JC Chasez (file)
Photo: Jive

JC Chasez may be Schizophrenic these days, but it seems to be working in his favor. The 'NSYNC member's solo debut album gets Chasez close to the ladies on the singles "Blowin' Me Up (With Her Love)" and "Some Girls (Dance With Women)."

Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante releases another solo album this week. The ambient Shadows Collide With People drops alongside Liars' second proper, and darker, album, They Were Wrong So We Drowned. Inspired by folklore, fairy tales and witch hunts, the album opens with the track "Brocken Witch," which takes its name from Walpurgisnacht, the night that witches take their broomsticks out for a spin on Germany's Brocken mountain.

Tony Touch's Piece Maker II features the embarrassment of riches in the form of Snoop, P. Diddy, Method Man, Redman, N.O.R.E. and Fat Joe. Meanwhile, Young Gunz's Tough Luv is another cameo jackpot. Chingy, Cam'ron, Juelz Santana and Beanie Sigel all roll through the album.

Error, a band featuring members of Bad Religion, Nine Inch Nails and Dillinger Escape Plan, and their self-titled album share shelf space this week with Orgy's Punk Statik Paranoia and Cannibal Corpse's Wretched Spawn.

And, finally, from the cutesy-free title files, Royce da 5'9" reminds us that Death Is Certain.

Out Tuesday, February 24:

• 90 Day Men - Panda Park (Southern)
• Johnny A. - Get Inside (Favored Nations)
• Anathema - A Natural Disaster (Koch)
• The Battlefield Band - Out for the Night (Temple/Rounder)
• David Berkman - Start Here, Finish There (Palmetto)
• Andy Bey - American Song (Savoy Jazz)
• Eric Bibb, Rory Block and Maria Muldaur - Sisters & Brothers (Telarc)
• Blank & Jones featuring Robert Smith - A Forest (Water Music)
• Blasters - Live: Going Home (Shout! Factory)
• Blindside - About a Burning Fire (Elektra)
• Butterfly Boucher - Flutterby (A&M)
• Randall Bramblett - Thin Places (New West)
• Jonatha Brooke - Back in the Circus (Bad Dog)
• Paul Brown - Up Front (GRP)
• Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn (Metal Blade)
• Jen Chapin - Linger (Hybrid)
• JC Chasez - Schizophrenic (Jive)
  
• Read: "JC Chasez Learns To 'Shake It' Like A Polaroid Picture On Schizophrenic"
  Buy Now: Schizophrenic (Jive)
  
• The Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up the Fire and Let the Flames Break Loose (RCA)
• Ferry Corsten - Right of Way (Moonshine)
• Darol Anger and the American Fiddle Ensemble - Republic of Strings (Compass)
• Dervish - Spirit (Compass)
• En Vogue - Soul Flower (33rd Street)
• Error - Error (Epitaph)
• Evening - Other Victorians (Lookout!)
• Falling Up - Crashings (BEC/Tooth & Nail)
• Frames - Set List (Anti)
• John Frusciante - Shadows Collide With People (Warner Bros.)
  Buy Now: Shadows Collide With People (Warner Bros.)
  
• God Awfuls - Next Stop, Armageddon (Kung Fu)
• John Gregory - Pictures From Home (Atlantic)
• Hasmik Harutyunyan - Armenian Lullabies (Rounder)
• Roy Haynes - Fountain of Youth (Dreyfus)
• Skip Heller - Fakebook (Hyena)
• Van Hunt - Van Hunt (Capitol)
• Hypocrisy - The Arrival (Nuclear Blast)
• Janis Ian - Billie's Bones (Oh Boy!)
• Ingram Hill - June's Picture Show (Hollywood)
• Bob James - Take It From the Top (Koch)
• Paul Kelly - Ways & Means (spinART)
• Kelsang Chukie Tethong - Voice of Tara (Narada Jazz)
• Kutless - Sea of Faces (BEC/Tooth & Nail)
• Lamb - Between Darkness and Wonder (Koch)
• Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned (Mute)
• Luomo - The Present Lover (Kinetic)
• Madcap - Under Suspicion (Victory)
• Anne McCue - Roll (Messenger)
• Brad Mehldau - Anything Goes (Warner Bros.)
• Minus 5 - In Rock (Yep Roc)
• Steve Morse - Major Impacts 2 (Magna Carta)
• Orgy - Punk Statik Paranoia (D1)
  Buy Now: Punk Statik Paranoia (D1)
  
