Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Bryne Yancey and 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:
- Against Me! have left Sire/Warner after five years and two full-lengths. In an unrelated story, major label enthusiasts across North America have mobilized to slash the tires of the band's tour bus.
- Decaydance supergroup D.R.U.G.S. released a controversial video for "If You Think This Song Is About You, It Probably Is." Why not just abbreviate the song title as well?
- Blink 182 drummer and reality television star Travis Barker will be helping H2O frontman Toby Morse through his charity, One Life One Chance.
- Jack White of The White Stripes lashed out at profit-seeking record flippers. In other news, a Hoarders marathon was highly-viewed and well-received over the weekend.
- Red Scare announced the signing of Fort Collins, CO's Elway. We've also just received word that Fat Wreck Chords signed them in 2014.
- Arcade Fire, Paramore, Gorillaz, Black Keys, Muse, Slayer were the among Grammy Nominees announced this past week. Tracy Jordan's quest for the elusive EGOT will have to wait another agonizing year.
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.