Blink 182‘s Mark Hoppus has responded to the back and forth rumours about a reunion. Mark explains the situation:

None of us know exactly what’s going to happen. I do know that we’re all very stoked to be talking again, laughing and letting the past remain in the past. But we’re also coming together after an extremely acrimonious band breakup, a lot of anger and frustration with one another and four years of not talking. I think that we need to get back to a certain point as friends before we could ever take a stage together again, because that’s what we always based everything on.

If – and this is a big if – Blink-182 were ever to re-form, it would have to be the most amazing, ridiculous, mind-blowing show and tour ever. I feel like, as bitter as our breakup was, we stepped back at the top of our game, and we’d have to come back even stronger and better than before.

Check out the entire interview here.
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Chicago, IL’s The Methadones have posted a news update about their album Not Economically Viable. Says the band:

We’ve got some exciting things going on in Methadones land this spring. First up, our album Not Economically Viable is getting a total makeover. It’s currently being re-mixed and re-mastered by our friend Matt Allison and will be released on vinyl by Underground Communique early this summer. It will be a cool double album on colored vinyl with a never before heard bonus track. It will also be available on Itunes.

The band also announced that they will be recording three to four songs for seven inch releases later this year. The band released This Won’t Hurt… in 2007.
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Turbonegro has lined up some gigs this April all along the West coast before heading back to the studio to record their next full length. They have also booked far in advance some festival appearances this summer in Europe and are rumored as well in making up their last-year cancelation at the Coachella arts and music festival which takes place April 17,18,19 in Indio, CA.

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Though few details are currently available, at least one member of Tool will be guesting on the forthcoming album from Isis. The band said as much via their official website:

Possibly at least one member of TOOL will be guest performing on the new ISIS album (recorded by “Evil” JOE BARESI).

Isis has been working on the album for the past few weeks and posted a studio video in December.
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New Jersey-based hardcore outfit The Mongoloids have a new video from their new EP, Assorted Music.

Check out “Circumstantial Criticism” here.
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Continuing their free and donation-based plans, Nine Inch Nails have released 400 gigabytes of HD footage recorded at three separate live performances. The band said this:

I was contacted by a mysterious, shadowy group of subversives who SOMEHOW managed to film a substantial amount (over 400 GB!) of raw, unedited HD footage from three separate complete shows of our Lights in the Sky tour. Security must have been lacking at these shows because the quality of the footage is excellent.

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Bridgeport, CT’s Hatebreed have posted a new track from their recently previously announced covers album. The record is titled For the Lions and will be released through the band’s new label, Koch Records.

Check out the cover of Sepultura’s “Refuse/Resist” on their MySpace page.
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Cincinatti, OH’s Foxy Shazam will be heading out on tour in the month of February across the South. They will be joined all dates with Dr. Manhattan and The AKAs.

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Members of DRI, Down By Law, Pink Lincolns and Hated Youth have announced their debut as The Spears. The band will be releasing the fourteen track album in June/July and describe their sound as “hardcore/punk rock with some pop-punk influence.”

The band features vocals from Chris Barrows of Pink Lincolns, Sam Williams(Down By Law) on guitar, Rob Rampy(D.R.I) Drums, and Gary Strickland (Hated Youth) performing Bass duties. Tour dates are scheduled for Summer 2009 in support of the release.

Two songs are available on their myspace page.
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All-American Rejects have recorded an accordion, beer bottle and acoustic take on the Britney Spears single, “Womanizer.” The band explains the cover is because they can do a “better job than Britney.”

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San Diego natives Kill Me Tomorrow who just played the Melvins/Mike Patton curated All Tomorrow’s Parties will be releasing their next full length album Trap Like A Steel Mind on Kitty Play Records.

This is their first release since their former home GSL Records (Mars Volta, the Locust) has closed shop. Some songs from the album can be found on their myspace page.
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The routing for the 2009 AP Tour has been revealed. The tour will feature co-headliners 3OH!3, the Maine and Family Force 5, with opening acts Hit The Lights and A Rocket To The Moon.

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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• Facing New York – Get Hot
• Grampall Jookabox – Ropechain
• Delay – …Don’t Laugh
• Used Kids – Hovercraft [7 inch]
• Unwelcome Guests / Orphan Choir – Split [7 inch]
• Cassino – Sounds of Salvation
• End of a Year – We Understand Europeans Are a Sexual People [7 inch]
• Various – Burning London: The Clash Tribute
• Cherubs – Heroin Man
• The Afghan Whigs – Gentlemen

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