Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has hinted that The Transplants, the punk / hip-hop supergroup that features himself, Rancid‘s Tim Armstrong, and “Skinhead Rob” Aston, is set to return with new music in 2010. The band last released Haunted Cities in 2005 via Hellcat Records. The two Transplants full lengths have featured a number of guests artists including Rancid’s Matt Freeman and Lars Frederiksen, the The Slackers‘ Vic Ruggiero, Sen Dog and B-Real of Cypress Hill, Eric Ozenne of The Nerve Agents, Davey Havok of AFI, and Rakaa Iriscience of Dilated Peoples among others.

There’s no word yet on when the new record is planned for or who will be involved.
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Screaming Females has posted a song from their upcoming singles collection for Don Giovanni Records, slated for a February 19, 2010 release. Once out, it’ll follow up 2009’s Power Move.

Check out “I Do” at the band’s MySpace page.
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Punk icons Marky Ramone, formaly of Ramones and Michale Graves, who continues to front some version of The Misfits have teamed up to record a new tune for 2010. The pair will release “When We Were Angels” as an iTunes download on January 10th. Ramone recorded the track to mark the fifth anniversary of his Marky Ramone’s Punk Rock Blitzkrieg radio show on Sirius/Xm Radio, and he invited pal Graves to join Not content to release just music, Marky Ramone has also released Markey Ramone’s Brooklyn’s Own Pasta Sauce, which is available here.
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If You Make It has posted a new edition of its Pink Couch Sessions series, this one featuring The Sidekicks performing “A Healthy Time”. The song comes from the band’s 2009 full-length, Weight of Air, which was determined by a few mathletes to be the Punknews.org staff’s favorite record of 2009.

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Daytrotter has posted a recording session featuring Thrice. The session’s four songs include new versions of three tracks from 2009’s Beggars – “All The World Is Mad”, “Circles” and the title track – as well as a previously unreleased track entitled “Come On Up To The House”.

Check it out here.
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Paper the Operator have released their new full-length, Goodbye God. The album was written, played and recorded entirely by band frontman Jon Sebastian and follows up the band’s 2008 EP, Solemn Boyz (a rarities collection entitled Mount Bounty was released in the interim, however).

Goodbye God is streaming in its entirety at this page.
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In honor of Bret “The Hitman” Hart returning to WWE tonight, The Swellers are streaming “Montreal Screwjob” right here. The song is an outtake from the Ups and Downsizing sessions and was the B-side to their 7″ single, Welcome Back Riders.

The band has also posted a new tour video chronicling their shenanigans on the road with Less Than Jake and The Casualties.
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