Stray­light Run have announced that they are now on an “indef­in­ite hiatus”. How­ever, Shaun has quit the band for good.

Zoli Teglas (Ignite) is Pennywise’s new vocal­ist. Allegedly, it happened as a res­ult of a mis­di­alled tele­phone number.

As part of the Olympic cel­eb­ra­tions in Van­couver, a pro­ject called “Live­City” was con­ceived, to bring live music to Van­couver for free. Alex­is­on­fire were play­ing one of these free con­certs, and unfor­tu­nately the crowd rushed the stage, and sev­eral people were hurt.

The first batch of bands con­firmed to play Down­load this year are: Rage Against The Machine, 30 Seconds To Mars, AC/DC, Billy Idol, Aer­o­s­mith, Bul­let for My Valentine, Deftones, Fine Fin­ger Death Punch, Lamb Of God, Mega­deth, Motör­head, Stone Sour, Stone Temple Pilots, Them Crooked Vul­tures, Vol­beat and Wolfmother.

The drum­mer from Dream Theater, Mike Port­nay, will be record­ing drums on Avenged Sevenfold’s new album. He was Jimmy “The Rev“‘s favour­ite drum­mer, and when the band asked, he said it was an honour.

Street­light Mani­festo have released the track list­ing for their upcom­ing album, instal­ment one of their 99 Songs of Revolu­tion. You can check out the track list­ing here.

Hawthorne Heights have post­poned the release of their next album, Skel­et­ons, until 1^st June.

One Nine Nine Four, a doc­u­ment­ary about Punk Rock, fea­tur­ing some of the biggest names of the nineties is expec­ted to be released this year. In the mean­time, a clip has found its way onto YouTube.

Gob are plan­ning to record a new album next month, accord­ing to this MySpace blog post by Tom.

You can stream “This Addic­tion”, the whole album, for free, from Alkaline Trio’s MySpace page.

Pocket Satellite’s car got broken into, a gui­tar, a snare drum, and a violin were taken. The violin was quite dis­tinct­ive, and had great sen­ti­mental value.

The Climb­ing, made up of former mem­bers of Daphne Loves Derby and Trans­ition are allow­ing stream­ing of their new album, Per­spect­ive, fea­tur­ing Stephen Chris­tian and Mike Her­rera, of Anber­lin and MxPx respect­ively. You can check out the stream on Face­book.

You can down­load a new track by Forever the Sick­est Kids over at their MySpace. The track is called “Get Over Yourself”.

Motion City Soundtrack are releas­ing a free down­load of their track “Sunny Day” to their UK fans ahead of the release of My Dino­saur Life on the 22^nd March. You can grab the track here. Imme­di­ately after the album release, the band are going on a UK tour. Dates are on their MySpace.