Fat Mike, thanks to Squirrelza

Emo’s Annex have banned Fat Mike from the venue after his now infam­ous Cokie the Clown gig as part of SXSW. You can read more about the gig here.

Vik­ing Funeral is a new label, star­ted by Fletcher Dragge (Penny­wise) and Ken Seaton of Hard­line Enter­tain­ment and Sub­urban Noize Records. Their first sign­ing is Author­ity Zero, who will release their fourth album through the label on May 25, 2010.

You can check out Cash Cash’s cover of Forever Young on their MySpace.

Accord­ing to the band’s offi­cial twit­ter, they have com­pleted their album, and are hop­ing that it will be released “June or so”.

Pat­ent Pending are record­ing a new album this April with Jordan Schmidt, who has worked with All Time Low and Motion City Soundtrack in the past.

Saves The Day will open for Sunny Day Real Estate on April 22^nd at London’s HMV forum. You can check out tick­ets here.

Read­ing and Leeds have announced some of the bands that will be play­ing this sum­mer. Blink-182, Guns ‘N’ Roses, Frank Turner, Enter Shi­kari, Para­more, Weezer, NOFX, and Biffy Clyro have all been confirmed.

Fol­low­ing Stray­light Run’s hiatus, Tak­ing Back Sunday have announced that John Nolan and Shaun Cooper have both rejoined the band, and Matt Fazzi and Matt Rubano have both left, return­ing the band to the line-up with which they recor­ded “Tell All Your Friends”.

If you check out Taproot’s MySpace, you will find a new song called, “Frac­tured (Everything I Said Was True)”.

White­chapel are “honored” to have Deftones’ Chino Moreno guest­ing on their latest album, A New Era of Cor­rup­tion. Alex from the band explains “it’s cool that Chino was so opened minded to do vocals on some­thing so extreme; I think that it sounds fant­astic.”

In an inter­view with Blare, Alexisonfire’s George Pet­tit has said that the band will try to record a four track EP called Dog’s Blood this spring.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Owl City, whose album “Ocean Eyes” has been cer­ti­fied platinum.

Road­run­ner Records have announced that they will be releas­ing Korn’s next album, Korn III — Remem­ber Who You Are. Fieldy, Korn’s bassist said that Road­run­ner were the only label who “even under­stands rock music any more”.

Punchline’s drum­mer, Pat Dee has announced that the group will be going into the stu­dio to record their new album in May.

Under­oath have announced that Aaron Gillespie will be leav­ing the band after this tour. Appar­ently, it was a group decision.