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There’s good news and bad news today for all the Jawbox fans out there. Idolator recently discovered that the band‘s out-of-print emocore classic For Your Own Special Sweetheart is now available for digital purchase at iTunes and eMusic, but there’s bigger and infinitely sadder news as well. J. Robbins — who played not only in Jawbox, but also hardcore pioneers Government Issue and the post-Jawbox project Burning Airlines — and his wife, Janet Morgan, who plays with him in the band Channels, recently found out that their infant son has type 1 spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic disorder that severely hinders the development of even the most basic voluntary motor functions. It’s usually fatal, and even if little Cal beats the odds, he will still be wheelchair-bound for his entire life. There is no known cure for SMA.
