Bent Left and Roberta Sparrow will be touring together beginning later this week.

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Pete Mittler of the The Methadones and the The Bomb, along with former Methadones guitarist Ken Ortman (also of Batallion of Saints A.D. and Beer Goggles), and drummer Colin Tahi of Boys On Trial, have formed a new band dubbed the the Neutron Bombs. Four songs from the Chicago act are online new at MySpace. Ken commented on the tunes:

So… we taped this stuff at band practice 12/18/08. The basement was cold, and so were we. By the time we got warmed up enough to bash through the songs without sounding like hell, I had pretty much blown out my voice… so I cheated and re-recorded the vocals the next day. Alas… enough of the old vocals bled thru on the mic we used for drums (yes – one mic for the drums) so the vocals are essentially doubled. That’s just from trying to make something usable out of what we recorded. I’m sure we will record better stuff in the future… especially when we hit a proper studio. As you can tell, I’m no audio engineer by any stretch of the imagination! I’m hoping that we do some real studio recordings in January.

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Austin Lucas has posted an unmastered version of the title track from his upcoming LP Somebody Loves You. You can check it out at his MySpace page. The LP follows up the solo-styled At War With Freak Folk 10″.

Lucas will be hitting up California this weekend, with shows in Oakland (4102 Lusk Street), Santa Clara (2118 Los Padres blvd) and Sacramento (Java Lounge). The details are below.
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It’s a second-wave extravaganza as The English Beat heads out on tour with Bad Manners to start the year. They’ll be touring around the US, playing with bands like Big D and the Kids Table and The Pietasters. The Beat will play a few shows with just Big D following this. Check out the tour poster here.
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State papers released just yesterday after thirty years reveal that the Irish government saw the Sex Pistols as such a significant threat to “Irish morals” that the band was targetted for investigation at the highest levels of the Irish government. reports The Guardian.

In an era when the IRA was in an intense campaign of bombings and assassinations, the Garda Síochána targeted the band, drawn to them by their “obscene” title: Never Mind The Bollocks…

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Matt Broadbent and Claudio Rivera from former Punknews Records act Somerset have resurfaced in Uprising Records outfit Gloria. The Minneapolis, MN based act is heading out on tour to start the year. Check out the dates below.
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Cleveland’s MetroMix has posted a list of the 20 biggest flops of 2008. Among them were highly anticipated releases from Guns’n’Roses, Plain White T’s, The Cure, Gym Class Heroes, Panic! at the Disco, Offspring and R.E.M.

Check out the whole list and indulge some schadenfreude here. But expect some glaukenstucken to follow.
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None More Black has entered 2009 with a lineup change. The band’s long time drummer Jared Shavelson has left the band. Bassist Paul Delaney commented:

He shared the most time with us, and is possibly one of the best drummers around today. However, the time has come for both entities to move in different directions. He is, and will always be our friend, and a part of our family.

In recent years Jared’s also performed with the The Hope Conspiracy and Paint It Black.

Taking Jared’s place behind the kit is Richard Minino of New Mexican Disaster Squad and Gatorface. He’s also the artist behind Horsebites Design. Punknews.org spoke with Minino about his art last year.

None More Black is working on new music but are reporting that nothing new will be complete or available in the near future. The last released This Is Satire in 2006. The band will play the Harvest of Hope Festival in St. Augustine, FL on March 6th. Other bands playing the event include Against Me!. Propagandhi, Bouncing Souls, Strike Anywhere.
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Fall Out Boy have released the new video for “America’s Suitehearts” taken from their album, Folie a Deux.

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New Bedford, Massachusetts’ A Wilhelm Scream ended 2008 by unveiling an unreleased, unmastered song titled “The I Hate ___ Club.” It comes from the sessions for 2007’s Career Suicide.

Before their winter break the band finished drum and bass demos for five new songs. Guitarist Trevor Reilly commented that the songs are “fast, lengthy and cocky sounding.” Judge for yourself at their MySpace page.

The band will hit the road later this month in the United States and Canada for a tour with the The Swellers and Streetlight Manifesto.
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As promised the Bouncing Souls have launched 2009 with their new monthly singles project. The band has released the song “Gasoline” for purchase and download via Chunksaah Records, the first of 12 tracks to be made available this year. The song will also appear on a forthcoming 7″ that will collect the entries from January through March plus a bonus track. The song was produced by Ted Hutt, who worked on 2006’s The Gold Record along with recent recordings from the Gaslight Anthem, Flogging Molly, and Street Dogs.

The popular New Jersey based punk rock act recently wrapped up their second annual “Home For The Holidays” series of shows in Asbury Park.
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As has been widely reported, Vincent Ford – the man said to responsible for writing the Bob Marley track “No Woman, No Cry” – passed away this past week. The song appeared on Marley’s 1974 Natty Dread album and stands as one of the most recognizable tracks by the artist. The story for the song was reportedly based on the Kingston ghetto Trench Town where Marley and Ford both lived earlier in their lives.

There has been some some dispute over whether Ford actually assisted in the songwriting – with some claiming that Marley added his name to the credits to give his friend more money via the royalties. He is also credited with three tracks on the 1976 album Rastaman Vibration.

Ford passed away from complications with diabetes. He was 68.
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Tiefigher starts their West Coast tour with No Bragging Rights tonight in Fresno, California.
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