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You can spot it this Saturday at Squiggy's, the West Sahara Avenue dive hosting a benefit concert for the Heaven Can Wait Animal Sanctuary, a local no-kill animal shelter with a name as good as Squiggy's. "Do ...

Foxboro Hot Tubs is a band formed by the trio of Green Day. Before their album was released, the band Foxboro Hot Tubs remained a mystery that had the same familiar voice as Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.

Something special happens when Greg Attonito of the Asbury Park-based, New Brunswick-born punk band Bouncing Souls picks up his ukulele.

A fire erupted at 4:45 p.m. late Thursday at the looming historic F.M. Matt Brewery on Brewery Square at Edward Street in downtown Utica as a crowd massed in the brewery's beer garden to hear the local band The ...

Deserving massive praise for their brilliantly smart-alecky name alone, Missouri punk-pop trio Cher U.K. never quite delivered on the sarcastic promise of its handle, but the band's signature mixture of loopy ...

Gritty songwriter Tom Waits comes to the Fox Theatre on June 26, but the bigger buzz leading up to his "Glitter and Doom" tour concerns Anywhere I Lay My Head , Scarlett Johansson's album of the avant-bard's ...

Caption: Former basketball ace SHAQUILLE O'NEAL has filed for divorce from his wife SHAUNIE NELSON after five years of marriage.. The Miami heat player, 35, filed a divorce petition through his lawyer Ira ...

Sex Pistols singer John Lydon wants to write a song for Britney Spears. The outrageous rocker - better known as Johnny Rotten - believes he and the troubled pop princess could pen a great track together, ...

The East Coast post-grunge/pop-punk outfit Good Charlotte was founded in 1996 by identical brothers Joel and Benji Madden.

It didn't take long at all. Less than 12 hours after John Terry had sent Edwin van der Sar the wrong way, then slipped and scuffed what should have been the winning penalty in Wednesday night's Champions League ...

The Primal Scream star tells Will Hodgkinson about the respect he has for Johnny Rotten and why he mobbed Link Wray Sunday May 18, 2008 The Observer The record that made me form a band: Never Mind the Bollocks, ...

One subject that I have always been interested in is the cultural impact of generations.

Plain White T's and Henry Rollins are among the new acts added to the Reading and Leeds Festivals lineup.

AT THE very least, 'Snuff' is a difficult book to discuss over dinner. With its assemblage of nasty fluids -- bodily and otherwise -- and its over-the-hill-porn-star heroine who plans to copulate literally to ...

“Who knows what these guys sound like by now?”

Yes, Phantom Planet wrote 'California,' aka 'The O.C.' song. I want to get that out of the way right now. via Courier News Online

Caption: Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker shopping with his kids. Malibu, California - 26.04.08 Former BLINK 182 frontman TOM DeLONGE has ruled out ever reforming the punk band - because he couldn't bear ... via ContactMusic.com

The new-school punk trio blink-182 was formed in the suburbs of San Diego, California around guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus, and drummer Scott Raynor. via Area93.com

Upon the release of their first album in the late '70s, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were shoehorned into the punk/new wave movement by some observers who picked up on the tough, vibrant energy of the group's ... via 104.7 WIOT

In this Sept. 8, 2007 file photo, Ashlee Simpson and her boyfriend Pete Wentz, of the band Fall Out Boy, arrive together at the Rolling Stone 40th anniversary party in Las Vegas. via HendersonvilleNews.com

PRINCE CASPIAN: A year after the events chronicled in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," the Pevensie siblings return to Narnia and find it has changed for the worse under an evil king. via The Post and Courier

“Are you gonna do (solo shows) again?”

Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness is putting his primary band on hold for a spell while he spends the next few months on the road reviving the outlaw-country sounds of his two solo records. via Ultimate-guitar.com

“In the U.S., one in four people who are positive don't know it. So, we thought, 'How do we continue to remind our audience that they should get tested?'”

NEW YORK College-targeted MTVU has teamed up with the Kaiser Family Foundation and Poz Magazine to create a viral, Web-based game designed to get people talking frankly about HIV and AIDS. via Adweek

Green Day will tour America under their Foxboro Hot Tubs alias. The punk rockers' side-project confirmed an eight-day jaunt for May, which begins in Arkansas and ends in Long Beach, California. via Digital Spy

“I lived on the floor with the ghosts. I didn't come in with a point to it, so I just lived there and began filming. It's about the people that lived there, the ghosts, and the people that live there now.”

