Joe's Big Toe

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 …

A day late, a buck short…
Beau of Saosin has pos­ted on their mes­sage board, telling us that the band have par­ted ways with Cove, their lead singer, but they have not yet found a replace­ment for him.
Sub­lime with Rome (Sub­lime with Rome Ramirez instead of Brad­ley Now­ell) will hit the stu­dio in Octo­ber to record a new album, accord­ing to Rome on the band’s offi­cial web­site.
Band­camp have announced that they will begin char­ging a 15% trans­ac­tion fee on all sales made on their web­site, up to $5000 per band, at which point …

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 …

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 …

Apo­lo­gies for last week’s lack of news, I was in Hun­gary.
Emo’s Annex have banned Fat Mike from the venue after his now infam­ous Cokie the Clown gig as part of SXSW. You can read more about the gig here.
Vik­ing Funeral is a new label, star­ted by Fletcher Dragge (Penny­wise) and Ken Seaton of Hard­line Enter­tain­ment and Sub­urban Noize Records. Their first sign­ing is Author­ity Zero, who will release their fourth album through the label on May 25, 2010.
You can check out Cash Cash’s cover of Forever Young on their MySpace.
According …

The Killers have announced that they will be tak­ing an indef­in­ite hiatus after their gig in Aus­tralia on the 21^st Feb­ru­ary. In a state­ment to the Asso­ci­ated Press, Dave Keun­ing said:
I’m not sure if people are aware of it but these are prob­ably our last shows for a while. We haven’t had a break in quite a while. It’s just been tour­ing and mak­ing records and on and on and on. It’s been like six years just kind of con­nec­ted together. It’s like people just expect us to do that non-stop …