Joe's Big Toe

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 …

Apo­lo­gies for last week’s lack of news, I was in Hun­gary.
Emo’s Annex have banned Fat Mike from the venue after his now infam­ous Cokie the Clown gig as part of SXSW. You can read more about the gig here.
Vik­ing Funeral is a new label, star­ted by Fletcher Dragge (Penny­wise) and Ken Seaton of Hard­line Enter­tain­ment and Sub­urban Noize Records. Their first sign­ing is Author­ity Zero, who will release their fourth album through the label on May 25, 2010.
You can check out Cash Cash’s cover of Forever Young on their MySpace.
According …

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 He has been replaced by Scott Reeder of Fu Man­chu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 …

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 …

Kurt Cobain’s mother has been awar­ded tem­por­ary guard­i­an­ship of his daugh­ter, Frances Bean. Court­ney Love is not men­tioned in the court papers, and no reason is given for the decision. This is the second time Love has lost cus­tody of her daugh­ter.
AFI, Sick of it all, and The Dear and Depar­ted have announced some UK dates in April, 2010:
April 5 at Rock City, Not­ting­ham
April 6 at Brix­ton Academy, Lon­don
April 8 at ABC, Glas­gow
April 9 at the Academy, Manchester
April 11 at the Academy, New­castle
April 12 at the Academy, Birm­ing­ham
John Frus­ci­ante has …

As part of a char­ity fun­draiser for Deftones bassist Chi Cheng (in hos­pital since last year, and still “minimally-conscious” fol­low­ing a coma, Greg Puci­ato of Dillinger Escape Plan took to the stage with Deftones to do the vocal part on “Pas­sen­ger” recor­ded by Tool’s Maynard James Keenan.
Punch­line are releas­ing a B-sides album, called Night Lights. It will be digital only. More info can be found here.
Cash Cash want you to have a part in your bed­room — but only a con­sen­sual one. Accord­ing to their MySpace blog, there were some …