January 15, 2012

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer 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 is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:

• The popular music festival, Coachella, announced their line up for this year that includes reunions from At The Drive-In and Refused.
• Along with Coachella, Refused plan on playing more shows for those non-Americans who can't make it to Coachella.
• But in the light of reunions comes the sad news of the end of the legendary punk rock label, Lookout Records.
• Lagwagon announced a tour of the west coast with Cobra Skulls and Nothington.
• Punchline's bassist still has a job.
• The Menzingers released a track from their highly anticipated upcoming album, On The Impossible Past.
• The Gaslight Anthem have entered the sudio to start recording their major label debut.

With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves, spin some tracks in the Navel Gazing turntable.fm room and we'll see you Monday morning.

The People Must Have Something Good To Read

In the past few weeks we've spoken with a number of bands. Don't miss out on these interviews

• James Dewees of Reggie and the Full Effect, The Get Up Kids, and Coalesce
• William Hayes of Wolves At Bay
• James Carrol of Make Do and Mend
• Chris Conley of Saves the Day
• Jeff Pezatti of The Bomb
• Buddy Nielsen of Senses Fail

Tonight We're Going To Give It 35%

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Here's your question and answer of the week from the Punknews Formspring:

Q: In the 70s major labels made bands put out one LP/ yr. It resulted in fantastic runs of lps by Bowie Stones Queen etc. This production schedule is no longer demanded by major or indie labels. Has this made bands "over think" music and killed spontaneity?

A: I can see what you mean but that schedule has been usurped by the internet. Now, you have the ability to post new music, to the world, at any time. You can post an entire album that you recorded live in one take on line, if you like. You can look at artists like Into It. Over It. who did the 52 songs in 52 weeks projects.
Spontaneity still exists but it's up to musicians to self impose it, as opposed to having some coked out dick in a suit breathing down their neck.

-Rich

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• The new EP from Ridgewood, NJ's Tony Clark of Prawn
• A brand new track from Las Vegas, NV's Caravels
• The latest release from Hempstead, NY's The Broosevelts
• The new split from Los Angeles, CA's French Exit and Cleveland, OH's Signals Midwest

Also, don't forget to check out the new EP from Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds.

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January 8, 2012

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer 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 is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:

• Fashion punx everywhere are pissed that an upscale London brand is using the Crass logo for their merchandise.
• In April, Las Vegas will be taken over by checkered clothes, pork pie hats, and skanking in the streets for Viva Ska Vegas.
• We reported an update on the Aceh punks in Indonesia as yet another dismal story of punks being arrested has come out of Malaysia as it was discovered that grindcore act, Wormrot, were detained by police after a show.
• Cleveland, OH's Mixtapes announced that they have joined the No Sleep Records roster.
• Punchline's bassist threatened to quit the band if nobody liked their new EP.
• Fat Mike made a new soundtrack for a fetish film and also revealed that NOFX are working on a new album.
• It was revealed that The Aquabats Super Show will be hitting super rad televisions sometime in March.

With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves, spin some tracks in the Navel Gazing turntable.fm room and we'll see you Monday morning.

The People Must Have Something Good To Read

In the past few weeks we've spoken with a number of bands. Don't miss out on these interviews

• Chris Conley of Saves the Day
• Jeff Pezatti of The Bomb
• Buddy Nielsen of Senses Fail
• Anton Brenner
• Cerebral Ballzy
• Joey Cape of Lagwagon

Tonight We're Going To Give It 35%

Punknews content is syndicated to virtually every social media hub on the internet, and we take pride in providing unique content and communications on each. You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and MySpace. Add your photos to our Flickr Pool and they'll appear in the sidebar here on Punknews. Join our Last.fm group and contribute your listening habits to our weekly charts. All of our high definition video footage can be found at Vimeo.

Here's your question and answer of the week from the Punknews Formspring:

Q: What band is your favorite "collectable" band i.e. they release a lot of neat and unusual records with special songs on them?

A: I'm not a big vinyl nerd but I do enjoy purchasing records and I am always on the look out for Against Me! records. In fact, I own more Against Me! records than any other artist I listen to. I think their vinyl collection is pretty interesting. There are people who own every single color of every single Against Me! record. Do you know how many records that is? (According to a quick google search) There's 37 different colors of the Disco EP, 32 different colors of the Cavalier Eternal EP, and 44 (!!!) different colors of Reinventing Axl Rose. THAT'S INSANE. To me anyway. That's all I wanted to type anyway. There's a ton more.

