Grammys

The 52nd Grammy Awards have just added more live performances to an already packed star studded line up which includes artist such as: Beyonce, Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift, Maxwell and Lady Antebellum. Alongside these artists are Green Day, Lady GaGa Pink, Dave Matthews Band and the Zac Brown Band. All five of the nominees selected for "Album of the Year" which include GaGa and Dave Matthews Band, will be performing at the Staples Center in Los Angeles that evening. According to a press release from the Recording Academy, more presenters and artists are going to be revealed very soon.

This year's award ceremony sure to be a big night out for the girls since Beyonce comes in with 10 nominations for "I Am...Sasha Fierce", Taylor Swift is joining the party with eight nominations for her record "Fearless" and Lady Gaga is not too far behind with 5 nominations to her name. The boys are not empty handed however, as Maxwell has six nominations while the Peas, Kanye West, and Jay-Z all come in with five of their own.

Lady Gaga took a moment to thank the little people during a show on her Monster Ball tour upon first learning about her five nominations. "So, thank you to all of you little monsters," she told the crowd. "This year, you were nominated for five Grammy Awards. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be where I am today, so thank you!"

The Grammy Awards will air on CBS at 8pm EST on January 31st, 2010 so don't miss it!

Hello everybody, how's it going with ya'll so far? Hope it's all good!

MTV.com posted some news concerning Blink 182 and their upcoming reunion tour, and since being away for so long, it's nice they still have their sense of humor.

The guys made their first radio appearance May 18th on KROQ's Kevin & Bean's show. The punk rockers talked about getting back together, the summer tour and jokes made between Mark and Tom during their surprise show in Los Angeles.

Guitarist Tom Delonge joked about his other side band, Angels & Airwaves, "I need to apologize. For the past few years I've been doing this serious stuff. And then the first song we came out and play, and I come right out and ask people if they masturbate to the 'Lord of the Rings' ...it was crazy."

Looks like things are back to normal with the band, hysterical sense of humor and all. Delonge and his bandmate, Mark Hoppus killed some rumors that Delonge looked kind of uncomfortable during Grammy night.

Hoppus said, "let me address this...here's what happened. We show up at the Grammys, Travis and I were there for an hour before we're supposed to go on...they sent Tom a car for him that never showed up. So, he's not there, and literally the lady was like, 'If you don't have a full band in 30 seconds, we're cutting you from the show.' And, like, Tom walks in, they send us to a holding area and then it's like, 'GO!' "

Delonge goes on to joke, "I think people thought we were like the crew dudes. People were confused."

Moving on to tour! Big news of the year, the guys will embark on a three month tour starting July 24th and ending in October. Tom has promised fans the show will include lasers, and Mark has sworn to an amazing light show. During the KROQ show, the band took caller suggestions to give their tour a name! However, there was only one winner, "One-Way Ticket to Boneville."

Our beloved bassist laughs, "we've had some good names in the past...'Poo-Poo Pee-Pee,' 'Race Around Uranus,' that one tour where we had the F-word written in flames. But I kind of like 'One-Way Ticket to Boneville.' I don't know if anything's going to top that."

In more Blink news, they'll be on the cover of the July 2009 issue of Alternative Press Magazine. On the cover, they're quoted as saying, "we wanna take the biggest shot that we possibly can." They want to assure everyone not to call this a reunion! It'll be in newsstands soon, should be good!

As far as album news goes, the guys are busy in the studio recording their follow up to the 2003 self-titled record. Don't expect to hear more than one new song on the tour though. Hoppus says for now, it's all about the hits, "I think that people want to hear the old stuff right now. I think that people want to relive the old times, and the people who haven't seen Blink yet want to see the songs they've been listening to the past few years. We'll throw in some new stuff, but this is about reforming as a band and playing the songs that we grew  up playing."

It is still unknown whether or not the Blink men will debut their official single before the tour starts later this year in Las Vegas. Keep your fingers crossed!

They're still signed to their label, Interscope, "Interscope will be putting out our next record, but I don't know if hte song will be coming out as a release- a for-sale version for the tour or not, or if we'll just debut it for the tour and let it sit it in...badly-played live editions," according to Mark.

Read this article from LA Times here.

On top of all this good news, the Blink boys have returned to performing on live television. The trio ripped through their 2001 hit, "The Rock Show" on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno! 

Watch a clip of the guys in action below, enjoy!

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