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:
- Night Birds' Ryan McHale, Terror's Scott Vogel, Banner Pilot's Nick Johnson, and Tiny Engine's staff shared their favorite records from 2011 with us. Campaign and Dopamines also shared their favorites.
- Silverstein wrote a song in the style of NOFX in response to our lovely commenters.
- Elway released their version of Osker's "Anchor" after reaching 2500 "likes" on Facebook. Attendees of this year's The Fest 10 will remember Elway including this song in their performance.
- Footage of Black Flag performing "Nervous Breakdown" has surfaced from their recent reunion at the Goldenvoice 30th anniversary show.
- No Trigger premiered a new song.
- Rise Against got into the Christmas spirit and released their version of the song "Making Chrsitmas" from the film The Nightmare Before Christmas.
- Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong started a family band.
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.
Punknews would like to wish our readers happy holidays.