SoundSpike recently was granted an exclusive interview with Mickey Avalon at the Key Club on the infamous Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. 
Beach House, which has essentially been making the same record for the last eight years, ever since emerging from its heavily fortified bedroom bunker in Baltimore, has made the best version ever of its same old album.
With ticket sales booming, pop stars Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez have added second-night performances in many cities on their summer on tour alongside reggae duo Wisin y Yandel.
Synth-pop act Owl City will head out on another round of U.S. shows this summer, this time promoting an impending new album which is scheduled to surface later this year.
Reggae alt-rockers Matisyahu and Dirty Heads have announced a co-headlining tour this summer.
The Wallflowers will follow up their time in the studio with a short club and festival jaunt this summer, promoting the long-awaited new album expected to surface this fall.
Just a few days ahead of the festival kick-off, Blink-182 has pulled out of their Saturday night spot at New Jersey's Bamboozle Festival so that drummer Travis Barker can undergo and recover from an emergency tonsillectomy.
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