.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 Hoo boy. So LA pop-punk act Say Anything announced that for a cool 150 bones frontman Max Bemis would write and record an acoustic song based on the payee's provided subject matter. The band sold these services for three days or so before demand apparently overwhelmed them and the offer was temporarily pulled. Some plucky, irreverent and often mind-bogglingly insulting Punknews commenters let the band know what they thought of the idea (as they do when any band announces anything round here), and Mr. Bemis pretty much wigged out. I believe he called the collective Punknews community "strange, slow, old people." Now in the days since we've had the Swellers come out and offer the same service for free, and several bloggers chew over the subject of for-pay songwriting and the frontman's little tirade [1] [2] [3]. Welcome to the internet Max.
In non self-referrential news, we had word that founding Dead Kennedys bassist Klaus Flouride was leaving the band due to a reoccuring medical condition. Rage Against The Machine is up to their old tricks, with a show planned to coincide with the Republican National Convention. Former Escape The Fate singer Ronnie Radke was sentenced to four years in jail on a battery charge in Las Vegas. Riverside, CA ska/punk act Assorted Jellybeans are back together, although their future plans are unrevealed.
We had word that Tiger Army and Rise Against will appear on the compilation Nightmare Revisited. Vampire Weekend and Devo songwriter Mark Mothersbaugh will collaborate on the new Michael Cera film. Popular act Paramore is writing and plans studio time in January. The Lemonheads are planing to cover acts as diverse as GG Allin, Wire, Leonard Cohen and Christina Aguilera on their new album. This week had tour dates from Against Me! featuring Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and Future Of The Left. The Bouncing Souls added dates with Strike Anywhere and Youth Brigade. Weezer will also hit the road soon with Angels and Airwaves. This week brought new music from Lagwagon with the song "Memoirs and Landmines" as well as Less Than Jake's video for "Does The Lion City Still Roar?."
Also, this week Punknews.org passed the milestone of posting 30,000 stories. In the 8 years, 10 months and 4 days that we've been online that averages out to a little more than 9 stories per day. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we summed up all your album ratings and presented the list of your favourite albums from July. Keep clicking those star ratings to let us know what music you're enjoying. Our Video of the Week featured Rob Huddleston, frontman for Ann Beretta and Foundation, interviewing members of Hot Water Music about their recent reunion. This is the first in a multi-part video feature. This week also brought new Streaming Music from, Static Radio NJ's new full length An Evening of Bad Decisions, Think Fast! Records act No Harm Done, the new album from Gainesville, FL-based Anchor Arms, Shot Baker's full length Take Control, and two new songs from Nashville, TN's Cactus's.
So what's coming up this week? Look for releases from Anchor Arms, and Wolves and Thieves / Bastards Of Young with tours kicking off from Teenage Bottlerocket, the Sidekicks and the Riptides (Canada), Have Heart, Verse, Shipwreck AD (Europe) and Killing The Dream (USA).
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!), and No Idea Records studio full length debut from Off with Their Heads.
Terror
Los Angeles-based hardcore outfit Terror are currently on a huge US tour in support of their third full-length release, The Damned, The Shamed, which just hit stores via Century Media. We've teamed up with the label to give away a set of 2 tickets for each week of the US and Canadian dates. Wanna go mosh it up? Well, head over to the band's MySpace page, choose your city and date.
Win a Sakes Alive!! test pressing
Rochester, New York's Sakes Alive!! are gearing up for the launch of their new 7" on Barrett Records. The Act I 7" will feature the tracks "I'm Religious," "Staff Meeting" and "Relax," with 100 copies pressed on transparent green vinyl and 400 on mixed colour marble. The Syracuse based label has a preorder started for the record, with MP3s included. Look for it in stores on August 18th. To celebrate the new release the band is giving prize packs featuring extremely rare test pressings of the new record.
Watch a Phillies game with Valencia Punknews.org is happy to team up with Phillyist.com and Columbia Records to offer a few lucky Valencia fans tickets to see an upcoming Philadelphia Phillies game with Valencia on August 19th vs. The Washington Nationals. For those of you who do not reside in the tri-state area there are other prizes as well. You can see below for complete details.
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