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 …

Anber­lin have brought for­ward the release date of their new album to Septem­ber 7^th. The first track from it, Impossible is avail­able as of today.
Less Than Jake have announced some tour dates in the UK in Novem­ber. For more details, you can check out where they’ll be play­ing here.
Watch a video here of Kid Cudi under attack by a man at a con­cert in Clev­e­land (US).
Sta­cey DuPree and Dar­ren King (of Eis­ley and MUTEMATH respect­ively) have tied the knot, you can see a photo on Sherri’s twit­pic.
The Fire, Senses Fail’s new album …

Sum 41 have gone on record say­ing that the new album won’t be all about Deryck’s recent divorce. Appar­ently, there’s “like, two songs”. They say that fans of Does This Look Infec­ted? and Chuck should love it. The album will be called Scream­ing Bloody Murder, and the first track will be Scum­fuck.
Accord­ing to this MySpace blog post, Yuri Ruley will be retir­ing from MxPx as of the 18^th July in order to spend more time with his fam­ily.
Linkin Park’s new record, A Thou­sand Suns, will be released on Septem­ber the …

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 …

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. …

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 …

Stray­light Run have announced that they are now on an “indef­in­ite hiatus”. How­ever, Shaun has quit the band for good.
Zoli Teglas (Ignite) is Pennywise’s new vocal­ist. Allegedly, it happened as a res­ult of a mis­di­alled tele­phone num­ber.
As part of the Olympic cel­eb­ra­tions in Van­couver, a pro­ject called “Live­City” was con­ceived, to bring live music to Van­couver for free. Alex­is­on­fire were play­ing one of these free con­certs, and unfor­tu­nately the crowd rushed the stage, and sev­eral people were hurt.
The first batch of bands con­firmed to play Down­load this year are: Rage Against The …

Since Brad­ley Nowell’s death, Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh have been per­form­ing as Long Beach Dub All­stars, but recently have taken back Sub­lime as a band name, since the arrival of Rome Ramirez. A judge has put a stop to this, and Nowell’s fam­ily retain rights to the name.
You can stream a demo ver­sion of AFI’s new­est track “Torch Song” here.
Mae’s tour van has been stolen, along with all of their equip­ment and mer­chand­ise. To help out, visit this link
It would appear that there are some pretty unsa­voury people in America, …