Kurt Cobain’s mother has been awar­ded tem­por­ary guard­i­an­ship of his daugh­ter, Frances Bean. Court­ney Love is not men­tioned in the court papers, and no reason is given for the decision. This is the second time Love has lost cus­tody of her daughter.

AFI, Sick of it all, and The Dear and Depar­ted have announced some UK dates in April, 2010:
April 5 at Rock City, Not­ting­ham
April 6 at Brix­ton Academy, Lon­don
April 8 at ABC, Glas­gow
April 9 at the Academy, Manchester
April 11 at the Academy, New­castle
April 12 at the Academy, Birmingham

John Frus­ci­ante has con­firmed that he has left the Red Hot Chili Pep­pers, after an ini­tial leak to Musi­cRadar by a source “close to the band”.

Bad Reli­gion are going back into the stu­dio in late April to record the follow-up to their last album, New Maps of Hell. Brett Gure­witz has also said that the album will be out in the autumn of 2010.

Boys Night Out’s Jeff and Con­nor have released a demo on the MySpace of their side pro­ject, Hard Calibers. You can check it out here.

Front­man of Alex­is­on­fire, Dal­las Green’s, side pro­ject, City and Col­our will release a digital single on 12^th Janu­ary, includ­ing “For­give Me”, and an acous­tic cover of Alexisonfire’s Boiled Frogs.

Deftones will release an album in late spring next year. The album, sched­uled for April 27^th, has not been given a name yet, but it deals with the struggle the band have had to go through since Chi Cheng’s acci­dent (he remains in hos­pital, in a semi-conscious state). The band have recor­ded an entire album with Chi, but are not plan­ning on releas­ing it within any determ­ined timescale.

Yet another artist has had their equip­ment stolen. This time it was Kevin Dev­ine, whose equip­ment was stolen from back­stage as he played in Giessen, Germany.

The Spill Can­vas have uploaded a new track to their MySpace page. Listen here.

Saves the Day are los­ing two of their mem­bers, Manny and Dur­i­jah. Appar­ently, now that Glassjaw are back up and run­ning, they feel that their oblig­a­tions lie with Glassjaw.

Rage Against the Machine have offi­cially made it to the top of the UK charts, mean­ing that Killing in the Name of… is Christ­mas num­ber one. It was off the back of a massive Face­book cam­paign to deny the X-Factor Christ­mas num­ber one.

Our thoughts go out to Brit­tany Murphy’s fam­ily, after she has died aged 32. Clue­less was cer­tainly a sig­ni­fic­ant film in my life, and I believe this to be true for a massive num­ber of people my age.