.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 The line up for the 2009 edition of the long running Warped Tour has been announced. The summer trek will feature the likes of Bad Religion, Anti-Flag, the Bouncing Souls, Flogging Molly, Less Than Jake, NOFX, Gallows, and the Ataris. Two members of Blackheart Records' indie/punk outfit Girl in a Coma were arrested in Houston after an altercation with police. Musician John Mellencamp contributed his voice to the chorus of commentators discussing the sorry State of the Music Business. His lengthy article appeared on the Huffington Post earlier this week.
NOFX has released a new song from their upcoming record, putting "The Quitter" online for preview. Dinosaur Jr. detailed their new record, the album is titled Farm and is due out June 23rd. A 39 song Kid Dynamite tribute is set for release and will feature the Ergs, No Trigger and This Is Hell. Green Day discussed their new record with Rolling Stone as well. Universal Records subsidiary, Original Recordings has commissioned Bernie Grubman to remaster Nevermind, In Utero and MTV Unplugged in New York for reissue on 180 gram vinyl. The Offspring has announced a tour of the US and Canada that will feature Alkaline Trio, Street Dogs, Shiny Toy Guns, Sum 41, Pennywise and the Dropkick Murphys. Propagandhi have added more US dates with Bridge and Tunnel this May. No Use For A Name have an upcoming tour of South America. The first batch of bands have been confirmed for the Sound and Fury Festival 2009 in Oxnard, CA. Look for Betrayed, Ceremony, Cold World and Trash Talk among the bands performing. Metallica have a tour of North America on the way. This week the band also described Guitar Hero as "new model for the music industry." Speaking of the popular video game, there was word this week that it would see expansions featuring the Pixies, Nirvana, and Motorhead. Richmond, VA's the Riot Before have released their video for "We Are Wild Stallions." A live recording surfaced of the Gaslight Anthem performing the Replacements classic "Left of the Dial." Blink-182 also teased their summer tour in a new video.
This week we said goodbye to the Cute Lepers guitarist Travis Criscola (1985-2009). 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, 2, 3, 4 and now Episode 5 of For Those Still Standing. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including San Jose, CA's pop-punk outfit Pillowfights, Richmond-based Foundation (the latest work from Rob Huddleston of Ann Beretta and Inquisition), Detroit's Fireworks, and the new EP from Hartford, CT-based Make Do and Mend. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from In The Red, Big Business, Pansy Division, Pulling Teeth, Silverstein, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Strung Out with tours kicking off from Agnostic Front / Ruiner (US), Fall Out Boy / All Time Low / Cobra Starship (US / Canada), Have Heart / Shook Ones (US west coast), Death By Stereo (Europe), Riverboat Gamblers / Fake Problems / William Elliott Whitmore (US), No Use For A Name (South America), and Greg Attonito of the Bouncing Souls and Vic Ruggiero of the Slackers (US east coast).
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), and the new EP from Tom's River, NJ-based One Win Choice.
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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