Adeline Records launches Haiti-benefit auction

Adeline Records has launched a Haiti-benefit charity auction. The label, owned by members of Green Day, is auctioning a number of items including Green Day and The Living End, test pressings, limited edition bags, signed stuff, video games, Broadway Calls vinyl, AFI vinyl and much more. All proceeds go directly to the non-profit Doctors Without Borders in support of Haiti.

Check it out and place your bids here.
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Dirty Laundry talks to Mike Watt

Mike Watt Laundromat-centric web series Dirty Laundry has posted a new episode, this one featuring Mike Watt. In it, Watt talks about D. Boon, words of wisdom from Joey Ramone and the Jackass theme song (“Corona”, by The Minutemen). This is the fourth part of the show’s interview with Watt; the first three parts can be found here, here and here, respectively.

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Virgins to enter studio

Virgins Orlando, FL’s Virgins will enter the studio to record their second full-length on February 11. Tentatively titled Animals, the band will once again record in Louisville, KY at Head Banging Kill Your Mamma Music with Chris Owens of Lords producing. Once out, it’ll follow up 2008’s Miscarriage.

The band is also planning a couple of 7″ releases for 2010; one from the LP recording sessions, which should be out a couple of months prior to the album’s release, and another split 7″ with Stolen Parts that’ll be released through No Idea Records.
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Cap’n Jazz to reunite tonight in Chicago

Cap'n Jazz The A.V. Club Chicago is reporting that seminal emo outfit Cap’n Jazz will be playing a mini reunion set tonight at the Empty Bottle, as part of the “The Joan Of Arc Don’t Mind Control Variety Show”. The show will center around Tim Kinsella’s many, many bands and is being put on in conjunction with Joan Of Arc Presents: Don’t Mind Control, an eighteen band compilation featuring outfits that all included a member of Joan of Arc at some point.

The show starts tonight at 10 PM local time.
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TED NUGENT: NAMM Performance Footage Available

Professionally filmed video footage of Ted Nugent’s half-hour performance in the private Paul Reed Smith Guitars room at this year’s NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show, which was held January 14-17, 2010 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, can be viewed below (courtesy of Bay Area Backstage).
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Leatherface details ‘The Stormy Petrel’

Leatherface Leatherface has posted the title, cover art and track listing for their long awaited new full-length. The Stormy Petrel is slated for a February 23, 2010 release through No Idea Records in North America and on the band’s own Big Ugly Fish Recordings in their native UK. This will be the band’s first new studio album since 2004’s Dog Disco, and they’ve already planned a good amount of touring on this side of the pond.

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