Thank you for bear­ing with us dur­ing the past few weeks, here is your news — and your free music!

Max Bemis has pos­ted a long state­ment about Say Any­thing, which you can read here. To sum­mar­ise though: they’re not split­ting up.

Check out Sufjan Stevens’s Band­camp for his new EP.

Bedouin Sound­clash will release their new album, Light The Hori­zon, on Septem­ber 28^th.

The Sex Pis­tols, in keep­ing with their true punk roots, have launched a per­fume. They describe it as a “[f]resh, rest­less bite of lemon, sharpened and intens­i­fied by dei­ant black pep­per. It’s the unruly tur­bu­lence of a prune and an in-your-face ambrette. Elec­tri­fied by alde­hydes, you can feel the pure energy pared down and pumped up by leather, shot through with helio­trope and brought back down to earth by a raunchy patchouli.” I refuse to link to it, in case you buy it.

There has been an inter­est­ing event involving Penny­wise and Ales­ana. After a night drink­ing, a couple of guys from Penny­wise made their way onto Alesana’s RV (which they believed to be the Rev­er­end Peyton’s RV). When Alesana’s tour man­ager tried to kick them off, Penny­wise felt threatened, and a fight broke out. The police were called, and Fletcher Dragge was tased. Dragge has apo­lo­gised to Ales­ana, and they have accep­ted the apo­logy gracefully.

Sum 41’s Deryck Whib­ley was attacked after a gig in Japan, and suffered a slipped disc as a res­ult. He is, how­ever, still per­form­ing, des­pite the instruc­tions of his doctor.

Bad Religion’s Brett Gure­witz has man­aged to sign Weezer to his label, Epi­taph Records. The band will release Hur­ley on Epi­taph on Septem­ber 14^th.

There has been an unfor­tu­nate death at this year’s Warped Tour. There is much spec­u­la­tion and a dirth of fact at the moment, but it is believed that Curtis Alan Defor­est died of dehydration.

And some non-punk news: Pro­pos­i­tion 8, the Cali­for­nian ban on gay mar­riages has thank­fully been over­turned, and ruled as unconsitutional.

Free Music
Skum­fuk, by Sum 41 (video)
Pray Tell, by Anber­lin (track down­load)
I’m Not Alone, by Pat­ent Pending (track stream)
A new demo, by All Time Low (track stream)
Roses, by The Maine (video)
Low, by Dan from Four Year Strong (video)
All Good Junkies Go To Heaven, by GlassJaw (video)
My Best The­ory, by Jimmy Eat World (track stream)
Delight­fully Pleased, by Punch­line (album stream)