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By Katie Hasty NEW YORK (Billboard) - Alien Ant Farm will return this summer with its first album since a 2003 European bus crash that killed the band's driver and nearly paralyzed lead singer Dryden Mitchell. "Up in the Attic," the band's third major-label effort, will be released July 25 via Universal Music's New Door Records imprint. "We've been through so much, both triumph and defeat," says Mitchell. "But it's been cool that we've kept our fans. I'd do this forever. We're having...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Guns N' Roses will open two German dates on the Rolling Stones' upcoming tour of Europe, a role they last performed during the Stones' 1989 U.S. trek. According to the Rolling Stones' Web site, the Axl Rose-rose led rock band will warm up the crowd in Nuremburg on July 10 and Leipzig on July 12. The tour is still set to begin on May 27 in Barcelona, despite continued speculation about guitarist Keith Richards' health. He was released from a New Zealand hospital...
LONDON (Reuters) - Take That are to reform for a tour of Britain -- but Robbie Williams will not be joining his old boy band. The group, the first band since The Beatles to score four consecutive number one singles, sold 25 million records worldwide before breaking up in 1996. Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen announced at a London news conference on Friday that they are reuniting for an 11-date arena tour starting in April. Interest in the band assembled by talent...
By Geoff Mayfield LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Kenny Chesney and 50 Cent earn bragging rights with this week's charts, yet their opening totals make each man a poster child for what is shaping up to be a fourth quarter of discontent. With 469,000 copies of "The Road and the Radio" sold, Chesney notches his fourth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and his fifth on Top Country Albums. He also leads the new Top Digital Albums and Top Internet Albums lists. The soundtrack to 50 Cent's acting debut,...
By Melinda Newman LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Tom Petty presented the inaugural Billboard Century Award to George Harrison in 1992. Now it is Petty's turn to receive the honor. The Century Award, Billboard's highest honor for creative achievement, will be presented to Petty December 6 during the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The awards will be telecast live on Fox. "This award comes at a particularly nice time, as the Heartbreakers and I go into the...
