The Beastie Boys
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The Beastie Boys have plenty in store for fans on their upcoming Get Out and Vote Tour — and not all of it has to do with, you know, voting.

"We're going to work on a lot of dance steps and stuff, because we're setting aside a block of time just for dance stuff. Maybe an hour," Ad-Rock laughed. "And, you know, then the rapping. We've got to work on the rapping stuff. And then just basically physique and toning and tanning. Work on our core. You know, we're going to work on that."

We suspect he's joking (except for the rapping bit), because the Beasties actually have some rather big ideas for the tour — which kicks off October 27 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and will make stops in five other crucial swing states in the week leading up to Election Day. To them, this is the most important election in recent memory, and they hope to get that message across to young voters.

"The decision to play the swing states was like, 'OK, we're here in New York City. It's a foregone conclusion what's going to happen here' — same in California and some other places," Mike D explained. "But let's really get to the places where ... you've got a younger demographic of voter, and they're saying, 'Well, is my vote really going to make a difference? Is it really going to count? Is it really going to be counted?' And I think in this election, in those states, absolutely. Every vote matters. And I think the last two elections were a great precedent — not how they ended up, necessarily — but in terms of if you look at [how the election was] decided by 2,000 votes in the state of Florida. That's a great example of how clear it is that every vote matters."

"And it's a great example of how bad things can get if the wrong person gets into office," MCA added, drawing laughs from his bandmates.

The lineup for the Beasties' tour changes with each city — Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Norah Jones, Sheryl Crow and Tenacious D are just some of the acts confirmed — but the message remains the same at each stop: Your vote matters. You can make a difference. This is very important.

"We found ourselves — like a lot of people throughout this whole country — sitting around realizing this is going to be the most important election of our lives, for a variety of reasons," Mike D said. "You've got a huge economic crisis, we're engaged in two wars, Social Security is about to run out, [and there are] huge environmental issues and environmental crises. So I think in terms of our lifetime, we thought, 'What can we do to make sure that this is something that's decided by the overwhelming population of the people and not just a few thousand people in one state?' "

The tour wraps in Denver on November 3 — the day before millions head to the polls — and if you're thinking about showing up but worried that a late night might make you groggy on Election Day, don't worry. The Beasties have you covered. Like we said, this is a pretty big deal to them.

"We finish in Colorado, in a very important swing state ... and yes, everyone needs to get up early and get to the polls. So we're going to give them all a gift certificate for coffee in the morning," D laughed. "Actually, I just made that up, so it's sort of a lie, but it's a good idea. I'm going to put that forward to our people. We'll see what happens."

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• Beastie Boys
• Norah Jones
• Ben Harper
• Tenacious D
• Jack Johnson

Radiohead's Thom Yorke performs at the 2008 All Points West Festival
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JERSEY CITY, New Jersey — The much-anticipated All Points West Music & Arts Festival kicked off in New Jersey's Liberty State Park this weekend with performances by Radiohead, Jack Johnson and the Kings of Leon, among others. But in addition to being the Tri-State area's first weekend-long multi-band fest in quite some time, APW is also hoping to make a name as the greenest festival around.

"We're striving to be green," festival organizer Ken Tesler told MTV News. "There are very few people driving to this festival. It's a huge mass-transit event, and I think that alone must save a tremendous amount of fuel and help from an emissions standpoint."

"Gossip Girl" star Jessica Szohr and supermodel Jessica Stam agree. "I think it's great how transportation by ferry is being so encouraged," Stam said. "And they made it really hard to get parking passes, so that keeps it green."

"It was crazy there at the ferry today," Szohr added. "The line was so long — I was like, 'What is this?' "

The festival also kept it green backstage by providing nondisposable materials, at the artists' request.

"That takes a lot of extra effort and extra money ... but the artists were very conscious about not throwing stuff away," co-festival organizer Mike Donovan said. "We're not adding tons of plastic and paper plates backstage, but it's a small thing, and there's probably a ways to go there."

But some of the day-two artists said it's the small things that count. "My girlfriend drives a hybrid, and I quit turning my lights on when I go to the restroom," Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill joked. His bandmate and brother Jared Followill does his part for the environment by shopping with a reusable cotton bag from Whole Foods.

The Virgins are also keeping it green by drinking tap water on the road and refilling plastic water bottles "with water from the clubs," said bassist Nick Zarin-Ackerman.

The Roots' ?uestlove encourages his engineer to turn off all the equipment in the studio to save energy. Chromeo would like to tour greener but feel they already do a lot by not taking a fleet of trucks or buses on tour with them.

"I recycle," P-Thugg added.

"Our music is recycled anyway," Dave 1 added. "So it's green."

According to Donovan, keeping APW green — as other music festivals have been doing in recent years — is a real priority for the artists. Headliners Radiohead actually commissioned a carbon-footprint study of their tour, and Jack Johnson brought an interactive eco-village to the festival in order to educate attendees about the importance of maintaining a green lifestyle.

"These artists are out there not to beat people over the head but to increase awareness of a lot of different issues," Donovan said.

The festival also featured green elements such as environmental-awareness booths and eco-friendly art. And at the TRASHed Recycling Store, concertgoers exchanged plastic bottles and cans for merchandise like T-shirts and beach balls, among other things.

"One 10-year-old got a skateboard earlier today," a TRASHed volunteer said. "He had, like, 200 bottles."

"In a pretty easy way, it creates a little consciousness about what happens when you throw it away," Donovan said. "Let's pick it all up, let's get a little reward for doing so, and it will also keep the grounds looking a lot nicer for everyone throughout the weekend."

"We got here this morning and it was absolutely clean," Virgins guitarist Wade Oates said. "We thought it was going to be destroyed. ... I guess people are really making a conscious effort."

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• All Points West Puts The Environment First

• All Points West Festival At New Jersey's Liberty State Park

• Radiohead
• Jack Johnson
• Chromeo
• Kings Of Leon
• The Roots

Lil Wayne performs at the 2008 Virgin Mobile Festival
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BALTIMORE — Fans got more than they bargained for at this weekend's Virgin Mobile Festival — more Kanye, anyway.

