Joe's Big Toe

Sum 41 have gone on record say­ing that the new album won’t be all about Deryck’s recent divorce. Appar­ently, there’s “like, two songs”. They say that fans of Does This Look Infec­ted? and Chuck should love it. The album will be called Scream­ing Bloody Murder, and the first track will be Scum­fuck.
Accord­ing to this MySpace blog post, Yuri Ruley will be retir­ing from MxPx as of the 18^th July in order to spend more time with his fam­ily.
Linkin Park’s new record, A Thou­sand Suns, will be released on Septem­ber the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Motion City Soundtrack’s new­est offer­ing ‘My Dino­saur Life’ is an album I want to be derog­at­ory about. I want to say that it is just a rehash of albums past, the same tired old offer­ing etc., etc. I want to say all of these things but I just can’t. Like every Motion City album since ‘I Am The Movie’, the first listen doesn’t wow you, but gradu­ally those twelve songs worm their way into your sub-conscious and you find your­self hum­ming them in the car/bath/toilet.
This is another fine offering …

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 …

Jack’s Man­nequin have released an EP, called Dear Jack. You can find it on iTunes.
Motion City Soundtrack have also put a date on their new album, My Dino­saur Life. It will be released on the 19^th Janu­ary. Visit My Dino­saur Life for more inform­a­tion.
Ini­tials is the name of a new pro­ject by Fred Mas­cherino (Tak­ing Back Sunday) and Andy Jack­son (Hot Rod Pro­ject). The two got together after Mas­cherino got fed up of solo work, and decided he wanted to do stuff as part of a group once more. There …

I feel that I should begin by admit­ting that I got the wrong end of the stick with this album. It has in fact been around for sev­eral months now but in spite of being a bit of a fan, I had put off listen­ing to it, for reas­ons I shall explain.
I have never been one to accuse musi­cians of “selling out” but I believe that when cer­tain bands develop a level of pop­ular­ity, the qual­ity of their music becomes a little sloppy. One has to only look at the …