• Outernationalists - Ethnomixicology (Six Degrees)
• Peter, Paul and Mary - In These Times (Rhino)
• Grant-Lee Phillips - Virginia Creeper (Zoë/Rounder)
• Poozies - Changed Days, Same Roots (Compass)
• Dirk Powell - Time Again (Rounder)
• Primal Fear- Devil's Ground (Nuclear Blast)
• Prong - Scorpio Rising (Locomotive)
• Ramon Valle - No Escape (ACT/HighNote)
• Royce da 5'9" - Death Is Certain (Koch/In the Paint)
• Scars of Tomorrow - Rope Tied to the Trigger (Victory)
• The Shoghaken Ensemble - Traditional Dances of Armenia (Rounder)
• Sly & Robbie/Mad Professor - The Dub Revolutionaries (Sanctuary/Ras)
• Rick Springfield - Shock Denial Anger Acceptance (Red Ink)
• Superlitio - Tripping Tropicana (BMG)
• Tangle Eye - Alan Lomax's Southern Journey Remixed (Zoë/Rounder)
• Tantric - After We Go (Maverick)
• Jimmy Thackery and Tab Benoit - Whiskey Store Live! (Telarc)
• Tony Touch - Piece Maker II (Touch/Koch)
• Vast - Nude (456)
• Visionaries - Pangaea (Up Above)
• The Washdown - Yes to Everything (Lookout!)
• Robin and Linda Williams - Deeper Waters (Red House)
• Young Gunz - Tough Luv (Roc-a-Fella/Def Jam)
• Various artists - Africa Straight Ahead (Heads Up/Telarc Jazz)
• Various artists - Bellydance Superstars Vol. II (Ark 21)
• Various artists - Clublife 2 (System)
• Various artists - Music as a Weapon II (Reprise)
• Various artists - Pure Progressive (Water Music)
• Various artists - Suite Royal: St. Moritz, Vibes Vol. II (Milan)
• DVD: David Cassidy - Live in Concert (Image Entertainment)
• DVD: Various artists - Cuban Hip Hop All-Stars (Raptivism)
• DVD: Various artists - Ministry of Sound: Annual 2003 (Image Entertainment)

March 2:

• Black Sabbath - Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath 1970-78 (Rhino)
• Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine (Arista)
• The Get Up Kids - Guilt Show (Vagrant)
  Buy Now: Guilt Show (Vagrant)
  
• Hootie and the Blowfish - The Best of Hootie and the Blowfish 1993-2003 (Atlantic)

March 9:

• BT - Music From and Inspired by the Film "Monster" (Digital Sound)

March 30:

• Janet Jackson - Damita Jo (Virgin)
  Read: "Janet Jackson Making Sexiest Album Yet, Producer Says"
  Buy Now: Damita Jo (Virgin)
  

April 6:

• Rahzel - Rahzel's Greatest Knockouts (Readyrock)
  Buy Now: Rahzel's Greatest Knockouts (Readyrock)
  

• JC Chasez
• Liars
• Tony Touch
• Young Gunz
• Orgy

Tantric (file)
Photo: Maverick

Post-grungers Tantric had already been in the studio for two lengthy recording sessions for their new album, After We Go, when their label insisted they return and try again. In a huff the band went in and worked on three more tracks.

Not only did the new session produce current single "Hey Now," it also birthed the title track and a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain."