Not content to close out the two-day festival with his headlining Sunday slot, Mr. West stormed the stage earlier in the day, joining Lil Wayne for a meeting of hip-hop's hottest. Maybe 'Ye was pulling double duty to outshine the legends (Bob Dylan, Iggy and the Stooges), big rock veterans (Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, Nine Inch Nails, Offspring), and upstarts (Paramore, Jack Johnson, Duffy) who took the Virgin stage over the weekend at Pimlico Race Course.

Rocking a Louis Vuitton backpack, West joined Weezy on Sunday afternoon to spit his verse from the "Lollipop" remix without skipping a beat. The collabo was the high-energy point of a blistering, better-late-than-never performance. Showing up a half-hour late for an hourlong set would be a cardinal sin for most artists, but Weezy more than made up for it. The crowd chanted his name and even booed briefly while waiting for his set, but it was all love once Lil Wayne hit the stage. Wayne came with a mix of old-school, new-school and a lot of gratitude. "How many of y'all got Tha Carter III?" he asked. "I f---in' appreciate you."

He even took time to honor Static Major, asking for a moment of silence for the late rapper and songwriter before jumping into the song that catapulted Wayne from an underground mixtaper to an undeniable mainstream superstar. After welcoming Kanye up for "Lollipop," Wayne wrapped his set with even more gratitude and some laughs, lip-syncing to Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" before leaving the stage.

While Wayne's day was done, Kanye was just getting started. He returned to the stage later that night like a hurricane, shrouded in flashing lights and fog. Fans threw up their Roc-A-Fella diamonds early and held them high all night. No irony was lost on 'Ye, who made it a point to prove his authenticity before jumping into "Diamonds From Sierra Leone."

"I work real hard at this rapping sh--," he said. "This is real rap."

Kanye dove into a set spanning his entire career, from his most recent verse from Young Jeezy's "Put On" to his humble beginnings on "All Comes Down," asking fans to "scream so loud I can't hear the music" if they knew the song.

And, of course, 'Ye talked, touching on everything from his mother's death to Barack Obama's nomination to crime in the festival's host city of Baltimore. He freestyled as well, expressing his gratitude for fame and his frustration that comes along with it. The raw emotion was undeniable. "I lost my mama/ I went through so much drama/ I went through so much drama/ I'm for Obama," he rapped. He then described his journey over to Pimlico Race Course, noting the flashing blue lights above cameras stationed throughout the 'hood and being content with the fact that even though many Baltimore natives couldn't afford to attend the concert, they could still see and hear the show from the parking lot outside the gates. He also shouted out MySpace, the Internet and Lil Wayne before beginning "Touch the Sky."

West took a bit of a jab at the festival's schedule, specifically the choice concertgoers had to make between his performance and one from Nine Inch Nails happening at the same time at the other end of the park (a dilemma faced by fans at Chicago's Lollapalooza a week earlier). "It's not a black-or-white thing, it's not a rap-or-rock-and-roll thing," he exclaimed. "It's a good-music thing. We jam about good things from the heart. How can you pick between me and Trent Reznor?"

But at the end of the day, Kanye's focus all came back down to his fans. Again freestyling, 'Ye expressed his eagerness to please those who came out to support him. "I hope you had a good time ... f--- that, the time of your life!" And with diamonds high in the sky and screams that could be heard around the block, the crowd's enthusiasm matched Kanye's (no easy feat).

The day before, it was up to West's fellow Chi-Town native Lupe Fiasco, who had fans bobbing their heads and singing along to "Superstar" and "Kick, Push." Despite technical difficulties, Lupe aimed to please, shouting after his microphone problem was resolved, "Let's hype this bitch back up, all right?" Given the amount of crowd-surfing during his set and the volume of fans chanting his name when he left the stage, he seemed to succeed.

But the weekend wasn't all about hip-hop. The Foos, the Stooges, Paramore and NIN brought the rock, but the guitar heroes of the day might have been Stone Temple Pilots. Taking the stage later than expected (thanks, Weezy), STP seemed to be the picture of reunification. The band was completely in sync thanks to its current 65-date tour. The focus wasn't mainly on themselves, though. Scott Weiland shared the love, shouting out those sharing the bill. "What a great day of f---ing music!," he gushed. "How about Iggy and the Stooges? And Nine Inch Nails are coming up!" He also had love for the crowd. "What a sea of energy," he exclaimed just before the crowd sang and bobbed along to every note of the band's breakthrough hit "Plush."

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• Paramore, Lil Wayne, More At Virgin Mobile Festival 2008

• Lil Wayne
• Kanye West
• Young Jeezy
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Nine Inch Nails

Janet Jackson's <i>Discipline</i>
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How's this for a wipeout? After three weeks of domination, surfer-turned-rocker Jack Johnson's reign as the nation's top-selling artist has come to an end — and we have pop icon Janet Jackson to thank.

Jackson's latest studio offering, Discipline, will top next week's Billboard albums sales chart, having generated week-one scans of more than 181,000, dethroning Johnson's Sleep Through the Static and dropping the LP to the chart's #3 position; Johnson's disc sold just over 91,500 copies during its fourth week of commercial availability. With its strong sales, Discipline becomes Jackson's sixth career chart-topper: Her 1986 album Control also entered the top 200 at #1, as did 1989's Rhythm Nation 1814, 1993's Janet., 1997's The Velvet Rope, and 2001's All for You. (Jackson's last two releases, 2004's Damita Jo and 2006's 20 Y.O. both opened at #2.)

But Miss Jackson's new one isn't the only new release to enter in the top 10. Right behind her at #2 is the latest from Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part One (4th World War), the first half of Badu's double-album set, which sold close to 123,900 units. Believe it or not, Badu has never seen one of her albums bow at #1; 1997's Baduizm and 2003's Worldwide Underground opened at #2 and #3, respectively.

