The clip, directed by Paul Boyd (The Cult, Blind Melon), revels in its satirical look at the co-dependent atmosphere spawned by the Lindsay-to-Britney-to-Paris media-merry-go-round that has swept up the paparazzi and American tabloid culture.

The tour will benefit Habitat for Humanity's home building in many ways. For starters, artists on the tour will collectively donate $1 to Habitat for Humanity for each ticket sold during the tour. In addition, funds raised from ticket auctions, special merchandise items and event packages will be designated to fund Habitat for Humanity in each tour city. The bands plan to pick up hammers and lend a hand at various Habitat for Humanity build sites along the tour and to invite some current and future homeowners to attend the show as their guests.

Digital Versatile Doom features live versions of songs from HIM's current album Venus Doom, including the singles "The Kiss of Dawn," "Passion's Killing Floor," and "Bleed Well," as well as their music videos. The DVD also features tracks off the band's 2005 U.S. debut, the gold-certified Dark Light, including "Rip Out the Wings of a Butterfly" and "Killing Loneliness."

"All of her April activities have been postponed or cancelled so she can take care of her voice properly," a 19/Jive Records spokeswoman told The Associated Press.

In other news, Def Leppard have partnered with Activision Inc.'s Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock on an epic three-song track pack that will give fans an exclusive opportunity to sample the band's #1 new radio single, 'Nine Lives' five days before their upcoming studio album Songs From The Sparkle Lounge releases on April, 29, 2008. The single is the result of Def Leppard's groundbreaking collaboration with country music legend Tim McGraw, and will be featured on their highly anticipated upcoming record Songs From The Sparkle Lounge, the band's first new studio release since 2006's Yeah, which begins yet another remarkable new chapter in the band's 30-year recording career.

Claymates will make a run on record retailers on May 6th, when Aiken's new album, 'On My Way Here,' is released and the following week he'll make two late night appearances to promote it.

In the short time since its release, "Happy Mother's Day", has been downloaded over 85,000 times. He's on to something for sure. MacGeraghty reflects on what inspired him to write a song about mothers saying:

PeterWentzlover had this to say, "This just proves how bad the media is he actually said ' i can't wait to see what other rumors will spill about me like how i'm in a gay relationship and this is all a cover' wow they got it all wrong!"

Normally we could somewhat understand PeterWentzlover's misunderstanding, had it not been for the next paragraph in our article, "For lawyers and dumbasses, we intentionally took Wentz's 'gay' quote out of context for humor value and to help make his point. We don't know, nor care, if Pete is a homosexual or if Ashlee is with child. - Now go read the quote in context at MTV if you actually care about either."

PeterWentzlover, please try and read more carefully in the future to prevent more misunderstandings. And for the record, here is what Wentz actually said "There is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood. This is all news to me. I can't wait for the story about how I'm really in a gay relationship and this is all just a cover. ... I mean really, this is crazy. ... I mean we're engaged, that's true, and happy about it."

Cold Bed Play

This one is for the girlfriend, not a reader. She threatened to withhold after reading last week's article about the new Coldplay album. So please mentally replace the line "Here are the tracks that did make the final cut, or as we like to say '10 Reasons To Avoid The New Coldplay CD'" with "Here are Reasons To Drop Everything and Buy The New Coldplay CD". Hope that works. Not a big fan of the color blue.

The Audacity of Hype

A couple regular reader wrote in about our coverage of the Motley Crue tour announcement. They think we may have overdone the mocking just a bit. We'll grant them that, but we were simply making fun of all the hype surrounding this tour. And our joking coverage was actually far less than if we had printed every press release that was sent to us from various "PR" sources (check some other music sites for ALL of those, seems like every fifth story this past week was about Motley). But for the record, we're pretty much done now with the joke. (Unless additional hype still floods our inboxes. Then we might have to poke a little more fun). In all seriousness, we wish them a successful tour and hope the fans have fun and get what they pay for. We'll now turn our event coverage back to other "big" tours happening this summer and try and leave the Crue out of it.

Queer Eye For the Webguy

Thanks to everyone that wrote in to compliment our new design. We rather like ourselves. Normally when we do a redesign we'll hear from a couple dozen people with complaints, but this time only one person sent in an angry missive (with complaints about the layout.) He was correct, there were a couple tweaks needed so people that use old screen resolutions (circa Window 95 era) could read the site properly. The layout was set up to accommodate the majority of websurfers, but we did miss a critical piece of code that would make the text legible for those with older monitors or resolutions. That was quickly fixed and we are still tweaking older articles and areas of the site to comply with the new design. But if you run into any problems with the new layout, please let us know so we can fix it.

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