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• Win signed copies of Defeater's new 2x7" set Lost Ground
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Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of new music from recent or upcoming releases. Our latest additions include:

• the new full lengh from Toronto's The Roman Line
• a split 7-inch featuring pop-punk bands Transit and Man Overboard
• the new full length from Fulton, NY-based Another Breath,
• new material from Halifax, Nova Scotia's Sleepless Nights,
• an EP from Detroit, MI's A-Gang,
• Dead To Me's new full length African Elephants

Also don't forget to check out the new record from Richmond, VA-based Snacktruck, the new full length from Cloak/Dagger, new material from Durham, NC-based Red Collar, the new digital EP from Foundation, and a new track from Landmines new EP. You can find much more on the Punknews Music page.

December 6th, 2009

Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing! Today's obviously a huge day in the Punknews universe so we're going to forgo our usual format and chat about about the new Punknews.org. As you can see we launched our new layout today, our fifth revision in the ten years that the site's been around. This revision has been in the works for a long time and was available in public beta since February of this year. We have a few goals for the new site. First we'll be putting more of a focus on big stories and features like interviews and videos. You'll see those referenced in the story slider in the right, which should be updated several times weekly. If you scroll to the bottom of the front page you'll also find links to recent interviews, videos and popular content. The "Happening Now" box at the top of the page will be rapidly updated, featuring quick links to songs, videos, and articles around the web that we find interesting but might not (yet) have a full article prepared. As always there are bugs and quirks that come to light when you make a change this large, so we'll be making tweaks and change throughout the week. We'll also be adding some of the features you've requested in the this article. Keep posting your thoughts and comments there. .ng-section1 { font-size: small; border-bottom: 1px solid #C5C5C5; width: 70%; font-weight: bold; padding: 1em 0 0em 2em; } .ng-section2 { font-size: xx-small; padding: 0 0 2em 3em; } The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories So what happened this week? The Alkaline Trio titled their new album This Addiction. Matt Skiba also discussed the sonic direction of the record. Former the Libertine Pete Doherty was pulled off stage for singing the Nazi anthem in Germany. New Found Glory's Jordan Pundik is raising money for his mother, who's in need of a heart transplant. NFG is hitting the road with Saves The Day, hellogoodbye and Fireworks early next year. The new Blake Schwarzenbach outfit forgetters also announced tour dates. Look for the band on the road this month. Finally Streetlight Manifesto previewed their new album with some audio clips. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain Next Sunday Gazing takes over I'd also like to announce that today marks the end of Navel Gazing as we know it. Next weekend we'll introduce our new Sunday Edition. We'll be breaking down all the recaps into less insane chunks and posting them throughout the day. We'll wrap it up with your all-new all-different Navel Gazing community soapbox.

November 29th, 2009

.ng-section1 { font-size: small; border-bottom: 1px solid #C5C5C5; width: 70%; font-weight: bold; padding: 1em 0 0em 2em; } .ng-section2 { font-size: xx-small; padding: 0 0 2em 3em; } Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking this week… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories This week saw notorious anti-gay hate group the Westboro Baptist Church taking a break from picketing the funerals of dead soldiers to inexplicably turn their attention towards pop-punk act All Time Low. The group plans to protest one of the band's upcoming shows. A new metal act has been formed that features Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley, Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley, Anthrax guitarists Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano and bassist David Karon. Dave Grohl spoke out abou the Foo Fighters' hiatus. He commented "I think, to me, the most important thing was to give the audience a break from the band, not even that we need to stop playing, I feel like the world doesn't need another Foo Fighters record right now." SideOneDummy Records posted some photos this week of an elaborate mural in Los Angeles inspired by the Gaslight Anthem.

