Joe's Big Toe

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 …

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 …

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 …

First and fore­most, we regret to inform you that Ron­nie James Dio has died aged 67. We repor­ted on his dia­gnosis with stom­ach can­cer earlier this year, but unfor­tu­nately, he has lost his battle with the dis­ease, des­pite ini­tial state­ments that reports of his death were a hoax. Our thoughts are with his fam­ily and friends.
You can listen to a new track by Avenged Sev­en­fold, called Night­mare, by fol­low­ing this link.
Jim Suptic, of The Get Up Kids is record­ing new mater­ial for his band Black­pool Lights, accord­ing to this twitter …

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 …

Wel­come to Joe’s Big Toe in 2010. After a month long absence the news sec­tion is back.
Unfor­tu­nately, we have to start with the news of three deaths. Brian Keats, drum­mer with the Mis­fits died of liver can­cer last week. Obvi­ously, the Mis­fits were sem­inal in the punk move­ment, and most of the record­ing artists in that genre today have a debt to pay to the Mis­fits.
We were also shocked and saddened to learn of Jay Reatard’s death in what is being treated by Mem­phis police as a hom­icide. Finally, Jimmy “The …