Don't you think that this section deserves a nice update. Sorry, but I have been really busy lately and had few time to dedicate to the site. There are piles of CD's stacking up on my desk expecting a nice review, so don't worry, fresh stuff is on its way. Read below for a teaser.

 Do you know where I spent last Tuesday evening? I was checking out Pennywise on their European tour stop in Antwerp, Belgium and had the opportunity to spend almost an hour with one of my favorite bands ever. Coming soon, the result of that hour long meeting with Jim and Randy in the Hof Ter Lo dressing room. The interview will be extensive and illustrated with a great lot of live pictures I shot there. Keep checking the site often. It will be available as soon as the taped material is transcribed and the pictures developed.

 Still about Pennywise, Fletcher is not touring with the band. It is the first time Fletcher misses some of his band's shows and feels really bad about it. Well, the point is that Fletch likes beer a bit too much, got a fight with a close friend and ended up with a concussion. More detail about it in the forthcoming interview. Get well soon Flecth.

 The interview section will see more updates soon are there are plans for at least three other great interviews with The Get Up Kids, Nerf Herder and Horace Pinker.

 The new Nerf Herder album is titled "How to meet girls" and will be released on March the 6th. Don't miss it, as I consider it is the best release of the year so far. Soon reviewed in the Reviews section.

 Some bad news from Revelation Records. Kill Holiday were supposed to be the next band interviewed in Sometimes. Well, Kill Holiday is not a band any longer. The indy-rock combo decided to go their separate ways as guitarist Chris Perreira, who recently got married, wanted to devote more time to his family and personal life and opted to quit the band a few days ago. Since KH was already without a bassist, the two remaining members decided to call it a day.

 Their label mates Fastbreak also decided to break up. After being together for several years, they
simply decided that they wanted to pursue new projects and move on from Fastbreak.

 Some good news from Revelation too: Gameface was in the studio last month and have now finished recording three amazing songs. Two new originals and a cover of Tom Petty's "Change Of Heart" will appear on a split CD/10" with Errortype:11. ET:11 have also contributed two new originals in addition to a cover of "I Got You" by Split Enz for the EP which is titled What's Up Bro? (out March 22). The first live audience to hear Gameface's new tunes will likely be in England when the band will be over there from March 29th 'til April 8th for a trip through the UK.

 Garrison are now at Godcity Studios in Massachusetts recording their debut full length, "A Mile In Cold Water", for Revelation. If you want Garrison to come to your town email Courtney at Slip Productions (slipproductions@hotmail.com).

 In My Eyes will eventually join Cro-Mags on their European tour. Check tour dates on Revelation.

 There is a nice comp coming out soon on Fade Away Records. It's called "the Best comp in the World" and promises to be so as it features tracks by The Get Up Kids, Jejune, A New Found Glory, Errortype 11, Saves the Day, Reggie and the Full Effect, .....

 Also, Sometimes now features a Guest Book, so please sign it know and comment your visit of the site. Thanks a lot.

  First, let me wish a happy new year to everyone reading these lines. Sometimes is back in 2000 and there will soon be a brand new guest book where you'll be able to drop me a line about the zine. Hope you will make intensive use of that new tool.

 As far as the Belgian concert agenda is concerned there are some bad news as I've just been told that both the Ataris/Vandals package and the Blink 182 gigs are cancelled. Reasons are still unknown to me but I hope new dates will be added soon.

 Fortunately, the bill for Groezrock 2000 in Meerhout looks extremely interesting as already confirmed bands include: I against I, Down By Law, No Fun At All, de Heideroosjes, Liberator, Figure It Out, Delate and many more are still to be added.

 Manolo from the Spanish fanzine Based On Respect is looking for support for the second issue of his zine, to be released in March/April. BOR#2 will feature interviews with In My Eyes, Boy Sets Fire, Grade, reviews, news... If you want to put an ad, send CDs or zines for review,... get in touch with him at respect666@airtel.net.

 Visit www.osker.net to hear songs from Osker's new album 'Treatment 5' before it's out! Osker is a 3 piece from Los Angeles who signed to Epitaph about 2 years ago when their singer Devon was 16 years old. One drummer and 2 years later they finally have a full length album finished called 'Treatment 5' that's out February 8th.

 Jeffries Fan Club, that excellent ska-punk-power-pop band signed to Vegas Records will be back in Europe in June 2000. More details as soon as I get some.