Blink-182 is set to start work on new album in January. This week we also heard about release plans from the Thermals (details) and the Menzingers ( details). Rapper P.O.S. discussed a potential collaboration with Paint It Black's Dan Yemin. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones announced the support for their upcoming Hometown Throwdown shows, confirming appearances from Pilfers, Darkbuster and the Pietasters. AFI will hit the road in January with Bridge Nine act Ceremony. Fucked Up announced a run of shows in support of their upcoming singles compilation release. Every Time I Die will tour in the spring with Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, and Trapped Under Ice. O Pioneers!!! also announced their upcoming tour dates. Horror-punk outfit Schoolyard Heroes have called it quits. A new Black Flag book is due this month titled Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag. The A.K.A.s also streamed their latest full length Animal Summer. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the split 7" between Transit and Man Overboard, as well as the new full length from Toronto's The Roman Line.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from MxPx, the Roman Line, Blink-182 (vinyl) and many others. We'll also see a number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Propagandhi with Strike Anywhere and Protest the Hero (UK), the Casualties (South America), Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves with Drag The River (Europe), the New York Dolls (UK), Thursday, Dillinger Escape Plan and Fake Problems (US), Guttermouth (Australia), and NOFX (Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica).

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November 22nd, 2009

.ng-section1 { font-size: small; border-bottom: 1px solid #C5C5C5; width: 70%; font-weight: bold; padding: 1em 0 0em 2em; } .ng-section2 { font-size: xx-small; padding: 0 0 2em 3em; } Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking this week… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories This week the Alkaline Trio announced that they had formed a new label dubbed Heart & Skull that would co-release their new album with Epitaph Records. The band discussed the sound of the new full length, stating "This record is a rock record but our punk rock upbringing definitely shines through, more so than our last few records." The band also discussed the formation of the new label. Matt Skiba commented "Taking control of our own label situation was something we always wanted to do but never thought was possible, but now thanks to Brett Gurewitz and the fine folks at Epitaph, it is." NOFX posted a stream of their upcoming Cokie the Clown EP, along with a video featuring cameo appearances from Matt Skiba, Tim McIlrath of Rise Against and Brendan Kelly of the Lawrence Arms. Seattle-based hardcore outfit Furious Styles stoked controversy with a new shirt honoring the alleged killer of a police officer as a hero. The band's former members spoke out against the shirt, blaming vocalist Mike Torres for the its creation. Former Ten Foot Pole and current Pulley singer Scott Radinsky was named the bullpen coach of the Cleveland Indians. The King Khan and BBQ Show's tour resumed after a drug arrest. The band's tour manager entered a guilty plea to second degree possession of a controlled substance in Christian County, Kentucky. The band's rental vehicle was randomly stopped at a safety checkpoint and officers discovered contraband in the cab. Under KY law a driver of a vehicle is responsible for its contents.

Trash Talk has completed recording for their next release. Blink-182's much loved Dude Ranch record is coming out on vinyl soon. Screeching Weasel announced a Chicago show. John Lydon stirred his supporters and critics by announcing that the upcoming Public Image Ltd tour would be funded by his appearances in Country Life Butter commercials. Fast food chain Taco Bell announced that they will provide free food and marketing to 100 bands including the Bouncing Souls, Fake Problems, Less Than Jake and Broadway Calls. Rise Against appeared in a new anti-Animal Testing ad. This week saw videos of forgetters and the Bomb at Generation Records We saw a look at straight edge from My Fox Boston. This week also gave the Nirvana camp more reason to be outraged, as videos from the "Band Hero" video game appeared that featured the Kurt Cobain joining the late Johnny Cash to sing the disco hit "YMCA." I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke with vocalist and guitarist Nat Rufus of the Blacklist Royals (interview), guitarist and music producer Kurt Ballou of Converge (interview), and and singer Chuck Robertson of the Mad Caddies (interview).

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Fulton, NY-based Another Breath.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from NOFX, Tom Waits, Black Diamond Heavies, Jawbox (reissue) and many others. We'll also see a number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Strike Anywhere with Dead to Me (Europe), Hot Water Music (Germany), Cursive (US), Moneen (Canada), Fucked Up (Europe), and the European Taste Of Chaos tour featuring In Flames, Killswitch Engage, Every Time I Die, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster and Dead by April.

