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:

• An 8th grade metal band signed a $1.7 million deal with Sony.
• Screeching Weasel began crowd sourcing funds for their new LP.
• Conor Oberst's rape accuser retracted her accusation.
• Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba and Blink-182's Mark Hoppus revealed their project of children's music.
• Leftover Crack announced some European tour dates
• Doyle revealed a tour of the US.

Click below to check out this past week's collection of new streaming music, features and interviews. You'll also find where you can find the Punknews staff to yell at on Twitter. Talk amongst yourselves and we'll see you Monday morning.