Momsen: ‘I wrote Montag track aged 9′

Taylor Momsen notes that Heid Montag recorded a song that she wrote as a 9-year-old.

Features: The Checks

Find out about touring with AC/DC, getting nominated for for the Inaugural Taite Music Prize and find out which other bands from across the Tasman we should be keeping an eye on.

Cantaloupe festival reaches a milestone

Steve Ranson/LVN file photo Hypnotist Susan Rosen, right, performs her powers during last year’s Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe Festival. The Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe Festival hits a major milestone this year.

Cantaloupe festival reaches a milestone

Steve Ranson/LVN file photo Hypnotist Susan Rosen, right, performs her powers during last year’s Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe Festival. The Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe Festival hits a major milestone this year.

Cantaloupe festival reaches a milestone

Steve Ranson/LVN file photo Hypnotist Susan Rosen, right, performs her powers during last year’s Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe Festival. The Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe Festival hits a major milestone this year.

Cantaloupe festival reaches a milestone

Steve Ranson/LVN file photo Hypnotist Susan Rosen, right, performs her powers during last year’s Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe Festival. The Hearts of Gold Cantaloupe Festival hits a major milestone this year.

She Blinded Me With Scientists

Brooklyn trio looks to increase its American audience Dichotomy looms so large for We Are Scientists that it’s almost a provisional member. They’re a California band that’s lived in New York for nearly a decade. The members are inveterate smartasses in interviews and between songs on stage, although their finely honed sense of humor rarely comes through in the music in any obvious way (like, say …

The Stone Roses

Vancouver’s Stars Of Boulevard are the winners of this year’s 2010 Fox Vancouver Seeds competition, held annually by Vancouver’s 99.3 The Fox FM. — cfox.com

Expansion = more room for Camel fans

Campbell County Schools has added more room for Camels fans at high school football games including a new oasis area complete with a student-made desert mural.

Concerts

5BUGS Germany: Cologne (Underground) Oct. 9, Frankfurt (Nachtleben) Oct. 12, Stuttgart (Beatclub) Oct. 15, Munich (Backstage Club) Nov. 4.