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November 15, 2009

.ng-section1 { font-size: small; border-bottom: 1px solid #C5C5C5; width: 70%; font-weight: bold; padding: 1em 0 0em 2em; } .ng-section2 { font-size: xx-small; padding: 0 0 2em 3em; } Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White Justin and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking this week… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories This past week ended with some news from Asian Man Records, mostly on the bummer side of the scale. The Matt Skiba solo album we've been waiting for was delayed and Ben Weasel decided to take his ball and go home, severing all ties with the label. No word as to why. We heard about Bomb The Music Industry!'s upcoming "Bring Your Own Band Tour" which sounds… interesting. The young'ns in O Pioneers!!! are rolling out on tour with Against Me! and Roll The Tanks in California this winter.

There was quite a bit of old guard/late 90's nostalgia going on this week. We heard that Pennywise was gearing up for a new album and tour while the Mad Caddies are building a "Best Of" album via fan votes. Mine is for "The Bell Tower" about 12 times. ALL is heading out on tour with Off With Their Heads and Shot Baker, which has some of our editors singing Mass Nerder back to front in anticipation. When they run out of politics, animal rights and Fat Mike jokes, Propagandhi shows their true colors and wax poetic about hockey. Hold off on the "Where Are They Now…" VH1, Wizo is back! New album and tour in the works.

The lovable chaps in Fucked Up unveiled their plans for splits with NOFX and The King Khan and BBQ Show and a remake of "Do They Know It's Christmas." That last one can't end well.

We heard some concerns about underground music venues in Los Angeles and our commenters had their own experiences to talk about surrounding that as well. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke with Shawn Stern of BYO Records, Matt Hawks of Hit the Switch, and John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats.

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including new material from Snacktruck, Dead To Me's new LP African Elephants, an EP from The A-Gang, and a new EP from Sleepless Nights.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Defeater, MxPx, The Blood Brothers, A Wilhelm Scream, and many others. Look for tours from Rise Against / Thursday / Poison the Well (UK), Baroness with Earthless, Iron Age, Off With Their Heads and Municipal Waste, Cub Country (ex-Jets to Brazil), After the Fall / Such Gold, Story of the Year / The Devil Wears Prada / All That Remains / Haste The Day, The Ataris, Big D and the Kids Table / Ill Scarlet, Underoath / August Burns Red / Emery, and more.

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November 8th, 2009

.ng-section1 { font-size: small; border-bottom: 1px solid #C5C5C5; width: 70%; font-weight: bold; padding: 1em 0 0em 2em; } .ng-section2 { font-size: xx-small; padding: 0 0 2em 3em; } Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking this week… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories A Los Angeles judge has blocked the use of the Sublime name by bandmembers Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh. The estate of original vocalist Bradley Nowell filed a trademark infringement suit on October 21, in advance of the band's performance at the Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival. Radiohead's Ed O'Brien raised some eyebrows with his suggestion that bandwidth throttling could be used to combat illegal downloading. The line up of the 2010 Harvest of Hopefestival is coming into view, with Off With Their Heads, Small Brown Bike, Anti-Flag, and Dead to Me slated to perform. Dashboard Confessional and New Found Glory cancelled their planned tour this past week. We also had footage of the greatest Misfits cover band ever, featuring Ted Leo, Atom Goren of Atom and his PAckage and Andy Nelson of Paint It Black.

Asian Man detailed the upcoming Matt Skiba solo record, titled Demos and due in February. Controversial hardline group Vegan Reich are writing and rehearsing a new record. The same goes for Propagandhi, who are working on the follow up to Supporting Caste. Detournement, which features members of Bigwig, Ensign, Lifetime, Plan A Project and Worthless United, are planning a new 7-inch. Defunct ska-punk act Five Iron Frenzy revealed plans for a DVD. Dead To Me streamed their new record African Elephants. A radio station chatted with Descendents frontmanMilo Aukerman about his current and future plans.

