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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Slipknot’s bassist, Paul Gray, has been found dead in a hotel in Iowa. The police say his death is not being treated as sus­pi­cious.
Hawthorne Heights’s MySpace is home to a stream of their new album, Skel­et­ons.
All Time Low are doing the same with their new live album. Go here to hear it.
Social Dis­tor­tion have fin­ished track­ing their album, accord­ing to this twit­ter update.
If you go to Smash­ing Pumpkins’s web­site, you can down­load or stream four new tracks of theirs. Check it out here.
Mike Dirnt (Green Day) has designed another vegan shoe …

First and fore­most, we regret to inform you that Ron­nie James Dio has died aged 67. We repor­ted on his dia­gnosis with stom­ach can­cer earlier this year, but unfor­tu­nately, he has lost his battle with the dis­ease, des­pite ini­tial state­ments that reports of his death were a hoax. Our thoughts are with his fam­ily and friends.
You can listen to a new track by Avenged Sev­en­fold, called Night­mare, by fol­low­ing this link.
Jim Suptic, of The Get Up Kids is record­ing new mater­ial for his band Black­pool Lights, accord­ing to this twitter …

Two Tongues is a col­lab­or­a­tion between Max Bemis of ‘Say Any­thing’ and Chris Con­ley of ‘Saves the Day’. Being a huge fan of both the bands I was very excited about the release of these thir­teen tracks; and I am not dis­ap­poin­ted.
Bemis and Con­ley share writ­ing, vocal and gui­tar duties. Bemis brings his trade­mark venom­ous vocal styl­ing to the mix but it is Con­ley who truly shines; with a sound remin­is­cent of ‘In Rev­erie’.
Bemis describes the album as an ‘expres­sion of the Yin and the Yang; how two “opposite” …

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 …

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 …

Jack’s Man­nequin have released an EP, called Dear Jack. You can find it on iTunes.
Motion City Soundtrack have also put a date on their new album, My Dino­saur Life. It will be released on the 19^th Janu­ary. Visit My Dino­saur Life for more inform­a­tion.
Ini­tials is the name of a new pro­ject by Fred Mas­cherino (Tak­ing Back Sunday) and Andy Jack­son (Hot Rod Pro­ject). The two got together after Mas­cherino got fed up of solo work, and decided he wanted to do stuff as part of a group once more. There …