Joe's Big Toe

Pro­pa­gandhi have announced that they will be releas­ing a split 7″ with Sac­ri­fice. The two bands will each put for­ward one cover, Propagandhi’s will be Tech­no­cracy, by Cor­ro­sion of Con­form­ity, and Sacrifice’s will be Rush’s Anthem.
Thrice have announced via twit­ter that they will be releas­ing a new record in 2011.
If you check out Tooth & Nail’s Act­ive Artists roster, you will see a sur­prise in the form of The Juli­ana The­ory.
A sur­vey by Rhythm magazine has voted Slipknot’s Joey Jord­ison as the best drum­mer of the past twenty five years, beating …

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 …

The Killers have announced that they will be tak­ing an indef­in­ite hiatus after their gig in Aus­tralia on the 21^st Feb­ru­ary. In a state­ment to the Asso­ci­ated Press, Dave Keun­ing said:
I’m not sure if people are aware of it but these are prob­ably our last shows for a while. We haven’t had a break in quite a while. It’s just been tour­ing and mak­ing records and on and on and on. It’s been like six years just kind of con­nec­ted together. It’s like people just expect us to do that non-stop …

I first heard Cary Broth­ers live, along­side Tom McRae, on the Hotel Café tour in the UK. I wasn’t aware that Broth­ers had ori­gin­ally thought up the idea and star­ted the tour in Amer­ica — and to be hon­est, I wouldn’t have guessed it either. His per­form­ances were good, but over­shad­owed by those of McRae and Brian Wright and the Waco Tra­gedies.
As an artist, he’s quite promis­cu­ous. His work has appeared on a num­ber of Amer­ican teen dra­mas, a couple of films, and in clubs across the world, remixed by …