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– The vintage tour van once driven by sludge metal legends the Melvins (which features artwork on the side that was hand-drawn by late Nirvana star Kurt Cobain) was finally sold at auction for just over $24,000. What a steal!

Big news, Smashing Pumpkins fans: The band has announced plans to mount a major fall 2012 North American arena tour. The trek will kick off on Oct. 10 in Seattle, Wash. and is scheduled to touch down in a total of 14 U.S. cities, although specific venues in each city and the remaining dates following the tour kick-off have yet to be revealed.

Green Day are gearing up to hit the road in support of their forthcoming three-album platter ’¡Uno!’, ‘¡Dos!’ and ‘¡Tre!’ — and if bassist Mike Dirnt is to believed, the calendar could be well into the aughts before they step off.

Earlier this summer, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan spoke out against the touring “nostalgia acts” recently put on by bands from the so-called grunge generation, saying such reunion treks “subvert the original meaning of the grunge generation’s music, which is rebellion.” Now Corgan is back at it, going so far as insisting that these days such groups are just going after the filthy lucre

Ahead of their forthcoming barrage of three new albums known as ‘¡Uno!,’ ‘¡Dos!’ and ‘¡Tres!,’ Green Day will treat their especially dedicated uber-fans with the release of a box set featuring all eight of their previous full-length studio albums. Titled, appropriately, ‘The Studio Albums 1990-2009,’ the set will be available exclusively through Best Buy retailers on Sept. 4.

Skrillex and Disney, together at last? The electronica superstar has been tapped to contribute to the score of an upcoming Disney animated feature titled ‘Wreck-It Ralph,’ it was announced Tuesday (July 12) at the Comic-Con gathering in San Diego, Calif. The flick, which stars John C. Reilly in the title role alongside Sarah Silverman, Jane Lynch and Jack McBrayer, offers the tale of a so-called “

Smashing Pumpkins frontman and pro-wrestling fanatic Billy Corgan is working on creating a reality TV show focused on his new Chicago-based wrestling company Resistance Pro — and he reveals that he’s been doing a lot of “behind-the-scenes stuff” to make it happen.

We can’t say they didn’t expect this. The Black Keys were undeniably one of the highlights of the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, hitting the stage to perform their roof-raising hit ‘Gold on the Ceiling’ with none other than A-list actor Johnny Depp, who was on hand to accept the Generation Award for, well, being Johnny Depp.

There are literally thousands of bridges in Los Angeles, but only one can be the one Anthony Kiedis sings about in the 1992 Red Hot Chili Peppers ballad ‘Under the Bridge.’ The song, an ode to the City of Angels as seen through the eyes of a junkie, took the underground funk-rock act to No. 2 on the Billboard charts, forever changing the lives of Kiedis and his compatriots.

In the same week that Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook went public and raised billions of dollars from its IPO on NASDAQ — and lined his own pocket with a billion or more dollars — he tied the knot to his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan. When you’ve just added 10 figures to your net worth in a single day, you can hire just about anybody to perform at your wedding, and Zuckberberg may have done just

Rock bands encounter lots of bizarre things while traveling around in the trusty old van, but what Here We Go Magic crossed paths with Wednesday afternoon was truly shocking. Or, more precisely, who they crossed paths with.

Skrillex has certainly won over the Grammy committee, club DJs, the record-buying public and even a few moms with his dance music called dubstep, but what do the kids think of him? And when we say “the kids,” we don’t mean the trend-savvy adolescent youth of America — we mean actual adorable little children.