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Enter Shikari have landed Stateside in support of Take to the Skies! The UK group named, “Best Live Band” of 2007 by Kerrang! will take on Portland for the first stop of their short West Coast tour.

With visible media support and praise from the UK’s NME and Kerrang! the band has also gained support in North America from PunkNews.org. The influential source for everything punk has signed on to help promote the trek.

Punk News Presents Enter Shikari West Coast Tour

11/30/07 Portland, OR The Satyricon

12/01/07 Vancouver, BC The Plaza Club

12/02/07 Seattle, WA Chop Suey

12/04/07 San Francisco, CA Bottom Of The Hill

12/05/07 West Hollywood, CA Troubadour

12/06/07 Anaheim, CA Chain Reaction

12/07/07 San Diego, CA SOMA San Diego

Check out their video for “Sorry, You’re Not A Winner” below:

With the official retail release of their In Rainbows coming on January 1st, the Oxford, UK band have also been keeping busy with their “Thumbs Down Webcast” as of late.

Thom Yorke said of the episodes, “This is Thumbs Down cause it’s … [holds thumbs down]… We’re gonna play some music as we can still stand up. This is our way of celebrating the fact that we’ve finished a record.

We’ve been doing some stupid stuff the past few weeks knocking some things together. Don’t expect any high quality cause there isn’t any.” The band can be seen performing the first single from the album, “Bodysnatchers,” and another stand out track, “Jigsaw Falling Into Place,” below.

Blake Fielder-Civil is writing a book for Amy Winehouse to help her cope with his absence. He is worried about her and has hopes that the motivational diary will help her get through her time alone.

I guess Wino needs to know that her man cares. She’s already canceled her tour. Hopefully she’ll get to rehab and get back into making decent music.

In other news, Blake Fielder-Civil knows how to write.

Hip hopper Ja Rule laughed off reports of a beef between him and Murder Inc. co-founder Irv Gotti. According to reports, Jeffrey “Ja Rule” Atkins is p.o.’ed that Irv has been pushing back his new album, The Mirror.

Ja’s spokesperson has said that there’s no beef and Ja is going back in the studio over the holidays to do a couple more tracks and it was a mutual decision.

Now don’t be confused, I don’t listen to country music at all. I just found this quite comical that Willie Nelson is on the cover of High Times, with a joint in hand. I wonder if he’s concerned about the legal repercussions of doing this, but it’s probably just a ticket.

Go Willie! I bet he inhales!!

From the press release:

Columbia Records is proud to announce that Coheed and Cambria will be supporting Linkin Park on all dates of their upcoming national tour. The tour goes from February 12 to March 10 and will be hitting 19 cities, including Madison Square Garden in New York. The dates come on the heels of Coheed’s successful sold-out 25-date national headlining tour that wrapped at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom on November 29, 2007.

Coheed and Cambria (Sanchez – vocals, guitar; Travis Stever – guitar; Mic Todd – bass) spent the first half of 2007 working on “No World for Tomorrow in Los Angeles with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Rush, Stone Sour) and mixer Randy Staub (Metallica, Nickelback). Coheed recruited Taylor Hawkins from the Foo Fighters to play drums on the record, while ex-Dillinger Escape Plan drummer Chris Pennie is now a permanent fixture in the band and has taken their live shows to new heights.

No World For Tomorrow has sold over 100,000 copies in four weeks, and the Linkin Park dates mark the first time the band has played in arenas.

DATE CITY VENUE

2/12 Omaha, NE Qwest Center Omaha
2/13 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Ctr
2/15 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
2/16 Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
2/18 Manchester, NH Verizon Wireless
2/19 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena
2/21 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
2/22 Montreal, QU Bell Centre
2/23 London, ON John LaBatt Centre
2/25 Lexington, KY Rupp Arena
2/26 Nashville, TN Sommet Ctr
2/29 Oklahoma City, OK Ford Ctr
3/1 Albuquerque, NM Tingley Coliseum
3/2 El Paso, TX Don Haskins Ctr
3/8 West Valley City, UT E Center

I don’t know how impressed I am with Coheed & Cambria. As far as their support of Linkin Park? Weird. I’d have thought they’d been better off supporting The Killers. Both guys have weird voices.

