Joe's Big Toe

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 …

The Ataris’s Kris Roe was involved in a car acci­dent recently. He was wear­ing his seat­belt, and is expec­ted to make a full recov­ery.
Go here to watch Coheed & Cambria’s new video for Here We Are Jug­ger­naut.
The Used are work­ing on a new album, des­pite can­cel­ling their inter­na­tional tour.
It would appear that Punk Goes Pop will have a third volume, although the tweet sug­gest­ing it has mys­ter­i­ously dis­ap­peared.
Blink-182 will be record­ing again come June, accord­ing to the Chicago Tribune.
Can’t Be Tamed, Miley Cyrus’s album will be out on June 22^nd. …

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 He has been replaced by Scott Reeder of Fu Man­chu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 …

Thrice were dis­ap­point­ing live; des­pite hav­ing very reas­on­able stu­dio mater­ial, they seemed unable to play it well. A rel­at­ively poor vocal per­form­ance was only made worse by the band’s ser­i­ous tim­ing issues. How­ever, they were able to per­form a decent rendi­tion of ‘The Artist In The Ambu­lance’, pos­sibly their best song. How­ever, all of Thrice’s mis­giv­ings were for­got­ten as soon as Coheed came on stage. The band played a tight, extremely impress­ive set, with plenty of stage the­at­rics. They man­aged to per­fectly bal­ance their old mater­ial with the new, and …