Joe's Big Toe

Thank you for bear­ing with us dur­ing the past few weeks, here is your news — and your free music!
Max Bemis has pos­ted a long state­ment about Say Any­thing, which you can read here. To sum­mar­ise though: they’re not split­ting up.
Check out Sufjan Stevens’s Band­camp for his new EP.
Bedouin Sound­clash will release their new album, Light The Hori­zon, on Septem­ber 28^th.
The Sex Pis­tols, in keep­ing with their true punk roots, have launched a per­fume. They describe it as a “[f]resh, rest­less bite of lemon, sharpened and intens­i­fied by dei­ant black pep­per. It’s the unruly …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

You can stream the whole of Balkan punk out­fit Gogol Bordello’s new album, Trans-Continental Hustle, on their MySpace.
May­day Parade have per­formed a short acous­tic set, which you can check out here.
Accord­ing to this twit­ter post, Jimmy Eat World have almost fin­ished mix­ing their new album.
65daysofstatic are also stream­ing their new album via their MySpace.
Devon Clif­ford, from You Say Party! We Say Die! has died of a brain hem­or­rhage. The band’s drum­mer col­lapsed mid-show at the Rick­shaw Theatre in Van­couver on Fri­day night but died on Sunday in hos­pital.
Jesse Bar­rera has covered …

Envy on the Coast are stream­ing their new album, called Low­coun­try, on their MySpace.
Jimmy Eat World have fin­ished record­ing their new album, and have pro­gressed to the mix­ing stage, accord­ing to the band’s Twit­ter.
Pro­pa­gandhi have this to say about their recent depar­ture from Small­man Records after the label has been closed down:
Seems we have the midas touch: we need a new record label (again).
Small­man Records is call­ing it a day and mov­ing on to real lives that don’t involve unstop­pable bangers at the top of their game (that’s us, …

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 …