Naked Raygun and Hot Water Music will be playing two shows together in Chicago, IL in January. Both shows take place at the house of blues and will feature Shot Baker, The Copyrights and The Methadones, The Arrivals on the first and second night respectively. The shows are set for January 2nd and 3rd, 2009.

A block of tickets will go on sale Friday via this page.

Deathwish Inc. has unveiled a plethora of news regarding future releases:

Both The Hope Conspiracy and End of a Year have completed work on their new EPs.

Internal Affairs are near completion of their 7" EP Evil Egyptians , while Reign Supreme are currently recording their new album Testing the Limits of Infinite (studio preview here).

Integrity, Rise and Fall (studio footage here), Pulling Teeth and Irons (Converge, Integrity) all continue to work on new material.

Our friend Dan Perrone recently sat down for a lengthy interview with The Casting Out, which includes Nathan Gray of Boy Sets Fire. The band self-released their debut full length Go Crazy! Throw Fireworks! in October.

You can click Read More for the interview.

Toronto's Fucked Up recently played a 12-hour marathon show in New York City where they were joined by Moby, Vivian Girls, Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend), Tim Harrington (Les Savy Fav) and John Joseph (Cro-Mags). Both their label, Matador Records and Rhapsody have posted video segments of the show, which can be viewed here and here.

In case you missed it, Punknews ran an in-depth interview with the band yesterday. Fucked Up continue to support their newest release, The Chemistry of Common Life.

The recently rebooted Trophy Scars have detailed their forthcoming full length, Bad Luck. The band remains unsigned, and note:

We are searching for a record label now and hopefully we will find one. If you own and operate a label or work at a label and are interested in Bad Luck - please get in touch with us... We will be sending out EPKs and physical press kits hopefully by the end of November.

You can find the art and track listing here.

The band issued Alphabet. Alphabets. in 2006.

After a lengthy period with their albums out-of-print, Flipper is gearing up to re-release their catalog. The band adds:

Finally, after way too many years out of print, The Classic Flipper Albums, originally released in the 1980s, will be re-released on vinyl by Four Men With Beards, and on CD by Water, both imprints under the Runt label. Generic Flipper, Gone Fishin', Public Flipper Limited, and Sex Bomb Baby, will begin hitting stores in the US, Canada, Australia, and Japan, on Nov. 18th. CDs will roll out first to be followed by the vinyl release.

Flipper is currently seeking label partners to get product out in the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world. IODA will be releasing these catalog classics digitally on all digital download outlets worldwide.

In related news, the band has postponed their November/December tour. For personal reasons, Krist Novoselic was unable to do the tour.

Pop-punk band The Matches are going to be heading to the studio soon to start demoing for the follow up to this year's A Band in Hope. It was announced on the band's blog:

We're soon heading back to the studio to begin demos for our next album. What do you think the next Matches record will be like? What do you want it to be like? Are your premonitions compatible with your wishes?

The record should be released on Epitaph Records in 2009.

Bad Religion, NOFX, Rise Against, Misery Signals, Sum 41, Madina Lake and others will be headlining next year's Punk Spring festival. The festival is an annual concert that takes place in Japan combining some of the most popular artists in heavy music and punk.

San Marcos', Austrian Death Machine ave announced the release of the EPA Very Brutal Christmas on November 25th. The album will contain three songs: the band's own "Get To The Choppa," a rendition of "Jingle Bells," and a cover of Judas Priest's "Hell Bent For Leather."

You can hear "Get To The Choppa" right now on the band's MySpace page.

BYO has announced the lineup for 2009's Punk Rock Bowling. The bill will feature The Casualties, The Dwarves, American Steel, Off with Their Heads, The Ignorant, Cockney Rejects, Street Dogs, CH3, Far From Finished, Guilty By Association, Manic Hispanic, The Bodies and Tiltwheel .

The shows take place over three days during punk rock bowling weekend in Las Vegas, NV. You can get tickets here.

Mark Hoppus, producer, member of Plus 44 and Blink 182 has confirmed that the formerly estranged members are talking again after a few years of public disputes over the demise of Blink 182. Mark explains:

In the midst of everything else that has happened lately, Tom, Travis, and I have all spoken together. First through a number of phone calls, and then a couple of weeks ago we all hung out for a few hours. They’ve all been great, very positive conversations. We’re just reconnecting as friends after four years of not talking. It’s a good thing. Obviously the first question for a lot of people will be “does this mean a Blink-182 reunion?”

The answer is none of us know. We haven’t talked about it at all. Right now it’s just good for the three of us to see one another, reconnect, and let the past be the past. The events of the past two months supersede everything that happened before. Life is too short.

Mark also takes a moment to reflect on producer Jerry Finn who passed away this year. You can read the entire blog entry here.

Gaslight Anthem have confirmed that they will be appearing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on December 9th. The band explained:

So we just got confirmed to perform on Late Night with Conan O'Brien...it's pretty crazy, to be honest, but heck, we're definitely psyched. We'll be on Tuesday December 9th. So tune if you can, even if it means messing with your TV's rabbit ears, or setting up TiVO, or whatever.

The band continues to support their SideOneDummy debut, The ’59 Sound.

To coincide with the new Microsoft XBOX360 Experience, Tenacious D featuring Jack Black and Kyle Gass, will be on Xbox LIVE® November 20 to play Xbox LIVE members in Rock Band 2 and to celebrate the recent release of The Complete Masterworks 2 DVD. The Gamertags are "JBTenacious" and "KGTenacious." To celebrate the launch as well as their new DVD, Complete Masterworks 2, the band has put together a nice package including the DVD itself, a copy of the game, Lost Oddessy, XBOX Live points and more.

You can click Read More for the details.

Tonight the traveling dirty rock-n-roll carnival of The Bronx and Everytime I Die roll into the Canal Club in Richmond, VA. We've got two free tickets for one lucky fan within spitting distance of the venue. Also playing will be Stick To Your Guns and local miscreants, Landmines.

To enter, send an email to "contestchris" at punknews.org with your name, and telephone number you can be reached at this afternoon in case you win. We'll draw a random winner later today. If you don't win, but want to go, tickets are $15 and doors open at 6:00pm. More information is available at the Canal Club website.

Toronto, ON's The Little Millionaires are currently streaming their EP DIY Is An STD on their MySpace page. The band is gearing up for a split on Black Pint records.

New Haven, CT's Deadlights is streaming their debut EP The Noisy Shore on their MySpace page. The band also announced in a bulletin plans to put a limited number of digital download copies available on their site fore free for a limited time.

Jonathan Lullo and Dan Shepard from Batavia, NY's Down To Earth Approach have started a new band called The Seams.The band currently has a MySpace page, but no music uploaded yet.