After solo projects, family time and last year’s summer reunion tour, it looks like No Doubt are getting down to business on their long-awaited sixth studio album. The band, which has been working on the project intermittently over the past few years, has taken to Twitter to keep fans updated.

“Tony and Gwen are rocking the synth. Our little studio is warm and candlelit, above the glowing city. Tom,” guitarist Tom Dumont tweeted on Wednesday evening.

Dumont has been tweetingabout their progress for the past week, with the first landing on January 20. “Back in the studio together writing today. Synth horns=cheesy but fun. :),” he tweeted.

The following day brought even more work for the group as Dumont tweeted a close-up picture of bassist Tony Kanal in the studio with singer Gwen Stefani.

The bandmembers worked on new material without Stefani for some time. “Tony, Adrian and I have been busy preparing material for the album since this time last year,” Dumont told MTV News in an e-mail in 2007. The following year, drummer Adrian Young talked loosely about the new material. “It seems like we’ve always come from an eclectic background musically,” he said. “But we seem to always gravitate towards reggae. I can’t say that’s what our record is going to be like, ’cause it’s too early to tell, but what makes us feel really good is reggae music. I can play reggae music to my grave.”

Last May, the group used an appearance on “American Idol” to preview what Stefani called “the procrastination tour” (with Paramore opening), and made a cameo appearance on “Gossip Girl,” covering Adam & the Ants’ 1981 track “Stand and Deliver.”

The band hoped to use the tour as a way to reconnect and find inspiration for their new material. “Once we reconnect onstage and reconnect with all the people who have supported us, I think it’s going to inspire us to make an amazing record,” Kanal said before the tour.

From MTV

To celebrate the brand new year, I have just finished putting up a brand new layout here Gwen Stefani Fan!

Feel free to leave your thoughts on the layout in the “comments” section of this post!

A decade ago, MTV played host to a slew of celebrities hanging out in Times Square to ring in the New Year. Although everyone was there to party, the big question was: Is the world going to end tonight? The Y2K bug* was plaguing the world. Would we make it to the millennium? (Spoiler alert: We did! We made it!)

Up until those final seconds of panic, Diddy performed, as did Jay-Z and Bush (which is funny because Gwen Stefani and No Doubt were also on hand to perform), Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson cuddled and Christina Aguilera chatted with Carson Daly.

As the final countdown took place, the clock struck midnight, confetti fell and the world (obviously) didn’t end. But just in case, No Doubt was on hand to ring in the New Year with the classic R.E.M. tune, “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine).” How ironic! They then segued into their own tune, “Ex-Girlfriend.” The fact that the world didn’t end doesn’t leave us very much surprised, but you may be surprised to know that in 1999, Gwen Stefani had pink hair, blunt bangs and braces. We wonder what look she’ll use to ring in 2010 with?

*For those of you who may not be familiar with the problem, yourdictionary.com defines it as: “The predicted malfunction of some computer systems prior to or at the beginning of the year 2000 because of their inability to distinguish between dates in the 1900s and dates in the 2000s. This inability results from the coding of year dates in some software and chips with only the final two, rather than all four, digits.” Anyways, it doesn’t matter because it didn’t happen, but that’s what we were worried about ten years ago.

From MTV

I am pleased to announced that Gwen Stefani Fan has obtained a new (and permanent) URL! The new main URL for the website is now www.gwen-stefani.org!!! Please make sure you update your links, bookmarks and RSS feeds to the new url, which will now replace the old address for this website…

All affiliates, please change your links from g-stefani.com to the new url, www.gwen-stefani.org – thanks!

Gwen and Gavin were at the premiere of “Sherlock Holmes” in London tonight! I have just added 30 HQ and MQ photos into the gallery. You can see all the pictures by clicking on the thumbnails below…