"Unfortunately, pain makes you interesting," frontman Hugo Ferreira said of the ordeal. "This record was a long and painful process to make. We were under a lot of pressure from our label to spit something out."

"Hey Now" sounds like it was churned out under duress. Like the songs from the band's self-titled 2001 album, the music is filled with vocal harmonies reminiscent of Alice in Chains, and folksy acoustic guitar strumming balanced by distorted rock riffs. However, the track is colored with aggressive crunch and the lyrics are more injured and bitter: "Hear me but you don't listen/ Or you don't want to/ You're just saving yourself."

"It's kind of a 'You did me wrong, so f--- you' song," Ferreira explained, implying that the lyrics are about someone in the band's inner circle. "It's like, 'Hey, you promised me something. You said you were my friend. You said you would be there. You said you wouldn't lie. And then you're all full of sh--.' So it's about finding reasons to be involved with that person or to even want to work with them again or make them a part of your life, but sometimes you don't really have a choice."

Ferreira wrote "Hey Now" with ex-Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt. The two grew up in the same small town of Hudson, Massachusetts, and their moms were friends, so Ferreira would go to Nuno's house to hang with his nephews, and Nuno would let Hugo play his guitars.

"When I was in high school, and Extreme were coming out, he was pretty much the city's idol," Ferreira recalled. "So, fast forward 12 years. It had been a long time since I had seen him, and I was hanging out with him in L.A. And I was like, 'Hey, man, let's just jam and write some sh-- for fun.' So, we wrote the demo for 'Hey Now' and I brought it back to the guys."

"Hey now" is pretty representative of the rest of After We Go, which comes out February 10. Throughout, the band lays a foundation of acoustic rock, then dirties it up with surging wah-wah, fuzzy showers of distortion and full-fisted beats.

"I think the record is more mature and it's definitely heavier," Ferreira said. "We're all older and we're a product of our environment. And there was crazy sh-- going on around us every day, whether it was another U.S. soldier getting shot or another disease that's killing people. Whenever you turn on the news, there's never anything good on there. People are pissed, everyone's broke, and we're invading other countries. There's no way you can be unaffected by it, and that struggle definitely helps give this record its own soul."

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Slipknot
Photo: Roadrunner

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines — Staind, Slipknot, Tantric, Buckcherry and others are contributing tracks to NASCAR's Crank It Up compilation.

Due to hit stores in June, the collection is "designed and built for racing fans," according to a label statement, and includes a plethora of rock outfits playing covers of high-speed, rubber-burning favorites.

Recently dissolved industrial rockers Fear Factory weigh in with their reworking of gearhead Gary Numan's classic '80s ode to four-wheelers, "Cars." Les Claypool offers up the song most likely to be played on an upright bass: the rockabilly classic "Hot Rod Lincoln." Meanwhile, "Lit Up" Los Angeles rockers Buckcherry will take on Willie Nelson's cross-country staple "On the Road Again."

Slipknot have also been slated for the album, though their cover choice has yet to be announced. Staind will contribute a previously unreleased track for the compilation, adding a taste of something new for all those backseat woofers and tailgate parties.

Among the other songs up for restoration are Tracy Chapman's 1988 hit "Fast Car" (by Darwin's Waiting Room) and Billy Ocean's "Get Outta My Dreams (Get Into My Car)" (by Fenix TX), which you may remember from the '80s Corey Haim/Corey Feldman slapstick first date joint "License to Drive."

Slayer are expected to peel out a cover of Deep Purple's 1972 classic "Highway Star," though their participation has not yet been confirmed.

Additional artists are still being lined up for the project, which will be released by MCA Records in conjunction with NASCAR and Fox TV.

