Union 13 is asking everyone who attends their shows prior to Christmas to bring an unopened toy or non-perishable food item as a donation. All the donations will go to help the homeless and impoverished this holiday season.

Halfway through Rancid's set at Seattle's DV8 on Thursday, guitarist and singer Lars Frederiksen played the opening lines to folk-rock singer Billy Bragg's "There Is Power in a Union." The song lead into a solo version of Rancid's "The War's End," which talks about Bragg in the line "went to his room and smashed his Billy Bragg record, didn't want him to hear that communist lecture." The reference was reported to be in rememberance of both the World Trade Organization protests, as well as the ongoing strike by workers at Seattle's daily newspapers.

joe fish writes: Dirty Johnny is back, with a new bass player (Joe Fish), gigs played and more lines up, a new CD for sale (Attitude? What Attitude?), and 4 new tunes available for download at http://www.mp3.com/JOHNNYROCK.

Dirty Johnny - Sped Up Bad Rock - when punk was just that!!!

A bunch of people send this in, including "Rock" and "Killian," I combined the submissions. Everyone who submitted this news gave credit to Karl of the Rebel Weezer Alliance.

The Weezer Fanclub Online site has released the The Christmas Song remix from the 2-song promo CD sent to radio stations. The remix has much more production, better sound, and a different chorus. For those of you who want to use Napster it's encoded at 128kbps and is 3:05, there are alot of fakes out there.

TruePunk.com has adding a polling feature to it's never ending barage of features (not to compete with punknews.org). Right now you can vote on the "End of 2-Triple-O" polls. Truepunk.com now the home of the official AAA and Catch 22 message board. So get going. You know Aubin likes the site.

I fixed the link...