This week we said goodbye to founding Smugglers drummer Paul Preminger. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives The Punknews crew at the Fest may have done more festing than live-reporting, but they did come back home with some cool video footage. Check out Broadway Calls performing "Midnight Hour" and "Van Rides and High Tides," Shook Ones performing a cover of Weezer's "Tired of Sex", How Dare You playing "Eat at Charlie's", and the Sidekicks performing "Looking." Chuck Ragan, Strike Anywhere and Lucero topped your list of Your Favorite Records from October. This week we spoke with vocalist Ki Seok So of The Geeks (interview), " bassist Frédéric Leclercq of DragonForce (interview), Ned Russin, Shane Moran and Ben Russin of Title Fight (interview), Jeff Rosenstock of Bomb The Music Industry! (interview), and guitarist Dominic Maggiolo of I Refuse (interview).

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Cloak/Dagger, and new material from Durham, NC-based Red Collar.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Dashboard Confessional, Dead To Me, Franz Nicolay, Gatorface, Teenage Rehab, The Flatliners, Throwdown, and many others. We'll also see a number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from AFI with Gallows (US / Canada), Motorhead, The Damned and Girlschool (UK), Quest For Fire (Canada / US), Rx Bandits supporting Glassjaw (US), Bowling For Soup with MC Lars (US), Less Than Jake with the Swellers, the Casualties, Fishbone and others (US), and Madball (South America, UK).

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November 1st, 2009

.ng-section1 { font-size: small; border-bottom: 1px solid #C5C5C5; width: 70%; font-weight: bold; padding: 1em 0 0em 2em; } .ng-section2 { font-size: xx-small; padding: 0 0 2em 3em; } Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking this week… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories So you know Chuck Biscuits of Danzig, Social Distortion, Black Flag, D.O.A. and a half dozen other cool bands? Totally not dead. The internet went crazy a few days ago when a blogger's report of his death went viral. It turns out Chuck is indeed alive and the blogger was strung along in a good ol' six month long hoax that cumulated in the death announcement. Punknews bears some responsibility in perpetuating that rumour without adequate fact checking and for that we apologize.

From the "actual news" department we had word that the Suicide Machines would be reuniting for a benefit show in November. Split Lip / Chamberlain announced a reunion show in New York City. Bud Gaugh discussed the future of Sublime and we got word of the conflict over the usage of the band's name. Jawbox frontman J. Robbins also recently addressed rumours that the band would be reuniting for more shows beyond their appearance on Jimmy Fallon. They won't. The Lawrence Arms posted a live video of "Recovering the Opposable Thumb" from their recent anniversary performance. The Alkaline Trio's Dan Andriano covered the Larrys' "The First Eviction Notice"at the same event. The Lawrence Arms also posted the bonus track from their new EP for free. This week we spoke with vocalist Sam Sutherland of As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new digital EP from So what's coming up

October 25th, 2009

.ng-section1 { font-size: small; border-bottom: 1px solid #C5C5C5; width: 70%; font-weight: bold; padding: 1em 0 0em 2em; } .ng-section2 { font-size: xx-small; padding: 0 0 2em 3em; } Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking this week… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories Riverboat Gamblers guitarist Ian Mcdougall was injured last weekend in a bike accident. He was hit by a car while riding home and suffered a broken hip, a wrist and hemorrhaging under the skull along with many lacerations, torn ligaments, bruises and and scrapes. While his prognosis is better than his bandmates first assumed he's facing a long recovery and some monster hospital bills. Fat Wreck Chords has announced their plans to release a 3 CD boxed set titled Wrecktrospective The first CD will contain classic tracks from the label's back catalog, the second will contain demo and unreleased tracks, while the third will feature songs from the original 2001 Fat Club 7-inch series. The Lawrence Arms will film their upcoming 10th Anniversary show on October 24th in Chicago. The band is also streaming two new songs from their upcoming EP. Blink-182's Mark Hoppus came out in support of health care reform in a new Huffington Post editorial. The musician writes about a member of the catering crew on the Blink's summer tour who had to have an appendix removed but lacked insurance due to a "pre-existing conditions." Her bill reached more than $48,000. This being the Halloween season we're also seeing the barriers between worlds break down, leading to all manor of terrifying evils entering our world. Case in point: Hole has plans to reunite.

