Joe's Big Toe

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 …

A day late, a buck short…
Beau of Saosin has pos­ted on their mes­sage board, telling us that the band have par­ted ways with Cove, their lead singer, but they have not yet found a replace­ment for him.
Sub­lime with Rome (Sub­lime with Rome Ramirez instead of Brad­ley Now­ell) will hit the stu­dio in Octo­ber to record a new album, accord­ing to Rome on the band’s offi­cial web­site.
Band­camp have announced that they will begin char­ging a 15% trans­ac­tion fee on all sales made on their web­site, up to $5000 per band, at which point …

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. …

It would appear that Saves The Day have left Vag­rant Records; they are lis­ted as an alum­nus on Vagrant’s web­site.
All Time Low were stopped from play­ing a second night at Six Flags. The first night, appar­ently the crowd got a bit excited, and secur­ity then sprayed them with mace. The venue then told fans that the band had pulled out of the gig, accord­ing to Alex’s twit­ter.
Hay­ley Wil­li­ams’ (Para­more) twit­ter account was allegedly hacked earlier this week, res­ult­ing in top­less pic­tures of her mak­ing their way onto the inter­net.
The …

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 …