Joe's Big Toe

A day late, a buck short…
Beau of Saosin has pos­ted on their mes­sage board, telling us that the band have par­ted ways with Cove, their lead singer, but they have not yet found a replace­ment for him.
Sub­lime with Rome (Sub­lime with Rome Ramirez instead of Brad­ley Now­ell) will hit the stu­dio in Octo­ber to record a new album, accord­ing to Rome on the band’s offi­cial web­site.
Band­camp have announced that they will begin char­ging a 15% trans­ac­tion fee on all sales made on their web­site, up to $5000 per band, at which point …

Sum 41 have gone on record say­ing that the new album won’t be all about Deryck’s recent divorce. Appar­ently, there’s “like, two songs”. They say that fans of Does This Look Infec­ted? and Chuck should love it. The album will be called Scream­ing Bloody Murder, and the first track will be Scum­fuck.
Accord­ing to this MySpace blog post, Yuri Ruley will be retir­ing from MxPx as of the 18^th July in order to spend more time with his fam­ily.
Linkin Park’s new record, A Thou­sand Suns, will be released on Septem­ber the …

Apo­lo­gies for last week’s lack of news… here’s twice as much this week to make up for it!
The Academy Is…‘s Wil­liam Beck­ett has star­ted work on writ­ing for their fourth album.
Bren­don Urie of Panic! At The Disco has told the world that the gui­tar and bass tracks for the new album are now com­plete, and Spen­cer says that the drums are done too.
Mat­thew Leone of Mad­ina Lake has been ser­i­ously injured. He inter­vened in a domestic argu­ment to stop a woman get­ting beaten by her boy­friend. He suffered some pretty heavy blows …

Lyapis Trubet­skoy are a sep­tet from Minsk, Belarus. Their brand of ska-punk was pop­u­lar in par­tic­u­lar in the late 1990s, and they are still pop­u­lar in karaoke bars around the former USSR. Their big hits include “Au”, “Ti kin­ula” (“You Dumped Me”), “Zel­en­olazoye taksi” (“Green-eyed Taxi”), “V plat’ye belom” (“In A White Dress”) and “Yabloni” (“Apple-trees”), and the band have released just short of 20 albums.
How­ever, the band have not been without their issues. They had an exist­en­tial crisis com­ing into the 2000s, with Mikhailok say­ing “One day to my …

Our Spot­light On: Szi­get 2010 series con­tin­ues with Papa Roach. Papa Roach were formed ini­tially in 1993, at high school. The band takes their name from Jac­oby Shaddix’s, the lead singer’s, late grand­father, Howard Roatch. The band released their first EP in 1994, and their first full-length album in 1997. By 1998, they had already sup­por­ted some big name acts, such as Incubus and (hed) P.E.. In 1999, as part of a devel­op­ment pro­gramme within Warner Broth­ers, the band were given some money to record a demo, which they did, …