A Wilhelm Scream has announced a new EP and posted a new song from the release. Against Me! has titled their next album White Crosses. Epitaph has planned to reissue a number of records from the Blood Brothers, including Young Machetes, Crimes, Burn Piano Island, Burn and March on Electric Children. Propagandhi has announced plans to play a show with Metal legends Sacrifice. Anti-Flag is soon to hit the road with Aiden, Cancer Bats and Fireworks. North Lincoln is calling it a day. Their final show will take place in their hometown of Grand Rapids, MI on December 19 at Mulligan's Pub. An AFI cover of David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" was posted this week. Finally this week saw videos of Lily Allen's "Who'd Have Known"and Weezer's "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To." I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke with singer Bjorn Dossche of Rise and Fall (interview), frontman Dave Hause of The Loved Ones (interview), Thrice lead singer Dustin Kensrue (interview), Mike Kinsella of Owen (interview).

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including former ALL and current Drag the River member Chad Price's first solo album, the new self-recorded, self-produced, self-released sophomore album from the Braces, Brooklyn, NY-based Laura Stevenson and the Cans, and a brand new song from Indianapolis, IN-based Native.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Atreyu, Between The Buried And Me, Foundation, Tegan and Sara, The Creepshow, and The Lawrence Arms and many others. We'll also see a number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from The Creepshow with the Dreadnoughts and the Hypnophonics (Canada), Silverstein and Madina Lake with I See Stars and The Word Alive (US), Faith No More (South America), Star Fucking Hipsters and Citizen Fish with Molotov Compromise (US), Bodyjar (Farewell Tour), The Specials (UK), Big D and the Kids Table (US), and Isis and Dälek with Mamiffer (Europe).

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October 18th, 2009

.ng-section1 { font-size: small; border-bottom: 1px solid #C5C5C5; width: 70%; font-weight: bold; padding: 1em 0 0em 2em; } .ng-section2 { font-size: xx-small; padding: 0 0 2em 3em; } Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking this week… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories Popular political punks Anti-Flag have announced a series of shows in London, Berlin, and Viennathat will see the Pittsburg-based act performing Clash covers. The Misfits are set to return with their first new studio material since 2003 with their Land of the Dead 12". Blink-182's much loved Enema of the State full length is set to receive a vinyl release a decade after the fact via Mightier Than Sword Records. Apple this week countered rumours that had been swirling about their new iTunes LP format. The company has confirmed that the format will be open to both major and indie labels and that the enhanced digital releases would carry not production fee.

Weezer launched a new subscription iTunes pass for their upcoming album, providing a Clash cover as part of the bonus content. Frontman Rivers Cuomo also announced plans to collaborate with Katy Perry. Panic Records has signed a pair of new bands, including Hartford, CT's Hostage Calm and Syracuse, NY's Another Breath. The Riot Before released a new acoustic EP for free download. Jon Cougar Concentration Camp plans to cover the entirety of Screeching Weasel's My Brain Hurts on their new LP. Tom Waits announced plans to release a two-disc live album in November. Japan and Malaysia will soon witness the MxPx All-Stars featuring MxPx singer/bassist Mike Herrera backed by The Ataris' frontman Kris Roe on guitar and the Summer Obsession's Chris Wilson on drums. Against Me!, Alexisonfire and Billy Talent will tour Canada. No Use For A Name are headed to Indonesia, Malaysia, China, and Japan. Less Than Jake has a number of upcoming shows with bands like the Swellers, Fishbone, and Casualties. NOFX is headed south to Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica. This week saw video of a Dillinger Four house show in Tempe, AZ. Rancid unveiled their clip for "Up To No Good." New Found Glory also posted "Don't Let Her Pull You Down."

