.ng–section1 { font–size: small; border–bottom: 1px solid #C5C5C5; width: 70%; font–weight: bold; padding: 1em 0 0em 2em; } .ng–section2 { font–size: xx–small; padding: 0 0 2em 3em; } ––> It's Sunday, January 27th, 2008. Welcome to Navel Gazing, your look back at this week in Punknews. Thanks to Aubin for covering last week while the majority of us were out in Vegas for Punk Rock Bowling. Punknews Team 1 did surprisingly well, boosted by truly massive handicaps that the debacle of 2007 earned us. Team 2 is best left unmentioned. A big thanks goes out to the Stern brothers and Julie at BYO for throwing such an awesome party year after year. The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories The 2008 release schedule's starting to shape up. That long awaited new Rancid album now looks like it'll arrive in June. Popular act My Chemical Romance are planning a return to "punk rock" on the follow up to their theatrical recent work. Good Riddance set a date for their live album and unveiled the track listing. Labelmates No Use For A Name released the art from their new one as well. Millencolin unleased all sorts of information, including a new song, artwork, and album title. New Found Glory are headed back into independent territory, with plans for a 7" via hardcore label Bridge Nine. Beijing's Brain Failure spoke about their next one and discussed the challenges of performing in China. I suppose that's a different level of censorship then you get at Disneyland, but the UK's Gallows still managed to get themselves banned by the mouse
East Bay punk rock supergroup Pinhead Gunpowder, featuring members of Crimpshine and some unknown band called Green Day, are reuniting for two shows. The Vandals have a short set of North American dates scheduled before they hit Australia.The Dropkick Murphys and Big D and the Kids Table are touring in March. Looking for more? Avenged Sevenfold are supporting Iron Maiden soon and the Civic Tour will feature Panic At the Disco and Motion City Soundtrack among others. On the new music front we got a preview of the Night Marchers (ex–Hot Snakes, Rocket From the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu), a new epic from prog monsters the Mars Volta and a new tune from Fake Problems. This week also saw news of Minor Threat's Jeff Nelson selling some unique hardcore merch and an upcoming "Greatest Punk Songs" special on Sirius. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke to Oregon pop–punkers Broadway Calls (interview). The twenty sixth edition of Vinyl File featured a look at the vinyl history of Dan Yemin, including detailed discographies of Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, Paint it Black and Armalite.
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including the new full length Get Better by Lemuria, the lead track off This Is Hell's new 7" Cripplers and six songs from NOFX's upcoming live album They've Actually Gotten Worse Live.
This Is Hell: "Misfortunes"
In February, This Is Hell will be releasing their highly anticipated new full length for Trustkill. How anticipated? Well, Brian loves them and he's a hard guy to impress. The record is titled Misfortunes and is due out February 19, 2008. To win a copy of the album you can visit this page and get your name in the running.
Protest The Hero: "Fortress" Protest the Hero are celebrating the release of their next album Fortress. Due out January 29, 2008, the album follows the band's critically acclaimed 2005 album Kezia. To celebrate the release, the band has provided some prize packages with cool swag and a copy of the new album to three winners
Win a guitar from Bullet for My Valentine
To celebrate the release of Bullet for My Valentine's new album, Scream Aim Fire on January 29, 2008, the band has put up a pretty snazzy ESP electric guitar. To get your name into the draw, just drop by this page and fill out the appropriate form.
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