From an official e-mail:
“Hello Everyone.

The tour launches in a few weeks and we need your help. We’re creating the video elements for the upcoming tour and want to include YOU!

We need you, your friends, family, loved ones, pets and anyone else you’d like to include to dress up like Gwen and show us your best interpretation of “Just A Girl.” So get dolled up like Gwen, get your video cameras out and dance, sing, jump, crunk or do whatever it is you do and send it over to us. We’re hoping to get loads of great footage to air during our performance of “Just A Girl” on the 2009 Summer Tour.

We don’t have much time so get to filming. Deadline for entries is May 1st.

Get out the red lipstick, the blond wigs and whatever else you can find and show us your best impression of “Just A Girl.” We’ll post your video submissions here on the site for everyone to check out. We can’t wait to see what you come up with and hope to show the world on tour! Go to www.nodoubt.com/justagirl to submit your videos.

Thanks!”

Also, as you probably know, No Doubt will be on the Today show May 1st. You can go to their web site and submit questions that you’d like them to ask the band.

There’s a new video interview and a note from Gwen on Interscope’s site (here).
“Hiya,
It’s been crazy busy at rehearsals. So much to get it all going. this tour is gonna be amazing. It’s hilarious being all back together. Lots of creative energy and inspiration.

As some of you may know, we decided on the fly to appear on the show Gossip Girl as the 80’s band Snowed Out. We’re doing a cover of “Stand and Deliver” by Adam and the Ants for that show and have been messing around with it here at rehearsals. We hadn’t planned on playing the song live but we’ve been having so much fun we decided to play it on stage for the first time at Bamboozle on May 3rd. If you guys like it, maybe we’ll add it into our set.

I heard there’s some confusion about the song and it being our new single. It’s not our new single, just a fun thing we did for the show. We included it in our catalogue download because… Well, I don’t know. I guess because we wanted to give you something extra. As you know, this whole tour is to get us inspired to write our new record.

Well, gotta run. We’re shooting tour video stuff with Sophie Muller today and they’re ready to start. See you soon!

Gx”

Also, Mozilla has just released an official theme-like extension for Firefox called “Personas”.  There’s a No Doubt theme.

Here is an e-mail I received from someone at NBC today:
“I’m the concert coordinator at the Today Show. We’re thrilled to host No Doubt on May 1st, and would love to offer visitors to your site special “Fan Passes”. I’m going to begin distributing them this week and would love to get No Doubt’s most dedicated fans in on this!

We like to pack the very front area of the plaza with true fans – If you’d like to help, I’d love if you could post something along the lines of the following on your site:

To receive concert updates and special No Doubt “Fan Passes” for their performance on the Today Show on Friday, May 1st, email todayshowconcerts@nbcuni.com with “Fan Pass” as the subject.”

So, if you’re planning on attending, make sure you e-mail them and get a “fan pass” so you can get right up there and represent!
I wish I could go!

Also, NxD is on the cover of the May issue of Spin magazine! I unfortunately don’t have it yet as it’s not in the stores just yet, but you can see scans at my pal Jenny’s site.

Hi all!
No Doubt is going to be performing on the Toyota Concert Series on the Today show May 1st! From an article on the Today web site:
“For its 14th consecutive year, NBC’s TODAY is bringing together the biggest, boldest names in music to rock the Plaza. This year’s “Toyota Concert Series on TODAY” kicks off with a special comeback performance by Grammy Award-winning rock band No Doubt, Friday, May 1.

No Doubt has been on a multi-year hiatus, and the innovative band’s TODAY performance marks the group’s first concert together in five years. The live concert will also mark their first-ever TODAY performance.”

Gwen is going to be on an upcoming cover of Elle magazine. Not sure when just yet. Some photos from the April 3 shoot can be found here.

Well, I finally got around to putting my own layout back up. It only took me………forever! I thought about making a new one, but this is the last one that was up before the site broke and all that, and it seemed somehow fitting to put it back up.  Plus, it was one of my favorites.  :)

Fuse TV is letting the fans decide the greatest music artist of all
time! No Doubt is included in the running, …so you can let your voice be heard and help No Doubt take home the title of Ultimate Artist!
You can vote for No Doubt in the Fuse Rock Madness tournament right here.
Check back on April 4th to find out who was crowned the Ultimate
Artist, and then be sure to tune into Fuse that night at 9pm/8c to
watch history being made with the live broadcast of the 2009 Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Fuse! More info here.

From a short interview on Spin.com :

No Doubt kick off their first tour in more than five years on May 5, at New Jersey's Bamboozle Festival (see all tour dates).
To get the inside details on what fans can expect from the longtime
Orange County hitmakers, we sat down with them recently in Los Angeles:

Don’t Call it a Reunion
Drummer Adrian Young wants to clarify
something. I feel like everywhere I look people are saying, Oh
Blink-182 is getting back together and Jane’s Addiction is getting
together and No Doubt is getting back together. As far as I know, those
other guys broke up. We never did. It’s frustrating to keep hearing
that.

And the Survey Says?
Because they haven't played live in five years, the band were curious
to know what songs their audience wanted to hear. A survey on their
website provided the answer. I was totally surprised the fans said
their favorite song was 'Sunday Morning' [from 1995's Tragic Kingdom,]
says bassist Tony Kanal. I thought that would be up there, but I
wasn't expecting it to be number one. What was he expecting? 'Don't
Speak' or something from Rock Steady.

Ain't No Hollaback
Don't plan to hear Gwen Stefani's solo hits on this tour. A No Doubt
concert isn't the time or place for those songs, says Stefani. No
one asked for No Doubt songs on my [solo] tour and no one will ask for
my songs on a No Doubt tour. Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
fans have reason for hope, though. The singer says she might be
singing 'Hollaback Girl' somewhere else someday. She wouldn't be
specific, but we're hoping one spot is the karaoke bar a block from our
office.

