Joe's Big Toe

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 …

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.
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The Beat are look­ing to dis­trib­ute 17 tracks that they have demoed and are cur­rently weigh­ing up their options of going it alone or sign­ing up to a record label. This comes after a short hiatus of 28 years.
Jimmy Eat World have announced that we will hear Tom Linton’s voice on an up-and-coming JEW track, prob­ably on the album.
Pat Dee, drum­mer in Punch­line, is now the ex-drummer from Punch­line, after appar­ently being kicked out of the band. Spec­u­la­tion abounds that this is to make way for Cory from The Com­pos­ure or PJ …

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. …