SXSW have announced the bulk of the lineup for the 2009 festival. There are more than a thousand bands listed, but here are some of the bands we’ve covered here on Punknews.org:

Annuals, Arkells, Bedouin Soundclash, Black Lips, The Bronx, Coliseum, Cursive, The Devil Wears Prada, Explosions In the Sky, Fake Problems, Future of the Left, The Girls, Head Automatica, He Is Legend, Moneen, Past Lives, Matt Pryor, The Queers, The Raveonettes, Rival Schools, Roll the Tanks, Say Hi, Kevin Seconds, Sleepercar, Teenage Bottlerocket, These Arms Are Snakes, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, True Widow and Westbound Train.

The event takes place March 18th through the 22nd in Austin, Texas.
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Doghouse Records has announced plans to reissue the Get Up Kids favorite, Something To Write Home About, on vinyl next month. The CD was released ten years ago, on Vagrant Records. Doghouse is promising that only 2000 copies will be made available and that they will be pressed on Opaque Purple vinyl. The record is due out February 17, 2009 and you can pre-order it here.

The disc is the second in a series of vinyl reissues that Doghouse has begun. The label released 1997’s Four Minute Mile in December.

On a related note, you can click Read More to check out a video from the album. Just because.
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Los Angeles, California-based Indie 103.1 has shutdown their FM broadcast, effective immediately. They will now continue exclusively on the web. The station explained:

Because of changes in the radio industry and the way radio audiences are measured, stations in this market are being forced to play too much Britney, Puffy and alternative music that is neither new nor cutting edge. Due to these challenges, Indie 103.1 was recently faced with only one option: to play the corporate radio game. We have decided not to play that game any longer. Rather than changing the sound, spirit and soul of what has made Indie 103.1 great Indie 103.1 will bid farewell to the terrestrial airwaves and take an alternative course.

If you’re using iTunes, you can find the Indie 103 broadcast in the “Alternative” section of the Radio. You can also listen live on the web here.
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Rise Against have posted the new video from their 2008 album, Appeal to Reason. Directed by Brett Simon the video for “Audience Of One” was shot in Los Angeles last month and features the band performing in a miniature world on the White House lawn. Rise Against will embark on a European tour starting in early February follow by some dates in Australia and Japan. The band will play the Bamboozle Festival in East Rutherford, NJ on May 3rd with No Doubt.

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Richmond, VA’s Cloak/Dagger have annoucned a new seven inch for the songs “Surf Song” and “Concentration Camp.”  The album will be pressed on clear and black vinyl and available through Jade Tree Records on February 17, 2009.

The band released Kamikazes [7 inch] in 2008.

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Ex- New Mexican Disaster Squad band Virgins will be hitting the road together for short tour up the south east coast. The Orlando, Florida based group will play dates with fellow ex-NMDS band Gatorface as well as Young Livers, Ninja Gun, and Hawks and Doves.

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Made in Manchester will be producing a radio documentary that will attempt to find out who the “real” Sid Vicious was. The program, In Search of Sid, is on BBC Radio 4 next Tuesday Jan. 20 at 11 pm and is presented by friend and ex-Public Image Ltd bassist, Jah Wobble.

“Sid Vicious is possibly the most popular and visible icon of the punk movement. Malcolm McLaren once claimed that ‘if Johnny Rotten is the voice of punk, then Sid Vicious is the attitude’,” said MIM creative director Ashley Byrne. In In Search of Sid, Jah re-evaluates the enigma he thought he used to know with others who had a brush with this punk icon.” The program contains previously un-broadcast archive of Vicious and his mother. There’s also a new take on his death.

You can listen to the program online here.
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San Diego, CA’s Wavves has signed to Fat Possum Records. The label will release the group’s second album WAVVVES on March 17, 2009. The group has posted a few songs from the album to their MySpace page

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Jeffree Star has announced that he has collaborated with Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba on a new track, “Louie Vuitton Bodybag.” Starr is primarily an electronic/dance artist, and Internet celebrity. You can check out some of his material on his myspace page.

Star has also confirmed that he will be appearing on the Warped Tour this summer. You can find all the details here.
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Anti- Records has posted a downloadable MP3 of the new track from Neko Case. The song comes from her forthcoming album, Middle Cyclone which is due out March 3, 2009.

Download the song here.

The posting is part of a special promotion where the label will donate $5 for every blog that reposts the song to Best Friends Animal Society. You can find more about the charity here. Neko has also posted a short video explaining her commitment to the charity.
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Joey Cape has announced some US dates prior to his previously announced UK and Europe tour. The Lagwagon and Bad Astronaut vocalist is supporting his solo album, Bridge. Jon Snodgrass of Armchair Martian/Drag the River will be joining him on all the dates.

On a related note, Suburban Home Records recently mentioned that Joey is already working on his second solo album.

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Pete Wentz has announced the Believers Never Die (Part Deux) tour which will feature Fall Out Boy, All Time Low, Cobra Starship, Metro Station and Hey Monday.

Fall Out Boy is supporting Folie á Deux. In related news, the band has recorded the Simpsons theme song which will air during the January 25th episode on FOX. Green Day also recorded the theme song previously, but for the film.

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Emily Wynne-Hughes, who joined Go Betty Go! in 2006 is a contestant on popular singing/karaoke program, American Idol.

You can check out her performance and interview here. She does make mention of Go Betty Go and the potential awkwardness of her competing and/or winning on the show.
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