This week we said goodbye to Brendan Mullen (1949-2009), founder of historic Hollywood punk club The Masque. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke with Jeff Dean of The Bomb (interview), singer Ty Vaughn of Broadway Calls (interview), bassist Ryan of Defiance, Ohio (interview), and Matt Tobey, Ginger Alford and Mike Harpring Jr. of Good Luck (interview).

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured British singer-songwriter Mike Scott, currently on tour with Kevin Seconds (Episode 3). As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Scranton, PA's Captain, We're Sinking, new music from Pittsburgh's American Armada, and 10 songs from new Red Scare act the Reaganomics.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Chad Price, Converge, Failure's Union, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, Star Fucking Hipsters, the Slits, the Reaganomics and many others. We'll also see a number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Green Day (UK), Bouncing Souls with Bayside and Broadway Calls (US), the Damned (US), Propagandhi with The Rebel Spell (Canada), Bad Brains (US), and Thrice with The Dear Hunter and Polar Bear Club (US).

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October 11th, 2009

.ng-section1 { font-size: small; border-bottom: 1px solid #C5C5C5; width: 70%; font-weight: bold; padding: 1em 0 0em 2em; } .ng-section2 { font-size: xx-small; padding: 0 0 2em 3em; } Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking this week… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories Rise Against have responded to a controversy stirred up by Florida radio station BUZZ103. The band commented that "we discovered that we were scheduled to headline a stage sponsored by the US Army's Recruitment Dept. As a band that has worked in counter-recruitment in the past, we decided it would be hypocritical and inappropriate for us to headline this stage. To be clear, this was not an event to honor the military, this was an event that the US ARMY was interested in recruiting people at, and we felt that our fans should be free from that interference at a rock show on a Sunday night in a time of war." On his ongoing tour garage punk Jay Reatard has seen every member of his band quit. He responded with his usual level of bombast. A venue in Los Gatos, California has banned all-ages shows and upended their concert schedule due to a complaint regarding an interaction between a 13 year old and a man in his 20s at the venue. A recent study crunched the numbers on album sales last year, revealing that out of 115,000 albums that were released only 110 sold more than 250,000 copies, only 1,500 topped 10,000, and fewer than 6,000 sold more than 1,000.

The Lawrence Arms have detailed their upcoming EP Buttsweat And Tears. Members of Screeching Weasel, Rise Against, and Common Rider, along with the nephew of the President of Panama, are set to release a new full length under the name Torture The Artist. The Gaslight Anthem have planed a food drive for New York City on their upcoming October 15th. The Fest (documentary) preview and Dillinger Four set video National Underground have posted a preview of their upcoming documentary about the The Fest as well as a Dillinger Four set from last year's event. Against Me! have posted another studio video, this time chronicling their 45th day working on their new album. The upcoming video game Tony Hawk: Ride will include music from Replacements, NOFX, Green Day, Bronx, and the Stooges. This week also saw videos from AFI (the single "Medicate") and Brand New (the unreleased video for "Jesus"). Oh, and Yahoo! declared punk dead. Since Google ate their lunch they've got a lot of free time on their hands.

This week we said goodbye to Jon Guthrie (1983-2009), veteran of several Athens, GA bands. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Our Food Not Songs series of punk rock recipes featured Lemuria making Bugbear Squares. This week we spoke with Shane Told of Silverstein (interview), Andrew Vivian Horne of Bangers (interview), frontman Steve Brodsky of Cave In (interview), and Kenny Bridges of Moneen (interview).