Joining Jackson and Badu in the top 10 is rapper Webbie's Savage Life 2, which enters at #4 after selling 72,000 copies. The rest of the top 10 is teeming with the usual suspects, as well as a couple of surprises. Falling three spots to #5 on next week's chart is Alicia Keys' As I Am, which sold 57,300 copies. Coming in at #6 is "Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus," with sales reported at 54,500, and following at #7, with more than 46,700 scans, it's the soundtrack to "Once," which features the Oscar-winning number "Falling Slowly." The disc experienced a 143 percent spike in sales.

The soundtrack to "Juno" follows at #8 with 42,000 sold, and at #9, it's breakout artist Sara Bareilles' Little Voice, which sold another 37,800 units. This week, MTV News spoke with Bareilles — who's wrapping up a tour with James Blunt — about her recent rash of seemingly instant success.

"I was very surprised when we were on 'TRL' at all, but the whole time I was thinking, 'What am I doing here? This is crazy,' " she said. "It happened relatively quickly, but we've been at it a long time. This has been six years in the making, and I'm glad we're at a point where people are connecting to the music on a greater scale."

Finally, coming in at #10, it's Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, which sold another 37,500 copies, following her recent Grammy wins.

Elsewhere on the chart, rapper Shawty Lo's Units in the City opens at #13, having sold 31,000 during its first week in stores. The record was one of 20 to debut on next week's top 200. The Afters' Never Going Back to OK bows at #41 with 16,000 scans, while Goldfrapp's Seventh Tree debuts at #48, selling 14,900. Pillar's For the Love of the Game enters at #71 with 10,900 sold, while Cheri Dennis' In and Out of Love follows at #74 with 10,700-plus scanned. Tift Merritt's Another Country claims the #156 spot with 5,000 sold, and Pete Rock's NY's Finest checks in at #193 with 3,800. Finally, selling 3,700 units, it's Beach House's Devotion, which just makes the cut at #195.

• Janet Jackson
• Jack Johnson
• Erykah Badu
• Webbie
• Alicia Keys

Jack Johnson's <i>Sleep Through the Static</i>
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It's an annual tradition, and probably one of the only reasons artists still bother showing up for the Grammys (well, that or the gift bag): the post-awards sales bump, which sends albums by nominees, winners and performers — and pretty much anyone who landed a few minutes of Grammy face time (if Jason Bateman had an album, it'd probably be sitting at #1 right now) — rocketing up the Billboard albums chart.

And this year was no exception. Because while Jack Johnson's Sleep Through the Static will retain its hold on the #1 spot on next week's chart, with sales of more than 179,500 copies, the rest of the Top 200 is stuffed with albums posting colossal Grammy-bump numbers, according to SoundScan data.

It all starts with the album sitting at #2, Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, which sold more than 115,300 copies (a 368 percent increase from the previous week's sales), thanks in no small part to the Beehived One's five Grammy wins — including Record and Song of the Year — and her high-profile, live-via-satellite performance.

Coming in at #3 is Alicia Keys' As I Am, which has taken up a permanent residence in the top 10 since being released in November, but still saw sales rise by 36 percent (more than 108,800 copies this week) after Keys' two Grammy performances and her win in the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance category. Following behind Keys is the 2008 Grammy Nominees compilation, which sold 72,400 copies, a 40 percent increase from the previous week.

Landing at #5 is the man who shocked pretty much everyone by taking home the Grammy for Album of the Year, Herbie Hancock, who saw sales of River: The Joni Letters top the 53,800 mark, an amazing 967 percent spike from the previous week. Clearly, winning has its privileges.

The rest of the top 10 is rounded out by the "Juno" soundtrack (more than 53,200 copies sold), Best New Artist nominee Taylor Swift's self-titled debut (52,100 copies), Sheryl Crow's Detours (51,700 copies), Mary J. Blige's Growing Pains (48,600 copies) and the soundtrack to "Step Up 2 the Streets" (more than 45,200 copies).

The post-Grammy mania continued outside the top 10 too. Daughtry didn't take home an award (going 0-4), but sales of their self-titled album still rose by more than 43 percent from the previous week, landing the "Idol" finalist and his band at #15 with about 38,200 copies sold. The Foo Fighters' Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace won a pair of Grammys (for Best Rock Album and Best Hard Rock Performance), and it sold more than 33,400 copies — a 160 percent increase — to land at #22.

Other winners and performers who experienced big-time sales bumps include Carrie Underwood (almost 30,000 copies of her Carnival Ride album, a 43 percent increase from the previous week); Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad (27,000 copies, a 60 percent increase); Kanye West's Graduation (more than 22,600 copies, a 74 percent increase); and Feist, who left the Grammys with just a slice of pizza but still sold almost 14,800 copies of The Reminder, a 70 percent increase from the previous week.

Aside from all the Grammy goings-on, next week's chart will also showcase a couple of debuts. Simple Plan's serious, self-titled disc sold more than 39,200 copies to open at #14. Jam-meisters Widespread Panic bow at #78 with their Free Somehow disc, and Natalie Grant's Relentless debuts at #81.

• Amy Winehouse
• Alicia Keys
• Jack Johnson
• Herbie Hancock
• Taylor Swift

Jack Johnson's <i>Sleep Through the Static</i>
Photo: Brushfire Records

We're not even two months into 2008, and already a disturbing trend has developed for the ever-slumping music industry: So far this year, only two of the records to assume the Billboard album chart's peak position have sold more than 100,000 copies. Of course, six-digit sales figures used to be the norm — without them, most records never stood a chance at claiming the chart's #1 spot.

After Radiohead's In Rainbows sold more than 122,300 copies during the first week of '08, earning it Billboard's coveted apex, each subsequent #1 album has failed to come even remotely close to matching that sales total. Alicia Keys' As I Am spent the next two weeks on top, selling 70,300 and 60,500 copies, respectively. Then, the "Juno" soundtrack took over, after moving close to 65,000 units. Keys' LP returned to the #1 position just last week, having sold just 61,300 copies.

But this week, before the release of the generally high, post-Grammy sales figures, surfer-turned-crooner Jack Johnson has reversed the tide, at least for the time being. With little more than 374,600 copies sold during week one, Johnson's latest studio offering, Sleep Through the Static, has become the year's best-selling new release. That means it is 2008's first bona fide "hit" record, according to the latest SoundScan data.

