Joe's Big Toe

You can stream a song a day from Amber Pacific’s new album, Vir­tues, by vis­it­ing their web­site.
Ace Enders have announced that they will begin record­ing their new album “in a couple of weeks”.
Tak­ing Back Sunday have begun work­ing on their new album, accord­ing to an offi­cial press release and Mark’s twit­ter. This will be their fifth album, and it will be recor­ded their ori­ginal line-up (see last week’s news).
The cause of Travis Barker’s plane crash has been offi­cially iden­ti­fied as incor­rectly main­tained tyres, and the pilot’s decision to abort the …

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.
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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 …

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 …