after being a vegetarian for more than 25 years. "I need protein from food rather than just protein...
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Barker And AM Survive Plane Crash

Drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM suffered second- and third-degree burns in a plane crash that killed the four other people on board on Friday night. The Learjet 60 was taking off from Columbia Metropolitan Airport in Columbia, S.C. at 11:53 p.m., shortly after Barker and AM (real name Adam Goldstein) were part of a free concert that attracted 10,...
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