Travis Barker is releas­ing a solo album. He’s invited Lil’ Wayne, Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, The Game and a whole host of other big names to guest on the record. Barker says “It goes from everything from punk rock to hip-hop to some elec­tro stuff on there to a metal song with Corey Taylor from Slip­knot. It’s been really fun and inter­est­ing up till now.”

Wes Bor­land (gui­tars) has spoken out about Limp Bizkit’s new album, say­ing that it will have a “Daft Punk vibe to it”. He says that the band haven’t really grown up, and the album’s pretty much just more of the same from Limp Bizkit, just with that Daft Punk influence.

The Knack’s Doug Fieger has died. The 57 year old co-wrote the hit “My Shar­ona”, and had ser­i­ous drug and alco­hol prob­lems when he was younger, although he claimed to have been liv­ing a healthy life­style for 25 years.

Chad Gil­bert of New Found Glory has released a few tracks from his band, What’s Eat­ing Gil­bert, which you can check out by click­ing the band name. It would appear that he’s come in for some cri­ti­cism for one of the tracks in par­tic­u­lar, “Think­ing About Her”, with some people con­sid­er­ing it an attack on his ex, Sherri DuPree (Eis­ley). Max Bemis, who is now with DuPree pos­ted on twit­ter, although has since admit­ted he over­re­acted. In a mes­sage to AP.net though, Gil­bert denies the song is spe­cific­ally about DuPree. How­ever, this hasn’t stopped Adam Laz­arra (Tak­ing Back Sunday), wad­ing in, cri­ti­cising Max Bemis (Say Any­thing). Adam Laz­arra was Jesse Lacey’s (who, incid­ent­ally, also used to go out with DuPree) replace­ment in Tak­ing Back Sunday, after Jesse left (if you don’t know why, it’s an inter­est­ing story, and explains Your Favour­ite Weapon. Check it out). Adam Laz­arra, how­ever, was engaged to Sherri DuPree’s sis­ter (Chaun­telle, also Eis­ley), before they split in 2008. Every­body fol­low so far? Oh, and the DuPree’s mum stuck her oar in as well, hit­ting out at Chad, accus­ing him of cheat­ing on Sherri with Hay­ley. My God. And just to make things worse, Chad’s going to release another three songs on the 9^th March.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Joel Mad­den (Good Char­lotte) and Nicole Ritchie, who, accord­ing to People, are get­ting mar­ried. Let’s just hope their rela­tion­ship doesn’t turn into as epic a saga as the one above.