She is currently on the North and South American leg of the tour before heading to Australia and New Zealand in late July. The Asian leg will take her to Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong and Bangkok in August before hitting Kuala Lumpur. After that, she will be in Honolulu before going on tour to Europe until October. Malaysia Star

"We write hooky songs, so right now we're just looking for our tackle box. We've got some candy that'll give you cavities," Ritter laughed. "All I do is cruise around, listening to oldies, to some good ol' Motown, so stuff like that is sort of shaping what we've been writing. And we're looking at a ballad we wrote for the last Gwen Stefani album that she didn't use. We might revisit that one."

Woah! Did we know about this? The All American Rejects wrote a song for Gwen for The Sweet Escape album? Details, details!

Awwww. How sweet!

While papa Gavin Rossdale is away, his babymomma sends him a special message.

Gwen Stefani - with fly boy Kingston heading into her tour bus in LA on Tuesday - keeps her hot hubby close to her heart by wearing one of his t-shirts…with his actual face on it.

Show your love. Wear it!

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The 37-year-old singer/songwriter/fashion trendsetter will be performing at the Putra Indoor Stadium in Bukit Jalil on Aug 21. Stefani will be on the Asian leg of her The Sweet Escape tour.

She is currently on the North and South American leg of the tour before heading to Australia and New Zealand in late July.

The Asian leg will take her to Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong and Bangkok in August before hitting Kuala Lumpur.

After that, she will be in Honolulu before going on tour to Europe until October.

Gwen Stefani is repping Orange County—and she's got the appropriately colored arm candy to prove it.

The No Doubter turned bombshell turned recent mommy stopped by her hometown and raised in excess of $218,000 for Orange County children's charities.

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To say the crowd's reaction was insane is an understatement; the unannounced riff of "Girl" alone was probably enough to give most people goose bumps. Under the shrieking circumstances, ND could have sloppily sauntered through its selections and no one would have cared.

Yet the precision and vigor with which the band blasted through its hits suggested not only that it instinctively knows them backward and forward, it also illustrated that the intervening years while Stefani has been doing her own thing haven't weakened any chemistry. If anything, this heartening show of faith for longtime fans suggests the group is eager to re-energize and re-launch – though word is we shouldn't expect to hear anything new until late 2008 at the earliest.

Regardless, from the elated looks on their four beaming faces, it would seem they are chomping at the bit to get back to being No Doubt. Here's hoping for a speedy and progressive return. They've been missed.

"Just A Girl"
"Hella Good"
"Sunday Morning"
"Spiderwebs"

And a little before 11:30 p.m., as Gwen began her encore to the screaming delight of a capacity crowd, it had become a reality: No Doubt had returned to the stage.

The group - including smiling, clearly thrilled Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young - performed just three songs ("Just a Girl," "It's My Life" and "Spiderwebs") to conclude Stefani's first of two shows at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater this weekend. But it was enough to suggest the intervening years while Gwen has risen to international solo-superstar status have not had any crippling effects on her home base. The band played as confidently as ever, with Gwen, back in fighting form and donning a blinged-up version of old-school No Doubt garb, leaping about the stage and resurrecting her tough-girl strut.

It was a great treat - one that people who split around 11ish, thinking Stefani was wrapping up, sadly missed. What's more, the insane reaction to No Doubt's sudden appearance suggests the band will be eagerly embraced whenever it properly returns, whether that's late 2008 (as some have speculated) or beyond.

The only downside to this ND spotlight? It was such a special moment, it somewhat overshadowed what was otherwise an unexpectedly solid and entertaining Stefani show. But I'll have more to say about that in my full review, which should be online by Sunday afternoon.

NO DOUBT PERFORMS IN IRVINE!!!

"Surprise!" Gwen Stefani shouted to her hometown crowd at the Verizon Amphitheater in Orange County on Friday night. And she did not disappoint! For the encore of her solo concert, the singer was joined on stage by her No Doubt bandmates and the crowd went wild.

Gwen and the boys performed Just A Girl, Spiderwebs and It's My Life to a very lucky audience in Irvine. No Doubt has currently been hitting the recording studio working on a new record, which should be out next year.

Hella good!

At a time when stadium acts are growing older, and fewer acts have the box office draw to fill their place, Gwen Stefani has bucked the trend, rising to the top of pop stardom. Compared with contemporaries Britney Spears, J-Lo and Jessica Simpson, Stefani is a much better idol. For one, she's sane. For two, she's a happily married mother with a successful clothing line and no time in rehab. In short, she's a normal - perhaps überwealthy - everyday person.

More importantly, she can sing. Sure, those other voices are technically pretty, but Stefani has a rawness as well as a learned and earned legitimacy from the years - two decades actually - spent fronting the band No Doubt. When Stefani sings, there's no doubt that she's really singing.

Meanwhile, Gwen took time out from her hectic tour schedule to celebrate son Kingston's first birthday on Saturday. A crew source told the New York Daily News newspaper, "We had cake, and he was playing with all the band members. It was a lot of fun. The people here are what really make this tour great." Before the tour kicked-off in April, Gwen - who played a 42-date US tour while pregnant with Kingston - said she believed her son would benefit from going on the road with her. Gwen - who is married to British rocker Gavin Rossdale - said, "Because we've travelled so much, he's never got into a schedule. I think this tour is going to be the greatest time to get him one. "He'll have a crib on the tour bus and a room will be set up at every venue with his toys, nappy bed and a rocking chair. So I'll be rocking him to sleep in the dressing room every night before I go onstage and rock out!"