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 …

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 …

In a follow-up from a pre­vi­ous story, Mae have found their van — empty. They had this to say:
Our van has been loc­ated. That’s the good news. The bad news is that over $100,000 in instru­ments and equip­ment is still gone. Thank you for all of your sup­port and dona­tions. If you would like to donate, you can do so at this link: http://bit.ly/maedonate
Alkaline Trio’s next album will be released by Epi­taph Records and their own label Heart & Skull.
Talk­ing to Spin­ner, Matt Skiba said:
This record is a rock record but …

Racket Magazine have put together a free down­load­able com­pil­a­tion, which you can grab here. It’s called “Killer Sharks”, and the album art­work is pretty cool. On it are: Kin­etic Ste­reokids, Loch Lomond, Eels, The Denoue­ment, Vagina Pan­ther, Owen, The Pass­ports, Entice, The Fas­cin­a­tion Move­ment, Elec­tric Owls, Old Wives Tale, The Neigh­bor­hood Bullys, Penny­wise, The Bronx, Nakatomi Plaza, Only For The Night, Friends of Friends, ArpLine, Jump Clubb, and Malkovich & Sum.
MxPx are releas­ing their new EP today. It’s called Left Coast Punk, and a lim­ited edi­tion will be avail­able on www.mxpx.com. …

After an impress­ive per­form­ance by I Am The Ava­lanche, and a some­what less impress­ive per­form­ance from The Matches, MxPx took the stage. After some fairly ser­i­ous tech­nical dif­fi­culties (no cor­rectly tuned gui­tars, then the amp blew), MxPx began to rock out, sav­ing their best till the end. The Start­ing Line also delivered a well bal­anced set. The bands were very vocal with the crowds, and in places, the show felt almost like stand-up com­edy. Neither band will ever get any big­ger, so it’s a shame they were in the reduced …