Joe's Big Toe

Deftones will be tour­ing the UK in late Novem­ber, and they will be sup­por­ted on all of those dates by Coheed & Cam­bria.
On Octo­ber 5^th, Rise Against will be releas­ing a DVD called Another Sta­tion: Another Mile. It’s a col­lec­tion of 14 live per­form­ances from across the globe.
Accord­ing to their tumblr, Every Avenue are in LA work­ing on their third album.
In an unchar­ac­ter­ist­ic­ally short press release, Max Bemis has said that his new record as Max Bemis and the Pain­ful Splits is NOT an offi­cial solo record, or an offi­cial side project, …

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 …

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 …

Kid Cudi was arres­ted last week­end in New York for crim­inal mis­chief and pos­ses­sion of a con­trolled sub­stance.
Blink-182 are not going into the stu­dio this month, but some­time this autumn.
Inter­scope will be releas­ing All Time Low’s next record in Janu­ary 2011, accord­ing to this.
Sufjan Stevens and The National have been work­ing on a new album.
Weezer have released their unof­fi­cial World Cup anthem. If you have iTunes, it’s a free down­load.
Ozzy Osbourne will donate his body to med­ical sci­ence when he dies, because he believes him­self to be a med­ical mir­acle.
Sadly, but …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

There’s some­thing about Weezer that I’ve never been able to put my fin­ger on. You never seem to meet any­one that doesn’t like them on some level, but at the same time I find myself hard pushed to think of any­one I know that could be con­sidered a “hard­core fan”. This seems to be the stigma asso­ci­ated with the ??????LA quar­tet, they have a selec­tion of songs which, it is fair to say are noth­ing less than anthemic, but the rest of their extens­ive dis­co­graphy, des­pite being just as catchy …