Sunday Edition: January 29, 2012

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer
and I'll be your guide through some of the juiciest, most popular and otherwise noteworthy stories from the last seven days. Remember, every Punknews story is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:

• Atlanta's Freshman 15 made a lot of our readers excited with the announcement of a new album and tour.
• The Lawrence Arms' Brendan Kelly and The Vandals' Joe Escalante shared their views on the SOPA bill.
• The dates for The Fest 11 were announced a bit earlier than usual so get to planning.
• Refused have announced a new date in NYC in addition to their previously announced dates in celebration of their reunion.
• Dillinger Escape Plan had some issues with drugs this week.
• Hot Water Music have entered The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, CO to record their new album just as The Bouncing Souls have finished up their new record.
• Against Me! performed some brand new songs recently at the Slamdance Film Festival.

With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves, spin some tracks in the Navel Gazing turntable.fm room and we'll see you Monday morning.