.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 Fat Wreck Chords has signed Minneapolis-based Banner Pilot. The band will record at the Terrarium in their hometown next week for a fall release. Berkeley, CA's Rancid have made the song "Last One To Die" available online. The track appears on the upcoming full length Let the Dominoes Fall. That album will also be available in a 3 disk expanded edition including an acoustic disc and a DVD. This week Senator Charles E. Schumer introduced legislation to target ticket scalping as well as ticket resellers like TicketNow. The bill would require a two-day waiting period from when tickets go on sale before a reseller can buy those tickets to put on the secondary market. Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor is urging musicians to go independent. He stated "Anyone who's an executive at a record label does not understand what the internet is, how it works, how people use it, how fans and consumers interact - no idea." Spinnerette, the project featuring Brody Dalle and Tony Bevilacqua of the Distillers, has detailed their upcoming debut. NOFX has hinted at an upcoming 10 inch cover album of songs from old hardcore bands. Richmond, VA's Landmines have posted of cover of the Clash classic "Guns of Brixton". 311 unveiled the first single "Hey You" from their forthcoming album Uplifter. Beastie Boys have posted the special features from their Check Your Head reissue including audio commentary, nine music videos, a Flash game and more. Gaslight Anthem has been performing acoustic and discussed a more "rock sound" for their 2010 album. The Lawrence Arms are planning their 10th anniversary show. The Dead Milkmen have been added to Insubordination Fest featuring bands like Pansy Division, Teenage Bottlerocket, Squirtgun, Dillinger Four, the Copyrights and more. The Casualties and Leftover Crack will be co-headlining a tour together beginning June 11th. The Bamboozle spinoff Hoodwink has announced new sets from bands covering their influence. Look for Anti-Flag tackling the Clash, the Ataris covering the Misfits, and Cartel tracking New Found Glory. Finally it's been announced that Blink-182 have tapped Weezer for their summer reunion tour I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Punknews.org is proud to continue publishing road journals 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 has some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and now Episode 7 of For Those Still Standing. Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Joey Cape, Jon Snodgrass and Chad Rex (Episode 1, Episode 2). This week we spoke with guitarist / vocalist Mark Ryan and bassist Joe Ayoub of the Marked Men (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Los Angeles, CA's Black President, and Golden City, the new project from Eric Richter of emo/punk pioneers Christie Front Drive. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from After The Fall, As I Lay Dying, Bullet Treatment and Attack In Black / Baby Eagle (split) with tours kicking off from Pennywise / Pepper (US), Westbound Train (US / Canada), Catch 22 (Europe), Propagandhi (UK), Senses Fail (Europe), Alkaline Trio / Saves the Day (US), My Bloody Valentine (US), NOFX / the Flatliners / Snuff (Europe) and Ninja Gun / Mike Hale (US / Canada).