As for special songs, I absolutely love the acoustic version of "You Look Like I Need a Drink". It's a lot better than the electric version in my eyes.

I just love that Against Me! seem to always be putting something out on vinyl. So many 7-inches. So little money.

-Brittany

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January 1, 2012

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer 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 is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:

• We showed you Punknews.org's Best of 2011.
• We posted our favorite records from 2011 as well as your favorite records from 2011.
• Google is being attacked by record companies for giving easy access to illegal downloading.
• Boy Sets Fire's Nathan Gray started a new band with his son
• The Menzingers released the details for their upcoming album.
• Scientists revealed the secret behind creating a hit.
• We released an exclusive stream of the new EP from Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds.

With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves, spin some tracks in the Navel Gazing turntable.fm room and we'll see you Monday morning.

Happy new year from all of us at Punknews!

The People Must Have Something Good To Read

In the past few weeks we've spoken with a number of bands. Don't miss out on these interviews

• Jeff Pezatti of The Bomb
• Buddy Nielsen of Senses Fail
• Anton Brenner
• Cerebral Ballzy
• Joey Cape of Lagwagon
• Evan Thomas Weiss of Into It. Over It.

Tonight We're Going To Give It 35%

Punknews content is syndicated to virtually every social media hub on the internet, and we take pride in providing unique content and communications on each. You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and MySpace. Add your photos to our Flickr Pool and they'll appear in the sidebar here on Punknews. Join our Last.fm group and contribute your listening habits to our weekly charts. All of our high definition video footage can be found at Vimeo.

Here's your question and answer of the week from the Punknews Formspring:

Q: What is your opinion of a band releasing a track listing? Does it help the anticipation? Does it get your attention? Is it meaningless?

A: To me it's meaningless. Especially because more often than not it's just to highlight the band's inflated sense of wit. Who honestly goes, "Oh man, I can't wait to listen to 'Like a punch in the dick from Robocop on one side and Chuck Norris on the other'!" Like no one says that. I guess it's good to get a the number of tracks, but that's about it.

-Rich

Of course your day wouldn't be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors' lives. Follow @aubinpaul, @adamwhite, @justinaugust, @brian_shultz, @dante3000, @amilianne, @kiraface, @mcflynnthm, @kidecono, @MsApocalypse, @mattycantfail, @wackymondo, and @BrittStrummer's every move at Twitter.

Where else are you online? Share your links below and keep connected with the Punknews community.

Radio Free Punknews

Check out the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of new music from recent or upcoming releases. Our latest additions include:

• The new EP from Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds

Also, don't forget to check out a new track from Burlington, ON's Silverstein, the latest release from Bloomington, IN's High Dive, the latest release from Providence, RI's This Is a Movement, the latest EP from Oklahoma City, OK's They Stay Dead, and the latest release from Los Angeles, CA's Fake Figures

We've also expanded our podcast empire to something that will eventually resemble a network. Be sure to check out the original Punknews Podcast (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), Jesse and Goodrich's metal/hardcore/jokes bonanza The Wizard's Beard (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), Bryne Yancey's Florida music podcast Overheated (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), First World Problems, hosted by Ray Harkins (peta2/Sound & Fury, ex-Taken, Mikoto, Century Media), Joey Cahill (6131 Records/Sound & Fury) and Scott Arnold (subscribe via RSS or iTunes)., and Matt and Mondo's Punk Rock Power Hour.

December 25, 2011

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer 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 is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:

• Night Birds' Ryan McHale, Terror's Scott Vogel, Banner Pilot's Nick Johnson, and Tiny Engine's staff shared their favorite records from 2011 with us. Campaign and Dopamines also shared their favorites.
• Silverstein wrote a song in the style of NOFX in response to our lovely commenters.
• Elway released their version of Osker's "Anchor" after reaching 2500 "likes" on Facebook. Attendees of this year's The Fest 10 will remember Elway including this song in their performance.
• Footage of Black Flag performing "Nervous Breakdown" has surfaced from their recent reunion at the Goldenvoice 30th anniversary show.
• No Trigger premiered a new song.
• Rise Against got into the Christmas spirit and released their version of the song "Making Chrsitmas" from the film The Nightmare Before Christmas.
• Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong started a family band.

With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves, spin some tracks in the Navel Gazing turntable.fm room and we'll see you Monday morning.

Punknews would like to wish our readers happy holidays.