Imagine waking up on a commercial flight with four of your teeth broken and a huge, bloody gash in your cheek. Your nose is broken, and your eyes are swollen shut. Your clothes are covered in dried blood, vomit, and urine, and you have no memory of how you got there. No ticket, no bags, no clothes, no wallet. You sit and you wait and you try to figure out what happened.
Nothing comes.
Imagine having to tell your parents, \"Mom, Dad, I\'m addicted to alcohol and crack, and I\'m wanted in several states.\"
Imagine having to sit on your own hands because you\'re afraid of them.

BACKFLIPS, GIDDY FANS IN COSTUMES, ONSTAGE VILLAIN FIGHTS, SWEATY HARD ROCKIN\', AND MORE FUN THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A LANCE BASS AT. KIDS LOVE THE AQUABATS, AND THE AQUABATS LOVE THE KIDS. ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST (AND POSSIBLY OLDEST) FANS, MISS MONSTER MEL, GETS CRASH McLARSON IN THE BACK OF HER TRASH-FILLED TRUCK TO TALK ABOUT BEING A REAL SUPERHERO.
Miss Monster Mel: How’s the tour going?
Crash McLarson: It’s been a lot of fun. We haven’t toured in awhile, so it felt good to get back on the road and rock across America!
MM: Rock across America, huh?

THERE WAS ONE REASON, AND ONE REASON ALONE, WHY I WENT TO WARPED TOUR THIS YEAR: FLOGGING MOLLY. SURE, THERE WERE TONS OF GREAT BANDS, BUT NONE CAN GUARANTEE ME AS GOOD A TIME AS THOSE BASTARD SONS (AND DAUGHTER) OF IRISH PUNK. THEY\'VE NEVER DISAPPOINTED, ON STAGE, OR IN AN INTERVIEW. DEBBIE AND I GOT TO SIT DOWN WITH THREE OF \'EM: GUITARIST DENNIS CASEY, ACCORDION PLAYER MATT HENSLEY, AND MANDOLIN/BANJO PLAYER BOB SCHMIDT.

Coincidences galore: A few months ago, I reviewed Consequence\'s new mixtape-- an appetizer for his upcoming debut full-length, six years after his real deal debut on A Tribe Called Quest\'s (ATCQ) Beats, Rhymes And Life. ATCQ are part of a larger clique of groups known as The Native Tongues.

There is an abandoned house in the woods that you hold the key to; the House Of Secrets. You unlock and push open the door, and suddenly your ears are assaulted by the sound of a brutal beating happening somewhere in the house. The door closes behind you, and ahead lies a dark hallway lined with ten doors. Though your legs tremble, your intrigue overpowers your fear, and you proceed down the hall.

LIT\'S BEEN DOING THAT ROCK \'N\' ROLL THING FOR 15 YEARS NOW. THEY FIRST HIT IT BIG IN 1999 WITH A PLACE IN THE SUN, AND HAVEN’T STOPPED SINCE. THEIR LEAD GUITARIST, JEREMY POPOFF, HAS A CHAT WITH TLC\'S THIRD CHAIR TUBA BLOWER, D.J. KIRKBRIDE, ABOUT BEING A ROCK STAR TYPE WITH A NEW ALBUM, A KID, A YOUNGER BROTHER FOR A LEAD SINGER, AND BEING ON MTV’S CRIBS.
D.J. Kirkbride: When did the new album come out?
Jeremy Popoff: It just came out about three weeks ago.
DK: Congratulations on that.
JP: Thank you.