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: Stranger Things, Netflix
- John K. Samson of The Weakerthans announced his new solo album and released a new song.
- Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins is now the president of TNA wrestling
- The Flatliners released a cover of a Tragically Hip song.
- The Interrupters and Bad Cop/Bad Cop announced a North American tour.
- Prophets Of Rage announced a new EP and released a live track from it.
- Direct Hit! released a new video.
- OFF! announced some New Year's Eve shows with The Melvins and Red Kross.
- Metallica released a new song and announced a new album.
- Yellow Card released a music video.
- Night Birds announced a demo release.
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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