Breaking Benjamin is nearing the end of its 2009 tour, which stops in Chicago tonight (Monday, December 14th) and wraps later this week. Once the outing winds down, the group will take a break for the holidays. Breaking Benjamin frontman Ben Burnley expects to head home to Pennsylvania to spend time with family and friends. He's tells us why he still lives nearby where he grew up: ["Well it's my home, you know? It's my hometown. Like Pennsylvania in general, like central, northeastern Pennsylvania, I have roots in those areas. I have friends in this area, I have family in this area. I didn't get in a band to move to L.A. or New York. I got in a band because it's what I wanna do. So I don't see any reason to really leave my home state."]
Colplay will hold an "End of Decade Clearout Sale" to help raise money for the charity, Kids Company. Starting December 17th, the band will auction off a host of items on eBay, including everything from instruments and stage equipment, to costumes from the Vida La Viva tour, to signed platinum discs and more. The band explains on its website: "Over the past ten years we've accumulated a lot of guitars, keyboards, amps, posters, platinum discs and all sorts of nostalgia. All proceeds will go to Kids Company, an incredible charity that helps vulnerable children and young people in London. All items will either be signed by the four of us, or accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, again signed by all of us."
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo was released from the hospital on Friday (December 11th) after being injured in a tour bus crash in upstate New York. Cuomo, who suffered a punctured lung, spent six days in the hospital. Updating fans at Weezer.com, the band's webmaster Karl 'Karlophone' Koch announced the news, noting: "The time has come for freedom! After walking with and without a cane and getting some good hematocrit blood test results on Thursday, Rivers was given the go ahead to be released from the hospital!" Rivers is gettting back on a bus, heading cross-country to his home in Los Angeles. Koch adds, "One of the strict doctors orders is that Rivers cannot get on an airplane for a month, as the air pressure changes would be bad for his healing punctured lung. We've got seasons 1 and 2 of 'Mad Men' to watch, some books to read, a freezer full of organic entrees, and the bus is wired for internet, so work can continue uninterrupted."
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