 NOFX are in the studio recording their upcoming Epitaph release entitled "Pump Up The Valium".
They're recording it at Motor Studios in San Francisco with the mighty Ryan Greene at the helm...

 The year 2000 will be a great year as far as gigs and Belgium are concerned: 10/01 H2O + Vision at the Biebob, Vosselar, 12/02 Apocalypse Hoboken + The Ataris (yeahhh) + The Vandals, Lintfabriek, Kontich, 24/02 Pennywise (no less), Hof Ter Lo, Antwerp, 10/03 Blink 182, VK, Brussels, 24/04 Millencolin, Biebob, Vosselar, and much more dates soon to be added. Among others, Jughead's Revenge will tour Europe next year.

 Well, the rumors are sad but true. Drummer Sean Sellers has officially left Good Riddance to pursue the rock and roll lifestyle in the sunny City of Angels. Taking over the Good Riddance drumming duties now is Dave Raun of Lagwagon and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes fame. That's a lot of pounding on the skins for one guy!

 Propagandhi are set to record a new full length at Motor Studios in February. The CD will be released in late spring/early summer.

 NOFX's official web site is now available at http://www.nofxofficialwebsite.com

 Fat Wreck Chords has a radio station! It's located at fatfreeradio.net. It's got tons of songs by Fat Wreck Chords bands, but it's also chock full of other old and new school punk bands.

 If you live in America or Europe, you can't possibly understand the frustration of walking into a record store and having to shell out upwards of $30 for one CD. This, however, has been the sad reality for Aussie music fans. At least until now. FAT has opened up an office in Australia to cut down the cost of FAT WRECK CD's. To write for a catalog, FAT Australia's address is:P.O. Box 2113, Fitzroy, VICTORIA 3065. You can also e-mail FAT AUSTRALIA at fatwreck@crucial.com.au

 Pennywise have been working hard as hell, touring the US and recording a new song for an upcoming KROQ Christmas album. The new song which features a shocking vocals from Pennywise guitarist Fletcher Dragge is appropriately en-titled 'Christmas In Hell'. Pennywise will wrap up there US touring in December and then head on over to Australia for the 'Big Day Out'.

 Hear a sample from Millencolin's new album 'Pennybridge Pioneers' by visiting their website Nov. 10th at www.burningheart.com/millencolin/news. The new album is out Feb. 22nd and is being hailed by those who have heard it as their best work to date. The new album was produced by Brett Gurewitz and recorded far from their home town of Orebro Sweden at the classic Epitaph studio Westbeach Recorders. Also, Millencolin...and the Hi-8 adventures is a home movie featuring 74 minutes of all sorts of footage of the band and is out November 23rd.

 There are new songs for download on Staring Back's website. Check them. The album is coming soon in 2000. By the way the URL for their site changed and is now www.staringback.com

 Mock Orange are among the 5 finalists for New Breaking Artist at the Los Angeles Music Awards. Cross your fingers for that great Lobster Band.

 The Get Up Kids had to cancel their one month long European tour for reasons they don't even know themselves and just played 6 shows in Europe. One of them was a gig at the Pop Komm in Cologne and was a total failure as they had not even been announced. Anyway, they'll come back this spring for a full tour of our dear continent.

 To all of you in Belgium, the Satanic Surfers will be playing the VK in Molenbeek on the 30th of September with two support acts.

 Fruit Cocktail, are a 3-piece from London, England and Ottawa, Canada, aged 18-20, and are currently working on their 5th album. They are about to release the "Fruit Cocktail vs. Hellcat" single which includes collaborations they recorded with various musicians associated with Tim Armstrong’s Hellcat
label. Tim Armstrong himself appears on one track, and there are also performances by Stephen Jackson (Pietasters), Duane Peters (U.S. Bombs), Greg Lee (Hepcat), Al Barr (Dropkick Murphys), Rolf Langsjoen (Stubborn All-Stars), Jon Natchez (Stubborn All-Stars).

 Have been wondering what happened to Horace Pinker? Well, I found track of their bass player, Miguel Barron, who has put up a new band called Deminer. They have already released a first demo EP and plan to record a new 7" soon. As for the Pinkers, they sadly split up some time ago.

