Sunday Edition: Navel Gazing October 29, 2017
Happy (almost) Halloween everyone! And to all you FEST-ers -- hope you're having a blast! 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: Misfits
- Unfortunately, Daisy Berkowitz of Marilyn Manson passed away.
- Unfortunately, Martin Eric Ain of Celtic Frost passed away.
- Unfortunately, George Young of Easybeats (and AC/DC's producer) passed away.
- Face To Face will be releasing a coffee table book.
- Mean Jeans released a new song about Mountain Dew.
- Read entries nine and ten of Seth Anderson's tour diary.
- Editor Jeff Sorley interviewed Neil Wayne and Josh Lewis of The Bombpops.
- Unfortunately, Fats Domino passed away.
- Against Me! covered the Squidbillies
theme song. - Writer Graham Isador interviewed Spike Slawson of Uke-Hunt and Me First And the Gimme Gimmes.
- Chris Cresswell of The Flatliners played some songs for Black Coffee Sessions.
- Photographer Stephen McGill took some pictures at Benjamin Booker's recent show.
- Guttermouth were removed from the Punk 'N Brew Fest line up.
- Photographer Stephen McGill took some pictures at Chelsea Wolfe's recent show.
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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