Joe's Big Toe

Apo­lo­gies for last week’s lack of news… here’s twice as much this week to make up for it!
The Academy Is…‘s Wil­liam Beck­ett has star­ted work on writ­ing for their fourth album.
Bren­don Urie of Panic! At The Disco has told the world that the gui­tar and bass tracks for the new album are now com­plete, and Spen­cer says that the drums are done too.
Mat­thew Leone of Mad­ina Lake has been ser­i­ously injured. He inter­vened in a domestic argu­ment to stop a woman get­ting beaten by her boy­friend. He suffered some pretty heavy blows …

Kid Cudi was arres­ted last week­end in New York for crim­inal mis­chief and pos­ses­sion of a con­trolled sub­stance.
Blink-182 are not going into the stu­dio this month, but some­time this autumn.
Inter­scope will be releas­ing All Time Low’s next record in Janu­ary 2011, accord­ing to this.
Sufjan Stevens and The National have been work­ing on a new album.
Weezer have released their unof­fi­cial World Cup anthem. If you have iTunes, it’s a free down­load.
Ozzy Osbourne will donate his body to med­ical sci­ence when he dies, because he believes him­self to be a med­ical mir­acle.
Sadly, but …

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 Ataris’s Kris Roe was involved in a car acci­dent recently. He was wear­ing his seat­belt, and is expec­ted to make a full recov­ery.
Go here to watch Coheed & Cambria’s new video for Here We Are Jug­ger­naut.
The Used are work­ing on a new album, des­pite can­cel­ling their inter­na­tional tour.
It would appear that Punk Goes Pop will have a third volume, although the tweet sug­gest­ing it has mys­ter­i­ously dis­ap­peared.
Blink-182 will be record­ing again come June, accord­ing to the Chicago Tribune.
Can’t Be Tamed, Miley Cyrus’s album will be out on June 22^nd. …

You can stream the whole of Balkan punk out­fit Gogol Bordello’s new album, Trans-Continental Hustle, on their MySpace.
May­day Parade have per­formed a short acous­tic set, which you can check out here.
Accord­ing to this twit­ter post, Jimmy Eat World have almost fin­ished mix­ing their new album.
65daysofstatic are also stream­ing their new album via their MySpace.
Devon Clif­ford, from You Say Party! We Say Die! has died of a brain hem­or­rhage. The band’s drum­mer col­lapsed mid-show at the Rick­shaw Theatre in Van­couver on Fri­day night but died on Sunday in hos­pital.
Jesse Bar­rera has covered …