Slipknot’s bassist, Paul Gray, has been found dead in a hotel in Iowa. The police say his death is not being treated as suspicious.

Hawthorne Heights’s MySpace is home to a stream of their new album, Skeletons.

All Time Low are doing the same with their new live album. Go here to hear it.

Social Dis­tor­tion have fin­ished track­ing their album, accord­ing to this twit­ter update.

If you go to Smash­ing Pumpkins’s web­site, you can down­load or stream four new tracks of theirs. Check it out here.

Mike Dirnt (Green Day) has designed another vegan shoe for MacBeth. This is his second for the com­pany. Max Bemis of Say Any­thing has also been design­ing for MacBeth accord­ing to his twit­ter.

You can listen to Para­more play­ing three songs acous­tic­ally here.

The Goo Goo Dolls’s web­site is home to their new track, “Home”. It’s here.

Steve Kirby (formerly of Scary Kids Scar­ing Kids) has been added to The Real You’s line-up, join­ing them for record­ing next month.

Attack of the Awe­some, by Pat­ent Pending, is stream­ing on their web­site.

Keep your eyes on Music 4 Can­cer, a Cana­dian char­ity who have signed up a host of artists for a com­pil­a­tion CD. Their MySpace is here.

Check out this link to hear Weezer cov­er­ing The Monkees’s I’m A Believer, as part of the Shrek Forever After soundtrack.

Amer­ican Trash, by Inner­partysys­tem is now stream­ing on theirMySpace.

The Maine have also pos­ted a track on their MySpace, it’s called Grow­ing Up.

The Gas­light Anthem are stream­ing a new track, Boxer, on their MySpace too.

John Nolan (formerly of Tak­ing Back Sunday and Stray­light Run) has a couple of new solo songs on his band­camp pro­file, includ­ing a cover of Crosby, Stills and Nash’s Hopeless.

Franz Nic­olay, formerly of The Hold Steady will be join­ing Against Me! as a tour­ing mem­ber, with effect at the begin­ning of the band’s European tour.

Chris Shif­lett (of Foo Fight­ers, Me First and The Gimme Gim­mes, and No Use for a Name) will be releas­ing a solo album on July 13^th.

Avenged Sevenfold’s first album without “The Rev”, Night­mares, will be released on July 17^th. The first track and the title track are stream­ing here.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Zach Lind (Jimmy Eat World) and Joshua Cain (Motion City Soundtrack) on becom­ing fathers!