Tracks confirmed thus far for Crank It Up, according to the label:

• Nonpoint - "Circles"
• Darwin's Waiting Room - "Fast Car"
• Fenix TX - "Get Outta My Dreams (Get Into My Car)"
• Tantric - "Cross the Line"
• Buckcherry "On the Road Again"
• (hed) pe - "Crosstown Traffic"
• Gov't Mule - "Drivin' Rain"
• Fear Factory - "Cars"
• Les Claypool - "Hot Rod Lincoln"

• Slipknot
• Staind
• Fenix TX
• Gov't Mule
• Darwin's Waiting Room

Britney Spears' midtown Manhattan lounge finally has a name: NYLA. The moniker is derived from the postal abbreviations for New York and her home state, Louisiana. ... Foxy Brown will soon head into the studio to work on her fourth album, Ill Na Na Part 2: The Fever. Though Brown is still lining up producers, she hopes to finish the LP in eight weeks and release it this summer. ... As further proof that Jay-Z can churn out records faster than anybody else in the biz, Chapter One: Greatest Hits — released overseas on Tuesday (April 2) — features blockbusters such as "Hard Knock Life," obscurities like "Wishing on a Star" and street favorites such as "Can't Knock the Hustle" and "Imaginary Player." No definitive word from Roc-A-Fella as to whether the album will ever find its way to the U.S. ...

Teen queen turned 21st-century Playboy model Tiffany will appear on Fox's "That '80s Show," though she won't be reprising her mall-magnet persona or perform her #1 hits such as "I Think We're Alone Now." Like her pictorial, Tiffany's role lands at the opposite end of teenybopper spectrum — she plays a punk in the episode, which is scheduled to air April 17. ... After wrapping up a headlining tour on April 7 in San Francisco, Tantric will head into Nashville and Los Angeles recording studios with producer Toby Wright (Korn, Alice in Chains) to begin work on their second album, due later this year. ... The The are getting the repeat treatment May 21 with the release of 45 RPM - The Singles of The The, which gathers the band's singles from the last 19 years and adds three new tracks to the double-disc collection. The best-of launches a reissue campaign that finds Soul Mining (1983), Infected (1986), Mind Bomb (1989) and Dusk (1993) receiving renewed life on July 2. ...

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Fans who slept through Godsmack's ascent to their latest album, Awake, can revisit the Boston rockers' early days on Smack This!, a DVD retrospective due April 9. The collection features concert footage, backstage shenanigans and interviews with the band. ... That raging Cajun Mystikal is playing both sides of the fence. In the clip for his next single, the title cut off of his Tarantula LP, the New Orleans MC will play both an exterminator and his prey — spiders — thanks to the magic of special effects, according to his spokesperson. ...

Alanis Morissette, Cher, Kiss, Stevie Wonder, Little Richard and, yes, Michael Jackson are lined up to lend themselves to a special celebrating a half-century of the dance party series "American Bandstand," which debuted in 1952. "American Bandstand's 50th ... A Celebration" will air on ABC on May 3 and will be emceed, naturally, by Dick Clark, the show's host since 1956. ... After 11 years and seven albums together, indie rockers Unwound are throwing in the towel, citing an inability to tour with any consistency as the reason for their decision. The first band signed to the Kill Rock Stars label will play its last show Monday (April 1) in their hometown of Olympia, Washington, and its members, who'll pursue separate musical interests, plan on issuing albums of live material and previously unreleased tracks in the future. ...

Whoever said "three's a crowd" is about to get theirs. Revenge of the Triads — programmer/remixer Charlie Clouser (NIN, Marilyn Manson), A Perfect Circle guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen and producer Jason Slater (Snake River Conspiracy, Brougham) — are in the studio working on their debut album, which they hope to release this summer. ... Ann and Nancy Wilson have reunited for the first Heart tour in nine years, which will kick off June 21 in Fargo and wrap August 8 in Seattle. Alice in Chains' Mike Inez will join the band on bass. ... Indie rock darlings Beulah will launch a month-long outing April 8 in Denver to promote last year's The Coast Is Never Clear. The tour will come to an end May 4 in the band's hometown of San Francisco.

