Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Bryne Yancey and until further notice, will be handling the Sunday Edition while Adam White disgracefully returns to semi-regular news editing duties. I know our readers tend to fear change, but this one will be seamless and with no unnecessary vowels wasted.
I'll be your guide through some of the juiciest, most popular and otherwise noteworthy stories from the last seven days. Remember, every Punknews story is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:
- Asian Man Records announced intentions to attempt at reuniting every band ever on the label to celebrate their 15th anniversary. Something tells me skanking will somehow be involved.
- A controversial anti-piracy bill was passed by the US Senate that would give the government the power to circumvent regional controls and shut down websites abroad that host infringing material such as links to illegal music downloads and other pirated software. Still no word on whether or not the Internet is indeed a series of tubes and not, in fact, a truck.
- The intrepid, award-winning journalists over at TMZ stirred the pot by posting footage of The Aquabats frontman MC Bat Commander tossing a child into a crowd surf, drawing the ire of several unfun parents.
- Dropkick Murphys and Against Me! will be touring together in early 2011. It's been reported that the theory of pints of Guinness increasing one's strength will be tested nightly as the tour unfolds.
- Dear Landlord entered the studio to record four new tracks. I think we can all agree that much like the majestic giraffe, this is indeed a fucking miracle.
- Rancid debuted the first installment of their Live From The Living Room video series with a stripped-down performance of "Wrongful Suspicion."
With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves and we'll see you Monday morning.