Streetlight Manifesto have posted a update on their current status, upcoming plans and solo projects. The band notes that they are spending the next few months working on their last record for Victory Records:

We are spending the next couple of months in and out of the studio. Finally! The last SM record on our current label has finally commenced recording! Freedom! We’re in the middle of booking tons and tons of tours for 2011 and we’ll be hitting many, many places we’ve never been, both in our country, our neighboring countries and as far away as the other side of the world.

As well, vocalist Tomas Kalnoky is about to release some solo material:

Tomas (under the name Toh Kay) and Dan Potthast will be releasing a split LP on November 16th via The Pentimento Music Company, in which they reinterpret 5 of each other’s songs (each) with acoustic instruments.

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Modest Mouse will be reissuing two of their earliest releases next month. Frontman Isaac Brock’s Glacial Pace will issue new vinyl and CD versions of The Fruit That Ate Itself and Sad Sappy Sucker on November 9, 2010. The LP versions will be pressed on new 180g vinyl with a bundled download card and the CDs are being repackaged in new fold-out two panel digi-paks.

The albums were originally released on Olympia, Washington’s K Records.
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The 2011 Groezrock Festival lineup has been announced. Right now, the event set for April 22nd and 23rd will feature NOFX, Millencolin, Further Seems Forever, Dashboard Confessional, Piebald, Teenage Bottlerocket, August Burns Red, Every Time I Die, No Friends, Asking Alexandria, Shai Hulud, Brotherhood Foundation, Miss May I, Grey Area, Dead to Me and many more.

The Belgian festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2011 and coming back after a environmentally challenged 2010 edition.
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Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker has participated in an interview to discuss her controversial appearance at a local Tea Party event. Tucker complained that:

I’m furious about the way we’re being led towards socialism. I have come to believe (not just wonder) that Obama’s plan is to destroy America from within.

In the new interview, she is critical of those who judged her for her participation:

No country can provide all things for all citizens. There comes a point where it just isn’t possible, and it’s proven to be a failure everywhere it’s been tried. I am not oblivious to the plight of the poor, but I don’t see any reason/sense to the idea that everyone has to have everything, especially when the economy is so bad. I see that philosophy as merely a ploy to control.

Today it was announced that there would be no cost of living increase for Social Security recipients because “there’s no inflation.” I’d love to know what makes them think that! Where the hell do they shop? Prices have been rising for over a year. Inflation is a natural happening, I know. But why is it that suddenly food prices don’t go up two or three or five cents, but instead they’re going up 40, 50, 60 cents at a clip? No inflation my ass!

[Democrats say that tea partiers are] all racists, they’re all religious nuts, they’re all uninformed, they’re all stupid, they want no taxes at all and no regulations whatsoever. I’m stunned that so many people who call themselves liberal yet are completely intolerant. I thought liberals loved everyone: the poor, the immigrant, the gays, the handicapped, the minorities, dogs, cats, all eye colors, all hair colors! Peace, love, bull! Curious they have no tolerance whatsoever for anyone who doesn’t think exactly as they do. You disagree and you’re immediately called a fool, a Nazi, a racist.

Check out the interview here.
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Weezer is planning a third release from the vaults this year, with vocalist Rivers Cuomo announcing plans to release his third Alone collection. Rivers promises that it will include more solo recordings of tracks from the “lost” pre-Pinkerton concept album. He is planning to accompany that release with the publication of “The Pinkerton Diaries which will compile Cuomo’s journals, emails and Harvard papers from that era.

In the next few months, the band is releasing Pinkerton [Deluxe] and Death to False Metal on November 2, 2010 as well.
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Blink 182 have posted a studio update as they continue to work on their long-awaited follow up to 2003’s Blink 182.

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For the first time in 14 years, the original line-up of New Jersey hardcore band Ensign will be performing together for a special pre-Halloween event on October 30th at the Court Tavern in New Brunswick, NJ. The show will feature vocalist Tim Shaw, original drummer Chris Ross (Nora/Torchbearer), founding guitarist John Fraunberger, and touring bassist Nate Gluck (Strength 691/Vision/Detournement). The band will only be performing material from their first and second 7-inches as well as a few extra trackss, most of which have not been performed live since the departure of Ross & Fraunberger in the late-90’s.

Also performing will be Frontier(s), the new band from Chris Hidgon (Elliott) and Matt Wieder (Mouthpiece/Automatic), Karma Never Forgives (members from Agents of Man, Bulldoze, For The Love Of, and IDK), and Skull Crusher (Resurrection/Hands Tied). Doors open at 9:00 PM with an $8 entry.
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Chicago-are bearded supergroup Stay Ahead of the Weather have posted another new song. The band is the new project from Evan Weiss, formerly of Damiera and currently performing solo under the moniker Into It. Over It., as well as Nick Wakim of Castevet and Native‘s Bobby Markos. Their debut 7-inch We Better Get Goin’ If We’re Gonna is due out December 7, 2010 via No Sleep Records.

Find “Get Old Or Die Tryin'” at Alternative Press.
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Tina Sparkle have posted a new song. The band, which features former members of The Forecast as well as Scouts Honor, will be releasing their sophomore full-length Welcome To The No Fun House on February 8, 2011 via Thinker Thought Records.

Check out “Decatur” at the band’s MySpace page and click below for the album’s art and track listing.
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Ariane “Ari Up” Forster of The Slits has passed away at 48. Ari Up formed The Slits when she was 14, in 1976. After The Slits split in 1981, she moved with her husband and twin children to jungle regions of Indonesia and Belize, living among indigenous people in those areas. Later, they moved to Jamaica, eventually settling in Kingston. She continued to make music, first with the New Age Steppers, then solo as Baby Ari, Madussa, and Ari Up.
John Lydon made the announcement on his official website: