South Bay, CA’s Final Fight have decided to call it a day. The band does have a string of shows booked however, and hints that a couple of more shows – likely in Arizona and Los Angeles – may be added to the itinerary.

The band released Half Head, Full Shred in 2008.
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Sad news out of Melbourne, Australia, as guitarist Rowland S. Howard passed away yesterday from liver cancer. He was 50 years old.

Howard joined the Nick Cave-fronted The Birthday Party (then known as The Boys Next Door) in 1978 and was a guitarist and songwriter for the band until their breakup in 1983. Howard’s playing style was known as aggressive, and laden with distortion and feedback. After The Birthday Party’s breakup, Howard played in Crime and the City Solution in 1985-86, fronted post-punk outfit These Immortal Souls from 1987 to 1998 and released two solo albums: 2000’s Teenage Snuff Film and Pop Crimes, released in October of this year to heavy critical acclaim.

Our deepest condolences go out to Howard’s family, friends and fans.
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Sad news out of Melbourne, Australia, as guitarist Rowland S. Howard passed away yesterday from liver cancer. He was 50 years old.

Howard joined the Nick Cave-fronted The Birthday Party (then known as The Boys Next Door) in 1978 and was a guitarist and songwriter for the band until their breakup in 1983. Howard’s playing style was known as aggressive, and laden with distortion and feedback. After The Birthday Party’s breakup, Howard played in Crime and the City Solution in 1985-86, fronted post-punk outfit These Immortal Souls from 1987 to 1998 and released two solo albums: 2000’s Teenage Snuff Film and Pop Crimes, released in October of this year to heavy critical acclaim.

Our deepest condolences go out to Howard’s family, friends and fans.
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Along with a pre-order, Interpunk has posted some revised cover art and a track listing for the highly anticipated seventh album from Alkaline Trio, This Addiction.The full-length is due out February 23, 2010 and will be the band’s first for their own Heart & Skull, an imprint of Epitaph Records. The record will follow up the band’s lone major label release, 2008’s Agony & Irony.

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Dropkick Murphys will be performing their popular song “Shipping Up To Boston” before the third annual NHL Winter Classic on January 1. The game between the Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers will take place at Fenway Park in Boston. The band will be using the opportunity to promote their new charity organization, the Claddagh Fund. A recent charity skate on the Fenway Park ice raised over $50,000 for the fund.

The band has an extensive tour lined up after the new year, and a live CD/DVD tentatively titled Live on Landsdowne slated for a March 16, 2010 release.
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End of a Year and Tigers Jaw will be hitting the road soon for ten days of January shows on (mostly) the east coast. Joining them on all dates will be Albany, NY post-rock outfit Aficionado.

End of a Year are currently supporting their 2009 self-titled 7″, while Tigers Jaw continue to support their 2009 7″, Spirit Desire.
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The Punk Site has posted a lengthy interview with Ben Weasel and Dan Vapid of Screeching Weasel. Among the topics discussed were upcoming shows:

“We’re doing a show in Philly in April which is being announced in a couple days once we get back from here and we’re doing Screeching Weasel one night and the Riverdales the next. A lot of the time with these fly-ins, the idea is to try and do that if they’ll make an offer for the Riverdales because we want to do both bands and they’re essentially the same members minus one guy. We don’t have anything confirmed yet, we’re looking at probably Toronto in May or June, possibly Orlando, possibly somewhere on the West Coast.”

The band also revealed details about some new material in the works:

“We have set aside March to work on demos. I mean a lot of the songs that I imagine will end up being on the album are written; but I also imagine we’re going to write some more stuff and demo some stuff. I have probably about a hundred and twenty bits and pieces of songs that I’ve been going over and over; Vapid’s gone over them as well.”

Also discussed was the band’s switch from Asian Man Records to Recess Records:

“I don’t know. You’d have to ask their (Asian Man) employees who seem to relish in running around the internet spreading rumours about it – total fucking bullshit by the way. The only thing I’m going to say about it is that there were some severe personality clashes and if I ever had any fucking doubt whatsoever about leaving that label, those doubts would’ve been erased completely by watching the reaction of the people at that label once we left. Because it didn’t take a hot minute before their employees were running around the internet fucking flinging the shit and I’m not going to do the same. I won’t do it. I’m not going to say anything more about it than that. But all I’ll say is I’m not going to work with those type of human fucking beings; and that’s all I have to say about that.

Check out the rest of the interview here.
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Blink 182 have confirmed a couple of European festival dates in 2010. The band will perform at the Area 4 Festival August 21, 2010, and Highfield Festival on August 22, 2010, both in Germany. The proximity of the dates to the Reading and Leeds Festivals has led to online speculation that the band will headline those as well, but nothing has been confirmed on either side.

The band is expected to enter the studio in January.
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