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:
- A reporter blamed Thrice's break up on frontman Dustin Kensrue's association with megachurch.
- Make Do and Mend responded to accusations of selling out.
- Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace gave her first on-camera interview.
- We celebrated our 100th episode of the Punknews Podcast by gracing you all with the lovely faces of Punknews.
- No Age announced that they will be headlining the Anti-Walmart protest in L.A.'s Chinatown.
- Green Day released the trailer and details for the second album of their upcoming 3-part release.
- The Gaslight Anthem started a fan club.
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.