• Britney Spears
• Foxy Brown
• Tantric
• Jay-Z
• Tiffany

Tantric
Photo: Jason Campbell

Fans restlessly anticipating Creed's announcement of opening acts for their upcoming tour can now put their minds at ease. Louisville, Kentucky, quartet Tantric has been tapped to prime the crowd for the first leg of the Weathered tour, according to Creed's publicist.

Tantric will help the arena rockers kick things off January 16 in Atlanta and will stay along for the ride until the first leg concludes February 17 in Kansas City, Missouri (see "Creed Line Up First Leg Of Weathered Tour"). The band, composed of former members of Days of the New and singer Hugo Ferreira, is touring behind its eponymous debut, which was released in February, and its latest single, "Mourning."

Another opener for the first 18 dates will be announced later, as will two supporting acts for the second leg of the Weathered tour, an itinerary for which has yet to be finalized.

In November, Creed had expressed interest in having Tantric aboard for the trek, and also mentioned as possible contenders Sevendust, Nickelback, Drowning Pool, Incubus, Days of the New and Puddle of Mudd, a surprising choice considering the band is mentored by Fred Durst, with whom Creed frontman Scott Stapp has had a public feud since last summer (see "Durst's Disses Won't Muddy Creed's Selection Of Tour Openers"). Last week, Creed's management company issued a statement saying Puddle of Mudd would not be part of the tour, contradicting earlier claims by both bands' booking agencies that the group had been confirmed.

Creed's third album, Weathered, has held the top slot on the Billboard 200 albums chart for three consecutive weeks since its release November 20 (see "Creed Continue To Beat Back The Competition On Albums Chart") and has thus far sold more than 1.7 million copies, according to SoundScan.

For features on Creed and Tantric, see "Creed: Multiplatinum Underdogs" and "Tantric: 7 Questions."

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• Creed

Tantric
Photo: MTV.com

Tantric, Oleander and Beautiful Creatures will have one for the road when they embark on the Rolling Rock Town Fair tour.

The first Rolling Rock-sponsored trek kicks off September 25 in Cleveland and makes stops in 13 other confirmed cities thus far before wrapping up November 11 in New York, according to the tour's publicist.

Tantric and Beautiful Creatures are making the rounds in support of their self-titled debuts, released in February and August, respectively, while Oleander are pumping their third album, Unwind, released in March.

The Rolling Rock Town Fair tour follows two all-day festivals held in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Last year's inaugural Rolling Rock Town Fair featured the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Moby, Filter and Fuel. August's Rolling Rock Town Fair 2.0 featured Tantric and Oleander as well as Stone Temple Pilots, Live, Incubus and Staind.

Rolling Rock Town Fair tour dates, according to the publicist:

• 9/25 - Cleveland, OH @ Odeon Concert Club
• 9/27 - Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
• 10/3 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
• 10/6 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
• 10/13 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox
• 10/16 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
• 10/19 - West Hollywood, CA @ House of Blues
• 10/25 - Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa
• 10/30 - Atlanta, GA @ Earthlink Live
• 10/31 - Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall
• 11/4 - Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live
• 11/8 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
• 11/9 - Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
• 11/10 - Boston, MA @ Avalon
• 11/11 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza

For more on Tantric, check out "7 Questions With Tantric".

• Tantric
• Oleander

3 Doors Down's Brad Arnold
Photo: Universal

SEATTLE — 3 Doors Down weren't about to abandon their bread and butter entirely — but they didn't mind dispensing with it as early as possible.

Thus, during their show with Lifehouse and Tantric at the Key Arena Wednesday, encore sure-bets "Duck and Run" and "Kryptonite" were both knocked off before 3 Doors Down had been onstage 15 minutes.

"We get tired of hearing that old sh--, right?" singer Brad Arnold said at one point, clearly speaking for his bandmates rather than the audience.

