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Paramore, My Chemical Romance, Hawthorne Heights Rock Bamboozle Left

This past weekend saw the debut of Bamboozle Left, the west coast version of the three-year-old emo-heavy Bamboozle festival in New Jersey. For a look at some of the two day event’s hottest performers, including Paramore, Jimmy Eat World and My Chemical Romance, click here. [Photo: Jackie Butler]

Published: 2008-04-07 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Festivals

Punk, Emo, Sun, Lightning: The Warped Tour Crashes into Miami

Two lightning storms, ninety-degree heat and a hell of a lot of dudes playing Guitar Hero on tour buses: That was the Warped Tour’s stop in Miami this weekend in a nutshell. Oh yeah, a lot of bands played too: Coheed and Cambria, New Found Glory, Hawthorne Heights, Pennywise, Paramore, the Starting Line and Bad Religion. Check out our photo gallery here.

Published: 2007-07-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell Preview Projekt Revolution

Linkin Park’s annual Projekt Revolution Tour kicks off tonight outside of Boston, so Rock Daily sat down with LP’s Chester Bennington and co-headliner Chris Cornell to talk about this summer’s jaunt. “What I like about doing a touring festival, especially Projekt Rev, is the fact these are bands that I can get really excited about since I’m part of the reason they’re there. For me to be able to bring out Mindless Self Indulgence — a band that I’ve always liked and I’ve felt that they’ve never really gotten the love that they deserve — to see them show up and play with another band like Saosin and 5,000 kids are showing up at noon, just like, ‘Yes, it’s happening.’” Click below for more on Projekt Revolution (which also features the Bravery, Busta Rhymes, Ashes Divide, Hawthorne Heights and Atreyu) and check back in tomorrow for Rock Daily’s full report on opening night. • Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell Preview Projekt Revolution [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-07-16 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

News Ticker: Paramore, Hawthorne Heights and Janet Jackson

The ex-stepfather of Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams is selling some of Williams’ personal items on eBay. Williams has asked fans not to buy the items and also posted her “insane” ex-stepdad’s phone number so fans can harass him. Hawthorne Heights and Victory Records have settled on an agreement after HH sued the label for breach of contract. Victory will release the band’s third album Fragile Future in August. Janet Jackson is angry that her label Island Records has apparently stopped promoting her new album Discipline. Heroes star Hayden Panettiere is going all Scarlett Johansson and releasing an album next year. The actress will promote her song “Wake Up Call” via the help of clothing brand Candie’s.

Published: 2008-06-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily

If Chinese Democracy does ever appear, we’ll all have Dr. Pepper to thank. The soda company offered free pop if Axl Rose ever released his long-awaited epic, which prompted a “thank you” from the reclusive Rose. Then, Axl signed with an elite management team, and even Slash was talking reunion. Next week, we hope Pizza Hut endorses a new Talking Heads tour. Speaking of soda, the Smashing Pumpkins sued Virgin Records over a Pepsi promotion, giving Billy Corgan the perfect podium to lash out at record labels and talk the future of music. Billy Bragg also spoke to RS about the industry’s future and Body of War. That whole “Diddy was responsible for shooting Tupac in ‘94″ story turned out to be a farce as the L.A. Times got rick-rolled by an imprisoned con artist with mad forgery skills. At least the Times apologized. We weren’t chained to our cubicles this week as we went backstage with Justice, sat front row at the Jay-Z/Mary J. Blige tour opener, hung out with Hawthorne Heights and prognosticated with Def Leppard. Over in the Capri Lounge, the Rolling Stone editors talked about the possible reunion of the comedy troupe The State, compared Isiah Thomas’ Knicks to George Bush’s presidency, tried to bring Tag Team back again and got an inside look at the glamourous day-to-day life of a Rolling Stone intern.

Published: 2008-03-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Hawthorne Heights Prep for Bamboozle Without Casey Calvert, Talk New LP

Hawthorne Heights’ performance at next weekend’s Bamboozle Left festival will be their first show since the untimely passing of guitarist/screamer Casey Calvert last November, and the band still isn’t sure how it will go down. “There is one song that we’re playing especially for Casey. It’s a new song,” says drummer Eron Bucciarelli. “Once we’re out there, we’ll announce it and let people know what it is. It’s going to be on our next album, but the song is still a work in progress and we’re changing it day by day.” The band — Bucciarelli, frontman JT Woodruff, guitarist Micah Carli and bassist Matt Ridenour — have been sorting through material from 2004’s The Silence in Black and White and 2006’s If Only You Were Lonely to see what will work best for next Sunday’s show in Irvine, California. “We have to relearn these songs and figure out how we’re going to play them with just the four of us,” explains Bucciarelli. Calvert, who accidentally overdosed from a mixture of prescribed anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medication and a painkiller for a root canal, was an integral part of Hawthorne Heights. “We played around with the idea of sampling his screaming parts from our records and just playing this through the PA, but we decided that that wasn’t really real and that it would be better to just let the fans scream along to those parts if they want,” Bucciarelli says. Hawthorne Heights have learned several hard lessons in the past year. Prior to Calvert’s death, the band filed a lawsuit against Victory Records for breach of contract and has also had to defend the counterclaims. Last March, a judge ruled in Hawthorne’s Heights’ favor, saying that the label does not hold exclusive rights to the band’s recordings, but the matter is far from over. “We want to be able to release a record however we want. We had sort of been misguided a little bit at the beginning of that whole process. I think if we knew then what we know now, we may not

Published: 2008-03-27 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News