Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer and I saw The Descendents last night! 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:
- Guided By Voices broke up and cancelled their future shows.
- GWAR introduced us to their new vocalist, Vulvatron.
- In good Mineral news lead singer, Chris Simpson, released a new song. In bad Mineral news, their van was broken into on tour.
- Mixtapes revealed the dates for their last tour for the foreseeable future.
- Fall Out Boy performed "Centuries" on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
- Tim Barry released the details for new album and also the dates for his upcoming UK tour.
- Raymond Pettibon teamed up with the Supereme clothing line for a capsule collection.
- The Dismemberment Plan revealed plans to reissue their 2001 release, Change, on vinyl.
Click below to check out this past week's collection of new streaming music, features and interviews. Talk amongst yourselves and we'll see you Monday morning.
The People Must Have Something Good To Read
In the past few weeks we've spoken with a number of bands and artists. Don't miss out on these interviews:
Radio Free Punknews
Check out the awesome music we had the privilege of hosting this week:
- The latest release from Long Island, NY's Somerset Thrower
- A new song from Boston, MA's Stray Bullets
- A new song from Trenton, NJ's The Great Explainer
You can listen to even more releases over at our music page.