Joe's Big Toe

Pro­pa­gandhi have announced that they will be releas­ing a split 7″ with Sac­ri­fice. The two bands will each put for­ward one cover, Propagandhi’s will be Tech­no­cracy, by Cor­ro­sion of Con­form­ity, and Sacrifice’s will be Rush’s Anthem.
Thrice have announced via twit­ter that they will be releas­ing a new record in 2011.
If you check out Tooth & Nail’s Act­ive Artists roster, you will see a sur­prise in the form of The Juli­ana The­ory.
A sur­vey by Rhythm magazine has voted Slipknot’s Joey Jord­ison as the best drum­mer of the past twenty five years, beating …

Please note: for the next two weeks, I will be in Hun­gary cov­er­ing the Szi­get fest­ival. I will do my best to update the site, but there may be some issues with updates, and posts may dis­ap­pear. Please bear with us, we will return nor­mal ser­vice as soon as is humanly pos­sible.
In the mean­time, why not fol­low @joesbigtoe on twit­ter, which I will try and update more often?
Accord­ing to Randy Nichols’s twit­ter there is some­thing afoot in the Start­ing Line camp. No details as to what it may be, but he …

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 …

Travis Barker has said that he has been record­ing drums for a new Trans­plants record here.
If you go here, you can check out a new Forever The Sick­est Kids video, for “She Likes”.
“End of The Under­ground”, a new track from Hawthorne Heights’s new album, Skel­et­ons, can be streamed from this site.
Accord­ing to the band’s twit­ter, Under­oath are writ­ing their new album, the first since Aaron Gillespie’s depar­ture a month or two ago.
The next of the Punk Goes… series, Punk Goes… Clas­sic Rock, can be streamed on MySpace, although if you’ve been keeping …

Travis Barker is releas­ing a solo album. He’s invited Lil’ Wayne, Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, The Game and a whole host of other big names to guest on the record. Barker says “It goes from everything from punk rock to hip-hop to some elec­tro stuff on there to a metal song with Corey Taylor from Slip­knot. It’s been really fun and inter­est­ing up till now.”
Wes Bor­land (gui­tars) has spoken out about Limp Bizkit’s new album, say­ing that it will have a “Daft Punk vibe to it”. He says that the band …

I’ve always had this idea in my head that there are grand-parents of punk-rock. You’ve got Grandma “Off­spring” with Grand­dad blink-182, and Nanny Green Day with Grandpa Ran­cid. In my opin­ion, every single punk band on the planet can be traced to one of these two happy homes. Sum 41, for example, is Grandpa Rancid’s ball-juice, which has been incub­ated by Nanny Green Day. MxPx are clearly the res­ult of Grand­dad blink slip­ping Grandma Off­spring a length.
New Found Glory, well, put it this way, looks an awful lot like Nanny …