Sunday Edition: December 14th, 2008
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the strange, slow, old people in the community talking...
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This week's most popular stories
Former Dead Kennedys frontman and Alternative Tentacles head honcho Jello Biafra has written a lengthy and thought provoking letter to President-Elect Barak Obama.
Mike Ness has discussed plans for the next Social Distortion record, the follow up to 2004's
Sex, Love and Rock âÃônâÃô Roll
Next year's festivals were the big topic this week. Kevin Lyman unveiled that Warped 2009 will shoot for
longer sets and less stages with performances by
Anti-Flag, Bad Religion, Big D and the Kids Table, the Bouncing Souls, NOFX and Thrice among others.
Miami, Florida's
Langerado Festival will hit in March and feature Flogging Molly, Bad Brains, Against Me!, Gaslight Anthem, and the Aggrolites.
Bamboozle 2009 meanwhile added bands like Third Eye Blind, Forgive Durden and Before Their Eyes.
This week mainstream pop punks Fall Out Boy streamed their new full length
Folie a Deux. Brody Dalle's post-Distillers vehicle Spinnerette unveiled "Ghetto Love." Flogging Molly announced dates for their 2009
Green 17 tour. Avenged Sevenfold will tour with bands like Buckcherry and Papa Roach. Pop punks the Dopamines will soon
hit the road. Escape The Fate will soon
tour with Attack Attack, William Control of Aiden and Burn Halo.
As for videos this week saw Metallica post "All Nightmare Long" and the Gaslight Anthem play "The '59 Sound" live on Conan.
This week we said goodbye to Last Lights' member Dominic Mallory (1984-2008) and pin-up model, fashion staple and counter-cultural icon Bettie Page (1923-2008).
I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain
New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives
This week we spoke with Jonah Matranga and Shaun Lopez of the recently reunited Far (interview) and Tim McIlrath, frontman of Rise Against (interview).
Our Video of the Week featured Minnesota's Off With Their Heads performing live in Richmond, VA.
As always we brought you new Streaming Music including
the new release from Belgium's Daggers,
and the new full length from San Diego, CA-based Lanterns.
So what's coming up this week? Look for
All-American Rejects and Fall Out Boy
with tours kicking off from
the Night Marchers (US)
and
Cancer Bats / Polar Bear Club / Holly Springs Disaster (Canada / Quebec).
Click Read More to check out our ongoing contests, new streaming music, social networking links and more.
Radio Free Punknews
Streaming music
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including
Bloomington, IN-based Medusa,
Seattle, WA-based Rebuilt,
Virginia-based trio The Two Funerals,
Stourbridge, UK's Science vs Romance,
Grand Rapids, MI-based La Dispute.
Warship's Supply and Depend,
Tim Barry of Avail's new record Manchester,
Scranton, PA-based Tigers Jaw,
New Brunswick, NJ-based Scream Hello,
Jersey Shores, the new album from Seattle's Akimbo,
the new EP from Dead To Me titled Little Brother,
Orlando, Florida's Virgins, featuring Sam Johnson of New Mexican Disaster Squad,
and
Dallas, Texas-based True Widow, featuring members of Slowride and The Mag Seven.
It's Funny, I Don't Feel Like a Winner
Contests
Win copies of Thrice's new DVD
This week, Thrice will be releasing their new, highly anticipated live DVD, Live at the House of Blues. To celebrate, we've got copies of the DVD to give away. The set features 25 tracks culled from the band's many albums.
Win prize packages from Underground Operations
On December 18th, Underground Operations will be hosting their Christmas show, featuring performances by Protest the Hero, Lights, Chad Michael Stewart, The Artist Life, Kathleen Turner Overdrive, Hostage Life and more. To celebrate, the label has hooked us up with some prize packages featuring the bands performing.
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
editor Jesse Raub's short fiction webzine Bitter Press.
Of course your day wouldn't be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors' lives. Follow Adam White, Jesse Raub and Justin August's every move at Twitter.
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