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:
- Green Day frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, detailed his substance abuse that led to his on stage meltdown last year in the recent issue of Rolling Stone.
- Alkaline Trio released a new song from their upcoming release, My Shame is True.
- Fun unveiled the video for the track, "Why Am I the One".
- The lineup for Metallica's Orion Music + More festival was announced including acts such as Rise Against, FLAG, The Bronx, and many more.
- RVIVR released a new video and announced a European tour with