.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 Excitement boiled over this week as the dates were announced for the fall trek featuring Rise Against, Alkaline Trio, Thrice and Gaslight Anthem. This is shaping up to be one of the year's biggest tours. Three of the four will join acts like NOFX, Flogging Molly and Pennywise at Edgefest 2008. We also saw Riot Fest expand its impressive roster again with the Lawrence Arms, Bouncing Souls, and Jay Reatard. This week had it's share of break ups, with the demise of the polarizing Be Your Own Pet and Ottawa's The Fully Down. It wasn't all losses though, in the gains category we had HORSE The Band recruiting a new drummer, Red Scare Records expanding their roster with Druglords of the Avenues, and Metal Blade doing the same with Lazarus A.D.. Against Me! of course finds it impossible not to be in the news, and this week they brought us both a digital EP of b-sidesand the video for the song "New Wave."
We had a ton of details on upcoming recordings this week. Rise Against unveiled their Appeal To Reason artwork, as did Pully, who just finished up in the studio. Napalm Death have begun recording as well. Unearth detailed their new one while the Vandals announced a rarities collection. Teenage Bottlerocket updated their tour dates and announced a split with the Ergs! to much fanfare and excitement among our readers. The new album from Lagwagon's Joey Cape has a North American home, as it's now set to come out on Suburban Home Records. Finally we had hints of a new band dubbed Reviver from Matt Canino of Latterman and Shorebirds. On an odd note, we also had a little instructional video from H2O teaching mosh pit-style self-defense.
On a sad note we closed out the week with news of the death of Shin "Shinister" Kodachi of The Lucky Stiffs (1979-2008). I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives So what's coming up this week? Look for releases from the Real McKenzies, Suicide Note, Black President, Hawthorne Heights, and Norma Jean with tours kicking off from Tiger Army and Said Radio (dates), Matt Pryor (of The Get Up Kids), Chris Conley (of Saves The Day) and Kevin Devine (dates) and Dead Hearts, Know The Score and Energy (dates).
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including Quote Unquote act Cheap Girls, blues influenced punk act Bottle Up and Go, Sacramento, CA's Trash Talk, Austin's The Dirty Hearts, the full length East/West from Bridge and Tunnel, Connecticut-based atmospheric hardcore act They and The Children, Montreal-based skate punks The Real Deal, 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, and Fort Collins, CO's Tickle Me Pink.
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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