.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 This week Los Angeles, based radio station Indie 103.1 shutdown their FM broadcast and moved to an internet only format. The station is notable for employing such punk personalities as Henry Rollins of Black Flag, Joe Sib of SideOneDummy and Joe Escalante of the Vandals among others. Tucson-based punk act Awful Truth caused some controversy by using the photo of slain officer on their album cover. Some major festivals are announcing their line ups, with bands like the Black Lips. the Queers, Rival Schools and Teenage Bottlerocket playing SXSW and the Bouncing Souls, Night Marchers, Strike Anywhere and Propagandhi at Harvest of Hope. There was also word this week that the landmark Time Square Virgin Megastore in New York City is set to close.
This week's big release news focused on Propagandhi and their new full length Supporting Caste. Blink-182's Mark Hoppus is planning a solo album. Gallows will title their next record Grey Britain. Every Time I Die is at work on their Epitaph debut. Red Scare will release the next Menzingers album. Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba will collaborate with electronic/dance artist and internet celebrity Jeffree Star. Zao has detailed their forthcoming release as well. A number of Warner Bros acts, including Against Me!, Black Keys and the Flaming Lips are set to cover some of the label's classic bands. On the video front we saw Morrissey's "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris" and Rise Against's "Audience of One." Look for the Bouncing Souls to hit the road soon with Dillinger Four and the AKAs. This week we said goodbye to Nekromantix drummer Andrew Martinez (1983-2009). I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke with Kyle O'Neil of Detroit's Fireworks (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Brooklyn, NY-based Lymbyc Systym, and New Haven CT's Blackened. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from A.C. Newman of the New Pornographers, Bomb The Music Industry, Reel Big Fish, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Whole Wheat Bread with tours kicking off from Dustin Kensrue of Thrice, Matt Pryor of Get Up Kids, Chris Conley of Saves The Day and Anthony Raneri of Bayside (USA), Alkaline Trio, Broadway Calls and the Audition (Europe), TSOL and Black President (USA), the Adolescents (USA), Static Thought (Europe) and Ska Is Dead IV featuring the Toasters, Voodoo Glow Skulls and Mustard Plug, Buck-O-Nine.
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including Oakland, CA's Nobunny and their full length Love Visions, Nashville, TN's Engineer Records act Sound and Shape, I Am Love, the new full length from Washington, DC based Days, 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.
Polyvinyl Vinyl Contest
It's time for our first contest of 2009. Today, our contest comes from the venerable Polyvinyl Records. This month, the label will be releasing Owen's (the ep), The One Up Downstairs 7-inch and American Football's American Football EP on vinyl. To celebrate, the label has provided two retail sets and one test press set of all three albums.
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