First and fore­most, we regret to inform you that Ron­nie James Dio has died aged 67. We repor­ted on his dia­gnosis with stom­ach can­cer earlier this year, but unfor­tu­nately, he has lost his battle with the dis­ease, des­pite ini­tial state­ments that reports of his death were a hoax. Our thoughts are with his fam­ily and friends.

You can listen to a new track by Avenged Sev­en­fold, called Night­mare, by fol­low­ing this link.

Jim Suptic, of The Get Up Kids is record­ing new mater­ial for his band Black­pool Lights, accord­ing to this twit­ter update.

If you fol­low this link, you can see the new video for Under­cover Lover by Kids In Glass Houses.

Tokio Hotel’s gui­tar­ist, Tom Kaul­itz, appar­ently over­dosed on Via­gra on a recent tour. You can read (a little) more here.

Bad Reli­gion have pos­ted an update on the pro­gress of their record­ing on Face­book. You can read it here. Remem­ber, they should be releas­ing their free live album today.

No Doubt will appar­ently be mak­ing a comeback at some point in the not-too-distant future accord­ing to this twit­ter update.

Grovesnor’s “Taxi From The Air­port” has been remixed by dÉbruit. You can check it out here.

Say Anything’s Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too has been covered by Come On, Come On. You can listen to it on their MySpace.

Social Distortion’s next record will come out on Epi­taph some time this autumn.

Jesse Bar­rera has pos­ted two My Amer­ican Heart b-sides on his web­site, appar­ently recor­ded just before they broke up. You can find them here.

UPDATE:
Bad Religion’s live album can be streamed here, or down­loaded here.