"Britney's so rad. She's just trash - and I mean that positively. I was trash too." The Gossip singer Beth Ditto likens herself to troubled pop star Britney Spears.

Welsh rock band Lostprophets are celebrating after they were named Best British Band at the Kerrang! Awards on Thursday night. The rockers have now won the award two years in a row after beating Muse, Enter Shikari, Biffy Clyro and Funeral For A Friend to the title.

U.S. rockers My Chemical Romance are leading the nominations for this year's Kerrang! Awards with four nods. The band is joined by British metal group Enter Shikari at the top of the nominations list, and the pair will battle it out for Best Single and Best Album.

The Welsh rock band Lostprophets will return to the states in late August to begin a series of tour dates including headline club and theater gigs as well as an ongoing slot on the Finnish quintet HIM's "No Sleep Till Halloween" Tour beginning October 18.

Finnish quintet HIM announce their fall 2006 tour in support of their highly acclaimed Sire Records release, "Dark Light." The first leg of the No Sleep Till Halloween tour kicks off October 18 in Lowell, Massachusetts, with Papa Roach, Lostprophets, Kill Hannah, and ends on Halloween in Los Angeles, California (see dates below).