Sunday Edition: February 18th, 2007

It's Sunday February 18th, 2007. This is a squid. Scientists have learned that before this particular squid devours you, it lights up and fires deadly laser beams out of its tentacles. That's the truth and I encourage you to use it in school reports. Punknews is, if nothing else, pro-education. Well, at least we're pro-cephalopod.

The people must have something good to read on a Sunday

So what do you want first, the band news or the collapse of civilization news? Let's go for the latter.

We had a report on Punk Planet photographer Ken Krayeske, who was arrested at the Connecticut governor's inaugural parade for photographing Gov. Jodi Rell, or in legalese "breach of peace and interfering with an officer." Senator Ted Stevens seeks to further police the internet tubes, proposing a new law that could ban MySpace, Wikipedia or even ever humble Punknews.org. Checking in on the Club Deep case, an arrest was made earlier this week, with the accused pleading not guilty. The Washington D.C. all-ages ban was debated this week, with Fugazi frontman Ian Mackaye testifying against the scene-shattering move. Finally, 10th Level Vice President Al Gore has organized a series of "Rock Against Global Warming" concerts with bands such as Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy and AFI set to participate.

Jesse Michaels spoke out on the perpetual reunion rumours surrounding his bands, claiming that you won't see Common Rider or Operation Ivy anytime soon. Remeber that Rage Against The Machine reunion show? Well Chris Cornell has left Audioslave. Hmm. 3rd wave ska band Buck-O-Nine is back with a new record. Look for it on Asian Man sometime soon. The reunited Police are headed out on the road soon. Speaking of tours, look for NOFX to invade invade Australia. This week saw the White Stripes sign with Warner, the Draft announce a digital EP, and the Bronx Rock The Rabbit.

Finally we express our deep condolences to Chris #2 of Anti-Flag. This week the tragic circumstances which forced them off tour were revealed.

Our Video Of The Week featured an interview and performance from Lifetime in Washington, DC. Our MP3 Of The Week featured the Varsity Weirdos and Lily Allen. We brought you a number of streams this week, previewing great new music from the Ottawa Ramones-core act the Riptides, ex-Tsunami Bomb band Nothington, Sudbury power-pop act Statues, the split between Reel Big Fish and Zolof The Rock and Roll Destroyer and finally BÃ¥stad, Sweden's Sounds Like Violence.

Click Read More to see this week's streaming music, contests and other highlights.

Radio Free Punknews

Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including Million Dollar Marxists' new LP Zero Culture, The Queers' 25th anniversary album Munki Brain, Only Crime's sophomore record Virulence and Tera Melos' new full length Drugs To the Dear Youth.

Suntans are for Winners

Win a prize pack from Bayside every day

Bayside's new record, The Walking Wounded is available now. To celebrate the release, the band is giving away a prize package of signed merchandise every day for the next two weeks. Besides finding it up in stores, the record is also being made available via the newly launched Textango service which allows you to pick up the record directly using your cellphone. Just text Bayside4 to 23333* to purchase the full album, bill it your cell phone bill and get it on your computer.

Take Action! Tour 2007 contest: Etnies, Hot Topic, lots of music

We're happy to bring you a special contest from Punknews.org and the Take Action! Tour. Winners will receive a whole mess of good stuff including a $150.00 Hot Topic gift card, $150.00 from Etnies, $50 from Downloadpunk.com, an Alternative Press subscription, Chord Magazine subscription, a tour prize pack with T-Shirt, poster and comp and a big pile of merch from every band on the tour.

Free Shows & Schwag: The Early November

Ok, time for another contest kids. This time around it's fair game to anyone in the continental U.S.. Drive Thru Records act The Early November are about to embark on a nation-wide tour in support of their new release, The Mother, The Mechanic, The Path. One lucky winner will receive two tickets to any show on the tour. Plus, Drive Thru will also be sending the winner a copy of The Mother, The Mechanic, The Path and some stickers. Interested? Well, you can make sure there's a date near you by checking out the tourdates here.

Win a Nintedo Wii from Night Kills The Day and Score Records

It's critically acclaimed, impossible to find and people get ">pretty enthusiastic about it. Of course, we're talking about the Nintendo Wii. You can wait in line and drop $250.00 on one, or you can simply fill out a form and win one, courtesy of Punknews.org, Night Kills The Day and Score Records. Along the Wii, one grand prize winner will win some nice Night Kills The Day merch and one runner up winner will take home a shirt and a sampler.

Samsung phone, new discs from AFI, Brand New, more

Once again, Fanscape is stepping in to offer serious goods in exchange for a little information on your part and some additional fine print. One lucky grand prize winner will stretch their mailbox's capacity with a Samsung SGH-t809 phone, $100 in cash, a Samsung accessory pack, portable multimedia speakers, and three albums from either AFI, Brand New, Motion City Soundtrack, All-American Rejects or the Used. A first prize winner will get the phone, accessory pack and compact discs.

Staff Blogs

When not writing about music on the internet, many members of the Punknews staff find time to write about music on the internet. You can check out the depraved musings of Adam White at 2:59, while Chris Moran's all over the place with content rocking both MySpace and Flickr.

Life at Disconnect

We've theorized that you visit other websites out there, and we know it can be tough to leave the calming blue glow of the `Org, so we'll help by infecting the rest of the web with Punknews content. Waste some time on the Punknews.org and Punknews Records MySpace pages or contribute your listening habits to the weekly charts Last.fm group.

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