Alanis Moris­sette has mar­ried her rap­per boy­friend Souleye. She has said that she is “so happy”.

Album sales for the week of the 30^th May (ie: last week) were the low­est since records began in 1994, just over 10% of their record high, Christ­mas 2000. Pre­dict­ably, the labels poin­ted the fin­ger at piracy.

The Pix­ies have can­celled a visit Israel in the wake of the deaths of nine people on board ships car­ry­ing human­it­arian aid to Gaza. They are the latest band to can­cel vis­its to Israel, fol­low­ing Klax­ons, Gor­illaz and Elvis Cos­tello. The band have apo­lo­gised to their Israeli fans.

Jimmy Eat World have fin­ished their new album. They are now just wait­ing for an offi­cial release date.

At the other end of the record­ing pro­cess are Senses Fail, who have just star­ted record­ing.

For those who are not already aware, Stu­art Cable, former drum­mer with Ste­reo­phon­ics, has died at home aged 40. Cir­cum­stances are not being treated as suspicious.

Meg & Dia are in the stu­dio record­ing, accord­ing to their twit­ter.

A new band has been formed by John Mar­tinez of Lorene Drive, Steve Ever­etts, pro­du­cer of Every Time I Die and The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Joe Brown of A Static Lul­laby. Elev­ate: I Am have some demos on their MySpace.

Strike Any­where have moved to Bridge Nine Records, leav­ing Fat Wreck. The say that they “just don’t relate” to Fat Wreck.

Accord­ing to Tech­crunch, a source within Spo­tify says that they are ready to launch in Amer­ica just as soon as “Warner stop being assholes”. Oh, and Spo­tify deny that they’ve got 30,000 users in the US already.

Six Flags have removed All Time Low from their sched­ule after the mace incid­ent we repor­ted on previously.

Unfor­tu­nately, ill­ness has forced John Mayer to can­cel his European dates.

Bad Reli­gion have finally announced offi­cially that they’ve been record­ing, des­pite the world and his wife hav­ing known about it for ages.

Eight Ghosts is a new band influ­enced by 90s emo (The Get-Up Kids, Jimmy Eat World, Deftones) and fea­tures Derron Nuh­fer of Less Than Jake/Gunmoll and James Aus­tin of Anchor Arms.

Sid Vicious’s now infam­ous swastika shirt is up for sale, with an alleged £10,000 price tag, although its owner has not lis­ted that price. It looks to be in more or less the con­di­tion you would expect it to be in.

Free Music
Home, by Goo Goo Dolls from their upcom­ing album, Some­thing For The Rest Of Us (MySpace)
Care­ful, by Para­more (video)
An acous­tic ses­sion, by Four Year Strong (video)
An acous­tic ses­sion, by Every Avenue (video)
We Owe This To Ourselves, by Anber­lin (video)
The Bride Screamed Murder, by Melvins (album stream)
Laz­arus, by Travie McCoy (album stream, MySpace)
Bil­lion­aire, by Travie McCoy (track down­load)
Fools Rush In, by She & Him (track down­load)
Close Encounter, by Army of Fresh­men (EP down­load — you CAN get it for free, although we sug­gest that you pay what you think it’s worth.)
Acous­tic ses­sions, by Against Me!, Four Year Strong, and This Time Next Year at Slam Dunk (video)
Attack Attack!, by Attack Attack! (album stream, MySpace)
My First Kiss, by 3OH!3 ft. Ke$ha (video)
Run­away, by Allister (video)
Skel­et­ons, by Hawthorne Heights (album stream)
How To Des­troy Angels EP (EP down­load)