GOO GOO DOLLS OFFICIAL WEB SITE, RE-LAUNCHES SATURDAY, JULY 1ST.

Newly Updated and Redesigned Site offers "The Daily Goo," Bringing News and Information to Fans Every Day.

Multi-platinum recording artists the Goo Goo Dolls will re-launch their official band website on Saturday, July 1st. googoodolls.com has been redesigned and expanded to allow fans an interactive experience with added graphics and streaming of video and audio.

Essentially an artist-operated site, googoodolls.com will feature an exclusive photo gallery and exciting contest giveaways. In upcoming weeks fans will hear unreleased audio tracks including live concert recordings. They will have the opportunity to communicate with band members John Rzeznik, Robby Takac and Mike Malinin, who will be available for scheduled chats. Goo Goo Dolls tee shirts, CDs, jewelry, posters, stickers and other merchandise can be purchased through the site's store. MTVi, an internet video channel, will be linked to googoodolls.com and provide lists of fan clubs and other artist information.

A notable feature on the site will be "The Daily Goo," a daily updated news and information source for all band activities, tour dates, television appearances, downloadable clips, suggested links and special announcements. "The Daily Goo" will run contests with giveaways that include autographed Goo Goo Dolls memorabilia, guitars, tour jackets and one of a kind items. The band will provide up-to-the-minute details to the site from the recording studio when they begin work on their seventh album later this year and a page will be supplied on the site for mail to be sent to the group. goo goodolls.com is the only official source for obtaining band information and lyrics for all six Goo Goo Dolls recordings.

"We've been so busy the last few years, we couldn't really give the site the attention it deserved," says Goo Goo Dolls bassist Robby Takac."Now that the Goos official site is reachable at googoodolls.com, it's nice that we finally have the chance to be so closely involved with it."

The Goo Goo Dolls sixth album, DIZZY UP THE GIRL has sold almost four million copies and has been on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart for 92 weeks. The latest single, "Broadway" is tops at several radio formats and a video treatment for the song, written by comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, can be seen on MTV and VH-1. Four singles off the album, "Iris," "Slide,' "Dizzy" and "Black Balloon" have accumulated over a million plays at radio, according to BDS. The Goo Goo Dolls have has been nominated for four GRAMMY awards and the group was honored this past year with songwriting and broadcast performance awards from ASCAP and BMI

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