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Carrie Underwood Cast In ‘Soul Surfer’ Movie

Grammy winner will begin filming the project this month, after performing the national anthem at Sunday’s Super Bowl. By Jocelyn Vena Carrie Underwood Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images for PCA Carrie Underwood is taking her act from the small screen to the big screen.

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Cobra Starship’s Gabe Saporta Talks ‘Hand-Gesture Tour’ With 3OH!3

‘We don’t take ourselves that seriously,’ he says of the similarities between the two bands. By James Montgomery Gabe Saporta Photo: MTV News When MTV News spoke to Cobra Starship magnate Gabe Saporta last week, he knew about his band’s upcoming tour with 3OH!3 , he just wasn’t allowed to talk about it yet. It seems that even though 3OH!3’s Nathan Motte tweeted Saporta about the jaunt, some of the finer points weren’t exactly squared away

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Tyler Grady: Aspiring American Idol Contestant

He’s probably the only American Idol in history to be remembered more for his physical state than his singing voice. That’s what happens when you audition with two broken wrists. Indeed, Tyler Grady fell out a tree soon before he tried out for the show in Boston.

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Motion City Soundtrack Don’t Want New LP To Be ‘Over-Mark-Hoppus-ed’

‘We want people to know that it’s us doing this,’ Joshua Cain says of My Dinosaur Life credit going to Blink-182 frontman. By James Montgomery Joshua Cain of Motion City Soundtrack Photo: MTV News They’ve toured with his band.

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‘Twilight’ Author Stephenie Meyer’s Favorite Bands Like Her Too

‘I checked it out … It was great!’ White Rabbits drummer Matt Clark says of ‘Twilight.’ By Eric Ditzian Stephenie Meyer Photo: Hachette Book Group USA “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer recently took to her blog to update fans about what’s been shaking so far during her summer: lots of reading, a bit of movie watching, and a ton of music listening. In her blog post, she gave love to a bunch of indie bands, and in subsequent conversations with MTV News, the bands gave the love right back to her.

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Fefe Dobson ‘Impressed’ With Miley Cyrus’ Take On Her Song

She also liked Jordin Sparks’ ‘more R&B version’ of one of her tracks. By Jocelyn Vena Fefe Dobson Photo: Sohyung Kang/ MTV News Between her defunct sophomore album Sunday Love and the upcoming Joy, Fefe Dobson has kept busy writing songs — for herself and some other familiar names. “In between then [and now], I got to write for some other artists, which was cool, [like] Miley Cyrus and some others.

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Lit Drummer Allen Shellenberger Dead At 39

California rocker had a lengthy battle with brain cancer. By James Montgomery Lit’s Allen Shellenberger Photo: Ethan Miller/ Getty Images Allen Shellenberger, drummer of rock band Lit , died Thursday after a lengthy battle with brain cancer.

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Blink-182 Keep It Semi-Clean, Fall Out Boy Get Dirty In Cincinnati

Panic! At The Disco also play lean, mean opening set. By Gil Kaufman Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus Photo: Gil Kaufman/MTV News CINCINNATI — Imagine going to see Kim Kardashian at a book signing and having her show up in a pair of loose-fitting sweatpants and a baggy T-shirt. Now, picture going to see the reunited Blink-182 and making it all the way through their 90-minute set without hearing a single poop or pee joke

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EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Hudgens in Bandslam Clip

Vanessa Hudgens ‘ new movie Bandslam , about an epic battle of the bands, hits the big screen on August 14, and we have an exclusive clip of the movie for you right here, right now! Check out the scene below, in which Hudgens (playing the curiously named Sa5m) introduces herself to new kid in town Will Burton (ably portrayed by Gaelan Connell ) and explains that musical competition in their high school is serious, serious business. Continue reading

Panic! At The Disco’s Spencer Smith Wants New Music To Do The Talking

‘These songs are just Brendon and I having fun, because that’s what we want to do,’ drummer tells MTV News. By James Montgomery Panic! at the Disco’s Spencer Smith and Brendon Urie Photo: Jean Baptiste Lacroix/ Getty Images For nearly a month now, ever since Panic! at the Disco announced that guitarist Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker were leaving to start a new band called the Young Veins , there has been speculation that any number of “Behind the Music” -type maladies (drugs, money, jealousy … you name it) had led to the split.

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