Radio Free Punknews

Check 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 Olympia, WA-based Mutoid Men
• the recent full length from Jacksonville, FL's Whaleface
• the Verona Records EP from Toronto's I Am Committing A Sin
• a new full length from Tallahassee, FL's Friends of Friends
• the new EP from Brooklyn's the Reveling
• the new record from Los Angeles' Calculator

Also don't forget to check out the new full length 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, and an EP from Detroit, MI's A-Gang You can find much more on the Punknews Music page.

December 27th, 2009

Hello everybody and welcome to your all-new all-different 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:

• Alkaline Trio announced tour dates in February and March with Cursive
• The Warped Tour confirmed that Polar Bear Club, Sum 41, Fake Problems, the Swellers, Every Time I Die and Motion City Soundtrack would participate this year
• We saw the trailer for the upcoming Runaways film, starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning as members of the proto-punk act
• We had word that the Graves-era Misfits are set to open for Danzig at an upcoming show
• Dan Yemin of Paint It Black started a music and parenting blog
• Our buddies in O Pioneers!!! survived a van flip

With that we hand over this Sunday evening to you, the Punknews community. From that glorious, likely bearded rabble we've see the creation of everything from message boards and Punknews fantasy sports leagues to even a band or two. So talk amongst yourselves and we'll see you Monday…

The People Must Have Something Good To Read

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

• Mike Reed, Ben Reed, Travis Dopp of Small Brown Bike
• Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die
• Adam Turla of Murder by Death
• Chuck Robertson of the Mad Caddies
• Kurt Ballou of Converge
  Throughout the month we've been posting Best of 2009 lists from our friends in the punk world. We talked with members of bands like Shai Hulud, Gatorface, Silverstein, Off With Their Heads, Moneen, the Loved Ones, Smoke Or Fire, None More Black, NOFX, Less Than Jake, Hot Water Music and many, many others. Hit up the search page for the full list of links.

  We also posted our first set of Punknews staff Best Of Lists, this edition featuring our intrepid volunteer reviewers. Look for the editors' lists on the 29th.

Tonight We're Going To Give It 35%

We've constantly amazed by the interactions we have with people elsewhere on the internet, be it that you visit other websites out there, and we know it can be tough to leave the calming blue glow of the `Org, so we'll help by infecting the rest of the web with Punknews content:

• We love getting your feedback via Twitter
• Be our friends at the Punknews MySpace page
• Come hang out at the Punknews Facebook fan page or group
• Contribute your listening habits to the weekly charts at our Last.fm group
• We reblog all sorts of punk content via the Punknews Tumblr
• Your photos in our Flickr Pool can be seen in the sidebar here on the `Org
• Any high quality video we shoot can be found at Vimeo

Your trusty Punknews staffers and reviewers have all sorts of projects on the go, everything from poorly spelled and oft neglected blogs to big official world domination schemes. Make sure to check out Bryne Yancey's podcast What We Hate, Rich Verducci's podcast Sound Scene Revolution, Chris Moran's band footage at Vimeo, Jesse Raub's writings at Ghettoblaster and Intelligentsia, Justin August's tumblog at JustinAugust.org and Adam White's tumblog at AdamWhite.org.

Of course your day wouldn't be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors' lives. Follow @adamwhite, @jesseraub, @justinaugust, @brian_shultz, @bconoley, @dante3000 and @bryneyancey's every move at Twitter.

Radio Free Punknews

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

• the recent full length from Jacksonville, FL's Whaleface
• the Verona Records EP from Toronto's I Am Committing A Sin
• a new full length from Tallahassee, FL's Friends of Friends
• the new EP from Brooklyn's the Reveling
• the new record from Los Angeles' Calculator
• the new full length from Toronto's The Roman Line

Also don't forget to check out 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 and Dead To Me's new full length African Elephants, You can find much more on the Punknews Music page.

Punknews welcomes Richard Verducci

We've been making a lot of changes over at Punknews HQ, and we are as excited about today's announcement as we have been about any other over the past month. With Punknews continuing to grow, we realized we needed some more help. Thus, we turned to our good friend and longtime community member, Dante 3000, legally known as Richard Verducci. Rich will be coming on board as our new Interview Editor. Rich is an experienced interviewer through his long-running podcast Sound Scene Revolution. He's got a great stable of writers who will continue to write insightful interviews with some great bands. In related news, I (Ben Conoley) will be taking up the new position of Managing Editor. You might not see my name on as many articles, but I'll be kicking around.

As always, thanks for reading. Feel free to welcome Dante, er, Rich, in the comments section.

December 20th, 2009

Hello everybody and welcome to your all-new all-different 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:

• A Wilhelm Scream posted their new video for the song "Fun Time" from their recent EP.
• Four Year Strong left Decaydance and signed to Universal Motown, with their major label debut due in March.
• The Number Twelve Looks Like You announced their break up.
• The Stooges finally made it into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
• 90s punk documentary "One Nine Nine Four" is raising money to complete the film.
• The storied Jay Reatard looked back on his busy, sometimes controversial year.
• A new biopic spotlighting Blink-182 is in

The People Must Have Something Good To Read

Throughout the month we've been posting Best of 2009 lists from our friends in the punk world. Check out these picks:

• Jordan (Strung Out), Dave House, Paul (Silverstein): lists
• Frank Turner, Elliot (How Dare You), Jim (Soul Control): lists
• Stevo (1234 Go! Records) / Eric (O Pioneers!!!) / Jeff (Bomb The Music Industry!): lists
• Tony (Municipal Waste), Tony (No Idea), Kevin (North Lincoln): lists
• Jake (Rehasher), PJ (Grabass Charlestons), Failures' Union: lists
• Vinnie (Less Than Jake), Jason (Hot Water Music), Useless ID: lists

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

• Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die
• Adam Turla of Murder by Death
• Chuck Robertson of the Mad Caddies
• Kurt Ballou of Converge

Tonight We're Going To Give It 35%

We've theorized that you visit other websites out there, and we know it can be tough to leave the calming blue glow of the `Org, so we'll help by infecting the rest of the web with Punknews content:

• Be our friends at the Punknews MySpace page
• Come hang out at the Punknews Facebook fan page or the Facebook group
• We love getting your feedback via Twitter
• Contribute your listening habits to the weekly charts at our Last.fm group
• We just redesigned the Punknews Tumblr
• Your photos in our Flickr Pool can be seen in the sidebar here on the `Org
• Any high quality video we shoot can be found at Vimeo

Your trusty Punknews staffers and reviewers have all sorts of projects on the go, everything from poorly spelled and oft neglected blogs to big official world domination schemes. Make sure to check out Bryne Yancey's podcast What We Hate, Chris Moran's collection of recordings online at Vimeo, editor Justin August's tumblog at JustinAugust.org and Adam White's tumblog at AdamWhite.org.

Of course your day wouldn't be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors' lives. Follow @adamwhite, @jesseraub, @justinaugust, @brian_shultz, @bconoley and @bryneyancey's every move at Twitter.

It's Funny, I Don't Feel Like a Winner

Don't forget to enter the current contests we're running here at Punknews.org. Here's what we're currently giving away:

• Win autographed and numbered posters from artist Keith Rosson, creator of cover art for bands like Anchor Arms, How Dare You, New Bruises, Death Is Not Glamorous and Anchor Down.

If you're from a label or in a band and have something cool to give away to the Punknews community, by all means get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.