Buy One, Get Lots Free!
Fans who purchase a top-tier ticket online for one of the No Doubt's upcoming shows can download the band's entire digital catalogue
— free. Sales ploy? Sure. But as Kanal explains, there was also
another motivation: We're going to have a lot of Gwen's fans at the
shows, as well as people who have never seen No Doubt before. We wanted
to make sure they know our music.

Hi all,

I just got the March 6 issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine in the mail today, and there's a full page ad for ND's tour in it. I've scanned it, and you can see it in the gallery here.

The band is going to perform on the TV show Gossip Girl. From the official site: Mark your calendars to see No Doubt perform Stand And Deliver
(originally by Adam And The Ants) for the first time ever on Gossip
Girl, May 11, 8/7c on The CW.

Holy crap! The tour dates have been released! They go on sale to the public March 7th. There is a short little video of the band recorded yesterday here.

The dates are:

5/03/2009 East Rutherford, NJ – Meadowlands Sports Complex (Bamboozle Festival)
5/16/2009 Las Vegas, NV – Mandalay Bay Events Center (Tiger Jam XII)
5/19/2009 Fresno, CA – Save Mart Center
5/20/2009 Bakersfield, CA – Rabobank Arena
5/22/2009 San Diego, CA – Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
5/23/2009 Phoenix, AZ – Cricket Wireless Pavilion
5/25/2009 Salt Lake City, UT – The E Center
5/27/2009 Denver, CO – Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
5/28/2009 Albuquerque, NM – Journal Pavilion
5/30/2009 Dallas, TX – Superpages.com Center
5/31/2009 Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
6/02/2009 Tampa, FL – Ford Amphitheatre
6/03/2009 West Palm Beach, FL – Cruzan Amphitheatre
6/05/2009 Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheatre
6/06/2009 Charlotte, NC – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
6/08/2009 Raleigh, NC – Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion
6/10/2009 Virginia Beach, VA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
6/11/2009 Philadelphia, PA – Susquehanna Bank Center
6/13/2009 Pittsburgh, PA – Post-Gazette Pavilion
6/14/2009 Washington, DC – Nissan Pavilion
6/16/2009 Toronto, ON – Air Canada Centre
6/17/2009 Montreal, QC – Centre Bell
6/19/2009 Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
6/20/2009 Boston, MA – Comcast Center
6/24/2009 Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena
6/26/2009 Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center *** ON SALE TBD
6/27/2009 Wantagh, NY – Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
6/29/2009 Cleveland, OH – Blossom Music Center
7/02/2009 Milwaukee, WI – Marcus Amphitheater (Summerfest)
7/03/2009 Detroit, MI – Palace Of Auburn Hills
7/05/2009 St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
7/06/2009 Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre
7/08/2009 St. Louis, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
7/10/2009 Indianapolis, IN – Verizon Wireless Music Center
7/11/2009 Chicago, IL – First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
7/13/2009 Winnipeg, MB – MTS Centre
7/15/2009 Calgary, AB – Pengrowth Saddledome
7/16/2009 Edmonton, AB – Rexall Place
7/18/2009 Vancouver, BC – General Motors Place
7/19/2009 Seattle, WA – White River Amphitheatre
7/21/2009 Concord, CA – Sleep Train Pavilion
7/24/2009 Sacramento, CA – Sleep Train Amphitheatre
7/25/2009 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
7/31/2009 Irvine, CA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
8/01/2009 Irvine, CA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

More information at NoDoubt.com.

From an official e-mail:

Attention No Doubt Fans,

You can now validate your email address to be eligible to join the
No Doubt Tour Club to get the best seats in the house for the upcoming
2009 Summer Tour featuring special guest Paramore. For a $15 per show
membership fee (charged at the time of purchase), Tour Club members
will receive the following…

GUARANTEED access to purchase up to 4 prime tickets (limited number of memberships per city!)
Tickets printed on custom designed commemorative No Doubt Tour Club ticket stock with club member name printed on each ticket
Exclusive No Doubt Logo Sticker
Exclusive No Doubt Tour Club Magnet
Exclusive No Doubt Tour Club Iron-On
Access to No Doubt Tour Club web page with exclusive photos and tour updates

Here's How It Works:

Go to http://nodoubttourclub.musictoday.com (http://nodoubttourclub.musictoday.com)
now to enter your email address. You will then receive a link in your
email inbox to validate your email address. Clicking on the link will
send you to the Tour Club site to create a new online ordering account
and establish a username and password. THIS CAN (AND SHOULD) BE DONE AS
SOON AS POSSIBLE. MAKE SURE YOUR ACCOUNT NAME MATCHES THE NAME YOU WILL
USE FOR TICKET PICK UP AND YOUR PHOTO ID.

Then, on a date to be announced in the next few weeks, the
purchasing page will become active and you will be able to login to the
Tour Club to purchase tickets before they go on sale to the general
public. That announcement will be emailed to registered No Doubt fans
and posted to Nodoubt.com.

The $15 tour membership fee for the city or cities of your choice
will be added to your charge at the time of purchase as a per show
processing fee. TICKETS ARE NON-TRANSFERABLE AND MUST BE PICKED UP
NIGHT OF SHOW AT THE DESIGNATED TOUR CLUB ENTRANCE. YOU MUST HAVE ID
THAT MATCHES YOUR MEMBERSHIP NAME TO PICK UP TICKETS AND ENTER THE
VENUE.

Thanks and see you at the shows!

The No Doubt Tour Club