Though the “secret” of the band is essentially out in the open, Green Day side project Foxboro Hot Tubs has received no word from the band itself. According to an MTV piece:

Further evidence that the Green Day guys might be behind the Hot Tubs: a link to FHT’s MySpace page is prominently featured on GD’s official fan site, and the opening riffs of Hot Tubs song “She’s a Saint, Not a Celebrity” is nearly identical to that of “Right Hand-a-Rama,” a tune by Green Day side project the Network.

The song was featured on Money Money 2020, the 2003 album issued by the masked, new-wave act that claims to be the enemy of Green Day but is almost undoubtedly — although the band has never confirmed this — Green Day themselves. Also, the back cover of Stop Drop and Roll!!! features a goat-head-and-martini-glass logo that’s exactly the same as the “Church of Lushotology” symbol seen on the Network’s site, under the “Church” section.

Of course, for the time being, it looks like the mystery of the Hot Tubs will remain unsolved: A spokesman for Green Day’s label, Reprise Records, told MTV News that he knew nothing about the band, and e-mails to GD’s manager were not returned. Stop Drop and Roll!!! can be downloaded for free on the FHT site.

You can check out the record and judge for yourself right here.
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Psychobilly outfit Nekromantix are currently on the road supporting their recent release Life Is A Grave & I Dig It!. We’re giving away a pair of tickets to the show of your choice, along with a Hellcat Records prize pack consisting of a t-shirt and some CD’s from the label’s 2007 releases (Tiger Army, The Unseen, Nekromantix). Two runners-up will receive just the prize pack.

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The Nekromantix, the psychobilly outfit from the left coast, are currently on the road supporting their recent release Life Is A Grave & I Dig It!. We’re giving away a pair of tickets to the show of your choice, along with a Hellcat Records prize pack consisting of a t-shirt and some CD’s from the label’s 2007 releases (Tiger Army, The Unseen, Nekromantix). Two runners-up will receive just the prize back.

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San Diego’s Finch have announced the first block of dates for a reunion tour. The shows grew out of the band’s one-off gig at the Glass House in Pomona, CA on November 23, 2007. Following the West Coast run, the band is promising both a East coast and a Midwest tour.

The band announced an “indefinite break” last year. They released Say Hello to Sunshine in 2005 and What It Is to Burn in 2002.

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After cancelling all tours for 2007, The White Stripes‘s frontman Jack White has suggested he might like to pass on touring indefinitely. When asked by the Los Angeles Times whether the touring hiatus would come to an end, he replied:

I don’t know. I guess it’s up to Meg. The Beatles did it [quit touring but continued as a band]. I’m joking, but if we didn’t ever tour again it wouldn’t matter to me. here are so many different aspects to being creative that it doesn’t matter if one component is changed. It’s been changing all the time since the band started.

If something [touring] isn’t working for you and it’s detrimental to you, then you have to figure out a new way to attack it, a new way to look at it. I think that’s what Meg’s doing.

The band released Icky Thump this year.
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After a number of false starts, Panic! At the Disco has finally set a release date for their new album. The popular band spoke to Billboard and dropped March 25, 2008 as a date.

In terms of the sound, the record seems to be aiming for “maturity” dropping names like Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and the Beach Boys. They explained:

When I started playing music, all I was hearing was whatever was on the radio. I’m 21 now, so a lot of my musical tastes have changed. “I played harmonica on a song and did some slide guitar, which we’ve never done before,

To date, the band’s debut album A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out has sold 1.7 million copies.
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