.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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories United Nations, which features members of Glassjaw and Thursday is continuing to run into trouble due to it's name. The group has seen it's social networking resources run dry, recently losing their presence on Facebook and Myspace. Every Time I Die has inked a deal with Epitaph Records, joining other recent high profile signings such as Thursday and New Found Glory. Jared Shavelson has left None More Black, to be replaced by Richard Minino of New Mexican Disaster Squad and Gatorface. Dillinger Escape Plan also recently lost a drummer and discussed the line up change with fans. The 2009 touring season is slowly getting underway. Off With Their Heads are headed to the UK and Ireland while No Use For A Name and Useless ID are headed to Israel.
The Bouncing Souls launched their monthly singles project this week with the song "Gasoline." The Swellers will record their new album this month. Paramore is also working on their next. Bigwig has a new 7" on the way. Victory Records has teased their 2009 release slate with upcoming records from Between The Buried And Me, Silverstein, Aiden, and Comeback Kid among others. Chris Walla from Death Cab For Cutie also declared that he intends to make a "radio record." A Wilhelm Scream has posted the unreleased song "The I Hate ___ Club." Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem posted a pair of solo tracks. Fall Out Boy posted their video for the track "America's Suitehearts." I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives We conclused 2008 with a number of retrospective articles. We saw lists of your favourite albums of 2008, our staff reviewers' favourite albums of 2008 and our editors' favourite albums of 2008. We also saw a list of the most popular stories of 2008. Don't forget about our holiday gift from last week, a video download of A Wilhelm Scream performing live at the Fest.
So what's coming up this week? Look for tours kicking off from Franz Nicolay of the Hold Steady / World Inferno Friendship Society (US), Madball, LVG and Thick As Blood (Florida), Swingin' Utters with Shot Baker and others (US) and Defeater (US).
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including New York, NY-based Caleb Lionheart's new full length Think Hardcore, Play Pop Punk, Poughkeepsie, NY-based The Color Wheels, the new release from Belgium's Daggers, and the new full length from San Diego, CA-based Lanterns, Bloomington, IN-based Medusa, Seattle, WA-based Rebuilt, Virginia-based trio The Two Funerals, Stourbridge, UK's Science vs Romance, and Grand Rapids, MI-based La Dispute.
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Our contest today features Attack! Attack! UK of South Wales in the UK. The band fuses 80¹s punk, 90¹s grunge, pop rock and new wave on their debut full length and we've got a bunch of copies and swag to give away.
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