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 …

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 …

By way of apo­logy for the slow news week, please accept this amaz­ing video of Ellie Gould­ing cov­er­ing The Tem­per Trap’s “Sweet Dis­pos­i­tion”.
Punk Goes… next release will be “Punk Goes Clas­sic Rock”. It will include cov­ers of Boston, Queen, Kiss, Blue Oyster Cult, Jimi Hendrix, Ozzy Osbourne, and more.
You can check out Kill­switch Engage’s con­tri­bu­tion to the God of War soundtrack, My Obses­sion, here.
Please don’t vomit with this one: Chad Gil­bert and Hay­ley Wil­li­ams have done a low-quality cover of The Moldy Peaches “Any­one Else But You”. If you are …

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 …