Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Ricky Frankel 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 and review is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting a story, feel free to submit a review or if you are a photographer continue reading below. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week: Photo Credit: Laura Jane Grace.
- Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! announced some details about her upcoming memoir.
- Jim Ward left At The Drive-In.
- FLAG has an upcoming tour with some very notable supporting acts.
- The festival trailer for A Fat Wreck has been released.
- The line up for this year's Wrecking Ball festival was announced.
- You can actually recognize the names of some of the bands that will be on this year's Warped Tour.
- Vinyl sales brought in more revenue than streaming last year.
- PEARS released a new song from their upcoming album.
- Mike Wiebe of the Riverboat Gamblers was severely injured during one of the band's shows.
And so ends another wonderful week for the Punknews community. Tonight let’s just kick back, maybe break out the drinks, gather around the digital bonfire and talk. Maybe you saw (or will see) an awesome show, found a great new band, or chat about anything else you would like. We leave it to you, the always respectful and courteous readers and commenters. See you way too bright and early on Monday morning.
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