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Ashley Tisdale has just premiered the video for her single “It’s Alright, It’s OK!” The Scott Speer (The Veronicas, Jordin Sparks) directed video features 90210’s Adam Gregory as Ashley’s ex-boyfriend. “It’s Alright, It’s OK” will appear on the forthcoming Guilty Pleasure due out on June 16th. Watch Ashley rock out and trash her ex’s house with a huge party here!

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MULTI-PLATINUM BAND HIT THE ROAD IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM, 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN, TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE ON FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 2009

Reprise Records’ Grammy®Award winning rock band Green Day have announced that they will hit the road for their first proper tour of the United States and Canada in more than three years beginning July 3rd in Seattle, WA. The first leg of the tour will cross North America through the summer and finish up with two shows in Los Angeles on August 26th.
Green Day are touring in support of their long-awaited eighth studio album 21st Century Breakdown, which will be released globally by Reprise Records on Friday, May 15th, 2009. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool have been at work writing, arranging, and recording 21st Century Breakdown since early 2006 with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins). The first single, “Know Your Enemy” was released to radio and digital retailers on April 16th.
Green Day recently performed 21st Century Breakdown in its entirety during a series of warm-up club shows for hometown fans in the Bay Area. In its review of a show at Oakland’s Fox Theater, Rolling Stone commented that the band, augmented by guitarists Jason White and Jeff Matika, and keyboardist Jason Freese, had the “Quadrophenia-like hang of 21st Century Breakdown’s classic rock melodies and lifetime-punk drive down solid” and that the album is “rock opera in which the rock always comes first.” “21st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s best album,” the reviewer concluded, “and at the Fox, they proved that the rock opera can be as punk as a Clash 45.”
21st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s first studio album since 2004’s two-time Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide.
Green Day’s upcoming North American tour dates are as follows:

July
3rd Seattle, WA
4th Vancouver, BC
6th Edmonton, AB
7th Saskatoon, SAS
9th Winnipeg, MAN
10th Fargo, ND
11th Minneapolis, MN
13th Chicago, IL
14th Detroit, MI
16th Hamilton, ONT
17th Ottawa, ONT
18th Montreal, QUE
20th Boston, MA
21st Philadelphia, PA
22nd Pittsburgh, PA
24th Hartford, CT
25th Albany, NT
27th New York, NY
29th Washington, DC
31st Nashville, TN

August
1st Atlanta, GA
3rd Tampa, FL
4th Miami, FL
5th Orlando, FL
7th New Orleans, LA
8th Houston, TX
9th San Antonio, TX
11th St. Louis, MO
13th Omaha, NE
15th Denver, CO
16th Salt Lake City, UT
18th San Jose, CA
20th San Diego, CA
21st Las Vegas, NV
22nd Phoenix, AX
24th Sacramento, CA
25th Los Angeles, CA

Something dramatic happened at Britney Spears’ concert in Los Angeles last week and it had nothing to do with her performance. Right before the show started, some guy got up on stage and popped the question! In front of a huge crowd, the brave man called out his girlfriend to come up on stage and then proposed. Luckily for him, his lady love said yes. As far as the show is concerned, there’s not much craziness or drama to report. It was just another day at work for everyone else. Congratulations to whoever the guy was and his new fiancé.

‘Britain’s Got Talent’ phenomenon Susan Boyle is quickly becoming a household name. The 48-year old signer’s videos on YouTube have already been watched over 46 million times! ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ and ‘American Idol’ judge Simon Cowell is reportedly thinking about producing a duets album for Susan and former cell phone salesman and ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ champ, Paul Potts. Simon’s apparently already developing a film entitled ‘Star Struck’ which is based on Paul’s surprising leap from obscurity to fame and popularity. I hope that duets album does happen. That combo will be nothing short of spectacular! I’ll line up to buy a dozen copies of it.

The Black Eyed Peas have come out with a new music video for ‘Boom Boom Pow’. The song is the lead single off of their upcoming album ‘The END’. We’ve been speculating that this might be their last album given its title but will.i.am has gone on the record saying that it stands for ‘The Energy Never Dies’. He explained “It’s a diary … of music that at any given time, depending on the inspiration, you can add to it. I’m trying to break away from the concept of an album. What is an album when you put 12 songs on iTunes and people can pick at it like scabs? That’s not an album. There is no album anymore.”

Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz partied the night away in Vegas – as his wife Ashlee Simpson Wentz was Twittering about how much she was missing him.

The singer recently partied in Las Vegas until 3am, after his band played a sold-out show at the Palms Casino Resort.

An eyewitness told Star magazine: "Everybody was going absolutely crazy! People were playing makeshift slip and slide with a mat and lubricant and Pete was in great spirits. He was dancing and singing along to his own band’s songs, grinding up against dancers."

But while Wentz was partying the night away, Ashlee was back in Los Angeles with their son Bronx. She Twittered: "I am beyond sad to leave my love… My heart is breaking."

Do you want to know the reason why Amy Winehouse is looking a lot less cracked out these days? I have her dirty secret to tell. It’s being said that Wino has been hanging at the Rasul massage chamber at the Cotton Bay Village in St. Lucia where they smear mud on her face and body to “exfoliate the skin, draw out impurities and infuse rich nutrients to restore and revive.” It’s designed to remove toxins huh? I wonder how deep they burry Wino in the mud then – or how many times a day she has to get buried in it.

