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: PJ Russo
- Go to the Punknews Summer Soiree on August 12, 2017!
- The Bronx released some details about their new album.
- Editor Samantha Barrett interviewed Chris Matulich of Nothington.
- Hard Girls announced a new album.
- The Lillingtons got signed to Fat Wreck Chords.
- Pkew PKew Pkew got signed to Side One Dummy Records and released a new video.
- Yours truly interviewed Kevin Lyman creator of the Warped Tour and It's Not Dead Fest 2.
- Captain, We're Sinking made their new album available to stream.
- CJ Ramone announced some tour dates.
- Hatebreed released a new video.
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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