Editing Mike Watt (section)

===Clenchedwrench label, Floored by Four, and Firehose reunion===
[[File:Mike Watt 2013.jpg|thumb|Mike Watt, 2013.]]
Watt reunited with the final Black Gang lineup of Nels Cline and Bob Lee to record a new album, tentatively titled ''My Shibun No Hi'', in 2008. No release date has yet been set for the album.<ref name="shibun">{{cite web |url=http://idiot-dog.com/music/minutemen/indexr.html#z8 |title=Minutemen Discography: Rumoured Releases and Future Projects |publisher=Idiot-dog.com |date=August 27, 2011 |access-date=September 14, 2011 |archive-date=September 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926212209/http://idiot-dog.com/music/minutemen/indexr.html#z8 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Continuing his exploration of both improvised music and the Japanese independent music scene, Watt, along with Nels Cline and producer Kramer, formed Brother's Sister's Daughter with mi-gu members Shimizu "Shimmy" Hirotaka and Yuko Araki to do a two-week tour of the country in late 2008 and record an album afterward. The album was mixed down by Hirotake but has not lined up a label or release date yet. Since then, two more albums by the band have been recorded but have yet

Watt and Cline teamed up in New York to form [[Floored by Four]] with ex-Cibo Matto keyboardist [[Yuka Honda]] and [[Lounge Lizards]] drummer Dougie Bowne. The group debuted at Central Park Summerstage on August 1, and recorded their first self-titled album right afterward.<ref name="fbf_wsj">{{citation | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703859204575526452687024886 | author=Jim Fusilli | work=The Wall Street Journal | title=With Floored by Four, Rock Nomads Unite for a Fleeting Tune | date=October 5, 2010 | access-date=January 25, 2011 | archive-date=December 24, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224003156/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703859204575526452687024886 | url-status=live }}</ref> The album was released in late September 2010 on [[Sean Lennon]]'s Chimera Music label. Honda would later rejoin Watt and Cline for a second Brother's Sister's Daughter tour and album session in Japan
<ref name="verbicide">{{citation | url=http://www.verbicidemagazine.com/2010/12/21/interview-mike-watt/ | author=Mark Huddle | work=Verbicide | title=Interview: Mike Watt | date=December 21, 2010 | access-date=January 25, 2011 | archive-date=October 24, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024173258/http://www.verbicidemagazine.com/2010/12/21/interview-mike-watt/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> (Cline and Honda became romantically involved – and subsequently engaged to be married – during the course of these projects<ref name="fbf_wsj" />).

Watt is interviewed in the 2009 documentary film [[Live House]], about the underground music scene in Japan.

Watt is using his clenchedwrench label to put out some other long-awaited recording projects from the stockpile he has accumulated over the past few years, starting with the fourth Dos album (''Dos y Dos'', released July 16, 2011), followed by the Spielgusher project with [[Richard Meltzer]] and mi-gu's Shimizu "Shimmy" Hirotaka and Yuko Araki (''Spielgusher'', released January 17, 2012) and two Il Sogno del Marinaio albums. Watt chose to start clenchedwrench after returning from his Japanese ''Hyphenated-man'' tour because "I've got so many proj[ect]s in the pipeline... and I want no hiccups with getting them out, so up goes my own freak flag flying."<ref name="clenchedwrench">{{citation|url=http://www.mikewatt.com/hoot_stooges-wattdiary2011a.html |author=Mike Watt |work=Mike Watt's Hoot Page |title=Iggy & The Stooges in New Zealand and Australia January & February 2011 (tour diary) |date=January 21, 2011 |access-date=January 26, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714093935/http://www.mikewatt.com/hoot_stooges-wattdiary2011a.html |archive-date=July 14, 2011 }}</ref>

Firehose's reunion was formally announced as part of the lineup of the 2012 [[Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival|Coachella Festival]]. The band underwent a short tour in April centered around both Coachella dates.