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:
- Germany's FALLBRAWL were kicked off Firestorm Fest for their controversial strip club video.
- Yahoo! put together a list of what they consider to be the top 25 essential punk albums.
- Green Day have posted more updates from the studio.
- Tegan and Sara are back in the studio and Reel Big Fish are also recording a new album.
- We posted a stream of half of the new album from Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds.
- We also posted a contest where you can win cassettes from Strike Anywhere.
- Face to Face began announcing the dates for their acoustic Ignorance is Bliss tour.
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.