But being on top is a sensation Johnson knows well. While his 2003 LP, On and On, and 2005's In Between Dreams both entered the top 200 at #3, his 2006 effort, Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film "Curious George," debuted at #1, with sales clocked at just under 163,000. Johnson's new one even robbed music vet Sheryl Crow of a #1 debut. Her latest album, Detours, bows at #2 on next week's chart, after generating just 92,300 scans.

A whopping 22 new releases enter next week's top 200, with four opening in the coveted top 10. Lenny Kravitz's latest, It Is Time for a Love Revolution, opens at #4 with 73,300 copies snatched up, right behind Keys' As I Am, which drops two spots to #3 with 80,200 sold. The 2008 Grammy Nominees compilation holds at #5 with 51,700, while the "Juno" soundtrack trails in the #6 slot, selling another 47,200 units. Meanwhile, Mary J. Blige's Growing Pains closes out the week with 44,600 in sales to finish at #7. The last newcomer to the top 10 checks in at #8: k.d. lang's Watershed, which sold 41,000 copies. Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus follows at #9, scanning an additional 40,000 units, while Taylor Swift's self-titled debut rounds things out at #10 with sales reported at 38,700.

The next highest-charting of the week's newcomers comes in at #13. The soundtrack to "Step Up 2: The Streets," featuring tracks by Flo Rida, Missy Elliott, Cassie, T-Pain and others, sold close to 31,500 units; and next week's #14, Kenny G's Rhythm & Romance, generated first-week sales of 31,000 and change. Nada Surf's Lucky enters the chart at #81 with 9,200 sold, while Hot Chip's Made in the Dark opens at #108 with sales of 7,100. The HorrorPops' Kiss Kiss Kill Kill bows at #148, with 5,200 scans. They Might Be Giants' Here Come the 123s sits in the #171 hole, with 4,500 carried away from the nation's record stores. Finally, Bob Mould's District Line just makes the list at #190, with 4,000 scans, and Al Green's What Makes the World Go Round enters at #197, selling 3,700 copies.

• Jack Johnson
• Alicia Keys
• Sheryl Crow
• Mary J. Blige
• Miley Cyrus

Christina Aguilera
Photo: RCA Records

Veterans Day won't be celebrated for many more months — it falls on November 11, to be precise — but with new releases from Sheryl Crow, Lenny Kravitz, k.d. lang and others dropping, it may as well be Tuesday (February 5). While those releases will likely rank high on next week's SoundScan chart, though, there are a few more-MTV-friendly artists we need to talk about first ...

Back To Back To Basics: Christina Aguilera has been milking her last studio album, big time, in the year and a half since it came out. Originally released in August 2006, Back to Basics was chased by a massive world trek; a "tour edition" re-release of the set, with a bonus DVD, that November; and now an exclusive Best Buy package containing two DVDs. The first disc has 90 minutes' worth of footage from two gigs she played at Sydney's Acer Arena in July 2007, while the second is loaded with behind-the-scenes peeks; interviews with the singer, husband Jordan Bratman, her dancers, her musical director and others; and more. SoCal fans should head to the Best Buy in West Hollywood, where Aguilera will autograph the release, marking her first public appearance since she gave birth in January.

Jack Attack: Now this is what you call going green — Jack Johnson recorded his entire new studio album in Hawaii and Los Angeles using analog tape machines powered by solar energy. The singer/songwriter, who will play his first U.S. show in support of Sleep Through the Static in Hawaii on Earth Day, April 22, said in a statement, "Some of the songs on this album are about making babies. Some of the songs are about raising them. Some of the songs are about the world that these children will grow up in; a world of war and love, and hate, and time and space. Some of the songs are about saying goodbye to people I love and will miss." Fans who preordered the album — which is a bit more electric than Johnson's previous releases — through iTunes were gifted with a bonus track, "Goodbye."

Hot Stuff: The last time we heard from Hot Chip — in 2006, when they put out The Warning — they walked away with a Mercury Music Prize nomination. Now the electro-pop collective is hoping for repeat success with Made in the Dark, which was recorded and self-produced at its London studio over the last half-year. The new songs are more rockin' than previous Hot Chip material, and fans who have caught their recent gigs are already familiar with some of them. If you're really into the band, keep an eye out for the two-disc version of Made in the Dark — it has five live-performance videos, including a pair from the Glastonbury Festival. As for the proper CD, tracks include "Bendable Poseable"; "Touch Too Much"; and "Shake a Fist," which samples a Todd Rundgren tune, if you can believe it.

Vetted: Big surprise — albums haven't been selling well in 2008 so far, with last week's Billboard albums chart champ, the "Juno" soundtrack, winding up in the throne with just under 65,000 copies sold. Well, this week will likely bring a hot sales injection into the charts, thanks to the return of some big-name veteran singer/songwriters:

Sheryl Crow
· Grammys won: 10
· Studio LPs released: six
· New album title: Detours
· Takeaway quote: "This is the most honest record I've ever made," she said in a statement.
· Details: With producer Bill Bottrell — who worked with Crow on her massive 1993 debut, Tuesday Night Music Club — back onboard, it could be one of her most successful too.

Lenny Kravitz
· Grammys won: four
· Studio LPs released: eight
· New album title: It Is Time for a Revolution
· Takeaway quote: "I felt like a kid playing in my bedroom, and that's the most important thing you can tap into, that feeling of being free," Kravitz — who also tapped into his opposition toward the Iraq war on the disc — said in a statement.
· Details: The deluxe edition — which has a color cover, instead of a black-and-white one — comes with a bonus DVD featuring an intimate documentary.

k.d. lang
· Grammys won: four
· Studio LPs released: 10
· New album title: Watershed
· Takeaway quote: "It's about self-examination. It's about seeing where I am in the world, and how I do or don't connect to the universe," she told New York's Daily News.
· Details: The limited deluxe edition is a Unibox with cloth wrap and embossed foil stamp, and includes photo cards, two CD sleeves — and more importantly, a bonus CD with four extra songs and an interview.

