Orange County ska punks No Doubt have revealed that they plan to reform for a tour next year.

“I think we should go out now, I don’t think we should wait,” wrote singer Gwen Stefani on www.nodoubt.com. “It would be so inspiring to get out there and play all those songs again.”

“I think that if we go out on tour it will inspire us to write,” she added. “I need to see the fans out there.”

No Doubt went on hiatus in 2004 after Stefani launched her solo career. The band have spent much of this year working on new material while waiting for Stefani to finish promotional duties on her 2006 sophomore album, The Sweet Escape.

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Things aren’t looking good in the Velvet Revolver camp. The supergroup - featuring former members of Guns N’ Roses - have been dropped by their label, RCA.

The band released their debut Contraband in 2004, selling almost two million copies in the US. Their 2007 follow-up, Libertad, sold only 301,000. Their lead vocalist Scott Weiland was fired in April and there are no signs of a replacement being found.

In other news, Weiland has hinted that he may quit touring in order to focus on being a father to his two young children.

“It pains me when I am gone for a month, even,” he told LA Weekly. “I come back and there’s differences - big positive amazing differences, beautiful differences - that I haven’t been a part of because I’ve been working.”

He will release his new solo album, Happy In Galoshes, on January 19 through Softdrive.

After four years of silence, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker have finally spent some time hangin’ with Tom DeLonge, and for once, Hoppus is unsure about a Blink-182 reunion, a plesant change from the ex-members’ usual response of ‘no!’

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You know when we thought Fall Out Boy’s album Folie A Deux was supposed to have been released by November 4th, which means it would already be in your hands right now? Remember how they changed it to over a month later? Get ready, because December 16th is just about to get a whole lot more “suite.”

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Good Charlotte fans who were displeased with their last effort, 2006’s Good Morning Revival, will be psyched to hear that the band will not be making another dance-rock album. Instead, they will be channeling a ‘Blink182-esque’ sound for their fifth full-length.

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Guns N’ Roses are now streaming their new album Chinese Democracy in full online.

The album can be heard on the band’s MySpace profile (http://www.myspace.com/gunsnroses)

The album will be released in the UK on November 24 and in the US on Sunday November 23.

The tracklisting for Chinese Democracy is as follows:

1: Chinese Democracy
2: Shacklers Revenge
3: Better
4: Street Of Dreams
5: If The World
6: There Was A Time
7: Catcher In The Rye
8: Scraped
9: Riad N The Bedouins
10: Sorry
11: I.R.S.
12: Madagascar
13: This I Love
14: Prostitute