.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 Has there even been more important music news than the Black Flag hair timeline? Hair. Timeline. I think not. Well, if you insist, I guess we could talk about that study that says 95% of people are copying music. Feargal Sharkey of The Undertones, now chief of the British Music Rights organization, had some thoughts on the matter. Did this trend have ill effect labels like the G7 Welcoming Committee? Hard to say, but either way the Propagandhi–founded label is shutting down. Speaking of uppity political punk rock, Anti–Flag have launched an activism blogin the run up to their new record. On a completely unrelated and completely unexpected note, feudin' band and label Hawthorne Heights and Victory Records have apparently buried the hatchet. Word has it that the label will in fact release their next album.

This week had its fair share of new album news. Social Distortion will return in 2009 with an acoustic album. Post–Blink 182 act Plus 44 is set to return with a new full length soon. The Alkaline Trio continue to detail Agony and Irony, previewing the new track "Help Me." The Offspring have completed their long–in–the–works new album, giving it the title Rise and Fall.H2O are set to hit the road in support of their indie–realm return. Less Than Jake also have upcoming tour dates, seeing the band perform alongside the Swellers, Mustard Plug, Goldfinger and Big D and the Kids Table. On the new media front we had a Washington Capitals theme song from Darkest Hour, a new track from New Found Glory's upcoming Bridge 9 release, and a full album stream featuring the next chapters in Thrice's Alchemy Index. This week also saw video of NOFX performing live at South By Southwest and PBS' Inside Straight Edge documentary. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Our Video of the Week, and credit goes to Buddyhead for shining a light on this one, feature featured vintage footage of a delightlfully awkward Henry Rollins interview from his days with Black Flag. Vinyl File is taking a two week haitus, but we did give away a share in Vinyl Collective's new co–operative label. recommended music ––> This week also brought new Streaming Music from the new EP Smart and Stupid by New Brunswick, NJ–based Scream Hello, the new full length from space punks The Phenomenauts, and six songs from Carbondale, IL Red Scare act The Copyrights.