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: Metalocalypse, Adult Swim
- Henry Rollins starred in a Funny Or Die video
- At The Drive In canceled their North American tour.
- Touché Amoré announced a new album and streamed a new song.
- Yours truly interviewed Intruder Blue of Masked Intruder.
- Every Time I Die announced a new album and released a video.
- Led Zeppelin won their copyright case.
- Fall Out Boy and Missy Elliot collaborated on a song.
- Podcast editor Greg Simpson interviewed Parry Gripp of Nerf Herder.
- Unfortunately, Barker Gee of Neon Piss passed away.
- Blink 182 released a new song.
- Editor Jeff Sorley wrote an editorial about how the Brexit will affect musicians.
- The great Franz Nicolay wrote an editorial about the need for copyright laws to be changed.
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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