 Pennywise will embark on their US tour on the 14th of October with no less that Strung Out as support act for all dates. And All (yes, the band) will join on some gigs. That what I call a nice bill.

 "The Decline" is the title of a new 12" EP that will soon come out on Fat Wreck Chords. The band? NOFX.

 Change of plans at Lobster Records where "The Mean Streets of Goleta", Staring Back's brilliant debut EP, which was supposed to be a press-only release, is now available to the public and will be fully distributed.

 Saves The Day were in the studio between the 11th and 20th of June to record their second LP. Their labelmates Bane also entered the studio on the 5th of June, so two great new albums can be expected in the forthcoming weeks on Equal Vision Recordings. In November, both bands will embark on a one month-long European tour together with a third band still to be announced.

 Watch out as November will see some of Fat Wreck's bands getting together to assault Europe. The announced tour will feature Tilt, No Use For A Name, Consumed, Mad Caddies and Strung Out, no less than that.

  Shai Hulud are looking for a new drummer and a new vocalist. If you feel the right guy for the job, just send a demo to: Shai Hulud, P.O. Box 758822, Coral Springs, FL, 33075-8822. Most of the material for their new full length has already been written. So, once new members are secured, the songwriting process will wrap up and recording will begin immediately thereafter.

 Some more releases on Revelation Records: Will Haven's "WHVN" comes out on September the 14th, Himsa's first full length, "Ground Breaking Ceremony," is due for release in late September. Later this fall is when In My Eyes and By a Thread will release their new album, respectively titled "Nothing to Hide" and "Last Of The Daydreams". And you will have to wait until early 2000 to discover new material by Garrisson, Elliot (both LP) and The Judas Factor (EP).

 Next releases planned on Revelation Records: Fastbreak "Whenever You're Ready" and Where Fear and Weapons Meets "The Weapon". Both albums will be available on August the 24th.

 Fat Wreck Chords announce a brand new NOFX 7" titled "Louise and Liza" on August the 23rd. The same day will see the release of the new Dance Hall Crashers album "Pun". On September the 6th, it is Lagwagon's turn to release a new 7" called "A Feedback Of Truckstop Poetry" and the 20th of the same month is when the next Avail "100 times" will become available, though it is a European release only. Other albums by No Use For A Name "More Beeterness" (8/10), Consumed "Hit for Six" (18/10) and a live album by Bracket (22/11) are due out soon. Later this year, new stuff by Propaghandi, Snuff, Hi Standard and Avail should also reach your stores.

 Epitaph presents really cool stuff on the web. For all of us who can't watch their TV program on Californian cable TV, the Epitaph show is available at www.punkorama.com. So those of us not in the areas that the show airs will be able to see the latest video from The Slackers, Dropkick Murphy's, H2O, and a hilarious interview with Duane Peters, as well as old videos from NOFX & Bad Religion, and a whole lot more!

 Other news about Epitaph are the release dates for the next albums on the label: Agnostic Front "Riot Riot Upstart" (September), Joey Strummer (ex-Clash) "The X-ray Style" (October), The Dwarves (sometimes in 2000), Millencolin (February 2000), Zeke "Dirty Sanchez..." (early 2000), and NOFX (February 2000). More details about all these releases once I get the exact dates.

 Check the Skate stage at Pukkelpop (Kiewit, Hasselt - Belgium) this year. Saturday 28th August will see performances by Penthouse, Lit, A,Vandals, Good Riddance, 59 Times the Pain, The Slackers, Heideroosjes, No Fun at All and Sick of it All.

 The Get Up Kids are visiting Belgium on Friday 10th of September. The kids will play at the Lintfabriek in Kontich with Frisco's For Free as opening band. Doors open at 19h. D.R.I play the same venue on Sunday 5th of September. More info at lintfabr@beowner.dma.be.

 Sturng Out plan a new album for release at Christmas 99 or early 2000. They have 6 brand new songs already done.

 A word for the Aussies. Unwrittent Law will be touring around your country these days. The tour starts on the 11th June in Sydney, Iron Duke (18+)/ Saturday, June 12 Manly, Manly Youth Center (all ages)/ Sunday, June 13 Melbourne, Corner Hotel (18+)/ Monday, June 14 Melbourne, Corner Hotel (all ages)/ Thursday, June 17 Adelaide, Flinders Uni (all ages)/ Friday, June 18 Surfers Paradise-Beer Garden (18+)/ Saturday, June 19- Brisbane, Arena (all ages)

 The new Orange 9mm is coming soon on NG Records. The title is "Pretend I'm Human".

