Photos from Travis Barker‘s Give The Drummer Some listening party, art show and special performance from The Transplants. Photos by Cody Black and BMUSE.

The Guitar Center, OurStage and Travis Barker are joining forces to bring you the ultimate contest to launch the next chapter in Your Next Record Competition. Essentially, Barker wants to help one up and coming artist with a shot at the big time by producing a 3 song EP at Red Bull Studios. And if that’s not cool enough, there’s more prizes like a $10,000 shopping spree.

If you haven’t heard Travis Barker and The Transplants‘ new song “Saturday Night,” you gotta listen to it after the jump.

The grand prize winner of Your Next Record Competition will win a trip to Los Angeles, the 3 song demo, $10,000 shopping spree at Guitar Center AND worldwide distribution of your single. To enter visit YourNextRecord.com

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Travis Barker – “Saturday Night” ft. The Transplants & Slash

The rock supergroup Transplants, formed by Travis Barker, Rancid‘s Tim Armstrong and his roadie Rob Aston (aka Skinhead Rob), are currently in the studio working on new material, and apparently it’s “coming out DOPE.”

Click more to see what Barker had to say via Twitter.

Travis Barker has been tweeting about the group recently, spawning another wave of interest in the band. Check out his tweets below:

Get excited people. New Transplant$ coming soon!

See all the updates yourself! Follow Travis on Twitter by clicking here.

@trvsbrkr - Me, Tom Morello & Tim Armstrong
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I’m an equally huge fan of all three parts of Blink 182, but lately, I find myself being an even bigger fan of Travis Barker. The Grammys may have just turned my admiration into a full-blown crush and here’s why. (PS – I’m a dude).

Between Blink 182, The Transplants, Boxcar Racer, The Aquabats, (+44) and ANY one of the remixes he’s done, I think it’s safe to say Travis is easily one of the best drummers of our  generation. It is no easy task to play with the style that he does, at the intensity he does. But that’s not the point.

With mega successful clothing company, Famous Stars & Straps, there’s no doubt Travis has firmly planted his feet and has established himself as multifaceted. Having signature shoes, signature cymbals and a hand in the Rogue Status clothing line just adds to the impending empire that is Travis Barker. But again, none of this is truly why I am a Travis fan.

There is more than the two dimensions of music and clothing to Travis. One thing I think is severely overlooked and under appreciated – he’s a stellar father.

What makes me respect a human being like Travis is that Saturdays you can most likely find him taking his youngest daughter to ballet. Maybe after that he’ll be en route to taking Landon, his son, to guitar lessons. And most days during the week, around 8 in the morning, you’ll see him tweeting about bringing his “humans” to school. A guy who has achieved what he has, still managing to keep the fact that he is a parent first and foremost is why I’m making this my first post to KROQ.com. I think that it’s so rare to see a straight up rock and roller like this be selfless. It makes me happy, hell it gives me hope in all musicians to know there are still parents out there who have values like this. His “humans” are his everything. They are what’s important. The pictures throughout this post exemplify it.

That is why I am a Travis Barker fan.

Oh right…and he’s wicked nasty at drums.

- KROQ Phone-Op Jerry

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