Good news. Motley Crue will headline a festival tour called Cruefest with support from other bands on their shared management, such as Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Sixx AM and Drowning Pool. How did I come about this information? Simple. Their management, in response to rampant internet rumors about a big announcement the band has planned for next month, has come out an flatly denied that the announcement has anything to do a festival tour called Cruefest with support from other bands on their shared management, such as Buck Cherry, Papa Roach, Sixx AM and Drowning Pool. Seems like lately, if it’s an internet rumor that gets denied by anyone in the band or management, it’s guaranteed to be at least 80% true. The Crue’s management didn’t help themselves in the squashing-the-rumor category too much when they, immediately after shooting down the tour idea, added that the April 15^th announcement would also include a few of the following artists… and then they gave a list. These apparently are also clients of this management company’s, just as the rumor suggested. The list includes:  Shinedown, Chevelle, Apocalyptica, Puddle of Mudd, Staind, Godsmack, Drowning Pool, Theory of a Deadman, Three Days Grace, Sixx AM, Trapt, Seether, Flyleaf, Buckcherry, the Wallflowers and 3 Doors Down.

Every election year you hear a lot of opinions. The TV, the internet and even the radio are crammed full of people spouting off for one side or the other. Most of those behind the vocal vomit are politicians and the pundits who love them, but some of those people are celebrities, which often draws the ire of many of the older and more conservative types who prefer their actors to act and their singers to sing and any vocalization outside of that should be reserved for hushed tones in the privacy of their own bath houses. "Stupid Barbara Striesand. No one cares what you think." Which is pretty much disproved by the fact that every time she does make her opinion known about something it gets picked up by every paper and news site in the country. But I digress. Well, Serj from System says the criticism shouldn't fall on celebrities that make their opinions known, it should fall on everyone else who doesn't.

“I don’t think there should be some type of responsibility on artist to speak out, as much as I love speaking out. I think everyone should speak out whether you’re an electrician, a plumber, a delivery guy, an artist, or whatever. Everyone should speak out, everyone should speak their minds. There shouldn’t be a reason to be afraid.”