Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne — The Best Damn Thing

Isn't Avril Lavigne married now? Somehow this reality has escaped her latest album, which takes Mrs. Deryck Whibley straight back to her bratty high school days. Lavigne keeps the girlie pop punk flag — Barbie pink, white and black — unabashedly raised on her third release, busting out one adolescent drama-inspired chorus after another. All the...
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Avril Lavigne — Under My Skin

Can she do it without The Matrix? That’s the question that pop pundits were asking when news leaked that Avril Lavigne had ditched the team that helped her create "Complicated" and "Sk8er Boi" in favour of pals Chantal Kreviazuk, Ben Moody, Raine Maida and Marvelous 3’s Butch Walker. Under My Skin fails to yield anything that...
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Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin

I Read The News Today... For July 18, 2011

Perhaps you've heard about The Horrible Crowes, the new band Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon's in. They've put a new tune called "Behold The Hurricane" up on the interwebs and guess who it sounds like? Bruce Springsteen! Whodathunk? Wanna hear Killers member Ronnie Vanucci's debut solo album? He's recorded it as Big Talk, and you...
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I Read The News Today... For May 18, 2011

Next major trend: orchestras playing indie rock. Case in point: The Jingle Punks Hipster Orchestra. Watch them do The Black Keys' "Tighten Up" and MGMT's "Time To Pretend." Not only are Devo playing North By Northeast this year, with a free show at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square on June 18, but they'll head out to the 'burbs...
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I Read The News Today... For May 2, 2011

Wow, there were some pretty epic asses on display at the Big 4 show in California last week. Meanwhile, a Big 4 show has been announced for the Bronx in September. Suck it, Brooklyn! Ian Mackaye says Fugazi may end their hiatus to play again sometime, but don't hold your breath. Selena Gomez is co-hosting and performing at the MuchMusic Video...
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Avril Lavigne, Pierre Bouvier, Danko Jones, LIGHTS 2010 Readers' Poll Winners

The poll has closed, voting has officially stopped and now it's time to tell you who won our 16th Annual Year-End Readers' Poll.Avril Lavigne inexplicably took two categories this year. She was voted Canada's sexiest woman, with 53 per cent of the votes, and her "Alice" won for best song, with 26 per cent. LIGHTS put in some stiff competition for...
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Sloan, Hedley, Katy Perry Making Late Surges In Year-End Readers' Poll

As the Russian junior hockey team showed us yesterday, just when you think someone or a particular team's won, everything can change. All of a sudden your opponent can come out of nowhere and take the lead or win, and you never saw it coming. (Or in some cases, it might be because you were lazy and stopped trying because you thought the entire...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 4, 2011

RJD2 has released a free three-song EP of remixes that also includes the video for "The Glow." Grab The Glow Remixes here. Here's something that makes almost no sense: TV On The Radio bassist and producer Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction. Well... kind of. He's playing bass on their new album. —Spinner Kanye West is doing everything he can to...
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LIGHTS, Avril Lavigne In Sexy Name Calling Catfight

This time last year, Tegan And Sara and Avril Lavigne fans were nattering at each other in the comments section of our 2009 Year-End Readers' Poll about who was hotter — the Quin twins or the Sk8r Grrl. This year, fans of Avril — or "Avril LaVagina," as a user named "oaflje" calls her — is battling it out with LIGHTS' fans over who...
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Avril Lavigne

I Read The News Today... For Nov. 23, 2010

American girls! You'll be able to start swooning over Jacob Hoggard and his chest tattoos when Hedley release their The Show Must Go album on Dec. 7 south of the border. It's the first album they've put out in the States. Nickelback and Theory Of A Deadman won SOCAN Music Awards for radio airplay last night. Wait... they were in the same room? You...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 18, 2010

OMG, like, now that Avril's officially divorced, she can get married again to, like, whoever she wants!!!1124 —TMZ It's like 2003 all over again! The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica and Snow Patrol will headline Rock In Rio 2011, which goes down Sept. 23 to Oct. 2 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. —rockinrio.com.br Acts won't be announced for a while...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 12, 2010

Hey, so this sounds like a bad idea: The Fiery Furnaces are going to release 10 (yes, 10) studio albums this year. Eight of those will be solo releases from Matthew Friedburger. —Entertainment WeeklyMetric performed at New York's Museum Of Modern Art last night to honour film director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Point Break). She's got a...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 3, 2010

Evolve Festival organizer Jonas Colter was arrested by a Mountie in Halifax last weekend and charged $4,500 for postering. The Chronicle Herald Yellowcard are releasing a new album on Hopeless Records after a two-year hiatus. They'll continue to be overshadowed by more popular emo bands that no one gives a crap about, either. Alternative...
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I Read The News Today... For July 15, 2010

Amy Winehouse's album will reportedly be out by January at the latest. Hey, have you also heard I'm the Queen Of England?! —Metro Rush have released an iPhone and iPod Touch application. It'll cost you a mere $2.99 U.S. ($3.11 Canadian) —Blabbermouth We Were So Turned On, a David Bowie tribute album featuring A Place To...
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I Read The News Today... For June 14, 2010

Kate Hudson quite possibly has an even weirder dating record than Natalie Portman. She was once married to Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson and dated New York Yankees third base player Alex Rodriguez in 2009. Now she's dating Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy. That's enough to make our heads asplode. Daily Mail Amy Winehouse is back in rehab....
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Amy Winehouse

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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Brody Jenner Saves Avril Lavigne From Drowning

Deryck Whibley might be able to write a song, but when it comes to pure romance, he'll never be able to come close to saving his beloved from the deep, blue sea. Brody Jenner, the reality TV star who recently replaced Whibley as Avril Lavigne's arm candy, recently saved the hit-making pop star during a surfing incident gone awry. Jenner was...
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I Read The News Today... For May 19, 2010

Axl Rose is suing Guns N' Roses' former manager, Irving Azoff, for $5 million U.S., claiming Azoff tried to "sabotage" GN'R by forcing an original members reunion. —New York Times R.E.M. will reissue their 1985 Fables Of The Reconstruction album on July 25. It'll be a two-CD package with 14 previously unreleased demos. —remhq.com...
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