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Paul Gray, Slipknot’s bassist who died recently, died of an acci­dental morphine over­dose accord­ing to his autopsy report.
A large num­ber of artists, led by Korn’s Jonathan Dav­ies, have decided to boy­cott BP products as a res­ult of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mex­ico. The artists, includ­ing Dis­turbed, Rise Against, Lady Gaga, Gods­mack, Back­street Boys, Slightly Stoopid, Rob Zom­bie, Mega­deth, Anthrax, Creed, and Flog­ging Molly, are hop­ing to encour­age pet­ro­leum com­pan­ies to put in stricter safe­guards, and observe them in the future.
Reel Big Fish will be releas­ing their own …

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 …

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 He has been replaced by Scott Reeder of Fu Man­chu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 …