Sunday Edition: Navel Gazing August 13, 2017

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Ricky Frankel 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 and review is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting a story, feel free to submit a review or if you are a photographer continue reading below. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week: Photo Credit: ABC15.com

• The Punknews Summer Soiree with World/Inferno Friendship Society, Posers, Crazy and the Brains, and Pushin' It 2 the Limit was this weekend. We'll have a full report later, but it was an AWESOME time
• Sincere Engineer got signed to Red Scare.
• Uke-Hunt announced a tour.
• The Bronx released a new song and announced some tour dates.
• Prophets Of Rage released a new song.
• John K. Samson announced some tour dates.
• The Flatliners have a demo 7-inch coming out. The band also released a new video.
• Worriers released a new song and announced some record release shows.
• Ezra Kire of Morning Glory announced his first solo record.
• Yours truly investigated the growing trend of punk icon-dedicated accounts that are popping up on Instagram.
• Muncie Girls announced some tour dates.

And so ends another wonderful week for the Punknews community. Tonight let’s just kick back, maybe break out the drinks, gather around the digital bonfire and talk. Maybe you saw (or will see) an awesome show, found a great new band, or chat about anything else you would like. We leave it to you, the always respectful and courteous readers and commenters. See you way too bright and early on Monday morning.

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