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:
- The inimitable Ben Weasel was involved in an altercation during a Screeching Weasel set at SXSW in Austin, TX.
- The US House of Representatives voted to defund NPR, clearing money to purchase at least one, perhaps two new F-18 fighter jets.
- MTV announced plans to resurrect its seminal alternative music program, 120 Minutes
- Sublime (with Rome) signed to Fueled by Ramen
- Green Day and Hüsker Dü will be releasing a split on Record Store Day
- In unfortunate news, Casey Royer (D.I, Adolescents, Social Distortion) overdosed on heroin in front of his 12 year old son.
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.