.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; } Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories This past week was April Fools, the most important religious holiday in the Punknews calendar. So what happened? We forged the release info about Dillinger Four's long awaited record, created a conflict between Fake Problems and Anti–Flag, granted The Gaslight Anthem their wildest dream, forced Cancer Bats to find a more PC name, and faked a New Music Roundup. In non–bogus news we had updates from a few classic bands. Terry Hall announced that the Specials are getting back together for a tour later this year, although the exact line up is still unconfirmed. A rare 1995 demo recording from the Misfits was posted online, featuring Eric Weiss on vocals. Also the Sex Pistols are planning their first ever live DVD titled There'll Always Be an England, reuniting the band with longtime collaborating director Julien Temple.
On the touring front we saw long awaited summer dates from Rancid. The third–wave revival paring of Goldinger and Less Than Jake will hit the road this summer as well. We had release info on the Gaslight Anthem's SideOneDummy debut, Weezer's third self–titled record and a split LP featuring Envy and Thursday. On the reissue front Jimmy Eat World's fan favourite Bleed American will soon see a deluxe repackaging while Rise Against's b–sides record will see an expanded European release. As for new music, this past week saw a fleeting preview of Alkaline Trio's Epic debut, a full album stream of Millencolin's Machine 15 and H2O's new track "1995". As for videos, we saw clips of A Wilhem Scream's "I Wipe My Ass With Showbiz,"Paramore's "That's What You Get" and Modern Life Is War's "Fuck The Sex Pistols."
Can't get enough Punknews? You can now get headlines on SMS via twitter. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Our Video of the Week featured the new video from Richmond, VA's Landmines, filmed by Punknews' own Chris Moran. The thirty fourth edition of Vinyl File featured a look at upcoming releases and the conclusion of that sweet Hot Water Music contest. This week's Editors' Picks recommended music from Tampa's Guiltmaker and Toronto's Born Ruffians. This week also brought new Streaming Music from No Use for a Name's new full length The Feel Good Record of the Year, Glass and Ashes' sophomore full length, and the new EP from Toronto's Hostage Life.
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including the debut full length from Pegasuses-XL, Engineer Records' upcoming three-way split between Elemae, Memorial and Soon (stream), Polar Bear Club's new full length Sometimes Things Just Disappear, a song from the Gaslight Anthem's new EP Señor and the Queen, Capillary Action's new LP, the new EP from Dirty Tactics, 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, and new material from former ALL vocalist Scott Reynolds (and the Steaming Beast),
Constantines give away! Can I get a witness?
Toronto's celebrated Constantines are gearing up to release the long awaited follow up to 2005's Tournament of Hearts. The band has Kensington Heights in the wings for an April 15th release, their debut for Arts & Crafts. The band kicked things off in January with the Hard Feelings 7" and are set to keep the fire burning by pairing with Feist on the Islands In The Stream 7". As we get ready for the release and the band gears up for the road, we're thrilled to give a pack of Cons swag to lucky reader.
Win vinyl and a skate deck from Anti-Flag
On April 01, 2008, Anti-Flag will be releasing their second major label album, The Bright Lights of America which is also the follow up to For Blood and Empire. In celebration of this event, the band is looking to give away a special Bright Lights-themed skate deck and a copy of the new album on vinyl.
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