Young Brood: Superstars aside, there is also a batch of fresher faces on the singer/songwriter side this week. Here's a quick breakdown:

Jason Collett
· Hails from: Ontario
· Studio LPs released: three
· New album title: Here's to Being Here
· Details: Fellow members of the Broken Social Scene, as well as the Stills and beyond, lent Collett their skills for the effort.

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
· Hails from: L.A.
· Studio LPs released: four (as a solo artist)
· New album title: Calibration
· Details: Frequent collaborator John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mars Volta bandmate Cedric Bixler-Zavala and others gave Rodriguez-Lopez a boost.

Kelley Stoltz
· Hails from: San Fran
· Studio LPs released: six
· New album title: Circular Sounds
· Details: "It's called Circular Sounds, which barely defeated The Glass Moustache and Prism Breakout for [the] new album title," he said in a post on his Web site.

Josh Kelley
· Hails from: Nashville
· Studio LPs released: four
· New album title: Special Company
· Details: He recently married "27 Dresses" actress Katherine Heigl!

Lightspeed Champion
· Hails from: London
· Studio LPs released: one
· New album title: Falling Off the Lavender Bridge
· Details: Taste-making producer Mike Mogis, in addition to members of Bright Eyes and the Faint, helped ex-Test Icicles guitarist Dev Hynes with his LP, which has already drawn raves overseas.

Basia Bulat
· Hails from: Ontario
· Studio LPs released: one
· New album title: Oh, My Darling
· Details: The Rough Trade artist teamed with producer Howard Bilerman (the Arcade Fire, British Sea Power) for the album, and one of the songs has already been selected for a Volkswagen ad.

Song Title of the Week:

"I'll Splatter You Like Jackson Pollock" from Gwen Stacy's The Life I Know

Album Cover of the Week:

Clutchy Hopkins' Walking Backwards

Other Notables:

HorrorPops' Kiss Kiss Kill Kill
"We really wanted to get back to the classic new wave feel that we love," singer Patricia Day said in a statement. "And I think our excitement about these songs has made a hell of difference." The movie-obsessed Danish psychobilly punks dish up "Thelma and Louise," "Hitchcock Starlet" and "MissFit" on their latest effort.

Warbringer's War Without End The young Los Angeles thrash-metal band — which has been touring with Exodus and Goatwhore — made its debut album available for free for a limited time on MetalSucks.net. The disc was produced by Bill Metoyer (Slayer, D.R.I.) and features such titular-appropriate songs as "Total War," "Hell on Earth" and "Shoot to Kill."

Sleep Station's The Pride of Chester James
At the center of this orchestral-pop group is one David Debiak, a man who is prone to mental breakdowns and has written songs in the past about necrophilia, humans falling in love with robots and astronauts dying in outer space. This time around, he and his crew utilized an old tape machine, Hammond organs and more for songs like "Tired of Me Now," "Thunder" and "Hello Mr. Coughlin." "This record has weighed heavily on me for quite some time," he said in a statement. "Writing the songs was the easy part — they came naturally. Living and reliving them was far more difficult, but some say that the joy is in the journey."

New Releases:

· Air Traffic - Fractured Life (Astralwerks) [Buy Now]
· Baby Walrus - Baby Walrus (Slumber Party)
· Big Bang - Wild Bird EP (Grand Sport) [Buy Now]
· Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling (Rough Trade)
· Caspa & Rusko - Fabric.Live 37 (Fabric)
· Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" soundtrack (Mute)
· Beth Nielsen Chapman - Prism: The Human Family Songbook (two CDs; Thirty Tigers)
· Jason Collett - Here's to Being Here (Arts & Crafts)
· Chick Corea & Gary Burton - The New Crystal Silence (two CDs; Concord)
· Sheryl Crow - Detours (A&M) [Buy Now]
· Taylor Dayne - Satisfied (Adrenaline)
· Dead Meadow - Old Growth (enhanced; Matador)
· Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra - Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra (Thrill Jockey)
· Gwen Stacy - The Life I Know (Ferret) [Buy Now]
· Havoc Unit - h.IV+ (Vendlus)
· Clutchy Hopkins - Walking Backwards (two CDs; Ubiquity)
· HorrorPops - Kiss Kiss Kill Kill (Hellcat)
· Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (also available with DVD; Astralwerks) [Buy Now]
· Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static (Brushfire)
· Kamera - Resurrection (Nettwerk) [Buy Now]
· Josh Kelley - Special Company (enhanced; DNK)
· Kenny G - Rhythm & Romance (Concord)
· Lenny Kravitz - It Is Time for a Revolution (special edition comes with DVD; Virgin) [Buy Now]
· Kronos Quartet and Wu Man - Terry Riley's "The Cusp of Magic" (Nonesuch)
· k.d. lang - Watershed (deluxe limited edition with bonus CD also available; Nonesuch)
· Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off the Lavender Bridge (Domino)
· Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Calibration (N20)
· Tera Melos - Drugs to the Dear Youth (Sargent House)
· Aidan John Moffat - I Can Hear Your Heart (Chemikal Underground)
· Bob Mould - District Line (Anti-) [Buy Now]
· Nada Surf - Lucky (limited edition comes with bonus CD; Barsuk)
· Ocrilim - Annwn (Hydra Head)
· The Partisan Turbine - The Partisan Turbine (Ferret)
· Steve Reid Ensemble - Daxaar (Domino)
· Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Avatar (Blue Note)
· Salt the Wound - Carnal Repercussions (Rotten)
· Say Hi - The Wishes and the Glitch (two CDs; Rebel Group) [Buy Now]
· School of Language - Sea From Shore (Thrill Jockey)
· Sleep Station - The Pride of Chester James (Eyeball)
· State Radio - Year of the Crow (Nettwerk)
· Kelley Stoltz - Circular Sounds (Sub Pop)
· Otis Taylor - Recapturing the Banjo (Telarc)
· Claude VonStroke - Beware of the Bird (enhanced; limited edition comes with bonus CD; Fabric)
· Warbringer - War Without End (Century Media)
· Winds of Plague - Decimate the Weak (Century Media)
· Yip-Yip - Two Kings of the Same Kingdom (S.A.F.)
· Various artists - Stronger Than All (enhanced EP; Seventh Dagger)
· Various artists - "Honeydripper" soundtrack (Rhino)
· Various artists - "My Blueberry Nights" soundtrack (Blue Note)

