Rise Against announce a summer tour with punk rock legends Rancid as their special guests. The tour kicks off June 4th in Vancouver and continues through July 31st.

Rock groups Billy Talent and My Chemical Romance and singer Avril Lavigne were among the big winners at the MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto, Canada on Sunday night.

Rockers Nickelback and Billy Talent will head into next month's MuchMusic Video Awards in Canada with the most nominations - the two acts have landed five apiece. Finger Eleven, Belly, Feist, Alexisonfire and k-os are also among the other Canadian artists up for multiple awards when the show takes place in Toronto on June 17th.

Nelly Furtado has swept the boards at the Juno Awards - Canada's version of the Grammys - taking home five prizes. The 28-year-old singer doubled up as host and winner at the ceremony in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on Sunday - picking up the Best Single, Best Album and Fan's Choice awards, to add to the Best Artist and Pop Album of the Year awards presented to her at a gala dinner on Saturday.

...In April, Billy Corgan announced that Smashing Pumpkins will reunite and begin recording a new album... Rihanna released her sophomore disc, Unfaithful, featuring the single S.O.S., which includes a sample of Soft Cell's Tainted Love... and Cee-Lo and DangerMouse's collaboration, Gnarls Barkley took the U.S. by storm, as their hit single Crazy stormed the charts and took off as one of 2006's most popular tunes.

In conjunction with the kick-off of this year's Taste of Chaos Tour, WARCON Enterprises has announced a January 24th release date for The Best of the Taste of Chaos, a two-disc compilation that features an onslaught of music from the biggest and best bands in the punk/metal scene.