Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer 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:
- Fearless Records announced the next installment in their Punk Goes Pop series.
- Pour Habit and the SLO Brew venue are being sued due to a crowd surfing-related injury that took place during Pour Habit's set.
- After 31 years together R.E.M. has decided to call it quits.
- Foo Fighters retaliated with a protest of their own against the Westboro Baptist Church.
- P.S. Eliot have called it a day and will be performing their last show in December.
- Franz Nicolay started a Kickstarter account to fund his new album.
- Lagwagon announced plans to re-issue their first 5 albums.
- Streetlight Manifesto and Reel Big Fish announced the dates for yet another co-headlining tour.
- Horrible Crowes, the side project of The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon, premiered the video for "Behold the Hurricane" off of their latest release Elsie.,
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, spin some tracks in the Navel Gazing turntable.fm room and we'll see you Monday morning.