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Paul Gray, Slipknot’s bassist who died recently, died of an acci­dental morphine over­dose accord­ing to his autopsy report.
A large num­ber of artists, led by Korn’s Jonathan Dav­ies, have decided to boy­cott BP products as a res­ult of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mex­ico. The artists, includ­ing Dis­turbed, Rise Against, Lady Gaga, Gods­mack, Back­street Boys, Slightly Stoopid, Rob Zom­bie, Mega­deth, Anthrax, Creed, and Flog­ging Molly, are hop­ing to encour­age pet­ro­leum com­pan­ies to put in stricter safe­guards, and observe them in the future.
Reel Big Fish will be releas­ing their own …

You can stream a song a day from Amber Pacific’s new album, Vir­tues, by vis­it­ing their web­site.
Ace Enders have announced that they will begin record­ing their new album “in a couple of weeks”.
Tak­ing Back Sunday have begun work­ing on their new album, accord­ing to an offi­cial press release and Mark’s twit­ter. This will be their fifth album, and it will be recor­ded their ori­ginal line-up (see last week’s news).
The cause of Travis Barker’s plane crash has been offi­cially iden­ti­fied as incor­rectly main­tained tyres, and the pilot’s decision to abort the …

Atom Wil­lard has left Social Dis­tor­tion, choos­ing to pri­or­it­ise his work with Angels & Air­waves. He has been replaced by Scott Reeder of Fu Man­chu
Frank Turner has pos­ted the video for Isa­bel, his latest single, and you can watch it here.
You can also check out the video for YouMeAtSix’s Under­dog on Pun­kNews, fol­low­ing this link.
If you want to down­load Street­light Manifesto’s Hell, then we’ve got a link for you. You can also down­load Me & Julio Down By The School­yard (a Paul Simon Cover), their first single from their …

Roy Berry and Brian Ven­able of Lucero were mugged recently after a show in Geor­gia (the US state, not the former soviet repub­lic). Berry’s jaw was broken, and the band have had to can­cel at least one gig.
NOFX’s Fat Mike has had his phone stolen in Argen­tina. He was appar­ently send­ing a text mes­sage on his iPhone when it was knocked out of his hand by a guy on a bike, who then made off with it. He lost the phone and “a few hun­dred dol­lars”, but was not hurt. In …

In a follow-up from a pre­vi­ous story, Mae have found their van — empty. They had this to say:
Our van has been loc­ated. That’s the good news. The bad news is that over $100,000 in instru­ments and equip­ment is still gone. Thank you for all of your sup­port and dona­tions. If you would like to donate, you can do so at this link: http://bit.ly/maedonate
Alkaline Trio’s next album will be released by Epi­taph Records and their own label Heart & Skull.
Talk­ing to Spin­ner, Matt Skiba said:
This record is a rock record but …

Jack’s Man­nequin have released an EP, called Dear Jack. You can find it on iTunes.
Motion City Soundtrack have also put a date on their new album, My Dino­saur Life. It will be released on the 19^th Janu­ary. Visit My Dino­saur Life for more inform­a­tion.
Ini­tials is the name of a new pro­ject by Fred Mas­cherino (Tak­ing Back Sunday) and Andy Jack­son (Hot Rod Pro­ject). The two got together after Mas­cherino got fed up of solo work, and decided he wanted to do stuff as part of a group once more. There …