The following story is courtesy of Tim Cashmere from Undercover.com.au:

It's been a long time between drinks for SoCal punk-funkers INFECTIOUS GROOVES – eight years in fact – but that's not going to stop them from coming back with a vengance.

The band, which featured Suicidal Tendencies front man Mike Muir, will be heading to Australia as part of the Soundwave festival later this month.

I caught up with Muir on the phone from his Los Angeles home recently, where he talked about what is gong on in his world.

"With Suicidal it's been a year since we did a record, and there has been a couple of things. I had back surgery, then I had another back surgery, so last year Suicidal was on the Soundwave Festival in February and that's when we started touring again and that's where Infectious is starting," he told Undercover. "Suicidal goes to Argentina next week and does a couple of festivals, so we do that then Infectious comes to Australia and does the Soundwave festival, then in April we do a month in Europe, then June and July we do another month and a half with Infectious Grooves, then about September the next Suicidal comes out then before that we put out a CD that is basically a compilation of all the stuff that's gonna be coming out."

That new compilation is going to sum up his three musical personas – front man of Infectious Grooves, front man of Suicidal Tendencies and CYKO MYKO (pronounced "psycho Mike – oh") "It has some new Suicidal, new Infectious and new Cyko Myko, all the different projects like that. Then the new Infectious will be out."

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Infectious Grooves live dates:

February

23 - Brisbane, Australia - Riverstage & Parklands
24 - Sydney, Australia - Sydney Park
29 - Melbourne, Australia - Showgrounds

March

1 - Bonython Park, Australia - Adelaide
3 - Perth, Australia - Steel Blue Oval
8 - Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Kulturfabrik
9 - Amsterdam, Holland - Melkweg
10 - Londres, UK - Meanfiddler
12 - Tourcoing, France - Le Grand Mix
13 - Vosselaar, Belgium - Biebob
14 - St.Gallen, Switzerland - Grabenhalle
16 - Marseille, France - Le Moulin
17 - Barcelonna (Spain) "L'appolo
18 - Madrid, Spain - Sala Caracol
19 - Angouleme, France - La Nef
21 - Nantes, France - L'olympic
22 - Toulouse, France - Le Bikini
24 - Starsbourg, France - Artefact Festival at La Laiterie
25 - Lyon, France - Reperkusound Festival (with FISHBONE)
26 - Paris, France - Elysee Montmartre (with Fishbone)