He looked relieved as soon as the final strains of "Kryptonite" died out and he began introducing the new song "When I'm Gone." Opening on a thick wash of effects from guitarist Matt Roberts, the slow-moving tune built to a tongue-twisting chorus: "Everything I am, everything I need/ Wants to be the one you want me to be." Arnold — the Escatawpa, Mississippi, band's original drummer — climbed behind a second kit brought onstage for an aggressive new tune called "Dangerous Game," which he said is "about stupid people killing one another." Clad in a vintage Rush baseball T-shirt, Arnold focused on cymbals and hi-hat while full-time drummer Richard Liles rumbled across his toms during an interlude which was decidedly more brief than the typical double-drum duel.

The band, whose 17-month-old debut, The Better Life, has gone five-times platinum, squeezed one other new song into its hour-long set. The moody, throbbing "This Time" is about believing in yourself, Arnold said.

"Is it OK if we play a ballad for you?" Lifehouse singer/guitarist Jason Wade asked before launching into "Somewhere in Between" — as if any band with a #1 adult contemporary hit needs to inquire about the appropriateness of ballads. The women in the half-full crowd jumped, hollered and threw their arms toward the ceiling when the Los Angeles group delivered its most impassioned performance of the night with the chart-topping "Hanging by a Moment." But Lifehouse's set was by and large reserved, as if the group were still playing its old Friday night gigs at the high school auditorium. Wade, bassist Sergio Andrade and guitarist Stuart Mathis wandered the stage tentatively, almost like they were still getting acclimated to its hugeness. The band eschewed all theatrics and showy solos.

Wade — a former Seattleite with a penchant for Eddie Vedder's mushmouth enunciation — seemed most comfortable when discarding his guitar, as he did on Lifehouse's latest single "Sick Cycle Carousel." It was the band's penultimate tune and the first time Wade started jumping up and down.

Tantric, otherwise known as Days of the New with singer Hugo Ferreira in place of Travis Meeks, opened the night with a set that included the singles "Breakdown" and "Astounded," which Ferreira dedicated to "all those stupid f---ers that didn't believe in us." Not that he didn't hand his critics grist on a silver platter. In a moment right out of the Spinal Tap episode of "The Simpsons" ("Hello ... [awkward pause] ... Springfield!"), Ferreira mistakenly shouted, "Alright, Vancou— " The audience seemed forgiving of the flub, though it probably didn't hurt that he went on to shout "Seattle" no fewer than 12 times during the rest of the show.

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• Lifehouse
• Tantric

Stone Temple Pilots
Photo: Chapman Baehler

The Rolling Rock Town Fair 2.0, with headliners Stone Temple Pilots and Live, is sold out, but fans have another way to catch the show.

Showtime Event Television is offering a two-hour, pay-per-view broadcast of the concert on August 11 at 9 p.m. ET, one week after it is filmed in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

The small-screen edition will also include performances from other main stage acts the Deftones, Tantric and Oleander.

STP are expected to play songs from their new album, Shangri-La Dee Da, due June 19, while Live, who hail from nearby York, Pennsylvania, are likely to play new material from their fifth album, due this year.

The 40,000 fans who have tickets to the Rolling Rock Town Fair 2.0 will also see sets by Incubus and Staind.

MTVi's parent company, Viacom, also owns Showtime.

• Stone Temple Pilots
• Live
• Tantric
• Incubus
• Staind

Tantric's four members flip on a television and quickly find something good to watch: their video.

As they lounge in an MTV green room before an interview, the musicians — who favor long hair, denim and motorcycle boots — watch their high-school-themed "Breakdown" clip with scholarly intensity.

"We should've done it nude," drummer Matt Taul muses.

Despite Tantric's Buddhism-evoking name and their moody, Alice in Chains-like sound, the band is, in person, utterly without pretense. Their banter is timeworn rock-star stuff — fun with groupies and techniques for hiding illegal substances when passing through airports.