Notable Reissues and Archival Material:

· Bachman-Turner Overdrive - The Definitive Collection (Mercury Nashville)
· Terri Clark - The Definitive Collection (Mercury Nashville)
· Rosemary Clooney - Sings for Lovers (Concord)
· Chick Corea and Return to Forever - The Definitive Collection (Verve)
· Electric Light Orchestra - The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra, Volume 2: Ticket to the Moon (Epic/Legacy)
· Billie Holiday - The Definitive Collection [Buy Now]
· J. Holiday - Back of My Lac (deluxe edition with DVD; Music Line/ Capitol)
· Lang Lang - The Magic of Lang Lang (Deutsche Grammophon) [Buy Now]
· Brian McKnight - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best of Brian McKnight (Motown)
· Wes Montgomery - Plays for Lovers (Riverside)
· Kelly Price - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best of Kelly Price (Island) [Buy Now]
· Salt-N-Pepa - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best of Salt-N-Pepa (Island)
· SheDaisy - The Best of SheDaisy (Lyric Street)
· Jimmy Smith - The Definitive Collection (Verve) [Buy Now]
· They Might Be Giants - Here Come the 123s (Amazon.com exclusive comes with DVD; Disney Sound)
· Mel Tormé - Sings for Lovers (Concord)
· Paul Weller - Wild Wood - Deluxe Edition (Yep Roc)
· Various artists - New Jack Swing Gold (two CDs; Hip-O)
· Various artists - What's Happening in Pernambuco - New Sounds of the Brazilian Northeast (Luaka Bop)

Music DVDs:

· Christina Aguilera - "Back to Basics: Live and Down Under" (two DVDs; RCA) [Buy Now]
· Iron Maiden - "Life After Death" (two DVDs; Universal) [Buy Now]
· Quincy Jones & Friends - "Live at Montreux 1996 - 50 Years in Music" (Eagle Vision)
· Roxy Music - "The Thrill of It All: A Visual History 1972-1982" (two DVDs; Virgin)
· Jill Scott - "Live in Paris+" (Hidden Beach)
· Chris Smither - "One More Night" (Signature Sounds)
· Thin Lizzy - "Live and Dangerous" (UMe)

Digital Releases:

· Boy George - Sold and U Can Never B 2 Straight (Virgin)
· China Crisis - Diary: A Collection and Working With Fire and Steel: Possible Pop Songs, Volume Two (EMI)
· Cutting Crew - The Best of Cutting Crew (SIS/IKN)
· del Amitri - del Amitri (Chrysalis/EMI)
· Devastations - Yes, U (Beggars Banquet)
· Stephen Duffy - They Called Him TinTin (Virgin)
· Brian Eno - Music for Airports (Live) - Bang on a Can (Cantaloupe) [Buy Now]
· The Hooters - Time Stand Still (Megaforce)
· Ferlin Husky - Capitol Collectors Series (Capitol Nashville)
· Killing Joke - Brighter Than a Thousand Suns and Outside the Gate (Astralwerks) [Buy Now]
· Gene McDaniels - The Best of Gene McDaniels (Capitol)
· Pet Shop Boys - Alternative (EMI)
· Ursula 1000 - Undressed ... Remixed (ELS)
· Faron Young - The Complete Capitol Hits of Faron Young (Capitol Nashville)

Coming Attractions:

February 12:
· Michael Jackson - Thriller 25 (with DVD; Epic/Legacy) [Preorder]
Read: "Michael Jackson, Akon Are 'Startin' Somethin' ' On Thriller 25 Track -- Listen To It Here!"
· Metric - "Live at Metropolis" DVD (Last Gang) [Preorder]
· Simple Plan - Simple Plan (Lava/Atlantic) [Preorder]

February 19:
· Foxy Brown - Brooklyn's Don Diva (Black Rose Entertainment/ Koch) [Preorder]
· Mike Doughty - Golden Delicious (ATO)
· Various artists - Kidz Bop 13 (enhanced; Razor & Tie)

February 26:
· Erykah Badu - New Amerykah (Motown) [Preorder]
· Missy Higgins - On a Clear Night (Reprise)
· Janet Jackson - Discipline (deluxe edition comes with DVD; Island) [Preorder]

• Christina Aguilera
• Jack Johnson
• Sheryl Crow
• Hot Chip
• Lenny Kravitz

Fans at Coachella 2007
Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images

On The Record: Take Your Business Associates To Indio

I am on an airplane, flying from New York City to Chicago, watching 20-something business-school grads pull important-looking legal documents out of mahogany-colored folios, leaf through them, highlight the salient bits, shuffle and fold, then place them back into the same mahogany-colored folios. They have been doing this dance — pulling, highlighting, shuffling, refiling — for about an hour now, each trying to look grown-up, professional, on-the-ball, each in their cornflower-blue button-ups, silky, color-coordinated ties, pleated black pants and smart, polished, patent-leather shoes. One of them just ordered a cranberry juice, "straight — no ice." Their bosses are seated across the aisle from them. Their hair is gray. One of them smells slightly like gin. They read newspapers and loosen their ties. They have made this flight at least 700 times in their lives with a different group of 20-somethings each time. And as such, they view them with a mixture of annoyance and humor, because they are not threats, they are not the competition; they are sort of ridiculous. They are entertainment, fodder, someone to highlight salient bits on important legal documents. They don't even know their names, which is OK, because why would they? They probably don't care about them at all.

