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“Are you gonna do (solo shows) again?”

Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness is putting his primary band on hold for a spell while he spends the next few months on the road reviving the outlaw-country sounds of his two solo records. via Ultimate-guitar.com

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“In the U.S., one in four people who are positive don't know it. So, we thought, 'How do we continue to remind our audience that they should get tested?'”

NEW YORK College-targeted MTVU has teamed up with the Kaiser Family Foundation and Poz Magazine to create a viral, Web-based game designed to get people talking frankly about HIV and AIDS. via Adweek

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Green Day will tour America under their Foxboro Hot Tubs alias. The punk rockers' side-project confirmed an eight-day jaunt for May, which begins in Arkansas and ends in Long Beach, California. via Digital Spy

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“I lived on the floor with the ghosts. I didn't come in with a point to it, so I just lived there and began filming. It's about the people that lived there, the ghosts, and the people that live there now.”

The fatal stabbing of SEX PISTOLS rocker SID VICIOUS' American girlfriend has been recreated in a new documentary about New York's famed Chelsea Hotel. via PR-inside.com

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Formed in Long Beach, CA, in 1988 as a garage punk band, Sublime grew to fame in the mid-'90s on the back of the Cali punk explosion engendered by Green Day and the Offspring, though Sublime mixed up their punk ... via WMMS-FM Independence

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The New York-based band Mindless Self Indulgence is recognized for its high energy songs full of profanity, its adult topics and Jimmy Urine's stage antics while performing live. via Courier News Online

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“That's for all of us, that's the one that we click, we all find is, like, our outlets to get rid of all that (anger). We just, aagh, whatever comes out when we pick up our instruments or write stuff, whatever, that's basically what we roll with.”

Darling Down is Amanda Legault, front, with in back row, from left, Dustin Claud, Ryan Hudson, Rick Brott. via Battle Creek Enquirer

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Their latest album, Internal Salvation is further evidence of their precise cataclysmic punk is a weapon to be feared. via WJXX

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There's absolutely no reason for Mindless Self Indulgence to be around in 2008. For starters, their aggressive, quasi-industrial sound - " on paper, at least - " is long past its sell-by date. via Miami New Times

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Even though our main stage season is over for the year, there is so much going on at the Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre that I have to take a whole article just to tell you all about it. via Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

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