Sunday Edition: Navel Gazing June 24, 2018
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: John Paul Allen / PunkWorldViews.com
- NOFX's US shows were cancelled. The band released a new live track.
- Lords Of The New Church announced a re-release of their debut album.
- OFF! is working on new material.
- William Francis of Aiden was accused of running an abusive sex cult.
- Munice Girls released a video.
- Bad Religion released a new song.
- The Dirty Nil released a video.
- Features editor John Gentile interviewed members of Dog Party.
- Against Me! played a show with former bassist Andrew Seward.
- Beach Rats released a song.
- Jason Shevchuk of None More Black and producer Will Yip released an album under the name Former Member.
- Unfortunately, Vinnie Paul of Pantera passed away.
- Staffer Mike Musilli talked to some bands and labels about net neutrality.
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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