The fatal stabbing of SEX PISTOLS rocker SID VICIOUS' American girlfriend has been recreated in a new documentary about New York's famed Chelsea Hotel. via PR-inside.com

Formed in Long Beach, CA, in 1988 as a garage punk band, Sublime grew to fame in the mid-'90s on the back of the Cali punk explosion engendered by Green Day and the Offspring, though Sublime mixed up their punk ... via WMMS-FM Independence

The New York-based band Mindless Self Indulgence is recognized for its high energy songs full of profanity, its adult topics and Jimmy Urine's stage antics while performing live. via Courier News Online

“That's for all of us, that's the one that we click, we all find is, like, our outlets to get rid of all that (anger). We just, aagh, whatever comes out when we pick up our instruments or write stuff, whatever, that's basically what we roll with.”

Darling Down is Amanda Legault, front, with in back row, from left, Dustin Claud, Ryan Hudson, Rick Brott. via Battle Creek Enquirer

Their latest album, Internal Salvation is further evidence of their precise cataclysmic punk is a weapon to be feared. via WJXX

There's absolutely no reason for Mindless Self Indulgence to be around in 2008. For starters, their aggressive, quasi-industrial sound - " on paper, at least - " is long past its sell-by date. via Miami New Times

Even though our main stage season is over for the year, there is so much going on at the Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre that I have to take a whole article just to tell you all about it. via Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

“I think it's all about new times, new sounds. You get tired of old stuff. When somebody works in one style for a long time, he loses interest, he wants to try something new.”

Dmitry Petrov and other members of the ragga-metal band Grandshuttleband perform at The Place on Friday. via St.Petersburg Times

The entry titled "Your A-List, Best Punk Group: Riverboat Gamblers." Categories Archives Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 04:24 PM Austin is one of the few places in the country where punk never really went away. via Austin American Statesman

Change gets the hype, but most things stay the same. Two decades ago, Hermosa Beach [California] H.S. grads Pennywise represented something new, drawing on a still underground skate punk sound and its blend of ... via Houston Press

The three members of the Coke Dares have logged time in fellow Bloomington, Indiana, rock outfits Magnolia Electric Co. via St. Louis - riverfronttimes.com

Harmonix and MTV have announced Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1, a 20-song offering that will bring some of the Xbox 360 and PS3 downloadable song content to Wii and PlayStation 2. The title will retail for an ... via Next Generation

The Sex Pistols may have only been together for two years in the late '70s, but they changed the face of popular music. via WAKZ-FM Boardman

The Offspring have returned. Dexter Holland , Noodles , Greg K and Pete Parada are gearing up for the release of Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace [Columbia Records], an impressive new set of songs from one of ... via KNIN-TV Boise

“And I swear to God, if they keep on raising the gas price, I'm a sell this Chevy and go buy me a bike.”

Don't let the title fool you - Lyfe Jennings didn't get glossy or pretentious on his third set; he just became more focused. via Quick

“I don't know what you think of me, because I've done some pretty douche-y things in my life. But that's okay, because right now I'm gonna do the greatest thing in my life”

A cast of rock heavyweights crammed the Roxy stage in Hollywood Thursday night for a jam session that found the likes of Jane's Addiction's Dave Navarro, Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath and Matt Sorum on stage with ... via Billboard

“We worked our (explicative) off playing in front of kids eating nachos”

Originally formed in Gainesville, Fla., Less Than Jake brings the group's hybrid of ska and punk to the Music Farm for a Tuesday performance. via The Post and Courier

The Rolling Stones, as it turns out, are not the only senior citizens singing rock 'n' roll. via Hartford Courant

The Bamboozle festival may be at the Meadowlands, but it's always had a distinctly Long Island flavor - even beyond the 25,000 or so fans from the Island who attend - and this year is no exception. via Newsday.com

Want to be a part of something different? Did you know that there is a second theater in our new complex? It is called the Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre Studio Theatre and is located behind the mainstage ... via Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune