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Rocker AVRIL LAVIGNE angered concert-goers by turning up over an hour late to a free gig in her native Canada - leaving scores of young fans waiting in the snow. The 23-year-old was due to take the stage at 1pm for an outdoor concert to celebrate the opening of a Best Buy store in Burnaby, Canada, but didn't show up until after 2pm, according to reports. The audience began to walk out after the singer left them waiting for over an hour in the freezing weather conditions. Many of the unhappy fans - who were mostly teenagers - had already queued for several hours to take their places for the gig.

Green Day To Begin New CD Next Month - A Top Story This Week

. (Punknews.org) According to Green Day Authority, a popular Green Day fan site, the band will be hitting the studio in January to begin work on their next album: We got an update this week from Green Day's manager about what the band is up to now. He let us know that Green Day will be going back to the studio in January, and that we should look forward to a new greenday.com and perhaps some new photos around that time.

He mentioned that the band was going to begin stepping away from all American Idiot themes, and that the new site wasn't going to be themed around the new album. I asked about the progress of the new album, and it didn't sound like we should expect anything too soon. Lets hope we'll get a full update about what kind of stuff they're working on early next year.

In related news, the band was recently named as the "Best Grammy Performance." You can check out the band's winning performance of "American Idiot"

U2 Changing Sound for New CD - A Top Story This Week

(Launch) Bono has warned U2 fans they will "feel the difference" with the material they are working on for their next album. The singer explained that the band are currently working in the south of France on the follow-up to 2004's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. Following demo sessions in Africa earlier in the year, the singer reckons the new record will surprise people.The singer said the band is now working through those demos during the French sessions and that while the new record is not world music, he promised fans would "feel the difference.""U2 in dancefloor shock!" joked Bono. "Normally when you play a U2 tune, it clears the dancefloor. And that may not be true of this. There's some trance influences. But there's some very hardcore guitar coming out of the Edge. Real molten metal. It's not like anything we've ever done before, and we don't think it sounds like anything anyone else has done either."