Reflections Records has announced plans to reissue the first two albums from Sick Of It All on vinyl. Both 1989’s Blood, Sweat, and No Tears and 1992’s Just look Around will be reissued with original artwork and gatefold sleeves, with each release limited to 500 copies. No release dates have been announced, but the label is promising pre-order information soon.

SOIA’s new record, Based On A True Story, is due out on April 20, 2010 via Century Media. Accordingly, the band will be touring the UK this spring.
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In addition to the previously announced Brooklyn show, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine have added three more east coast gigs for the end of March.

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Alt-county songstress Neko Case is starring in a new show for Adult Swim that recently won a fan vote to be picked up for a full season. The show is titled Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge and Case provides the voice of the titular character, who according to show creator Dave Willis is “a Strawberry Shortcake pop princess that lives in a candy wonderland just outside of Detroit. She comes into Detroit and helps solve problems of racism and teen pregnancy with the power of love and teen pop songs.”

Case won’t actually sing the songs on the show; instead, her character will lip-synch them while a decidedly different voice sings all the songs. Many of the songs for the show will be written by Butch Walker.

The pilot can be seen here; it’s scheduled to air on television on May 9.
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Tomorrow evening, Crime In Stereo will be playing an in-store at Generation Records in New York City in conjunction with the release of their new full-length, I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone. More information is available over at Late Night Wallflower.

The show is part of the band’s previously announced tour in support of the record.
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Last Friday, J Robbins performed a live, acoustic set at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD as part of the center’s Story/Stereo concert series. Accompanied by rock cellist Gordon Withers, Robbins performed songs that spanned his career, including cuts from Jawbox, Burning Airlines, Channels and his newest project, Office of Future Plans.

Baltimore-based blog Aural States is hosting an authorized stream of the performance here, and about half of the tracks are available for download at that page as well.
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Screaming Females have been tapped to support Ted Leo And The Pharmacists on the band’s upcoming tour. The dates were previously announced here back in December, but the itinerary has changed a bit since then.

Screaming Females will be supporting their new compilation, Singles, while Leo and his Pharmacists will be supporting their new full-length and Matador Records debut, The Brutalist Bricks, due out March 9, 2010.
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Tegan and Sara have posted a new video for “Alligator,” the second single from the duo’s 2009 full-length Sainthood.

Along with Pavement, The Hold Steady and a slew of others, the group will be performing at this year’s Sasquatch Festival in Washington state.
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