Street­light Mani­festo, thanks to Mark Perdomo

Our van has been loc­ated. That’s the good news. The bad news is that over $100,000 in instru­ments and equip­ment is still gone. Thank you for all of your sup­port and dona­tions. If you would like to donate, you can do so at this link: http://bit.ly/maedonate

Alkaline Trio’s next album will be released by Epi­taph Records and their own label Heart & Skull.
Talk­ing to Spin­ner, Matt Skiba said:

This record is a rock record but our punk rock upbring­ing def­in­itely shines through, more so than our last few records … The vibe is sim­ilar to our humble begin­nings. It’s a step for­ward but I also think it has glim­mers of our past in it … We went with a less-is-more approach on this record. A lot of it is just one gui­tar rather than over­dubs or three or four gui­tars … We wanted a record that we could eas­ily play live. For the most part, it’s pretty bare bones while still sound­ing full and big.

Amber Pacific have ditched their pre­vi­ous label (Hope­less) for Vic­tory Records. Their album will be out in Spring 2010.

MxPx have pos­ted a track from their new EP on their MySpace. The track is called One Step Further.

Street­light Mani­festo have this to say about their new album:

We can’t announce [the release date] because we don’t know when it is. What we can say is this: some record labels (not nam­ing names here, so it can’t be “libel”) are just plain hor­rendous. Ser­i­ously though, it’s a sad fact that the bull­shit bands have to put up with from some labels isn’t worth the bene­fits (ha!) of being on said labels. That being said, it looks like Volume One will be released on vinyl via the Pen­ti­mento Music Com­pany long before it comes out on CD or digitally.

We have no tours planned as of this very minute but we are plan­ning our 2010 now. More import­antly, though, we will be head­ing into the stu­dio soon (as is a par­tic­u­lar elec­tri­city defi­cient col­lect­ive..) and we don’t plan on tour­ing until we have a few records to release.

Looks like blink-182 will be back in the stu­dio in Janu­ary, accord­ing to this twit­ter update from Mark Hoppus.