Guitarist Todd Whitener, bassist Jesse Vest and Taul, all natives of Louisville, Kentucky, used to play in Days of the New until a contentious parting of ways with that band's frontman, Travis Meeks. They found a new frontman, Hugo Ferreira, formed a new band, and began once again to climb the music-industry ladder, releasing Tantric's self-titled debut in February.

They chatted with Brian Hiatt about the origins of their name, their bygone day jobs and how they'd be nowhere without Frank Sinatra.

MTV: As nice Midwestern guys, how did you come up with an exotic name like Tantric? Matt Taul: First of all, we didn't think of it.

Hugo Ferreira: We were like, "That's too fancy for us." We had this time period where we had to come up with something new because we [didn't] like our original name, Carbon-14. One of the runners, or she was a secretary [at the studio] ...

Jesse Vest: … Ferreira's girlfriend.

Ferreira: Oh my God, I'm sorry. She came in and she was telling us about tantric sex. She was all into the whole Buddhism thing and she said it while she was naked, so we're like, "Tantric works." We did a little research on the name [and] we thought it was cool. But it wasn't like we were at the top of a mountain and God's voice came down [and said], "Tantric."

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Staind
Photo: Elektra

WASHINGTON, D.C. — They came. They saw. They rocked. They made a video.

More than 60,000 fans turned out each day to see bands including Staind, Green Day, Live, Fuel, Fatboy Slim, 3 Doors Down, Incubus and Lifehouse perform at the HFStival held at RFK Stadium Sunday and Monday.

The twelfth annual event, which volleys between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, brought more acts to the nation's capital than ever before and expanded to two days from its usual one. Three stages — including the main stage, a street stage and a local band stage — kept the crowd hopping for about 20 hours. Monday's concertgoers were in for an added treat: they appeared in Good Charlotte's video for their next single, aptly titled "Festival Song," which was shot during their set.

"I grew up coming to the HFStival," said Good Charlotte frontman Joel, who hails from nearby Waldorf, Maryland. "I wrote this song about being here, how we wanted to quit our jobs to be in a band. We have all our friends, the fans and the radio support right here." Sunday's last-minute appearance by Green Day provided one of the festival's highlights as the band set fire to its instruments after delivering a high-energy set that included "Welcome to Paradise," "Hitchin' a Ride," "Waiting" and "Minority." Live — who earned a pair of late-night performances on the main stage — also set the crowd buzzing after being joined by Tricky for "Evolution Revolution Love," from the latter's Blowback, due June 26. Weezer also got tongues wagging, performing for a select group of radio contest winners in a small conference room at the stadium Monday. The Cult, American Hi-Fi, Saliva, SR-71, Coldplay, Stabbing Westward, Linkin Park, Tantric, Powderfinger and Idlewild also hit the stage.

"The best shows are the festivals," Lifehouse frontman Jason Wade said. "It's great to see everyone singing along to every song." "Festivals in America have gotten really cool," Live's Kowalczyk said. "They've been big in Europe for so long, the idea of bringing lots of bands together for the camaraderie of it. I love it." HFStival has been a vital stop on many a breaking band's tour itinerary. No Doubt, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Limp Bizkit, Hole, Beck and Everclear have taken the stage in past years.

Due to the prestige of the gig, concertgoers were eager to make predictions about mainstream fame. "Stone Temple Pilots brought the young and old together last year," Tim O'Neill, 30, of Bowie, Maryland, said. "Saliva could be the breakout act this year." "Staind and Linkin Park made it great," Brianne Laplant, 16, of Eldersburg, Maryland, said. While the music was the main focus, the crowd provided a sideshow of its own as girls flashed the audience whenever the camera put them in the spotlight.

Despite so-called "blanket tosses" and some attendees getting sprayed from bottles of urine during New Found Glory's performance, injuries at the festival were minimal, WHFS promotions director Donna Jean Rumbley said. "For 120,000 people, the crowd was well-behaved. No casualties."

• Staind
• Green Day
• Tantric
• The Cult
• American Hi-Fi