Kids' favorite pizza mascot Chuck E. Cheese is undergoing a radical makeover this week. The rat will be voiced by Jaret Reddick, lead singer of pop-punk band Bowling for Soup.

The new Chuck E. Cheese now plays a guitar and gives off a hipper vibe. Reddik replaces Duncan Brannan, who posted about his dismissal on Facebook last week and suggested he was pushed out of his job. The parent company insists he wasn't fired, rather they were seeking a new voice talent for the pizza place.

Chuck E. Cheese opened in 1977 in San Jose, Calif. The owner decided on a rat mascot after acquiring a rat co...

By popular demand at the close of this spring tour Bowling For Soup will head back to the UK for the 2nd leg of a sold out tour. They will then return back to kick off an extensive North American summer tour with dates to be announced shortly.

Recently Bowling For Soup released their second single "When We Die," from their current album, The Great Burrito Extortion Case. The video for "When We Die" casts Lee Majors in a leading role and is currently in rotation on Oven Fresh on Fuse.

The Great Burrito Extortion Case is the Texas natives' first collection of new material since ...

Jive Recording Artist Bowling For Soup continue to bring their own brand of creative expression with their new video "When We Die," as they cast Lee Majors in a leading role.

"When We Die," a the current single from their album, The Great Burrito Extortion Case is a departure from the usual happy go lucky videos that fans may have been accustomed to, but in its essence it is still a Bowling For Soup video. The video revolves around the tumultuous relationship between a father, played by Lee Majors, and son and how they overcome past differences to rejoin, make amends and hopefully s...

In October, Justin Hawkins, lead singer of The Darkness, announced that he's leaving the band because he can't live the rock 'n' roll lifestyle again after completing rehab... Weird Al Yankovic's White & Nerdy becomes the parody singer's first ever top-ten hit... and legendary NYC nightclub CBGB, where bands like the Ramones, Talking Heads and Blondie got their start, closed; Patti Smith was the final act... Beck took things to the next level by releasing his latest album, The Information with sets of stickers so fans could create their own cover art; however, the revolutionary move prompte...

CD releases this week include new albums from Eric Clapton & J.J. Cale, Keith Urban, Josh Groban and Sugarland; a previously unreleased Frank Zappa album; box sets from Frank Sinatra and The Bee Gees; and much more. Continue reading for reviews, info and tracklistings...

Frank Zappa - Trance-Fusion
When Frank Zappa died in 1993, he had spent much of his remaining time and energy completing a number of projects before the end finally came. Why the majority of them are still unreleased as of late 2006 is anybody's guess, but perhaps the long awaited release of Trance-Fusion is a good sig...

Val Kilmer is beginning to think he can get whatever he wants if he sings about it - after luring Lou Reed to his New Mexico ranch. The actor is recording his first album and penned a tribute to Reed only to discover the former Velvet Underground frontman and his partner Laurie Anderson had booked a fly fishing holiday on his 6,000-acre estate.

Kilmer explains, "I was listening to David Essex's 'Rock On'... and out of nowhere it just says 'Jimmy Dean' in one of the lyrics, who wasn't a rock 'n' roller but he was a rebel and sort of makes sense in the song. I was thinking about it and ...

Writing one perfect album is hard enough. But nine? Come on! Who else in the history of recorded sound has even dared reach such a milestone? Neil Young? Bob Dylan? Herb Alpert? Tiny Tim? Throw out greatest-hits packages, and you've got maybe half a decent album among them! No, the only band to have hit the nine-album mark without so much as a bum note is Denton, Texas' Bowling for Soup. And there's no debating those stats, so don't even try!

As usual, Bowling For Soup's ninth full-length, The Great Burrito Extortion Case, is the best album anyone will release this year. It's got hits!...

Got enough 80s? Pure 80s: #1s features 18 chart-topping smash hits, from "Eye Of The Tiger," "Addicted To Love," "Every Breath You Take" And "Maniac" To "Karma Chameleon," "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" and "What's Love Got To Do With It."

The '80s were a hit-and-miss decade. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pac-Man, MTV, "Miami Vice," "Cheers," "The Cosby Show," the CD, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were hits. The New Coke, the return of Halley's Comet, and the DeLorean were misses. On the music charts, the hits and misses were just as obvious. Eighteen of the hits--all so...

With the latest shout-outs in the movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Bowling For Soup's hit single "1985" ("She was gonna be an actress/She was gonna be a star/She was gonna shake her ass/On the hood of Whitesnake's car"), Whitesnake continues to prove that one of the bands that defined an era remains embedded in today's pop culture.

Now the first single-disc retrospective of the band led by David Coverdale and Whitesnake's first official DVD live set both debut in early 2006. The CD, The Definitive Collection, produced with the full participation of Coverdale, and the DVD, Live.In The ...

A number of new albums hit stores today including new ones from Madonna, Big & Rich, Pitbull and Unearth; live ones from Green Day, Jesse McCartney, Jimmy Buffett, Moody Blues, Todd Rundgren and Wilco; hits collections from The Roots, Alanis Morissette, Cat Stevens, Pete Townshend and Dire Straits; and a whole lot more. Check out this list of noteworthy releases for Tuesday, November 15th...

Alanis Morissette - The Collection

Big & Rich - Comin' to Your City

Bill Wyman - Rhythm Kings Live

Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Greatest Hits [Chopped and Screwed]...