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 …

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 …

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 …

Blink-182 have announced that they will be play­ing Area 4 Fest­ival (Ger­many), High­field Fest­ival (Ger­many), and I-Day Fest­ival (Italy) on the 21^st August, 22^nd August and 4^th Septem­ber.
Bad Religion’s Brett Gure­witz has spoken on his twit­ter about BR’s pro­gress on their next album. Appar­ently, they’ve been demo­ing mater­ial over the past few days.
Unfor­tu­nately, Stew­art Teg­gart, who was, amongst oth­ers Bad Reli­gion and Pennywise’s former man­ager, has died. He appar­ently had a heart attack on Tues­day morn­ing.
Some­thing Cor­por­ate have been work­ing on a “Best of” com­pil­a­tion album, which, accord­ing to Andrew McMahon, …

Phil­lip Hill, the gui­tar­ist for Teen Idols is out of hos­pital after being admit­ted on the 4^th with a col­lapsed lung. He sus­tained the injury attempt­ing to defend a girl who was being attacked by a group of men. He has no insur­ance plan, but a fund has been set up for him. If you have PayPal, con­sider donat­ing to helpphilliphill@gmail.com
Rivers Cuomo is out of hos­pital now and after an addi­tional days rest will be head­ing down to L.A. to join the rest of the band.
Say Anything’s MySpace Trans­mis­sions EP can …

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. …