BLUE OCTOBER KEEPS THEIR COOL
What?s the most challenging thing about spending half your life out on the road with a band? Well, apart from the grueling slog from one town to another, Blue October frontman Justin Furstenfeld says it?s the never-ending attempt to keep your head screwed on straight. ?I think a lot of musicians forget that they need to take care of themselves, that they need to stand up and go, ?Hold on!.? That need to take a breath for a second. There are a lot of people out there who are not just musicians but heavy thinkers and heavy weighers so like the little things weigh on them, every aspect of it. You have to keep your head straight or else you?re gonna just blow up. You?re gonna implode. You just need to relax and take in all these good things, because it is good things. Sometimes you just gotta go, ?Wake up, dude, enjoy this, it?s awesome!?? Blue October will be heading out on the road next month, starting at San Francisco?s Now And Zen festival on September 19th.

DAVE GROHL IS ?VILE.?

According to NME, Dave Grohl will turn up on the soundtrack for the film Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi. Solo material from the Foo Fighters frontman comes in the form of a track called ?Vile.? Other artists featured on the soundtrack include Gnarls Barkley, System of a Down, Queens of the Stone Age and more.

BREAKING BENJAMIN DEBUTS AT NUMBER 2

Breaking Benjamin's new album Phobia debuts at Number Two on the Billboard charts this week, selling 125,000 copies in the band's best sales week ever, according to Billboard.com. The band's previous album, We Are Not Alone, debuted at Number 20 on the charts. Breaking Benjamin was kept out of the top spot only by Miami rapper Rick Ross' debut album, Port of Miami.

DELONGE WELOMES CHILD; MORE IMPORTANT THAN BLINK

Former Blink-182 guitarist Tom Delonge and his wife, Jennifer, have welcomed their second child on Wednesday (August 16) in Los Angeles, People reports. Jonas Rocket DeLonge weighed 7 lbs. 13 oz., and measured 20 1/2 inches. Delonge, who also has a 4-year-old daughter, Ava Elizabeth, acknowledges that one of the reasons he left Blink-182 is because he no longer wanted to tour as much as bandmates Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker did. But Delonge told LAUNCH that he has no regrets that his family became a greater priority than the band: "I found myself at a kind of crossroads in my life where I couldn't see myself doing this the same way I've been doing it with the Blink guys 'cause I was constantly compromising being with my family or just being the family man I wanted to be. I couldn't do it anymore. It just wasn't worth it to me."
Blink-182 announced its "indefinite hiatus" in 2005. Barker recorded a second album with his side band, the Transplants, before focusing on a new band with Hoppus, Plus 44. Their debut album, tentatively titled Little Death, is due out later this year.
Hoppus and Barker have criticized Delonge in recent interviews for trying to take control of Blink-182's affairs to accommodate his own agenda.
Delonge was on the road this year with his new band, Angels & Airwaves, promoting the group's debut album We Don't Need to Whisper.

LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for THURSDAY, AUGUST 17
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Whoopi Goldberg, Fatboy Slim
JAY LENO (NBC) - (repeat) Kate Hudson, Kevin Smith, Soul Asylum
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - Jane Kaczmarek, Esai Morales, Larke Miller
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - (repeat) Bruce Willis, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Dropkick Murphys CARSON DALY (NBC) - (repeat) Dave Navarrro, the Duke Spirit
JIMMY KIMMEL (ABC) - (repeat) TBA
JON STEWART (COMEDY CENTRAL) - Matt Dillon