 If you want to appear in The Ataris' new video-clip, attend their gig at Koo's Cafe (1505 North Main St, Santa Ana, CA) on June the 26th. That evening, they will shoot the video for the song "San Dimas High School Football Rules" from their incredibly brilliant new album. For venue info, the phone is +1.714.648.0937 or e-mail Paul at paul@ataris.com.

 Jordan, who shared his drums between Pulley and Strung Out officially left the former to play full time with the latter. So Pulley is now looking for a new drummer. Do you feel interested? Anyway, the band is still on stand-by until the end of the baseball season as you all know that singer Scott Radinsky is a professional pitcher.

 New band signed on Lobster Records, Staring Back will release their debut album sometime in November. Their labelmate Whippersnapper will be in the studio between the 23rd of August and the 2nd of September in order to record the follow-up to "America's Favorite Pastime". The album should be available in October. As for Buck Wild, they are just back from as successful European tour with Ten Foot Pole and wish they could come back soon.

 Bodyjar went into the studio to record the song "Rio" that will appear on a Duran Duran tribute album. Could be funny here.

 European punk masters No Fun At All plan to enter the studio in August to record their 4th album. For the fan who still are not aware, there's a mini live album available on Burning Heart. "Live in Tokyo" includes "Beachparty", "Your Feeble Mind", "I Won't Believe In You", "Believers", "Master Celebrator" and "Alcohol". The bass player Henrick Sunvisson called it quit so that Mikael Danielson moves to the four strings. A new guitarist joined the band. He comes from a trash band.

 Samiam got into the studio in early May to record demos for 19 songs they will work on for the new album.

 A new change for the better in the Pennywise release date as "Straight Forward" is now due out on June 1st. Just one month to wait and it will be in stores everywhere.

 Jane's detd, the best Belgian melodic punk band around, have big problems with their label I Scream Records. They sold thousands of copies of their marvelous debut album (Bleenies and Blockheads) and only got BEF 12000 (about $ 350) while the label owner (a guy called Laurens) earned about one million BEF ( about 30000 bucks) by selling a lot of CD unofficially. So, you understand they wanna leave this robber as soon as possible, but Laurens claims two millions BEF (60000$) for their liberty. And know the guys are in debts and would like to warn you: "Never trust a hard core dude that drives a Mercedes". If you really don't appreciate what he has done to the band send the following message to one of the addresses below: "If you live this life to steal, you will come back to get stolen from. I, (write your name here), do no longer support I Scream Records!). Get in touch with him at: Broekstraat 10, 1730 Kobbegem, Belgium; 02 452 67 75 phone; 02 452 39 86 (fax) or e-mail at hardcore.rave.org/spikey/iscream.htm. Meanwhile, the band also change the spelling of the name to Janez detd

 Jughead's Revenge :They just got out of the studio where they recorded their song for the 101 band comp to be released on Fat Wreck Chords sometime this summer. Currently the band are working on a CD-Rom including tons of photos, an interactive lyric sheet, and live video too with the best songs from Unstuck in Time, Its Lonely at the Bottom and Elimination with out of print 7" songs and live versions of your favorite J.R. tunes. It is scheduled in March on BYO and can also be ordered through the Jughead's Revenge website upon release. They are now taking time to write the new CD that will be out on Nitro Records in August.

 The artwork for the new Pennywise album can be seen at www.pennywisdom.com

 Strung Out will support Bad Religion during their Canadian tour in May. The band also plan to play dates on their own.

MxPx's "At The Show " CD will hit stores sometime after may 6th. It's available through mail order as well. Some of the live songs that will be on it are: Tommorow's another day, sometimes you have to ask yourself, under lock and key, chick magnet, gsf, cold and all alone, party my house be there, & The downfall of western civilization. These are only some of the songs on the CD, just to give you an idea. It's a collection of past and current mxpx stuff.

 After four months in the studio, the new and fourth Face to Face album " Ignorance is Bliss" is finally finished. The release date is planed on July 27th and will be marketed in conjunction by Lady Luck Records (F.T.F.'s own label) and Beyond Records as the band decided to break the contract with A&M. Distribution in North America will be made by BMG. 

