Posts with tag "travis barker"

Rihanna 'Jams' at Drum Session with Travis Barker

Posted Mar 24th 2010 at 09:24 AM by PopEater Staff

Looks like Rihanna is expanding her music knowledge -- with a little help from Blink 182's Travis Barker. "Teaching Rihanna some things on drums. She JAMS!!!!! Watch out for her!!" Barker posted on Twitter Tuesday, along with a photo of the pair at a rehearsal space in L.A. Although Rihanna is seen jamming behind a drum kit in the video for her latest single, 'Rude Boy,' rumor has it she wants a ...

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Photos: Travis Barker Inks New DJ AM Tattoo

Posted Mar 8th 2010 at 08:38 AM by PopEater Staff

Travis Barker showed off his new tattoo, which honors his longtime friend, the late DJ AM. Barker posted a photo of the thigh tattoo on his Twitter account and tweeted, "Finished my AM tattoo last night." Barker and AM survived a 2008 plane crash in South Carolina that took the lives of four people. AM (born Adam Goldstein) died last August of an accidental drug overdose after struggling with a ...

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DJ AM's Estate Sues Jet Charter Company for Wrongful Death

Posted Nov 13th 2009 at 07:05 PM by PopEater Staff

DJ AM's mother is picking up where her son left off in his legal fight against Learjet, TMZ reports. Andrea Gross has amended his $20 million lawsuit against the plane manufacturer, the pilots' estates and others by adding a wrongful death claim, Los Angeles court papers show. "The crash ultimately caused Adam Goldstein's death at a later date," the papers state. ...

Pete Wentz Is a 'Hero,' Addresses Fall Out Boy Rumors

Posted Nov 13th 2009 at 04:15 PM by Melinda Newman

Fall Out Boy may be on hiatus, but you wouldn't know it. The pop-punk group has two songs on Activision's new video game 'Band Hero' and a greatest hits set, 'Believers Never Die,' out Nov. 17. FOB co-founder Pete Wentz is a longtime gamer and he shares with PopEater his earliest gaming recollections as well as his look ahead into the band's somewhat cloudy future. Plus, he discusses playing Wii ...

Odds Aren't Good for Khloe and Lamar

Posted Oct 1st 2009 at 09:10 AM by Jo Piazza

Think twice before you pick up a Cuisinart or monogrammed towel set to send to Khloe Kardashian and her new hubby L.A. Laker Lamar Odom in celebration of their quickie Sunday evening nuptials. According to the very scientific mathematics of reality television statistics, this marriage may have a shelf life shorter than one of Kim Kardashian's skirts. ...

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Blink-182 Nixes More Gigs to 'Mourn the Loss' of DJ AM

Posted Sep 2nd 2009 at 06:41 AM by PopEater Staff

Still reeling from the death of a close friend, pop-punk titans Blink-182 have decided to postpone even more tour dates in order to grieve DJ AM, who was found dead in his New York apartment on Friday. The band's drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM were the only survivors of a plane crash last September that left them both badly injured and four people dead. They had been collaborating as a DJ and ...

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Band Offers Tribute and Tears to DJ AM

Posted Aug 30th 2009 at 09:35 AM by PopEater Staff

Blink-182 rocker Travis Barker is grieving the death of his close friend and music collaborator Adam Goldstein - known in the industry as DJ AM - and expressed his pain online and in concert on Saturday. The rock drummer and Goldstein escaped a plane crash together in 2008, and Barker wrote to his fellow survivor on Twitter, "Rest In Peace my brother, this really f---s me up. I'll never forget ...