Sporting a pair of ex-members of English punk-pop pioneers The Jam [ tickets ], spin-off group From the Jam [ tickets ] will launch an American tour in January, playing the music of their former band.

The group--featuring Jam bassist Bruce Foxton and drummer Rick Buckler, along with singer/guitarist Russell Hastings and guitarist/keyboardist Dave Moore--will kick off a 13-city run Jan. 24 in San Diego. The tour will run north up the West Coast into Canada before spreading out to other parts of the US, winding down mid-March in Dallas. Dates are below.

The quartet played a UK tour earlier this year, marking the 30th anniversary of The Jam's 1977 debut album, "In the City." The band went on to hit the top of the UK charts with their 1982 swan song, "The Gift," and also saw several singles hit No. 1 on the British charts, including "Town Called Malice" and "Beat Surrender," both from 1982.

"I had been away from the live scene for about twelve years prior to 2005," Buckler told Billboard.com earlier this year. "And at that point, I felt that I wanted to play live again, along with a longstanding desire to revisit the songs of the Jam." Buckler and Foxton recently announced that they were recording new material for a possible 2008 album release, including "fresh" versions of some of Foxton's early songs, according to a press statement.

Don't count on former Jam frontman Paul Weller joining the comeback effort, however. "Let me just nip that in the bud right now. That will never, ever happen," he told BBC Radio last year.

"Me and my children would have to be destitute and starving in the gutter before I'd even consider that, and I don't think that'll happen anyway," added the singer, who also went on to front The Style Council after departing his original band.

"It still means something to people and a lot of that's because we stopped at the right time, it didn't go on and become embarrassing."

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