January 2, 2011

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Bryne Yancey 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:

• Armenian police began targeting "emo kids" after the suicides of two teenagers rumored to be a part of the popular subculture.
• Due to a massive blizzard on the east coast of the United States, The Bouncing Souls postponed their "Home For The Holidays" shows until February.
• Video of Hot Water Music, The Bouncing Souls, Dave Hause collaborating onstage in Brisbane, Australia surfaced, sending many folks into an envious tizzy.
• In what is assumed to be an effort to separate themselves from confusion with the New York City-based black metal group of the same name, Chicago, IL outfit Castevet changed their name to CSTVT.
• Finally, we revealed Best of 2010 lists from our editorial staff as well as the all-important, staff-wide Punknews' Best of 2010 list, which provoked much conversation, elation and ire.

  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 and we'll see you Monday morning, where we'll hit the ground running in 2011.

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:

• Brendan Kelly and Elway in a band on band interview
• Antillectual
• Bad Religion
• The second part of our Red Tape Parade feature, with questions from Scott Freeman of Shook Ones and Funeral For A Friend's Matthew Davies-Kreye
• A band on band interview from The Dopamines and Municipal Waste
• The Max Levine Ensemble
• Samiam
• The first part of our Red Tape Parade feature, with questions from Joey Cape and End of A Year frontman Patrick Kindlon

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, Google Buzz 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:

Ya know how hearing a song can bring about memories about where you were in your life when you first heard it? What songs evokes the best memory for you? A:

Joey Ramone's take on "Wonderful World" reminds me of my wedding day. Thats a great memory. I remember hearing Rancid's "…And Out Come the Wolves" on an archeological dig in high school when a friend let me borrow his walkman. I never looked back.
-Ben

Your trusty Punknews editors have all sorts of projects on the go. If you like what you see here do us a favor and pay a visit to Justin August's tumblogs at JustinAugust.org and Other Stuff That I Like, Adam White's Niagara video blog Check In Niagara and his tumblog AdamWhite.org, Chris Moran's videos at Vimeo, Jesse Raub's coffee blogging at Bitter Press, and Bryne Yancey's punk curation at MySpace Music and his tumblog bryneyancey.org. Of course your day wouldn't be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors' lives. Follow @aubinpaul, @adamwhite, @jesseraub, @justinaugust, @brian_shultz, @bconoley, @dante3000 and @bryneyancey'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 LP from Swansea, UK's Ssssnakes
• The new full-length from Denver, CO's Tin Horn Prayer
• The latest EP from Cincinnati, OH's Mixtapes
• The new full-length from Pittsburgh, PA's Run, Forever
• The new 7-inch from Willimantic, CT's The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
• The new split 7-inch from The Best of the Worst and Tomahawk Chop

Also don't forget to check out a sampler of nearly every band performing at next month's DTFH Fest, the latest full-length from German melodic hardcore outfit Red Tape Parade the new full-length from Kingston, NY's Nightmares For A Week, a demo from Bergen County, NJ's Dead Ringer, the first new material from No Trigger in nearly five years, and the new split 7-inch from Mixtapes and Direct Hit!. You can find much more on the Punknews Music page.

The Punknews Podcast is going strong! We (try to) post a new episode every week featuring new music, commentary and bad jokes. You can check it out via your favorite aggregator with the RSS or subscribe on iTunes.

December 26, 2010

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Bryne Yancey 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:

• Wildly popular rock outfit Paramore lost the Farro brothers from their ranks, with the brothers explaining their exit from the band in great, revelatory detail.
• Rise Against talked to SPIN about their upcoming album, Endgame. Did Dave Mustaine give his blessing?
• Yet another inexplicably popular band endured a lineup change this week as Avenged Sevenfold and drummer Mike Portnoy parted ways.
• Finch announced their breakup after eleven years together. Somewhere in a cold, dark room, Alex Pappas quietly weeps.
• Quite obviously taking a cue from us, Propagandhi launched their own podcast.
• Finally, we revealed the best-of-2010 lists from our trusty review staff, and continued sharing lists from folks throughout the industry. Be sure to check back on Tuesday for lists from our editorial staff, and on Friday for the all-important site-wide list.

  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 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:

• Brendan Kelly and Elway in a band on band interview
• Antillectual
• Bad Religion
• The second part of our Red Tape Parade feature, with questions from Scott Freeman of Shook Ones and Funeral For A Friend's Matthew Davies-Kreye
• A band on band interview from The Dopamines and Municipal Waste
• The Max Levine Ensemble
• Samiam
• The first part of our Red Tape Parade feature, with questions from Joey Cape and End of A Year frontman Patrick Kindlon

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, Google Buzz 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: Does punknews really not get enough traffic/hits/clicks/clients for ad space that it doesn't make any profit? Is it just not feasible, or is it part of some punk ethos that you would make such a great website only to do it all for free? A:

We might. I'm not sure honestly.

All of us do it because we love it. most of us don't necessarily see journalism as our calling though (Brian and Bryne excluded). We are programmers and lawyers and teachers, planners and consultants and coffee folk. We all are bound together by a mutual enjoyment of music and a desire for others to get information about the music we love.