It’s kinda like one of those Where’s Waldo things. Can you pick out the real Britney in this picture? I wanna say it’s the one that looks more methfaced, but that could be any of ‘em. They’ve replicated the Britney wig look.

She needs to show her real hair already, it’s been a while since she shaved it all off. I’m sure it looks better than the weaves she’s been sporting.

I know that Lindsay Lohan has already put an album out….according to sources, she’s apparently teaming up with 50 Cent for his help on her second effort. I’ve only heard the one song that she’s done, Rumors, and it was alright. Maybe working with Fiddy can liven up her sound a little.

According to her father, Michael Lohan, they’re in talks, but nothing is concrete yet.

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Janet Jackson’s as-yet-untitled debut album for Island Def Jam will be released in February. The artist is also prepping a worldwide tour to promote the follow-up to 2006’s “20 Y.O.” In addition, Jackson has signed with the William Morris Agency for representation in all areas.

At least she’s not having Jermaine Dupri work on it….cuz you see what his talent did for 20 Y.O., right? Never heard of it? Thought not.

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So much that he’s laying some loving on the girl that’s helping with the event.

I just wanted to post something to call Gene a sleaze, so SLEAZE!

I’m done now.

When Lily Allen went to the doctor recently, they shocked the pop star with the news that she has a heart murmur. She has since cut down on biscuits and other “crap” that’s bad for her.

She wants us all to know that she’s not conforming to the “skinny minnie” myth and she’s not trying to be thin just to be with the in crowd. She is doing it for health reasons.

Britney Spears is set to film her latest video for the single, Piece of Me, in a record two hours. According to reports, she is going to dance on a bar and run down a staircase for her two hours.

She was stripper dancing in her last video, and now this? I can’t wait for the parodies to roll on in….

Quiet Riot singer, Kevin Dubrow was found dead in his Las Vegas home. His body was discovered yesterday by a neighbor at around 5:20pm. The coroner is examining his body to determine the cause of death.

This is a horrible tragedy. I listen to their music a lot and he will be missed in the world of rock/metal. They are best known for the album, Metal Health, and rocked the world with “Cum on feel the noize”.

RIP Kevin, you will be missed.

I was flipping out when I read the headlines that the daughter of the crocodile hunter, Bindi Irwin, is turning to hip hop! This girl is a marketing machine!!

The nine-year-old releases her debut hip-hop single Trouble In The Jungle next month (December).

Bindi’s song contains the lyrics: “I’m afraid of grizzly bears, but don’t you see / Grizzly bears should really be afraid of me/There’s trouble in the jungle / We find that mankind is not so kind at all.”

Since her father was killed by a stingray in September 2006, Bindi has launched a clothing line and a children’s fitness DVD, appeared in a stage show and become an official Australian tourism ambassador. Her manager John Stainton recently disclosed that Bindi also turned down the opportunity to star in a Hollywood movie.

Jeezus, that girl is being marketed more than Paris Hilton!’

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Lily Allen has said that she wants to retire from the music industry by the time she turns 25 years old. She wants to make time for more important stuff, like raising chickens and having children. She longs desperately for a nice, normal home life. She is currently dating Chemical Brothers star Ed Simons.

She has also said that her followup album to Alright, Still, will be her last.

Her and Ed and baby makes three…..

While Amy Winehouse may look normal in the first picture, take a closer look. First of all, her nose is bleeding. Too many drugs? In the last picture you can see that she looks very haggardly and desperately thin.

She was touring at London’s Hammersmith Apollo on Saturday, November 24th, when she appeared in smeared makeup and a cigarette hanging from her mouth. Not only was her appearance in a shambles, but she disappeared several times throughout the performance. This caused fans to boo and heckle the singer, and she ultimately left the stage, in the middle of her final song. The backup singer had to close out the show. This left fans asking for a refund for a shoddy performance.

According to reports, her mother, Janis Winehouse, has been trying to talk the fallen star into finally saying yes to rehab. Hopefully she can get through to her before it’s too late. Talent is a terrible thing to waste.