Sin City Sinners – the trashy rock band featuring Faster Pussycat’s Brent Muscat, Raging Slab’s Rob Cournoyer and Todd Kerns of Slash’s band (and Canadian rockers Age of Electric) – have just released a festive collection.

‘A Sinners Christmas’ features the band’s takes on various yuletide numbers, while also boasting an array of guest performers (including Stray Cats man Slim Jim Phantom and Love/Hate’s Jizzy Pearl, among others). To promote the album, the band have released a video clip for ‘Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree’, which can be viewed below.

“A Sinners’ Christmas” track listing:

01. We Three Kings (feat. George Lynch & Todd Kerns)
02. Winter Wonderland (feat. Frank Dimino of Angel)
03. Run Rudolph Run (feat. Brent Muscat)
04. Rocking Around The Christmas Tree (feat. Todd Kerns)
05. O Holy Night (feat. Jizzy Pearl)
06. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (feat. Louie Merlino)
07. Jingle Bell Rock (feat. Slim Jim Phantom, Michael Ellis)
08. Silent Night (feat. Ron Keel)
09. I’ll Be Home For Christmas (feat. Pete Loran)
10. We Wish You A Sinners Christmas (feat. Todd Kerns, Louie Merlino)

Girlschool have been confirmed for the line up of the 2012 Sweden Rocks festival.

They will join Blue Oyster Cult, Symphony X, Slade, Motley Crue and more at the four day event which will host more than seventy acts.

The confirmed line-up so far is as follows:

BLUE ÖYSTER CULT
BONAFIDE
DANKO JONES
DIMMU BORGIR
EDGUY
GAMMA RAY
GIRLSCHOOL
GRAVEYARD
HELL
LYNYRD SKYNYRD
MÖTLEY CRÜE
PENTAGRAM
SACRED REICH
SLADE
SYMPHONY X

In 2011, Girlschool re-recorded their 1981 breakthrough album ‘Hit ‘n’ Run’ to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

The Raveonettes are to release a compilation of rarities and b-sides in December.

Released on December 15th, the album comes just in time for Christmas, though fans are advised to get in quickly, since the disc is strictly limited to just 1000 copies worldwide – 500 on CD and 500 on vinyl.

Tracklist:

‘Signals Changed’
‘Experiment In Black’
‘Evil L.A. Girls’
‘Go Girl Go’
‘Demon’s Fire’
‘Wanna Dance’
‘Rebel Invasion’
‘Bubblegum’
‘Get Lost’
‘I Get Sick’
‘The Christmas Song’
‘Vamp, Scratch, Whore’
‘I Wanna Be Taken’
‘Oh, The Time’
‘Go On And Kiss Me’
‘Black Wave’
‘Be My Sunshine’
‘Railroad Tracks’
‘Dreams Come True’
‘Please You’
‘And Lovers Came’
‘Love On Barbed Wire’
‘Another Noise 9.14.11’
‘The Landlord’
‘Forever In Your Arms’
‘Where Hearts Are Dead’
‘Honey, I Never Had You’

Alternative/metal band InMe are to embark on a huge tour to promote their new album, ‘The Pride’.

The album is due for release in February 2012. At the time of the album’s release, the band will take to the road, visiting a huge selection of small venues, starting at Sheerness Ivy (a tiny venue in a small seaside town, on the Kent coast) and culminating at the Islington Academy in London.

The dates are as follows:

Sheerness Ivy (February 22)
Brighton Concorde 2 (23)
Weymouth Ocean Rooms (24)
High Wycombe WAMA (25)
Plymouth White Rabbit (26)
Exeter Cavern (27)
Swansea Sin City (28)
Bristol Fleece & Firkin (29)
Southampton Talking Heads (March 1)
Milton Keynes Crawford Arms (2)
Rushden Attic (3)
Cambridge Junction (5)
Leicester Firebug (6)
Norwich Waterfront (7)
Sheffield Corporation (8)
Liverpool Masque (9)
York Fibbers (10)
Middlesbrough Crown (11)
O2 Academy Newcastle 2 (13)
Aberdeen Tunnels (14)
Dundee Dexters (15)
Glasgow Cathouse (16)
Belfast Spring & Airbrake (17)
Dublin Whelans (18)
Limerick Dolans (19)
Cork Cyprus Avenue (20)
Leeds Joseph’s Well (22)
Hull Lamp (23)
Manchester Moho Live (24)
Stoke Sugarmill (26)
Nottingham Rock City (27)
Birmingham HMV Institute (28)
Gloucester Guildhall (29)
Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach (30)
O2 Academy Islington (31)

Punk ‘n’ roll/rockabilly artiste Dan Sartain is to release a new album in January.

‘Too Tough To Live’ is Sartain’s third commercially available album (sixth overall, including self released and Record Store Day exclusives).  Clocking in at just 19 minues for thirteen songs, it promises to be Sartain’s most uncompromising disc yet.  Even better, ‘Now Now Now’ is a duet featuring The Go-Go’s Jane Wiedlin.

The ‘Too Tough To Live’ tracklisting is:

‘Nam Vet’
‘Now Now Now’ (with Jane Wiedlin)
‘I Wanna Join The Army’
‘I’m Aware’
‘Rona’
‘Swap Meet’
‘Boo Hoo Hoo’
‘Indian Massacre’
‘Fuck Friday’
‘I Got Insurance’
‘I Can’t Go Home Now’
‘Even At My Worst I’m Better Than You’
‘In Death’

The album will be released on January 30th.