Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer. 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:
- Augusta Koch of Cayetana, Chris Cresswell of The Flatliners, and Joel Tannenbaum of Ex Friends shared their year end lists.
- Benny Horowitz of The Gaslight Anthem, Mike Park of Asian Man Records, and Erica Freas of RVIVR also shared their year end lists.
- Rancid revealed that they will be playing off their classic album, 1995's …And Out Come The Wolves in its entirety at Punk Rock Bowling.
- The Sidekicks announced a US tour.
- NOFX and Alkaline Trio announced a small UK tour.
- Trophy Lungs releases a benefit comp for Black Lives Matter.
- The Replacements released a 24-minute improvisational piece
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:
- Bad Canoes
- Such Gold
- Andrew Low of The Jazz June
- Domenic Romeo of A389 Records
- Edward Colver
- Scott Ian of Anthrax
- Jesse Michaels
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