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: Stephen McGill
- Listen the Summer Soiree Radio Special!
- Win tickets to see Suicidal Tendencies!
- Win a ticket to '77 Montreal!
- Members of Pussy Riot were jailed for disrupting the last match of the World Cup.
- Brad Logan will be playing bass for the Adolescents on their upcoming tour.
- Photographer Stephen McGill took some pictures at Chromeo's recent show.
- Against Me! finished their new album.
- Tigers Jaw announced a tour
- Joyce Manor announced a new album.
- Alkaline Trio announced a new album and released a new song.
- Features editor John Gentile interviewed Boots Riley.
- Ogikubo Station released a video.
- Contributing editor Samantha Barrett wrote a Sonic Reducer for the '77 Montreal festival.
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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