Basically: we're doin' it for the kids.*

-Justin

*Fuck the kids.

Your trusty Punknews editors have all sorts of projects on the go. If you like what you see here do us a favor and pay a visit to Justin August's tumblogs at JustinAugust.org and Other Stuff That I Like, Adam White's Niagara video blog Check In Niagara and his tumblog AdamWhite.org, Chris Moran's videos at Vimeo, Jesse Raub's coffee blogging at Bitter Press, and Bryne Yancey's punk curation at MySpace Music. Of course your day wouldn't be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors' lives. Follow @aubinpaul, @adamwhite, @jesseraub, @justinaugust, @brian_shultz, @bconoley, @dante3000 and @bryneyancey'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 full-length from Denver, CO's Tin Horn Prayer
• The latest EP from Cincinnati, OH's Mixtapes
• The new full-length from Pittsburgh, PA's Run, Forever
• The new 7-inch from Willimantic, CT's The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
• The new split 7-inch from The Best of the Worst and Tomahawk Chop
• A sampler of nearly every band performing at next month's DTFH Fest

Also don't forget to check out the latest full-length from German melodic hardcore outfit Red Tape Parade the new full-length from Kingston, NY's Nightmares For A Week, a demo from Bergen County, NJ's Dead Ringer, the first new material from No Trigger in nearly five years, and the new split 7-inch from Mixtapes and Direct Hit!. You can find much more on the Punknews Music page.

The Punknews Podcast is going strong! We (try to) post a new episode every week featuring new music, commentary and bad jokes. You can check it out via your favorite aggregator with the RSS or subscribe on iTunes.

December 19, 2010

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Bryne Yancey 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:

• Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel claimed "serious mistakes" were made by the group's former label, Sire/Warner. A major label out of touch? You don't say!
• Speaking of major labels, former Hellcat Records act Orange are in talks with several major labels according to frontman Joe Dexter, dropping names such as "Jive, Sony and Warners just to name a few." Personally, I think they should sign to Capitols or Geffens.
• Henry Rollins revealed that he helped produce an album of acoustic pop songs by infamous killer Charles Manson in the 1980s.
• The Lawrence Arms and Sundowner have been added to the Asian Man 15th Anniversary Party. Rumor has it they'll be taking the same flight over to California.
• Popmatters posted its best punk of 2010 list, which included favorites from The Riot Before and Leatherface. In retaliation, we at Punknews.org will be revealing our list of the best pop of 2010 very soon. Will Ke$ha make the list? Who knows!
• Finally, we begun revealing our industry best-of lists for 2010, which always sparks a great debate among our community. Look for more of these in the coming weeks.

  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 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:

• Antillectual
• Bad Religion
• The second part of our Red Tape Parade feature, with questions from Scott Freeman of Shook Ones and Funeral For A Friend's Matthew Davies-Kreye
• A band on band interview from The Dopamines and Municipal Waste
• The Max Levine Ensemble
• Samiam
• The first part of our Red Tape Parade feature, with questions from Joey Cape and End of A Year frontman Patrick Kindlon

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, Google Buzz 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: When were you upset the most about a band member leaving, and why? A: When Nate Albert left the Bosstones during the recording of "Pay Attention" it broke my heart. The band had been through a lot after their fairly meteoric rise. Nate had long been a primary songwriter and his guitar riffs and tone really anchored the band, regardless of where they were at at a particular time. After hearing Pay Attention it sounded like a band falling apart and running on steam. Even though Lawrence Katz is an amazing guitarist, nothing sounds quite like Nate ripping through the opening chords of "Devil's Night Out" or his freakishly clean upstroke in"The Impression That I Get." -Justin

Your trusty Punknews editors have all sorts of projects on the go. If you like what you see here do us a favor and pay a visit to Justin August's tumblogs at JustinAugust.org and Other Stuff That I Like, Adam White's Niagara video blog Check In Niagara and his tumblog AdamWhite.org, Chris Moran's videos at Vimeo, Jesse Raub's coffee blogging at Bitter Press, and Bryne Yancey's punk curation at MySpace Music. Of course your day wouldn't be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors' lives. Follow @aubinpaul, @adamwhite, @jesseraub, @justinaugust, @brian_shultz, @bconoley, @dante3000 and @bryneyancey'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 full-length from Pittsburgh, PA's Run, Forever
• The new 7-inch from Willimantic, CT's The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
• The new split 7-inch from The Best of the Worst and Tomahawk Chop
• A sampler of nearly every band performing at next month's DTFH Fest
• The latest full-length from German melodic hardcore outfit Red Tape Parade

Also don't forget to check out the new full-length from Kingston, NY's Nightmares For A Week, a demo from Bergen County, NJ's Dead Ringer, the first new material from No Trigger in nearly five years, and the new split 7-inch from Mixtapes and Direct Hit!. You can find much more on the Punknews Music page.

The Punknews Podcast is going strong! We (try to) post a new episode every week featuring new music, commentary and bad jokes. You can check it out via your favorite aggregator with the RSS or subscribe on iTunes.