Rewind four hours. I am sitting in the terminal at LaGuardia, waiting for my flight. There is an e-mail from Goldenvoice, the California concert-promotions company, announcing the lineup for the 2008 Coachella Festival. Somewhere among the coffee and muffin, the tiny music snob inside me stirs. After all, it is a banner day for indie-rock fans and bloggers (if there is even any difference between the two) everywhere. The grand unveiling of the Coachella lineup ... the end of a long winter spent filling message boards with fantasy lineups ("Sources close to the fest tell me they've already got the Smiths, My Bloody Valentine and Pavement confirmed!") and the day to unfreeze assets and begin booking JetBlue flights to the Ontario, California, airport. It's the day when the secretive geniuses at Goldenvoice lift the curtain and reveal just what form of musical madness they made happen for us this year. Surely, it is something epic, something can't-miss. Probably Bowie and the Moz and Kevin Shields jamming together as the sun sets over the Empire Polo Fields, while Daft Punk plugs in the Pyramid across the lawn and Kylie and Madge begin limbering up in the dance tent. And Thom Yorke and Kanye will be there, doing a live version of The Eraser and handing out 7-inches and sunglasses and Ecstasy. It's going to be amazing. You have to be there. You have to.

This is all running through my head as I read the e-mail. "Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival announces line-up [yes! yes! yes!] ... tickets on sale Friday, January 25 at 10:00 am [OK, OK ... gotta remember to set my alarm] ... line-up includes [OK, here we go!] ... Roger Waters [huh? OK, flying pig, metaphorical brick wall constructed onstage ... I can live with that] ... Portishead [Oh, sweet!] ... and Jack Johnson [end of inner monologue, as soul is crushed and head has exploded]."

Now, far be it from me to nitpick and complain (despite the fact that it's what myself and most Coachella-heads are really good at), but ... wow. There's not a word to describe how I felt after glancing through the remainder of the lineup, but something like "underwhelmatrayedappointed" — equal parts "underwhelmed" "betrayed" and "disappointed" — probably does the trick. No Radiohead. No MBV. No Smiths (it was a long shot, but still). No must-see set. No steak. No sizzle. Instead, we get a formerly indie-centric fest headlined by a guy who just penned an opera inspired by the French Revolution, a guy who penned the soundtrack to the "Curious George" movie ... and Portishead. To say that Goldenvoice let us down would be incorrect. Rather, they hurt us this year. Really.

Because this year's Coachella fest wasn't booked for me or the die-hard, make-it-to-Indio-at-all-costs-so-I-can-do-drugs-and-have-a-blast indie kid/ hipster contingent I represent, the one that has buttered Goldenvoice's bread for nine years now but rather for the people I spent the first 270 words of this column talking about: aging, graying businessmen — the kind who used to totally burn one to Dark Side and now look back on those halcyon days as the greatest of their life (bonus points since most of them even sort of look like Roger Waters) and their slicked-back, eager-to-please cronies, who are all totally into Jack Johnson and frequently urge me to "really check him out." (Speaking in generalities is so the best.)

And though it's disappointing, maybe you can't really blame the folks at Goldenvoice for the Coachella '08 lineup. Perhaps they got tired of hearing the whining from their too-picky fans (the backlash over the Red Hot Chili Peppers headlining a night in 2007 was rather legendary) or grew weary of continually trying to top the previous year's festival. So they just said, "You know what? Screw this. Let's just book a couple of headliners that'll bring out regular folks. The kind with plenty of disposable income. The kind who think Black Kids are a public nuisance, not an over-puffed blog band."

Or maybe the folks at Goldenvoice were being smart about things. After all, they've just announced plans for an East Coast version of Coachella — the All Points West Festival (which, of course, organizers would prefer you didn't refer to as an "East Coast version of Coachella") — and the last thing they'd want is to launch the new fest with a less-than-stellar lineup. So maybe GV was willing to sacrifice a bit of its flagship festival's luster to give the shine to the new venture.

Who knows if it will all work out? Clearly, Coachella '08 marks the festival at a crossroads: still begrudgingly recognizing the past (as evidenced by Saturday's Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab for Cutie, Rilo Kiley, Hot Chip, Stephen Malkmus, "Blogger's Choice" bill), while looking to seize the present — and firm up the future. It's a pretty solid business plan — diversification, expansion, franchising — one that a whole bunch of eager businessmen-to-be would gladly highlight, shuffle, then file away in their folios.

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The puff-paint on the sunglasses; the Cornholio-channeling chorus of his new single, "Yaaaah"; the delusions of grandeur — Soulja Boy is my favorite rapper ever.

I hate that I read this article and went, "Yeah, totally."

Who will fill the "Old Coot dispensing homespun wisdom with a delightfully antiquated Southern Drawl" role in the GOP now that Fred Thompson has bailed out of the race?

Questions? Concerns? Angry e-mails from Goldenvoice employees? Hit me up at BTTS@MTVStaff.com.

• Pink Floyd
• Jack Johnson

M.I.A.
Photo: Roger Kisby/Getty Images

As usual, this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival will feature more than 100 acts, including several reunited alternative-rock giants mixed in with some of the hottest acts touring today. The festival will take place on the weekend of April 25-27 in Indio, California, and be headlined by Jack Johnson, Jack White's Raconteurs, reunited bands the Verve and the Breeders, Death Cab for Cutie, My Morning Jacket and former Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters (who will perform Dark Side of the Moon).

Festival organizers also confirmed that they are launching a new event on the East Coast called All Points West Music & Arts Festival, a three-day event set for August 8-10 at Liberty State Park in New Jersey. No lineup or ticketing information has been announced for the event, which appears to be in direct competition with the Vineland Music Festival slated to launch in New Jersey this summer from the people behind Lollapalooza and England's Reading Festival.

Among the rarely touring acts performing over the course of the Coachella weekend are trip-hop legends Portishead, who are releasing their first album in more than a decade in April, as well as German techno pioneers Kraftwerk and long dormant English psychedelic rockers Spiritualized. The first night of the festival is packed with some of the best dance and alt-rock bands of the moment, including the National, Animal Collective, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Battles, Aesop Rock, Spank Rock, Santogold, Vampire Weekend, Black Lips, Rogue Wave and Architecture in Helsinki.

