Sunday Edition: April 5th, 2009
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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 community talking this week...
The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday
This week's most popular stories
Anti-Flag has finished their major label experiment and has returned to the indie world by signing to SideOneDummy. The band will release The People or the Gun on the label on June 9th.
Rancid has titled their new full length Let The Dominoes Fall. The record, their first since 2003, will arrive on June 2nd. The band further detailed the track listing this week as well.
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong discussed their ambitions for their new record
21st Century Breakdown. The band also discussed the
musical based on American Idiot that's currently in the works.
Boston Hardcore act, Death Before Dishonor has re-signed to Bridge Nine Records and is working on completing their next full length.
Jimmy Eat World have plans to digitally release a live album recorded at the Tempe, Arizona date of the recent Clarity Tour.
While plenty of bands have upcoming releases, the Aquabats are struggling with their future. Having been released from Nitro Records the band mused that "its time we all roll up our sleeves and decide to either pack it up and call it quits, OR by some miracle of hard work and perseverance ...we ... persevere!"
The Bouncing Souls recently had a little bit of tour trouble, having come up against
an erupting volcano the form of Mount Redoubt.
Greg Graffin of Bad Religion was interviewed on his upcoming mainstream book that discusses
Blink-182's Travis Barker is working with
rapper Busta Rhymes on a song for the upcoming Transformers film.
Tom Gabel of Against Me! had a revealing interview with Chris Hannah of Propagandhi.
The Beastie Boys streamed their upcoming remaster of
Check Your Head this week.
This week we said goodbye to Little Type Mailorder co-owner Erika Hynes.
I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain
New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives
Our annual April Fools prank involved the unveiling of Punknews.com, a website straight out of 1996 with MIDI music, animated gifs and scrolling text.
Punknews.org is proud to continue publishing road journals from Mike Hale (Gunmoll, In The Red). Having packed up his belongings, moved out of his apartment, and committed himself to living as a touring musician, Mike has some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and now Episode 6 of For Those Still Standing.
Our Video of the Week featured footage of a
Minor Threat cover band that included members of the Riverboat Gamblers, Rise Against, Gallows, and MxPx.
As always we brought you new Streaming Music including
Long Beach, CA-based Adam's Dagger,
the new EP from Vancouver's Living with Lions,
a new record from Albany's After the Fall,
and
Volume 2 from Mike Hale of Gunmoll's latest band In The Red.
So what's coming up this week?
Look for new releases from
Beastie Boys (reissue),
Jimmy Eat World (live),
the Thermals
and
the Hold Steady (live)
with tours kicking off from
World/Inferno Friendship Society (US / Canada),
Atmosphere / Attracted to Gods / POS (US / Canada),
Napalm Death / Toxic Holocaust / Trap Them (US),
Flogging Molly / Street Dogs / Civet (Japan),
and
Against Me! / Off With Their Heads (US).
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
San Jose, CA's pop-punk outfit Pillowfights,
Richmond-based Foundation (the latest work from Rob Huddleston of Ann Beretta and Inquisition),
Detroit's Fireworks,
the new EP from Hartford, CT-based Make Do and Mend,
the new record from Austin Lucas,
the new record from Winnipeg teen heartthrobs Propagandhi,
Saskatchewan-based three piece garage punk act Ultimate Power Duo,
Riverside, CA's No Bragging Rights,
Sackville, New Brunswick's lo-fi singer / songwriter Shotgun Jimmie,
the new full length from Fort Collins, CO's Drag the River,
the new full length from Jon Snodgrass,
six songs from Oakland's Druglords of the Avenues (members of Filthy Thieving Bastards, Swingin' Utters and others),
the new record from Louisville, KY-based Mansions,
the new full length from Boston, MA's Defeater,
the new record from Phoenix, AZ-based Stereotyperider,
a 7" from Moncton, New Brunswick's Varsity Weirdos,
and
Edmonton, AB's Passenger Action (members of Choke, Fordirelifesake and the Fullblast).
It's Funny, I Don't Feel Like a Winner
Contests
Windy City Soundclash
Today we're happy to bring you a special contest from Windy City Soundclash, the forthcoming three day event in Chicago that will feature Toys That Kill,
The Falcon,
The Bomb,
The Copyrights,
Banner Pilot,
Ryan's Hope,
The Arrivals,
The Methadones,
Sundowner,
The Brokedowns, and many others - 33 bands in all. The Windy City Sound Clash is an annual independent Midwestern punk rock festival held in Chicago over Memorial Day Weekend. Hundreds of punks will converge upon Reggie's Rock Club on May 22nd-24th. Weekend passes and single tickets will be available, but 50 randomly selected people bold enough to purchase the 3-day pass will be rewarded with a special keepsake: a limited edition hand-signed, silk-screened poster. For more information on bands and tickets, please go here. We've got a very special prize package to give away. You can click here for the details.
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 blogs Kinder Words and JustinAugust.org,
editor Adam White's blogs 2:59 and AdamWhite.org,
editor Jesse Raub's short fiction webzine Bitter Press,
and reviews editor Brian Shultz' blog Over Looked.
Of course your day wouldn't be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors' lives. Follow @adamwhite, @jesseraub, @justinaugust, @brian_shultz, and @bconoley's every move at Twitter.
Super Powers Enable Me To Blend In With Machinery
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