Joe's Big Toe

Paul Gray, Slipknot’s bassist who died recently, died of an acci­dental morphine over­dose accord­ing to his autopsy report.
A large num­ber of artists, led by Korn’s Jonathan Dav­ies, have decided to boy­cott BP products as a res­ult of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mex­ico. The artists, includ­ing Dis­turbed, Rise Against, Lady Gaga, Gods­mack, Back­street Boys, Slightly Stoopid, Rob Zom­bie, Mega­deth, Anthrax, Creed, and Flog­ging Molly, are hop­ing to encour­age pet­ro­leum com­pan­ies to put in stricter safe­guards, and observe them in the future.
Reel Big Fish will be releas­ing their own …

Look­ing up at the stage, stand­ing at the edge of what appears to be a con­vulsing pile of teen­agers, you cant help but feel that there’s only so much fun in the world and Reel Big Fish are hav­ing all of it…
First on stage, it didn’t take Sonic Boom Six long to effort­lessly stir the crowd into a frenzy, and by the time they had fin­ished their set, the crowd was an ocean of breath­lessly red faces still try­ing to keep up With Laila and Matt’s dynamic vocals and coolly …

There’s some­thing about hav­ing a band like Reel Big Fish in Birm­ing­ham that always causes a stir. Out­side, people are already start­ing to mill around, and as I walk towards the doors, a man who may as well have the word “tout” prin­ted on his bomber jacket almost asks me if I have a ticket to sell, before he real­ises its only 4pm and changes his mind. The tour man­ager, Tom, smiles broadly as we make our way through the build­ing. “Cold out there huh?” “I know mate” I …

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 …