.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; } Ahoy hoy. I'm Justin and this is Navel Gazing. Every week we take a look at the important stories: what got you talking, what got us talking and what seems pertinent to touch on again and serve it up to you. Your regularly schedule Canuck will be back next week but for now it's just you and me. Giddy up. The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories Big news this week for fans of tents, 10 dollar bottles of water and Playstations: the final lineup of the 2008 Warped Tour was announced and includes favorites like Against Me!, Bouncing Souls, the Briggs, Bedouin Soundclash, Pennywise, Rise Against, Reel Big Fish, the Vandals and GBH. There's a metric tonne of other bands as well.
Speaking of Against Me!, they showed up quite a bit this week. Apparently they raised $18,000 for Harvest of Hope and have booked dates in Australia with Crime In Stereo. They also posted an acoustic rendition of "Baby I'm An Anarchist" and an unreleased track called "Gypsy Panther." Rowr.
Epitaph is going where no label has gone before with a deluxe edition of New Maps of Hell. Bad Religion themselves have extended their House of Blues tour. Other news related to the big "E" is that they'll be releasing Millencolin's new album Machine 15 in May. In the same general vein, Rancid will be recording at Skywalker Ranch. That's George Lucas' place, if you hadn't heard. Oh, and those Canadian collectivists Propagandhi will be heading to Japan with Comeback Kid. We got a studio update from our friends in Alkaline Trio. Rumor has it the new album will have lots of skulls and severed arm imagery associated with it.
It feels like some sort of VH1 "Revenge of the 90's" style thing when I hear aboutGoldfinger's new album to include Good Charlotte, Used, Save Ferris and Youth of Today cameos, while I fear for the children after hearing about Fall Out Boy's "Beat It" cover. Speaking of, Panic At the Disco customized a Civic for their tour. Woo. I'm drawing a thread here, see if you can follow, Paramore talked about their UK tour cancellation and Sid Vicious, Ian Curtis, Billie Joe Armstrong to pitch Converse in new campaign.
And finally, if there were any doubt that the CD is nearing the end of its life as a medium it was erased as the iTunes Store became second biggest music retailer.
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We'd also like everyone to take a moment to remember the life of Mike Conley. The former vocalist of MIA passed away this week, leaving behind three daughters and a wife. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Chris is passed out somewhere in Richmod and as such there was no Video of the Week this week. However you should browse through our archives and send us suggestions of who you'd like to see here! Ben apparently is actually trapped underneath Chris's comatose body as Vinyl File took a break as well. Our Editors' Picks this week featured Election Day, from somewhere in the cold bowels of upstate New York. This week also brought new Streaming Music from a number of bands, including Capillary Action's new LP and Gangster Stamina, the new EP from Dirty Tactics.
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including the new EP from Worcester, MA's Smartbomb (featuring members of No Trigger and Shock Nagasaki), the new full length from melodic pop punk act The Frantic, Warning Device, the second full length from Teenage Bottlerocket, three upcoming 7" releases from Toronto power-pop act Marvelous Darlings, featuring Ben Cook of Fucked Up and No Warning, the reissue of Broadway Calls' self titled debut, alt-country act Drag The River's final album You Can't Live That Way, new material from former ALL vocalist Scott Reynolds (and the Steaming Beast), and the new full length Get Better by Lemuria.
Win Guitar Hero III from Sound and Fury
Toronto-based punk band Sound and Fury just lined up a supporting gig with Sum 41 on their upcoming tour and to celebrate, they want to give away a specially customized version of Guitar Hero III. The first batch of winners will be announced on March 14th. Win a bunch of stuff from Punk Rock Confidential Magazine
Punk rock's leading non-musical periodical Punk Rock Confidential has officially launched a new line of t-shirts and to commemorate this incredible transition from paper to uhm, cloth, has put up a bunch of great stuff including subscriptions to the magazine, the official t-shirts AND a smelly, used t-shirt from Fat Mike's laundry hamper. The magazine enlisted the design prowess of Heather Hannoura and Shawn Peterson of Dogpile for the shirts and you can find them at the link.
Win an Asus Eee PC from Enter Shikari
Heard of those Asus Eee PCs? They're these little laptops that run Linux and weigh about as much as a hardcover book. They're pretty popular right now, and so when Enter Shikari offered one to give away to one of you, we figured it'd be something worth checking out. Want to win one yourself? Then visit this page.
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