Sunday Edition: March 4, 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:

• Fall Out Boy lead singer, Patrick Stump, addressed his "haters" and his hiatus from performing in a recent essay to which The Lawrence Arms' Brendan Kelly released a response in defense of Stump.
• Brendan Kelly also released the details from his highly anticipated solo effort, Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds.
• Staff writer, John Gentile, sat down with Fat Mike of NOFX to discuss his recent work on a pornography soundtrack.
• Green Day released yet another update from recording of their upcoming album.
• Hot Water Music announced the title and release date for their Rise Records debut.
• The Sex Pistols signed to Universal Records for the 35th anniversary re-release of Nevermind the Bollocks.
• Joe Escalante of The Vandals announced a campaign to become a judge in L.A. County.

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.