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:
- Jawbreaker announced they will be reissuing their classic releases, Bivouac and The Chesterfield King EP, for their 20th anniversary.
- As part of our ongoing Fest coverage we hosted live Q&A's with Western Addiction's Chad Williams and Smoke or Fire's Joe McMahon.
- We also battled it out amongst each other over this year's Fest conflicts.
- Bruce Springsteen showed his support for Barack Obama.
- Jason Segel will be producing and starring in an adaptation of the documentary, The Other F Word , based off the book, Punk Rock Dad, written by Pennywise's Jim Lindberg.
- Underoath's Spencer Chamberlain discussed how "You can only play hardcore or heavy metal for so long".
- P.O.S. was forced to postpone his upcoming tour due to needing a new kidney. You can help him out by PayPal-ing money to stefneedsanewkidney@gmail.com.
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.
Happy Festing!