.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 Dan Schafer of Screeching Weasel, the Riverdales and the Methadones has joined Neil Hennessy of the Lawrence Arms, the Falcon and the Smoking Popes has formed Noise By Numbers. This week also saw the debut of The Dead Weather, featuring Jack White of the White Stripes and the Raconteurs. Alison Mosshart of the Kills and Discount, Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence and Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Dean Fertita. The comic series Satanika by Misfits frontman Glenn Danzig is being adapted into a film by director Thomas Mignone. Radiohead, Billy Bragg and others have come out strongly against the relationship between their record labels and video site YouTube. At a recent gig at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, Anti-Flag frontman Justin Sane broke his collar bone after stage diving into the crowd. The band had to cancel their tour due to the injury. This week saw another unauthorized use of Minor Threat's imagery. The band's logo from Out of Step apperned on a shirt at retailer Forever 21.
Polar Bear Club are set to begin recording their Bridge 9 debut with producer Matt Bayles. The Atticus IV compilation has been announced and will feature bands like Thursday, Unearth, and Cancer Bats. The John Roecker directed Green Day documentary, Heart Like a Hand Grenade, is set to premiere in Los Angeles on March 25th. There were plenty of tours announced this week. Shoegaze stars My Bloody Valentine are headed to the US. The Alkaline Trio and Saves The Day are hitting the road together. Against Me! and Off With Their Heads have a US tour in the works as well. Sing It Loud is heading out on the "Guys Guys Guys" tour with the Friday Night Boys, the Morning Light, Artist vs Poet and the Summer Set. Russian Circles, Sweet Cobra and Lichens will also tour. Sick Of It All are headed to Europe for a festival tour. Brand New will also be in the region touring the UK. The Bamboozle festival has added more bands including Young Love, Haste The Day, Patent Pending, Rookie of the Year, the Sounds and This Providence. This week also saw the debut of New Found Glory's video for "Listen To Your Friends." This week we said goodbye to Code Of Honor's Johnithin Christ (1958-2009). I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Punknews.org is proud to present a new feature from Mike Hale (Gunmoll, In The Red). Having packed up his belongings, moved out of his apartment, and committed himself to living as a touring musician, Mike will have some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1 and Episode 2 and new this week Episode 3 of For Those Still Standing.
Our Video of the Week featured footage of the Menzingers performing their new song "They Speak of My Drinking But Never of My Thirst." Remember to keep hammering on the Punknews.org 5.0 Beta. Let's work the kinks out now and ensure your best future Org experience (That sounds dirty doesn't it?). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Coheed and Cambria (Box set), Kylesa, NOFX (DVD), Sum 41 and Ultimate Power Duo with tours kicking off from Gaslight Anthem / Heartless Bastards / Good Old War (Europe, US, Canada), the Thermals (US), the Weakerthans / the Constantines on the Rolling Tundra Revue (Canada), Zolof The Rock and Roll Destroyer / Pink Spiders (USA), Have Heart / Polar Bear Club (USA), and Silverstein / Norma Jean / Bless The Fall / Before Their Eyes (USA).
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including the new record from Winnipeg teen heartthrobs Propagandhi, Saskatchewan-based three piece garage punk act Ultimate Power Duo, Riverside, CA's No Bragging Rights, Sackville, New Brunswick's lo-fi singer / songwriter Shotgun Jimmie, the new full length from Fort Collins, CO's Drag the River, the new full length from Jon Snodgrass, six songs from Oakland's Druglords of the Avenues (members of Filthy Thieving Bastards, Swingin' Utters and others), the new record from Louisville, KY-based Mansions, the new full length from Boston, MA's Defeater, the new record from Phoenix, AZ-based Stereotyperider, a 7" from Moncton, New Brunswick's Varsity Weirdos, from Edmonton, AB's Passenger Action (members of Choke, Fordirelifesake and the Fullblast). the new full length from Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves (Chris of course having played in Hot Water Music and the Draft), the new EP from Tom's River, NJ-based One Win Choice, the new album Neon Creeps from Spring, TX-based O Pioneers!!!, and South Wales based Attack! Attack!.
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