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Alanis Moris­sette has mar­ried her rap­per boy­friend Souleye. She has said that she is “so happy”.
Album sales for the week of the 30^th May (ie: last week) were the low­est since records began in 1994, just over 10% of their record high, Christ­mas 2000. Pre­dict­ably, the labels poin­ted the fin­ger at pir­acy.
The Pix­ies have can­celled a visit Israel in the wake of the deaths of nine people on board ships car­ry­ing human­it­arian aid to Gaza. They are the latest band to can­cel vis­its to Israel, fol­low­ing Klax­ons, Gor­illaz and Elvis Costello. …

It would appear that Saves The Day have left Vag­rant Records; they are lis­ted as an alum­nus on Vagrant’s web­site.
All Time Low were stopped from play­ing a second night at Six Flags. The first night, appar­ently the crowd got a bit excited, and secur­ity then sprayed them with mace. The venue then told fans that the band had pulled out of the gig, accord­ing to Alex’s twit­ter.
Hay­ley Wil­li­ams’ (Para­more) twit­ter account was allegedly hacked earlier this week, res­ult­ing in top­less pic­tures of her mak­ing their way onto the inter­net.
The …

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 …

Travis Barker has said that he has been record­ing drums for a new Trans­plants record here.
If you go here, you can check out a new Forever The Sick­est Kids video, for “She Likes”.
“End of The Under­ground”, a new track from Hawthorne Heights’s new album, Skel­et­ons, can be streamed from this site.
Accord­ing to the band’s twit­ter, Under­oath are writ­ing their new album, the first since Aaron Gillespie’s depar­ture a month or two ago.
The next of the Punk Goes… series, Punk Goes… Clas­sic Rock, can be streamed on MySpace, although if you’ve been keeping …

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 …

Four bands, one stage, and about 2,700 people who would go home later and slit their wrists. Yes, this was emo-fest. Aiden were up first, appar­ently with some good mater­ial, but the queue was so long that I actu­ally man­aged to miss them. Still Remains were up next, and were by far the weak­est band on the tour. Hawthorne Heights played their crowd-pleasers Niki FM, and Ohio Is For Lov­ers (Cut my wrists and black my eyes), and then finally Bul­let For My Valentine star­ted tear­ing up the Academy with …