Joe's Big Toe

I’ve always wanted to go to Warped Tour. All those amaz­ing bands for one day only really gets me excited, so when I read about a one day, multi-stage fest­ival called Slam Dunk I knew I had to go. Slam Dunk has been run­ning in Leeds, hold­ing club nights and cham­pi­on­ing unsigned bands. There two pre­vi­ous fest­ivals have been a suc­cess so it was good news when they announced that Slam Dunk fest­ival was guar­an­teed to be run­ning near you. For £25 a ticket you could see an array of …

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 …

Travis Barker has said that he has been record­ing drums for a new Trans­plants record here.
If you go here, you can check out a new Forever The Sick­est Kids video, for “She Likes”.
“End of The Under­ground”, a new track from Hawthorne Heights’s new album, Skel­et­ons, can be streamed from this site.
Accord­ing to the band’s twit­ter, Under­oath are writ­ing their new album, the first since Aaron Gillespie’s depar­ture a month or two ago.
The next of the Punk Goes… series, Punk Goes… Clas­sic Rock, can be streamed on MySpace, although if you’ve been keeping …

Envy on the Coast are stream­ing their new album, called Low­coun­try, on their MySpace.
Jimmy Eat World have fin­ished record­ing their new album, and have pro­gressed to the mix­ing stage, accord­ing to the band’s Twit­ter.
Pro­pa­gandhi have this to say about their recent depar­ture from Small­man Records after the label has been closed down:
Seems we have the midas touch: we need a new record label (again).
Small­man Records is call­ing it a day and mov­ing on to real lives that don’t involve unstop­pable bangers at the top of their game (that’s us, …