Kylie Minogue has splashed out £40,000 at a spa to stay looking young, according to reports.

The News of the World says that the sexy singer wants to look as fresh-faced as possible now that she has turned 40.

The paper claims the pop princess has spent two, seven-night breaks at Spain’s SHA Wellness Clinic. Minogue signed up for a range of health treatments, including a macrobiotic diet and “Integral Facial Rejuvenation” to reduce her wrinkles.

A clinic source told the News of the World: “She loved it here and sees looking after herself inside and out as a wise investment. She had six months of chemotherapy after her cancer was diagnosed and this clinic not only allows her to hide away so she can have beauty treatments but also makes sure her body is healthy too.

“She had lots of massages and hydrotherapy treatments but Kylie was there for the macrobiotic food and rejuvenation therapies.”

Check out this week’s episode of Clique Girlz TV at dance rehearsal. The girls spend some time with top-notch choreographer Laurie Ann Gibson (MTV’s Making The Band) working on some new moves in the studio. Destinee says that rehearsal has “been going amazing” after about two months.
Clique Girlz’ Incredible EP is available now.

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Through a “tweet” on Twitter.com today, DAVE MATTHEWS BAND have announced that they are giving away their new single, “Funny the Way It Is,” as a free download for one week. Dave (@davejmatthews) and bassist Stefan Lessard (@slessard) are both very active on Twitter, keeping touch with their huge fanbase and decided it was the perfect place to get the word out. The song comes off their upcoming album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, which hits stores on June 2nd. It will be the band’s first studio album since the death of saxophonist LeRoi Moore last summer. The “GrooGrux King” in the album title refers to Moore’s nickname within the group. Matthews created all of the artwork for Big Whiskey, including the richly detailed cover illustration that puts a GrooGrux spin on New Orleans’ traditional Mardi Gras parades while evoking the joy and the sorrow expressed in the album’s songs. Matthews has designed logos and other elements in the past, but this is the first time he has created the entire packaging for a Dave Matthews Band album.

Guitarist Tim Reynolds will play on the album, making it his first recording with DMB since 1998’s Before These Crowded Streets. The album was produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Goo Goo Dolls). Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King will also feature the recording debuts of Rashawn Ross who joined the band in 1996 but hadn’t played on any of their studio releases yet and Moore’s replacement, saxophonist Jeff Coffin who also is a member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. DMB just released a trailer for the new album which can be seen below.

Dave Matthews Band kicks off its 2009 tour tonight with a show at Madison Square Garden in New York City and will be on the road through October 2nd. Please visit http://www.davematthewsband.com for a full itinerary of the band’s spring and summer tours – and also check the website for the launch of the Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King pre-order later this week. Fans who pre-order the CD at the band’s website will receive the group’s upcoming live album, Live Trax 15, for free. Live Trax 15 captures the group’s August 9th, 2008 show at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, WI, one of the most fan-requested shows for release from last year’s summer tour.

Download “Funny the Way It Is” for FREE here all this week: www.rcarecords.com/dmbfreedownload

Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King is out June 2nd.

VIDEO ALBUM TRAILER:

“Know Your Enemy,” the first single from Green Day’s upcoming eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, is available now. After teasing fans with a snippet of the track, the full version has finally hit iTunes for the world to hear.
21st Century Breakdown, which will be released by Reprise Records worldwide on May 15th, is the best-selling trio’s first studio album since 2004’s two-time Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide. In a recent feature, Rolling Stone called 21st Century Breakdown “even more ambitious than American Idiot” and “a record of die-hard punk ideals…tightly scripted, continually ascending classic-rock excitement.”
Get “Know Your Enemy” now on iTunes.

Ashley Tisdale has just released her brand new single “It’s Alright, It’s OK!” The track premiered earlier this morning live with Ryan Seacrest on KIIS FM. Co-written by Swedish production team Twin, the song is a spunky break-up anthem about being single and in control of your life for the first time.

“I love break-up songs,” Tisdale says. “Everyone can relate to those moments when you need to vent your frustration about a previous relationship. ‘It’s Alright, It’s OK’ is about how you need to stand up for yourself and not let someone walk all over you; it’s a message I wanted to get across to other girls.”

An accompanying video to “It’s Alright, It’s OK” will premiere on MySpace’s on April 21st with feature support from such major online partners as AOL Music and Yahoo! Music, and MTV.com will premiere exclusive “making of the video” footage the week of the single’s release. Tisdale stars in the video with actor Adam Gregory (the CW’s 90210), who plays her ex-boyfriend. The clip was directed by Scott Speer, who has helmed previous videos for Tisdale as well as those from Jordin Sparks and David Archuleta.

“It’s Alright, It’s OK” audio streams:

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U2, arguably one of the greatest rock bands of all time, has teamed up with A-list production team Justice to bring fans a mind-altering remix of epic proportions. The pairing of super stars and super producers on “Get On Your Boots,” the first single from U2’s No Line On The Horizon, can be heard exclusively on Stereogum.com.

For more information on U2, including tour dates and news, can be found on the band’s official site U2.com.