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured British singer-songwriter Mike Scott, currently on tour with Kevin Seconds (Episode 2). Our Video of the Week featured the Gaslight Anthem covering Hot Water Music's "Trusty Chords" on their recent tour. As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Buffalo's Failures' Union, and the sophomore LP from Nothington titled Roads, Bridges and Ruins.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Baroness, Junius, Say Anything, The Scenics and many others. We'll also see a huge number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Chuck Ragan with Jim Ward, Tim Barry, and Dave Hause (Revival Tour), Street Dogs with Civet (Europe), Flogging Molly and Gallows with others (Canada), All-American Rejects with American Steel (US), Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols (UK) Poison The Well (Japan, Australia), Down By Law and the Spears (US), The King Khan and BBQ Show (North America), The Hold Steady with Two Cow Garage (US), Bane with Blacklisted and Foundation (US), and New Found Glory (US).

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October 4th, 2009

.ng-section1 { font-size: small; border-bottom: 1px solid #C5C5C5; width: 70%; font-weight: bold; padding: 1em 0 0em 2em; } .ng-section2 { font-size: xx-small; padding: 0 0 2em 3em; } Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking this week… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories Andrew W.K., citing a recent "intense personal experience," has decided to relocate his upcoming tour dates away from religious venues. While he was light on the details, he stated that "I love going to churches and hearing music there - but I can't play my music on that sort of stage after what happened." Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls got people talking this week with a blog post about fan donations. She commented "If you think i'm going to pass up a chance to put my hat back down in front of the collected audience on my virtual sidewalk and ask them to give their hard-earned money directly to me instead of to Roadrunner Records, Warner Music Group, Ticketmaster, and everyone else out there who's been shamelessly raping both fan and artist for years, you're crazy." John Joseph of Cro-Mags fame announced that his upcoming novel would be titled Meat Is For Pussies. Film industry news sources this week announced that Fox Searchlight is interested in the upcoming Ramones biopic. Research firm Forrester Research stated that the music industry needs a "radical overhaul" to thrive. The report, as covered by Ars Technica, states that users should be able to "completely customize and share their music in an extremely open, platform-agnostic manner."

Thomas of Strike Anywhere annotated their new album Iron Front with a track-by-track preview. Fall Out Boy is set to release a Greatest Hits CD soon. Social Distortion's guitarist discussed their new album. The classic punk act hit the Foo Fighters' studio this week. This week the schedule for The Fest 8was announced. Streetlight Manifesto is playing a show at the Starland Ballroom tonight that features every track from the records Everything Goes Numb and Somewhere in the Between. This week saw North American tour dates from Thursday, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Fake Problems, European tour dates from All-American Rejects and American Steel. Footage of the Gaslight Anthem playing the Beatles' "Come Together"was also unveiled this week.

This week we said goodbye to The Death Set co-founder Beau Velasco (-2009) and Trial / Three Inches of Blood member Brian Redman (1978-2009). I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Our Food Not Songs series of punk rock recipes featured Lemuria making Bugbear Squares. Banner Pilot, Teenage Bottlerocket and Cobra Skulls topped the list of Your Favorite Records from September. This week we spoke with Chris Wollard of Hot Water Music, the Draft and now Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves (interview), guitarist / vocalist Paul Pendley of Red City Radio (interview), guitarist Nick Bergheimer of Landmines (interview), guitarist Mike McLeod of madcowboys (interview), David "Spoonboy" Combs of The Max Levine Ensemble (interview), and AFI frontman Davey Havok (interview). As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the Cherry Poppin' Daddies re-release of Susquehanna.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Built To Spill, Cheap Girls, Gogol Bordello, HORSE The Band, Lucero, Mission Of Burma, Nothington, Relient K, Strike Anywhere and many others. We'll also see a huge number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Swingin' Utters (US), Frank Turner and Fake Problems (UK), Bob Mould (US), Alexisonfire and Anti-Flag with Ghost of a Thousand and the Fall of Troy (Europe), Nothington (US), The Phenomenauts and Go Jimmy Go (US), and Teenage Bottlerocket with Cobra Skulls (US). This week will also see on of the Small Brown Bike reunion shows (details).

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