.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 this week… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories Blink-182 is currently rehearsing for their upcoming reunion. Mark Hoppus recently revealed that songs such as "M&Ms," "Apple Shampoo," "Man Overboard," "Anthem, Pt.2," "Dammit" and "Down" are among those being practiced. According to a recent Guardian report, the fourth "scariest word" for parents in the UK is "emo." The paranoia stems from recent media coverage of suicides in the country. Screeching Weasel is apparently playing shows again. Ben Weasel revealed as much in a recent Asian Man newsletter. Details on the line up and extent of the reunion are a little fuzzy right now. While they're not a band that falls into our usual umbrella, it was notable this week that the Counting Crows go label free. They join other former major label acts who recently cut ties with the media conglomerates.
Green Day's recently announced vinyl reissues will soon encompass the band's entire catalogue. 39/Smooth and Kerplunk are due out next week, with Dookie to follow in April along with a singles boxed set. Compton, California's Pour Habit has signed to Fat Wreck Chords and will re-issue their 2007 full length Suiticide this summer. The Paper Chase are planning a Kill Rock Stars release this Spring. Rapper 50 Cent will be sharing the stage with Fall Out Boy for five dates of their Believers Never Die tour this summer. The lineup has been announced for the 2009 BNB Bowl / Superbowl of Hardcore. It will feature Cro-Mags, Discipline, Earth Crisis, Indecision, Murphy's Law and Walls of Jericho among others. More shows have been added to the Alkaline Trio / Saves The Day tour. The Trio has also launched a remix contest. Chicago supergroup the Falcon will appear at the Windy City Soundclash event and will re-issue their LP Unicornography. Other bands on the road soon include 311 with Ziggy Marley. Footage was released this week of Propagandhi performing live in Sydney. Finally Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem unveiled the song "Tin Pan Alley." 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, Episode 2, Episode 3 and now Episode 4 of For Those Still Standing. Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Philadelphia's the Menzingers (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4) and Lansing, MI's Cheap Girls (Episode 1, Episode 2).
This week we spoke with Darius Koski of the Swingin Utters, also of the Filthy Thieving Bastards and the Re-Volts (interviews). This week's Editors' Picks recommended music from Pennsylvania's Daylight. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Mastodon, Radiohead (reissues), Green Day (reissues), Vanna, the Queers, and the Decemberists with tours kicking off from The Bronx (US), Converge with Ceremony / Rise and Fall / Coliseum / Pulling Teeth (USA), Sebastien Grainger and The Mountains (USA / Canada), New Found Glory / Bayside / Verse / Set Your Goals (USA), and Joey Cape / Jon Snodgrass (Europe).
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including the new record from Austin Lucas, 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!.
Windy City Soundclash
Today we're happy to bring you a special contest from Windy City Soundclash, the forthcoming three day event in Chicago that will feature Toys That Kill, The Falcon, The Bomb, The Copyrights, Banner Pilot, Ryan's Hope, The Arrivals, The Methadones, Sundowner, The Brokedowns, and many others - 33 bands in all. The Windy City Sound Clash is an annual independent Midwestern punk rock festival held in Chicago over Memorial Day Weekend. Hundreds of punks will converge upon Reggie's Rock Club on May 22nd-24th. Weekend passes and single tickets will be available, but 50 randomly selected people bold enough to purchase the 3-day pass will be rewarded with a special keepsake: a limited edition hand-signed, silk-screened poster. For more information on bands and tickets, please go here. We've got a very special prize package to give away. You can click here for the details.
Heather Gabel/Richard "Horsebites" Minino silkscreened poster
Artist/designers Heather Gabel and Richard "Horsebites" Minino recently joined forces to release a limited edition silkscreened poster, titled "Snake Harmer" It measures 19" x 25" so that it can be cut down to the standard 18" x 24" traditional poster size and is printed on heavy Duo-tone blue paper with three-color silkscreen. Only 100 of these were made, and the artists have graciously offered us 2 of them to give away to Punknews faithful. Want one? You can enter below by clicking ,here.
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