Germany’s best (and maybe only) Irish Punk band Mr. Irish Bastard are recording a new full-length album said to be due out in March on I Hate People Records.  Here’s what they had to say about the progress:

Gran E. Smith is tied to the mixing desk making sure that the sound is just as you like it. We’re also messing around with the album design. Loads of “not sure”, “what do you think”, “that should be a) higher b) lower c) black” and “**ck you, you don’t know what the **ck you’re talking about you **ckwit”, and all that. But its fun and we are getting there.

Mr. Irish Bastard released their last album, Bastard Brotherhood, in 2006.  If you dig the Irish punk tunes of Flogging Molly you should give these guys a listen.

The debut release for Aniseed Records is a split 7″ with the previously unreleased song Ten to One by Swedish punk act AC4, between songs by Surprise Sex Attack, a punk band from Perth, Australia.

Each 7″ cover is hand cut, hand sewn, hand printed, hand stamped and hand numbered and you can order it here.

Post hardcore act A Hope For Home are currently in the studio recording their Facedown Records debut.

Here’s a video update to prove it.

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Pittsburgh punk ‘n roll act The Cheats are heading into the studio next month to record their brand new full-length album Pussy Foot’n.  The track list can be found here.

The band’s last album, Life’s Short, was released on Da Core in 2006.

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The Manix are streaming a brand new song on their MySpace page.  It’s titled Metal Ending and it will appear on their upcoming 7-inch on Whoa Oh Records.  No official release date that we know of other than “early in 2010” but we’ll keep you posted.

FYI: This is one of the better new songs I’ve heard this week so give it a listen if you’re in to gritty pop-punk.

Ottawa punk rockers The Riptides are releasing a new 7-inch titled Tough Luck next week (Janary 26th) via Rally Records on Interpunk.  The release features four new songs recorded at Sonic Iguana studios and was produced by Mass Giorgini.  They’ve limited the release to only 300 copies so make some moves now.

The Riptides last album, Tales From Planet Earth, was released October 13th on Asian Man Records.

Around the Holiday season, Bowling For Soup ran a poll asking fans what holiday song they’d like to hear the band do an acoustic rendition of.  The winning song was “Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy” originally written and recorded by the country artist Buck Owens.

Unfortunately, due to a full touring schedule and the misplacement of acoustic guitars – the song was not recorded in time for the Christmas holidays. However, never ones to back down from a request Bowling For Soup found time in January 2010 to lay the song down…in their own special way.

The song is now available for download through the BFS Army Fancorps site for official fans.

Tallahassee, Florida’s pop-punk group Go Radio has signed to Fearless Records.  The band is currently working on their next EP which they plan to release on Fearless early this year.

Go Radio has also just announced that they will be joining A Day To Remember on tour this April. Also along on the tour will be August Burns Red, Silverstein and Enter Shikari.

Check out this video to hear what the band had to say about their signing and upcoming tour.

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In a recent MySpace blog, NorCal hardcore outfit HeavyHeavyLowLow laid out details about their newest studio work. The band had this to say about what fans can expect from this new material,

“We’re finally done recording our EP or whatever you wanna call it. It’s called HOSPITAL BOMBER and it contains 4 songs full of disturbing subject matter and talented weirdo musicianship. We will be putting it out on CD (does anyone even buy those fuckers?) and on a one sided 7″ through Twelve Gauge Records and hopefully but doubtfully play a record release show for it. If not maybe we’ll do one of those creepy listening parties that some groups do.

Anyway, I thought I had a lot more to say about this shit.. I don’t wanna be one of those stupid bands that boasts about how much “darker” or “deep” our new record is but I will say that it was fun to make and it’s not similar to any of our previous albums.

The roughly estimated time of release will be around April 20th. I know the artwork is due mid Feb. and that Matthew Caudle (our old singer, remember him?) and I will be doing it.”

Oh yeah, hey! here’s a tracklist!

1. je suis une âme solitaire
2. customary impurity
3. meat hole
4. we incompetent sperm

Head over to the HeavyHeavyLowLow’s MySpace page to acquaint yourself with some of the band’s other material.

Jonathan Diener (drummer for Michigan rockers The Swellers) recently sat down with LushBeat.com to discuss the past year, and how the band has progressed. In the interview, Diener answers the classic interview questions – the origins of the band, main musical influences, and plans for the new year. The Swellers just recently began a new tour with Motion City Soundtrack, Set Your Goals, and This Providence. To learn more and to read the entire interview, click here.

To find more information on tour dates and locations for the “My Dinosaur Life” Tour, check out The Swellers’ Dying Scene Shows page.