Mark Hop­pus has said that blink-182 will do everything pos­sible not to let the release of their next album slip into 2011. Talk­ing to MTV News, he’s said that the new album will be poppy, but “weird”. How­ever, Travis seems to dis­agree, telling MTV that the album “will come out prob­ably early next year.”. He spoke to MTV at the Grammys, after play­ing a track with rap­pers Drake, Lil’ Wayne and Eminem. You can check that out here.

You can down­load a free new song by Cypress Hill, called It Ain’t Nothin’ from their web­site. Ini­tials, who we men­tioned the other week (Fred Mas­cherino, Andy Jack­son and Josh Eppard) have changed their name to Ter­rible Things, and have been snapped up by Uni­ver­sal Motown.

Drop­kick Murphys have covered Swingin’ Utters’s “Strong­man”. You can listen to it here.

Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A. are plan­ning to get back together to do a few con­certs. The news was released by Less Than Jake’s JR on his blog. The band have been quiet for eight years, after split­ting in 2000, and then reunit­ing in 2002 to raise money in the name of their drummer.