Paul Gray, Slipknot’s bassist who died recently, died of an acci­dental morphine over­dose accord­ing to his autopsy report.

A large num­ber of artists, led by Korn’s Jonathan Dav­ies, have decided to boy­cott BP products as a res­ult of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mex­ico. The artists, includ­ing Dis­turbed, Rise Against, Lady Gaga, Gods­mack, Back­street Boys, Slightly Stoopid, Rob Zom­bie, Mega­deth, Anthrax, Creed, and Flog­ging Molly, are hop­ing to encour­age pet­ro­leum com­pan­ies to put in stricter safe­guards, and observe them in the future.

Reel Big Fish will be releas­ing their own “Greatest Hits” album, to rival the one that was released by Jive in 2006 without the sup­port of the band.

Fat Mike has tweeted about a new NOFX EP here.

Rufio will release a new album on the 27^th July, and it will be called “Any­body Out There”. This fol­lows news that they were in a road acci­dent involving another car earlier this week. The band are all fine, but a crew mem­ber, and the third party are ser­i­ously injured.

Alexisonfire’s Dog’s Blood EP will hope­fully be done by the autumn, accord­ing to Dal­las Green. He also hopes to record a new City and Col­our album from mater­ial he has already writ­ten soon.

Jimmy Eat World have fin­ished their album, accord­ing to this tweet.

LimeWire have lost a law­suit, and are now facing $150,000 of dam­ages per song that was trans­ferred through their net­work. Not just LimeWire either, but its cre­ator, Mark Gor­ton. I don’t think I know how many zeros will be at the end of that sum.

Glen Lam­bert, a fic­tional mem­ber of Pro­pa­gandhi, has chal­lenged Cokie the Clown to a fight, for allegedly steal­ing his persona.

Free Music
Never Gonna Let This Go, by The Scene Aes­thetic (pure­volume)
REV OF EV, by Kid CuDi (track down­load)
I Want To Break Free, by Frank Turner (video)
It Must Suck To Be Four Year Strong Right Now, by Four Year Strong (video)
My Dark Place Alone, by Murderdolls (track stream)
It’s Work­ing, by MGMT (video)
Three Words, by Amber Pacific (video)
Bad News Bearz, by Four Year Strong (pure­volume)
Two new songs, by Arcade Fire (track streams)