It's Sunday January 7th, 2007. Ok… first Navel Gazing of the year. Can't blow this intro. It's got to be funny, topical, and include some sort of vague yet clever reference that only myself and maybe Justin will understand. Definitely don't talk about the strange weather because you already did that. Don't mention the year end lists since we talked about those last week. Anything that provokes the commenters is a bonus. Easy, but a bonus. The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
The first week of the year brought some great news for fans of Naked Raygun, as the influential Chicago punk rock band announced that they were "back for good." Punk icons NOFX announced that they'd perform several records in their entirety on next week's Hollywood shows. Look for performances of The Decline, Punk In Drublic, White Trash, Two Heebs, and a Bean, and So Long and Thanks for all the Shoes on various evenings. Next week the new Lifetime single arrives, you may have heard of them. Both The Hives and Bad Religion are working on new records. The Swedish band is in the studio now while the seminal Californian punks will hit the studio next month for a rumored June release. Taking Back Sunday have announced an appearance on Canadian drama Degrassi. Speaking of Canuckistan, there's been some recent controversy over how content rules fail to support indie artists. Finally there's been some chatter that The Police may reunite.
Our Video Of The Week featured a performance and interview of The Draft live in Virginia Beach, VA. Tune in next week for part two of the feature on the Gainesville band. Our MP3 Of The Week feature returned this week with a track from Lemuria.
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Radio Free Punknews
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including Cry Tuff Council, a new dub outfit featuring former Bosstones axeman Nate Albert, the new Fake Problems collection Spokes and Spurs / Bulls > Matador, Down To Nothing's All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone, the new album from Deltona, FL's No Harm Done, Planes Mistaken For Stars' Mercy, Avail frontman Tim Barry's solo debut Rivanna Junction, and Anthem Red's Dancing on the Dishwasher. PNR's also giving you a gift this year with full album streams of Somerset and Ryanâs Hope's latest.
Suntans are for Winners 'The Ultimate Band Rig' from MxPx MxPx is testing the limits of discography categorization this year with both a compilation and a reissue of an eight-year-old compilation. Fanscape wants to help celebrate the latter's release by giving one extremely lucky fan a mind-blowing band rig that includes ::deep breath:: an Ernie Ball guitar, an Ernie Ball bass, a Truth Drums snare drum, Samson Wireless Technology full personal setup, a…oh forget it, you can check out the entire prize lineup by clicking to this handy contest entry form. Two runners up will even get in on the action with some band merchandise and autographed drum sticks.
'The Ultimate Band Rig' from MxPx MxPx is testing the limits of discography categorization this year with both a compilation and a reissue of an eight-year-old compilation. Fanscape wants to help celebrate the latter's release by giving one extremely lucky fan a mind-blowing band rig that includes ::deep breath:: an Ernie Ball guitar, an Ernie Ball bass, a Truth Drums snare drum, Samson Wireless Technology full personal setup, a…oh forget it, you can check out the entire prize lineup by clicking to this handy contest entry form.
Staff Blogs
When not writing about music on the internet, many members of the Punknews staff find time to write about music on the internet. You can check out the depraved musings of Justin August at Kinder Words and Adam White at 2:59. Chris Moran's all over the place with content rocking both MySpace and Flickr.
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