Accord­ing to an e-mail sent out to their mail­ing list, “inner­partysys­tem is going on indef­in­ite hiatus”. The tone of the e-mail was quietly optim­istic for a poten­tial future reunion, and there cer­tainly doesn’t seem to be any anim­os­ity between the band members.

Sum 41 have been forced to can­cel more gigs as a res­ult of Deryck Whib­ley pick­ing up a back injury. All of their Warped Tour appear­ances have been affected, as has the follow-up tour in Canada.

Hawthorne Heights will be releas­ing their next EP inde­pend­ently, hav­ing left Win­dup Records earlier this month. They will be releas­ing a tri­logy of EPs under their own Card­board Empire label, start­ing with Hate on August 23^rd.

It would seem that The Spill Can­vas are up to some­thing — hope­fully they’re going to be releas­ing some new music in the near future.

Jani Lane of War­rant has died aged 47. His cause of death has not been offi­cially released. Our thoughts are with his fam­ily and friends.

In an inter­est­ing state­ment released by Spo­tify in response to cri­ti­cisms about low pay-outs, they had this to say:
“Spo­tify was launched out of a desire to develop a bet­ter, more con­veni­ent and legal altern­at­ive to music pir­acy. Spo­tify now mon­et­ises an audi­ence the large major­ity of whom were down­load­ing illeg­ally (and there­fore not mak­ing any money for the industry) before Spo­tify was available.”

Tom Morello’s The Night­watch­man will be releas­ing an album on the 30^th of August entitled World Wide Rebel Songs. It will be a depar­ture from pre­vi­ous Night­watch­man tracks as the album is not acoustic.

It’s finally offi­cial after months of rumours… Alex­is­on­fire is no more. Dal­las Green has spoken about the split, say­ing that the band wanted him to stay, but “after 10 years, my heart … well part of my heart is there, but most of my heart is with [City & Col­our].” As a res­ult of this, the band decided not to con­tinue without him.

In other Alex­is­on­fire related news, Wade MacNeil has taken over as vocal­ist for the UK punk out­fit Gal­lows, after Frank Carter left earlier this year.

A num­ber of smal­ler record labels are in ser­i­ous trouble fol­low­ing the riots in Lon­don last week, dur­ing which a Sony dis­tri­bu­tion centre was burnt down. Spen­cer Hick­man, who man­ages Rough Trade East has said that he’s sure that there are some labels without insur­ance who will have lost everything in the fire.

As a res­ult of the events we repor­ted on before, Michael Todd is no longer a mem­ber of Coheed & Cam­bria. The state­ment from the band says that it was a mutual decision.

Free Music
Hur­ricane Sea­son, by Dan Andri­ano In The Emer­gency Room (album stream)
Ste­reo Hearts, by Gym Class Her­oes (video)
Four White Walls, by Hawthorne Heights (track stream)
In Gold Blood, by Kids In Glass Houses (album stream)
Lov­er­boy, by You­MeAt­Six (video)
It Begins Tonight, by The Night­watch­man (track down­load)
Mon­trose, by Man Over­board (video)