Saturday night's lineup is just as strong, with acts that include M.I.A., Cold War Kids, Café Tacuba, Rilo Kiley, Mark Ronson, Islands, Cinematic Orchestra, Jamie T, VHS or Beta, Bonde Do Role, Akron Family, MGMT, and the Bird and the Bee. In addition to the sure-to-be-trippy capper from Waters, the final night will also feature a reunited Love and Rockets, dance stars Justice, gypsy-rock punks Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, the Streets, Metric, Simian Mobile Disco, Murs, Autolux, Les Savy Fav, the Cool Kids, Sia, Black Kids, Black Mountain, Kid Sister with A-Trak, I'm From Barcelona, Manchester Orchestra and the Horrors.

Tickets for the fest will be available this Friday, with three-day admission going for $269 and single-day tickets for $90; camping is an additional $55 per person.

The full lineups for each day are:

Friday, April 25: Jack Johnson, the Verve, Raconteurs, the Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, the Swell Season, the National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Múm, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santogold, Jens Lekman, John Butler Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Collins, Busy P, Cut Copy, Black Lips, Datarock, Professor Murder, Reverend and the Makers, the Bees, Porter, Rogue Wave, Modeselektor, American Bang, Lucky I Am.

Saturday, April 26: Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab for Cutie, Café Tacuba, Sasha & Digweed, Rilo Kiley, Dwight Yoakam, M.I.A., Hot Chip, Cold War Kids, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, DeVotchKa, Flogging Molly, Mark Ronson, Turbonegro, Scars on Broadway, Islands, Enter Shikari, Calvin Harris, Boyz Noize, Junkie XL, Cinematic Orchestra, Jamie T, the Teenagers, VHS or Beta, Carbon/Silicon, Erol Alkan, Yo Majesty!, Little Brother, Bonde Do Role, St. Vincent, Akron Family, MGMT, Institubes DJs (Surkin, Para One and Orgasmic), James Zabiela, Sebastian, Kavinsky, Dredg, the Bird and the Bee, Grand Ole Party, New Young Pony Club, 120 Days, Yoav, Electric Touch, Uffie.

Sunday, April 27: Roger Waters, Love and Rockets, My Morning Jacket, Spiritualized, Justice, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, the Streets, Metric, Danny Tenaglia, Simian Mobile Disco, Booka Shade, Murs, Dmitri from Paris, Autolux, the Field, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Les Savy Fav, the Cool Kids, Sons & Daughters, Sia, Holy F---, Black Kids, Black Mountain, the Annuals, Kid Sister with A-Trak, Man Man, Duffy, I'm From Barcelona, Manchester Orchestra, Deadmau5, the Horrors, Austin TV, Shout Out Louds, Plastiscines, Brett Dennen.

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• Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Amy Winehouse, More At Coachella 2007

• M.I.A.
• Pink Floyd
• Portishead
• Jack Johnson
• Raconteurs

Jack Johnson
Photo: Karl Walter/ Getty Images

When singer/songwriter Jack Johnson and his manager bumped into Chris Rock backstage at "Late Show With David Letterman" a few years ago, the comedian shared some profound entertainment-industry wisdom.

"I introduced Emmett [Malloy] as my best friend and manager and Chris said, 'Oh, good luck, you guys are going to hate each other in three years,' " Johnson recalled. "And about four or five years have gone by since and we're still cool."

So cool, in fact, that Malloy — half of the directing team the Malloys — not only still manages Johnson, but got the laidback musician and avid surfer to oversee the soundtrack to the directors' 2004 surf documentary "A Broke Down Melody." Johnson appears in the doc, as does surfing great Kelly Slater.

The soundtrack features two new Johnson tracks inspired by the movie, "Let It Be Sung" and "Home." "A lot of surfers become family with each other and just travel nonstop," Johnson said of the latter. "Let It Be Sung," the soundtrack's first single, features You Hear It First artist Matt Costa (see "Matt Costa Credits Career To No Doubt's Tom Dumont And A Broken Leg") — who is signed to Brushfire Records, a label co-created by Johnson — and Animal Liberation Orchestra singer Zach Gill, who is also the pianist in Johnson's band.

Per the Malloys' request, Johnson also contributed an acoustic version of his own "Breakdown." "It's stripped-down and a little more raw," Johnson explained. The soundtrack also includes a new track by surfing fan Eddie Vedder called "Goodbye" and songs from Kings of Convenience, the Beta Band and Built to Spill's Doug Martsch.

"We don't take any of it too serious," Johnson said of his work with the Malloys. "It has never really been about making a profit or anything, it's just a movie. For a long time we weren't making a profit and we were just making them anyways. They're just a lot of fun, really just an excuse to travel around the world and do what we want to do."

Outside of A Broke Down Melody, Johnson is starting work on his next solo album and has also contributed to the Buena Vista Social Club's new compilation Rhythms del Mundo: Cuba a benefit for Artists' Project Earth, a charity that aims to raise awareness about global warming and provide disaster relief. The record includes tracks by Coldplay, U2, the Arctic Monkeys and Dido that get reworked by the Cuban musicians.

Collaborations with the Animal Liberation Orchestra and Beastie Boys keyboard player Money Mark are also in Johnson's pipeline. Mark, Johnson said, has "done a lot of really amazing solo records that are people's favorites, but have been somewhat under the radar of pop culture and mainstream." That release should be out in 2007.

• Jack Johnson

Paramore, Lil Wayne, More At Virgin Mobile Festival 2008

• Lil Wayne
• Paramore
• Lupe Fiasco
• Wilco
• Bloc Party

All Points West Festival At New Jersey's Liberty State Park

• Radiohead
• Trey Anastasio
• Kings Of Leon
• Metric
• Ben Harper

Jack Johnson Performs In Brisbane, Australia

• Jack Johnson

TRL Guestbook

• Beyoncé
• Justin Timberlake
• Christina Aguilera
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Nelly Furtado

System Of A Down, Coldplay, More At KROQ-FM's Almost Acoustic Christmas

• Nine Inch Nails
• System of a Down
• Thrice
• Korn
• Fall Out Boy

MTV.com LIVE: Jack Johnson Photos 09.08.2004

• Jack Johnson

2003 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

• Beastie Boys
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Ben Folds
• Ben Harper
• Blur