Sunday Edition: January 6th, 2008

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It's Sunday, January 6th, 2008.

Welcome to Navel Gazing, your look back at this week in Punknews. Last week when the Punknews staff sounded off on our favorites of 2007 the readership rallied that a certain band wasn't getting it's due. A few keystrokes later and we had our first ever reader's choice chart. You folks make this site happen, and this year we're planning to get you involved in a big way.

The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday
This week's most popular stories

There's no finer way to kick off the year then with Jawbreaker news. While providing an update on their upcoming documentary Adam Pfahler revealed that the members of the influential band got back together a few months back and even played a few songs together. The audio's under wraps for the time being. Roger Miret of Agnostic Front and Zoli Teglas of Ignite spoke out against digital music and lauded the benefits of sticking with CDs, an opinion that may put them at odds with many of their fans. Orange County's Slick Shoes are back together after a period of inactivity, but we also had word that North Carolina' Hopesfall down for the count. You gain one, you lose one. This week also posed the eternal question if there has been a band as significant as Nirvana since their time.

Horse The Band win points for ambition, planning a true world tour that should take them to 40 countries before they rest. Hot Water Music continues to slowly reveal details of their reunion, this week confirming a SXSW appearance. Reader favourites A Wilhelm Scream are already
looking towards their next record, but in the meantime they'll tour the UK and the US with the Unseen joining them Stateside. It's a small tour so far, but fans are salivating at a March billing of Strike Anywhere, Paint It Black and the Riverboat Gamblers. On the audio front we had a new track from Teenage Bottlerocket, a preview of Goldfinger's SideOneDummy debut, something new from Panic! At the Disco, a new single from the Gaslight Anthem, and a live set from Chuck Ragan. There's no new audio yet from that upcoming Offspring record, but we did get a progress report.

I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain
New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives

The twenty third edition of Vinyl File spoke with Gilead Media founder Adam Bartlett and looked at some upcoming releases. This past week we also ran our end of year features for 2007. We had staff picks from editors Aubin, Adam White, Brian Shultz,
Justin August,
Meg Reinecker,
Chris Moran and
Ben Conoley, a list from alumni editor
Scott Heisel, and picks from reviewers
Greg Simpson (Greg0rb),
Jesse Raub,
Jordan Rogowski (Anchors),
Darren McLeod,
Tyler Barrett (GlassPipeMurder), and Jon Daley. Via some wacky math we even calculated an overall Punknews.org list that had the Weakerthans at the top. More importantly though, you folks stepped up and via your individual ratings created the readers picks list that gave huge props to A Wilhelm Scream.

Editors' Picks of the week featured ––>

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

Radio Free Punknews
Streaming music

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

the lead track off This Is Hell's new 7" Cripplers

and
six songs from NOFX's upcoming live album They've Actually Gotten Worse Live.

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

Win a guitar from Bullet for My Valentine

To celebrate the release of Bullet for My Valentine's new album, Scream Aim Fire on January 29, 2008, the band has put up a pretty snazzy ESP electric guitar. To get your name into the draw, just drop by this page and fill out the appropriate form.

Tonight We're Gonna Give It 35%
Staff blogs and 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.

Make sure to check out
editor and videographer Chris Moran collection of recordings online at Vimeo,
editor Justin August's blog Kinder Words,
editor Adam White's blog 2:59,
and
staff reviewer Jesse Raub's webzine Bitter Press.

Super Powers Enable Me To Blend In With Machinery
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