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All you gossiping fools saying that Chester Bennington is going to leave Linkin Park and join Velvet Revolver? He wants it to be made very clear that those rumors are just that, rumors. So stop spreading rumors about Chester Bennington, unknown people who were spreading those rumors. "It would be very uncomfortable for me to join that band because I'm friends with all of them, including Scott," he told Kerrang! "If I was even going to do just one show, or record just one song with them, I'd have to know it was okay with my band, all those guys and Scott [Weiland] too." It does seem odd that people would (allegedly, as I can't find these rumors anywhere) think Chester would leave his cash cow to play with a past-its-prime act like Velvet Revolver, but then again, watching Slash work on a solo is probably a lot more fun than watching Mike Shinoda work on a rap. More »

Clearly, Chester Bennington's frowny-face reputation can't be erased, no matter how hard he tries; why else would the Hollywood Reporter's photo editor pair the happy news with that picture in which the LP singer looks like an apoplectic five-year-old wailing for a juicebox?

The latest issue of Wired has a lengthy, utterly creeptastic story about Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, who was cyberstalked by an employee of Sandia National Laboratories—a federal nuclear-research facility—for more than a year, and how the woman who did it—changing passwords and sending out spoofed e-mails all along—found out how to access his personal information: More »