Sunday Edition: February 3rd, 2008
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It's Sunday, February 3rd, 2008.
You know we've had more news submissions on this potential Arrested Development movie than anything else today, purpose of this website be damned. I love you guys. Welcome to Navel Gazing, your look back at this week in Punknews.
The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday
This week's most popular stories
Top on the list of shows you didn't get get to see last week, ALL reunited on stage in Fort Collins at what was billed as a Drag The River show. Keeping with the reunion theme, Hot Water Music has announced a trio of European festival dates. We also had video footage of the band performing "Turnstyle" at their recent Sayreville, NJ show. The Gaslight Anthem may have delayed their upcoming EP this week, but it also slipped that the band will join the SideOneDummy roster. The real world stepped in as Fox News, for whatever reason, uncovered the "Emo Backlash". Cheers also go out to the Oregon Attorney General for investigating the RIAA.
There was lots of touring news this week, with the Warped Tour confirming its 2008 routing and further news on the metal–focused spinoff tour featuring bands like Mastodon and Dragonforce. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones announced a Los Angeles show with the Street Dogs and Pietasters, as well as an appearance at the Bamboozle. Similarly, the west coast Bamboozle Left will feature a reunion performance from Face To Face. We're waiting on dates for two upcoming tours, one to feature Anti–Flag will the Briggs, Street Dogs and Fake Problems, the other an Asian Man Tour with Queers, Lemuria and Bomb The Music Industry.
This week saw the break up of street punks Clit 45. Upcoming releases for the mall punk crowd were discussed, including Fearless Records' "Punk Goes Crunk" compilation and Panic At The Disco's upcoming "Pretty. Odd." Not on the horizon? Good Riddance's live DVD. It's probably not going to happen. Between some new music from Anti–Flag ("The Bright Lights of America") and Fake Problems ("Viking Wizard Eyes, Wizard Full of Lies") this has been a pretty full week.
I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain
New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives
Our Video of the Week featured the first part of an interview and performance with Bomb The Music Industry!.
The twenty seventh edition of Vinyl File featured an interview with Dan Yemin (Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, Paint it Black and Armalite) and a look at upcoming releases.
On the new music front we previewed three upcoming 7" releases from Toronto power–pop act Marvelous Darlings, featuring Ben Cook of Fucked Up and No Warning.
Click Read More to check out our ongoing contests, new streaming music and more.
Radio Free Punknews
Streaming music
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including
the new full length Get Better by Lemuria,
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
In February, This Is Hell will be releasing their highly anticipated new full length for Trustkill. How anticipated? Well, Brian loves them and he's a hard guy to impress. The record is titled Misfortunes and is due out February 19, 2008. To win a copy of the album you can visit this page and get your name in the running.
Win an Asus Eee PC from Enter Shikari
Heard of those Asus Eee PCs? They're these little laptops that run Linux and weigh about as much as a hardcover book. They're pretty popular right now, and so when Enter Shikari offered one to give away to one of you, we figured it'd be something worth checking out. Want to win one yourself? Then visit this page.
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.
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