Sunday Edition: October 7th, 2007

It's Sunday, October 7th, 2007.

For the next two weeks I'm on vacation, first heading down to Boston to clean up all the hardcore crew violence then travelling north to Nova Scotia to find where Blake Schwarzenbach's been hiding. So what does that mean for your trusty Gazing? It means some other sucker editor will have to will step up and take the reins. Who will it be? Will they go mad under the pressure? Tune in next Sunday.

Radiohead completely changed the game with the announcement of their new record, an album for which you can pay whatever you want for. Sure, Bomb The Music Industry and other have done that for years, but their actions don't quite get the world talking about it. This kicked off a week of, well, navel gazing among music fans and insiders. A member of Throwdown chatted about downloading with pundit Bob Lefsetz, encouraging people to bury the label. Perspectives came in on the problem with leaking albums and why former music buyers are jumping ship.

Against Me! talked briefly about the incident in Tallahassee and conflicts with their early fans. The band was also, um, paid tribute to by a Dirty Deitrich cover of "Stop." Strung Out joined the list of ripped off bands, with their van and trailer stolen in Philadelphia. Taking Back Sunday fans fretted at the departure of guitarist and co–vocalist Fred Mascherin. Glen Matlock has asked Johnny Rotten not to swear at upcoming Sex Pistols gigs. We had news on a number of upcoming releases this week. NOFX posted the track listing for "They've Actually Gotten Worse Live," A Wilhelm Scream released new music from Career Suicide, Nirvana's unplugged is finally headed to DVD, and a Johnny Cash Tribute was announced that will feature Chuck Ragan, Russ Rankin of Good Riddance and the Loved Ones.

Oh, and despite what you may have heard Ian MacKaye's not dead.

We talked to Chris #2 from Anti–Flag this week (interview).

Our Video of the Week featured part five of our video countdown to the Fest 6. This week we checked a performance from melodic hardcore act No Trigger.

The tenth edition of Vinyl File featured a chat with Jacob Bannon, singer of Converge and owner of Deathwish Inc.

We also streamed music from

the grand return of American Steel and their new full length Destory Their Future,

as well as

The Great Deceiver, a trio featuring Tomas Lindberg, formerly of influential metal act At The Gates.

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

Radio Free Punknews

Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including

Teddy Duchamp's Army, a Pittsburgh, PA-based band that saw members go on to form/join Anti-Flag, Don Caballero and Voice in the Wire,

a full album scream from Killing California,

the new album from Tyler Read,

some Discharge styled hardcore from Brooklyn's Disnihil,

former Marathon frontman Aaron Scott's new act Attica! Attica!,

the new full length Doublecross from Vancouver's Riff Randells,

the entirety of Andrew Jackson Jihad's new folk-punk debut for Asian Man,

Young Livers, featuring members of Glass and Ashes, Fiya and Towers of Hanoi,

Arsonists Get All The Girls latest full length The Game of Life,

Young Livers, which features members of Glass and Ashes, Fiya and Towers of Hanoi,

and

half of the new full length from Toronto ska-punks the Flatliners.

It's Funny, I Don't Feel Like a Winner

Win a guitar from The Spill Canvas

With their new record titled No Really, I'm Fine due out October 02, 2007, The Spill Canvas has decided to give away a new electric guitar. The album is the follow up to One Fell Swoop and is their first release on Sire Records. You can check out the rules and enter the contest right here.

Win an iPod Classic from Armor for Sleep

On October 09, 2007, Armor For Sleep will be releasing their major label debut, Smile For Them. To celebrate, the band has decided to give one lucky winner with an 80GB iPod Classic engraved with the band’s logo. To take your shot at the prize, just visit this page.

Staff Side-Projects

Your trusty Punknews staffers and reviewers have all sorts of projects on the go, everything from poorly spelled and oft neglected blogs to big official world domination schemes. Here's what's up this week:

Editor Justin August:

Staff reviewer Jesse Raub::

You can find more at
editor and videographer Chris Moran collection of recordings online at Vimeo and editor Adam White's blog 2:59.

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