.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 Each year's Warped Tour brings about a predictable chorus of criticism, but there were two this week that grabbed your attention. Broadway Calls discussed their vehicle troubles and took a few swipes at the genres represented on the tour, while webzine Somethingawful set their guns on just about everyone. In the video game realm heavy metal giants Metallica announced that they'd debut their next album with Guitar Hero while the next Rock Band game will feature bands like AFI, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, and the Talking Heads. Anarcho-punk label Profane Existence is shutting down, although their magazine and distro will remain intact. Face To Face has recruited drummer Danny Thompson (of The Uprising) to fill in for Pete Parada while he tours with the Offspring. Philadelphia legends the Dead Milkmen will reunite to perform at Fun Fun Fun Fest In Austin, TX.
Rise Against have announced the release of their new album Appeal To Reason and tour plans with Alkaline Trio, Thrice, and Gaslight Anthem. We heard details on Fall Out Boy's writing process, I Set My Friends On Fire's Epitaph debut, the timeline for the next Bad Religion album, and Rhino's second round of Replacements reissues. Ann Beretta announced their final show plans for Richmond and Gainesville. Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy/Common Rider and Jeff Ott of Crimpshrine/Fifteen have pair up for some acoustic shows. Riot Fest will feature bands like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, ALL, TSOL, and Reagan Youth. The Ska Is Dead Tour is presenting a pair of shows this year dubbed Skankgsiving '08 featuring acts like the Pietasters, and the Toasters. On the video front Dragonforce launched the clip for "Heroes of Our Time"while the Aquabats! posted clips from the The Aquabats! Super Show pilot. Finally we had the first audio from One Day As A Lion, featuring Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine and drummer Jon Theodore, formerly of the Mars Volta. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke with vocalist Nick Babeu the Trigger Effect (interview), guitarist/vocalist Chuck Ragan and bassist Jason Black of Hot Water Music (interview), and Fred Mascherino of The Color Fred (interview) This week's edition of Vinyl File featured a look at upcoming releases and a contest to win an Off With Their Heads test pressing. This week also brought new Streaming Music from, Austin's The Dirty Hearts, the full length East/West from Bridge and Tunnel, Connecticut-based atmospheric hardcore act They and The Children, and Montreal-based skate punks The Real Deal.
So what's coming up this week? Look for releases from Off With Their Heads, Misery Signals and Pinhead Gunpowder with tours kicking off from Cobra Skulls (USA), and Rise And Fall (USA).
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including Valdosta's country-punks Ninja Gun (with download!), No Idea Records studio full length debut from Off with Their Heads, This week also brought new Streaming Music from, Applewood, ON-based ska/punk outfit Keepinâ 6, Fort Collins, CO's Tickle Me Pink, the Saint Alvia Cartel, which features members of Boys Night Out, Grade and Jersey, the final effort from the recently departed LaGrecia, a sampler from Think Fast Records, Philadelphia's Jekylnhyde, Mark Lind and The Unloved, a full album stream from Austin, TX-based Driver F, and eclectic Ohio-based act nsdwhoa.
Win tickets to see The Enemy UK at the Osheaga Festival
To celebrate the release of the new Enemy UK record "We'll Live and Die In These Towns", Punknews.org and Warner Brothers Records are happy to team up to offer two tickets to see The Enemy UK at the Osheaga Festival in Montreal, QC on August 4th. Other artists performing include MGMT, The Weakerthans, and Gogol Bordello just to name a few. Along with the tickets for a grand prize winner, three runner ups will receive a copy of the band's new album.
Win the Teenage Bottlerocket / Broadway Calls splits and full lengths
With the imminent release of the upcoming Adeline split featuring Broadway Calls and Teenage Bottlerocket, we've got a copy of the split as well as each of the band's latest albums to give away. So, along with the brand new split, you'll get copies of Broadway Calls and Warning Device. The split itself includes songs from both of the bands, with each contributing an original and a cover with Broadway Calls tackling Billy Bragg's "She's Got a New Spell" and Teenage Bottlerocket covering Dead Milkmen's "Dean's Dream."
Killswitch Engage Merch Bonanza Killswitch Engage have launched a brand new merch store and to celebrate this new endeavour, they want to give away a bunch of merch in what we're calling the "Killswitch Engage Merch Bonanza" mainly because "bonanza" is an awesome word.
Check out Circles Jerks, D4, Matt & Kim at F*ck Yeah Tour
We've got three sets of two tickets to give away for dates on the 2008 edition of the F*ck Yeah Tour. The shows take place in Philadelphia, PA, New York City and Brooklyn, NY. Since the prizes don't include a plane, you'll need to find a way to get there but when you do, you'll be treated to highly anticipated sets from the Circle Jerks, Dillinger Four, Matt & Kim and more. Philadelphia includes Paint It Black, New York City and Brooklyn include Team Robespierre. Since these shows are coming up very soon, this is a short contest so you have better odds of winning than ever.
Watch Thursday, Hot Water Music and Paint It Black in New York City
This Saturday, Thursday and Hot Water Music will co -headline a show with Paint It Black at Terminal 5 in New York City . To celebrate, we've got a pair of tickets for the event to give away. The contest is going to be very quick, and is only open to people who can actually get to the show, and live in the US or Canada (excluding Quebec.) Tickets at the 3000-capacity venue are $25.00 and available here.
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