OFF! have confirmed three club shows in addition to their appearance at Australia’s Big Day Out in January 2013.

The hardcore punk band, which features ex-Black Flag/Circle Jerks frontman and Redd Kross bassist Steve McDonald, will also be appearing here:

Thu 17 Jan
Annandale Hotel
Sydney

Mon 21 Jan
The Zoo
Brisbane

Wed 23 Jan
The Corner Hotel
Melbourne

The band’s self-titled full length release (full length being entirely relative at 16 songs in approximately as many minutes) was released in June 2012.  [Review here]

US alt-metal band Deftones are releasing their seventh album ‘Koi No Yokan’ this coming November.

The confirmed tracklisting is:

Poltergeist (Roller Derby)’
‘Romantic Dreams’
‘Leathers’
‘Swerve City’
‘Entomb (Dazzle)’
‘Graphic Nature’
‘Tempest’
‘Gauze’
‘Rosemary’
‘Goon Squad’
‘What Happened To You? (Flashback)’

The band will play US live shows to promote the release before the end of 2012, but as yet, no UK dates have been scheduled.

US alt/emo/punkers Yellowcard have announced a full run of European tour dates for early in the new year, including an appearance at London’s KOKO in February.

The confirmed dates are as follows:

Feb 13, 2012 Gruenspan Hamburg, Germany
Feb 14, 2012 Stollwerk Koln, Germany
Feb 15, 2012 Backstage Halle Munich, Germany
Feb 16, 2012 C Club Berlin, Germany
Feb 18, 2012 Batschkapp Frankfurt, Germany
Feb 19, 2012 Flex Vienna, Austria
Feb 21, 2012 Orion Live Roma, Italy
Feb 22, 2012 Dynamo Zurich, Switzerland
Feb 23, 2012 Tivoli Utrecht, Netherlands
Feb 25, 2012 Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Feb 26, 2012 KOKO London, United Kingdom
Feb 28, 2012 QMU Glasgow, United Kingdom
Mar 1, 2012 HMV Ritz Manchester, United Kingdom
Mar 2, 2012 Kasbah Coventry, United Kingdom
Mar 5, 2012 Waterfront Norwich, United Kingdom
Mar 6, 2012 Trix Club Antwerp, Belgium
Mar 7, 2012 Bataclan Paris, France

Yellowcard’s eighth album ‘Southern Air’ was released in August 2012.

It has been announced that The Lemonheads are back in the studio recording new material.

While the band has been frontman Evan Dando + whoever happens to be around for a while, the upcoming album promises to be special. Dando is joined by former bassist Juliana Hatfield and second guitarist/vocalist Ben Deily who contributed heavily to the band’s 80s albums before falling out with Dando acrimoniously in ’89.

With Deily on board, it’s no surprise that the new material is a return to “the punkier sound” that filled the early Taang! Records releases.

What’s more alt-country legend Ryan Adams has stepped in as drummer!

More news when it breaks…

Punk legends NOFX have announced a short run of live dates for the end of 2012.  Fans in the US and Canada can see Fat Mike and co at the following venues: [support bands listed in the right hand column]

NOFX released their twelfth full length LP ‘Self Entitled’ in September 2012.
A piece on NOFX’s second London show in June 2012  can be found here.