sum41

Sum 41 is a Canadian rock band from Ajax, Ontario,[1] active since 1996. The current members are Deryck Whibley (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Jason McCaslin (bass guitar, backing vocals), Steve Jocz (drums, backing vocals), and Tom Thacker (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboard).In 1999, the band signed an international record deal with Island Records. The band released their debut album, All Killer No Filler in 2001. The band achieved mainstream success with their first single from the album, "Fat Lip", which reached number-one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and remains the band's most successful single to date.[2] All Killer No Filler...

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Weezer-Inspired Clothing Line Hits Shelves

The confusion over Weezer‘s new album Hurley continues… First the story was that the guys named it after Jorge Garcia’s character on Lost. Then Brian Bell said that the band had forged a partnership with the clothing brand Hurley, which made us all think that the brand must have footed the bill for the new album.He also said that Hurley had given the band some clothes and that they would be selling the clothes in malls. Then he retracted what he said. But now it’s pretty obvious that there’s a direct connection between Weezer and the brand, because the band just released a limited edition clothing line through Hurley on Friday.The line consists...

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Reading Festival 2010

The UK longest consistently running music festival returns and this year there was no shortage of controversy, and no shortage of mud either. Background:Reading is one of the UK's (and the world’s) longest running music festivals. It’s origins date back to 1961 and the National Jazz Festival before it transformed into Reading 1971 and later, Reading & Leeds in 1999. While it’s always been a music festival, it has tended to learn heavily towards hard rock, alternative and indie. Reading’s brief dabble with pop in 1988 headlined by Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler was a disaster of epic proportions leading to wide scale bottling and abuse. Over the...

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