Roy Berry and Brian Ven­able of Lucero were mugged recently after a show in Geor­gia (the US state, not the former soviet repub­lic). Berry’s jaw was broken, and the band have had to can­cel at least one gig.

NOFX’s Fat Mike has had his phone stolen in Argen­tina. He was appar­ently send­ing a text mes­sage on his iPhone when it was knocked out of his hand by a guy on a bike, who then made off with it. He lost the phone and “a few hun­dred dol­lars”, but was not hurt. In fact, he seems to be quite pos­it­ive about the whole exper­i­ence, say­ing “What a fuck­ing great way to get robbed. No viol­ence, no trauma, no chance I’m gonna run after him. Pretty sweet really”.

P.O.S. has remixed Breathe Carolina’s Hello Fas­cin­a­tion. The video’s here.

Bad Reli­gion will be giv­ing away a live album being recor­ded on their Spring tour to mem­bers of their mail­ing list. For more inform­a­tion and to join, click here.

Belle & Sebastian have sent an e-mail through their fan mail­ing list say­ing that they’re going back into the stu­dio after a four year break to record a follow-up to The Life Pur­suit. Appar­ently, it’s all writ­ten, so they just need to record it.

Here We Are Jug­ger­naut, a track by Coheed and Cam­bria, is now avail­able on the band’s MySpace.

Amber Pacific will be releas­ing their album Vir­tues on the 13^th April. You can pre-order it here (Amer­ican site).

Daphne Loves Derby have pos­ted a new song, Shine, to their MySpace.

Mark Linkous (Sparkle­horse) has com­mit­ted sui­cide. Our thoughts are with his fam­ily and friends at this sad time.