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: FUSE
- LAWYER STUFF!: Louche Mayorga of Suicidal Tendencies is suing Frontier Records.
- The Menzingers released a new video.
- The Dopamines completed their new album.
- INTERVIEW!: Yours truly interviewed Tim Commerford of Wakrat, Rage Against The Machine, Prophets Of Rage and Audioslave.
- Great Cynics released a new music video.
- NOT COOL!: Glen Matlock's (of The Sex Pistols) guitars were stolen.
- Squirtgun announced their line up for their Lookouting performance.
- Punknews premiered The Fulblast's new song.
- MR. CRASH GOES TO WASHINGTON!: The Decline of Western Civilization is being preserved by The Library Of Congress.
- MORE LAW STUFF!: The anti-ticket bot bill was signed into federal law.
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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