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: High Fidelity, Touchstone Picures
- Descendents announced their next album.
- Masked Intruder released a new song from their upcoming EP that is coming out on Pure Noise Records.
- A poll found that a large portion of UK vinyl buyers are not listening to their records.
- Success released a new video.
- The streaming service Tidal is being sued.
- Fest 15 announced its first list of bands.
- The Falcon announced a west coast/southwest tour.
- Jeff Rosenstock is working on a new album.
- Unfortunately, Prince passed away.
- Pup released a new song.
- Unfortunately, Richard Lyons (aka Pastor Dick) of Negativland passed away.
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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