TMZ — Avril Lavigne finally let her fans get close to her at an event last week ... after she took a ton of flack for previously stiff-arming fans who paid good money to hang out with the singer.Lavigne hosted a paid meet and greet with fans last April,…... more info

MTV.co.uk News — The Hello Kitty singer has said she's "proud" of the Sum 41 star following his battle with alcoholism... more info

Mercury News, California — Avril Lavigne to open for the Backstreet Boys at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. more info

The Daily Mail — Avril Lavigne nearly suffered a wardrobe malfunction in Mexico on Sunday as she came close to losing her bikini bottoms while frolicking in the sea. more info

Stereogum — The New Zealand-raised and Melbourne-based pop singer-songwriter Kimbra, who is hopefully still spending that “Somebody That I Used To Know” dough, is getting ready to release her sophomore album, and its first single is a deeply weird single cal... more info

The Daily Mail — Currently in the midst of a mammoth South American 70-date tour, Avril Lavigne has been basking in the sun in Brazil with her stylist and sipping on coconut juice more info

ContactMusic — There’s been a lot of criticism of Avril Lavinge’s latest music video for her single “Hello Kitty.” The video sees Lavigne prancing around in... more info

Metalsucks — Better than the original?The post Listen to Two Black Metal Covers of Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger’s Internet-Breaking Disaster “Hello Kitty” appeared first on MetalSucks. more info

ContactMusic — People's "Most Beautiful": Lupita Nyong'o is beautiful? Tell us something we didn't know! The 12 Years a Slave star was honoured this week for her... more info

Stereogum — The internet’s favorite target this week was Avril Lavigne’s garish, shrill, quite-possibly-racist “Hello Kitty” video. I didn’t see it until I’d read a bunch of euphorically annoyed online chatter about it, and I honestly expected to rea... more info