Sunday Edition: Navel Gazing October 28, 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: Stephen McGill
- TY Segall released a surprise album.
- Joey Keithley of DOA got elected to the Burnaby City Council
- Photographer Stephen McGill took some pictures at Public Image Ltd.'s recent show.
- Photographer Stephen McGill took some pictures at Fucked Up's recent show.
- The Menzingers released a new track.
- Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds released a lyric video.
- Officer Bradford of Masked Intruder released swimsuit calendar.
- A Swedish punk show required attendees to be at least 40 years old.
- Satanic Surfers announced some shows.
- William Shatner and Iggy Pop released a cover of “Silent Night.”
- Direct Hit! streamed their new album.
- Anti-Flag performed a cover of “Should I Stay or Should I Go” by The Clash.
- World's Scariest Police Chases released a video.
- Features editor John Gentile interviewed Dave Vanian of The Damned.
- Contributing editor Samantha Barrett interviewed Lande Hekt of Muncie Girls.
- Unfortunately, Todd Youth of many bands including Danzig, Bloodclot, Murphy's Law, and Fireburn passed away.
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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