  Three new releases on Burning Heart Records: Millencolin "The Melancholy Collection", Satanic Surfers "Going Nowhere Fast" and 59 Times The Pain "End Of The Millenium". Check Reviews for more info.

 "Enema of the State" is the title of the forthcoming Blink 182 album. It is supposed to reach your stores on June 15th.

 Among the tons of records Epitaph is going to release in a near future, here are the more interesting: Bouncing Souls "Hopeless Romantic" (23/04/1999), H2O "F.T.T.W" (07/05/1999), Beatsteaks "Launched" (07/05/1999), Heideroosjes "Schizo" (14/05/1999), Pennywise "Straight Ahead" (08/06/1999), PUNK-O-RAMA IV (11/06/1999). US Bombs "The World" (Hellcat/Epitaph Europe) comes out on May 7th.

 Face to Face have started recording their new album which is due for release around June or July 1999. They will record 16 songs among which the already known "Ignorance is Bliss"." Some of the finished song titles for the album are, "Heart of Hearts", "Overcome", "Apathetic", "Nearly Impossible", and "Burden". Besides, the band also released in the beginning of the year a cover album that is available in Japan only.

 The release date for the new Pennywise album, titled "Straight Forward" is now officially June the 8th (hope it won't change anymore).

 Next releases on Nitro Records for 1999: A.F.I "Black Sails in the Sunset" (18th May), Guttermouth "Gorgeous" (1st June) and 30 Foot Fall "Ever Revolving, Never Revolving" (1st June)

About Pennywise again: last week, alt.music.pennywise was given the thumbs up by the newsgroup people. Props go out to Andrew Malek for fighting a grueling battle to get it approved. It's evidently not on a lot of servers yet, but in a week or two it should be popping up all over the place. So keep on the lookout for it!

 As you may know, Jim Cherry, who used to play bass with Strung Out, was fired from the band a few time ago (if you know the reason, please keep me informed) and substituted by Craig Ricker, formerly guitarist with Jughead's Revenge. Now it seems that Craig as already left the band to form a new act called Deadsy (album out in May) and has been replaced by a guy named Chris. Besides there are also rumors that Jordan (drums and who also plays for Pulley) has called it quit too because of the Jim affair. We'll see in the future if it's true or not.

Ensign's new LP titled "Cast the first stone" is out on Nitro Records. Check the label site for more info about it.

You all know that Pennywise's new album is coming soon, but if you really can't wait till the release then check their home page at www.pennywisdom.com. Go to the "in the studio" section and download MP3 for 3 new songs that will be on their new record. The songs are "My own country", "Straight" and "Greed". Have fun and blow up your ears.

A few words about our friends Whippersnapper. Ben Allington who used to play the guitar in the band decided to leave the band to go to college and become a pilot. Good luck with your studies. He's being replaced by Brandon Butler, formerly guitarist with a small emo-core band called Forty Seven Ronin. The band then had a six long week tour of the West-Coast with their labelmates Mock Orange and Buckwild and will be on the road until at least late May. They plan to record their new album in the late summer which would come out in the early Autumn. Hurry up guys, I'm dying for it. Check their tour dates at www.lobster.com.

Samiam are going to release three new tracks in a near future among which one will be a cover of the Pixies "Here comes your man" that will appear on a tribute album to the former Boston band. Another song will be contributed to another tribute album to the Stooges and the last will be featured on Fat Wreck comp including 30 seconds tracks of various bands.

Frenzal Rhomb's new album, A Man's not a Camel, is due for release in Australia (Shock) on April 12.  America's (Fat Wreck Chords) release date is May 18.  The first single from this album will be We're Going out Tonight, with a release date of March the 1st. The Boys will be touring America With Less Than Jake for a couple weeks in March/April. See Gig Dates for details.  They will return to the US in June/July/August for the Vans Warped Tour and some shows with 22 Jacks. They have put a new song on the Australian Warped Tour '99 CD.  It's called It's up to you and was recorded in LA.  This song will be on the new album. They Aussies also have two recent releases.  Firstly, Racist has been released as a single with 3 b-sides (Mum changed the locks (live at JJJ), Racist (live at JJJ), and the old campfire favorite We built this city on rock & roll).  The second new release is a re-release of Meet the Family with a Mongrel of a bonus live CD (recorded at the Double Door, Chicago).

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