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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September 27th, 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 Anti-Flag was forced to cancel their "G20 Welcoming Party" show in their hometown of Pittsburg due to the proximity of their venue to the expanded security perimeter surrounding the summit. They encouraged fans to get out and protest anyways. Matt Bellamy of Muse kicked up a heated discussion by suggesting that all internet data usage be progressively taxed to subsidize artists. Tech industry blog TechCrunch has been increasingly critical of similar musician-bred solutions to the issue, sarcastically suggesting we should just throw up our hands and ban music. This comes after some in the music industry suggested that royalties should be collected for usage such as 30 second song samples in digital stores. Scientists decided to pit vinyl against CD and digital formats in an attempt to quantify fidelity with interesting results. Critically acclaimed hip hop artist and actor Mos Def is collaborating with Damon Dash of Roc-A-Fella Records to produce a documentary about pioneering Detroit punk outfit Death.

Social Distortion is set to hit the studio in January of 2010 to work on new material. forgetters, which features Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil frontman Blake Schwarzenbach and original Against Me! drummer Kevin Mahon, is set to record a 7" in October. Label Paper and Plastick is set to release Frank Turner's First Three Years LP. Weezer revealed their Raditude track listing and bonus material. We also saw artwork from the debut from Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. This week saw streams of three big upcoming records, those being AFI's Crash Love, the Swellers Ups and Downsizingand Strung Out's Agents of the Underground. The recently reunited Small Brown Bike has been confirmed for The Fest 8. Converge is set to kick off a two month tour of the US with Mastodon, and High on Fire among others. Hot Water Music is also set to get back together for a November tour of Germany. This week brought a video from Brand New for the song "At the Bottom"and images of Iggy Pop from the Lego Rock Bandvideo game. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke with Calvinball guitarist / vocalist Dave Wolinsky (interview), Fred Mascherino of The Color Fred (formerly of Taking Back Sunday) (interview), Chicken, Nathan Grice, and Ian Anderson of Dead To Me (interview), Peter Helmis of Algernon Cadwallader (interview), and Rory Henderson of American Steel (interview).

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured British singer-songwriter Mike Scott, currently on tour with Kevin Seconds (Episode 1). As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Baltimore, Maryland's Ruiner, and new material from London-based Apologies, I Have None.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from AFI, Doomriders, Evergreen Terrace, Krum Bums, Paramore, Strung Out and the Swellers. We'll also see a huge number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Nobunny and Jay Reatard (US), Weatherbox (US), Dinosaur Jr. (US), Brand New with Manchester Orchestra, Thrice, Glassjaw (US), Senses Fail (US), Strung Out (US), Bridge & Tunnel (US), Strike Anywhere with Crime in Stereo, Polar Bear Club, Ruiner (US), AFI (US), Moneen (US), Apostle of Hustle with Gogol Bordello (US), and the Misfits (Mexico, US, Canada).

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September 20th, 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 this website has been around for around a decade now! Who knew? Our good friends at Pastepunk were apparently keeping track and they graciously decided to chat with Punknews' Aubin Paul, Adam White and Brian Shultz to celebrate the occasion. Speaking of ten year anniversaries, Rise Against have one coming up. The band will celebrate with a show in Chicago dubbed "Songs from the Fat Years" that will feature just that, including cuts from 2001's The Unraveling and 2003's Revolutions Per Minute. Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson is set to release a 7 inch series honouring the roads of his home province of Manitoba. Poison The Well were the latest band to suffer theft on the road, losing their van and gear from a hotel parking lot in Detroit.

This week brought news that the Smashing Pumpkins are set to release a 44-song album periodically and for free. London's The Steal are calling it quits. This week had upcoming show announcements from the reunited Small Brown Bike. We also had word that Shook Ones, Title Fight and We Are the Union are set to tour together. We had more Fest 8 confirmations from Sakes Alive!!, We Are The Union, Defeater, Hostage Life and many more. Brand New unveiled their new record Daisy in a limited stream. Green Day unveiled the new video for their single "East Jesus Nowhere," and also performed the song live at VMAs. All Time Low also posted their clip for "Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't)." Tom Gabel had some fun with the latest Against Me! studio video, addressing concerns that his others were boring. The trailer for new punk rock-themed web sitcom Oblivion also premiered this week. Artist Rob Dobi also added 5 new scenesters to his Your Scene Sucks collection.

This week we said goodbye to legendary punk poet Jim Carroll (1949-2009). 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 Deeker Johnston of Joey Terrifying (interview), bassist Ray Carlisle of Teenage Bottlerocket (interview), The Encyclopedia of Punk author Brian Cogan (interview), Chris Matulich and Jay Northington of Nothington (interview), and guitarist / vocalist Trevor Reilly of A Wilhelm Scream (interview).

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new 7" from Washington, DC-based Lion of Judah, the new full length from Teenage Bottlerocket, Slackers frontman Vic Ruggiero's new solo project, a 7" from Newark, NJ-based Troublemaker, and a preview of a new song from AFI.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Brand New, Islands, Owen, Ruiner, the Almighty Defenders, and Times New Viking with tours kicking off from Bad Religion and NOFX (Australia), The Queers with The Leftovers (US), The Academy Is, Mayday Parade and Set Your Goals (US), Virgins and Lords (US), A Wilhelm Scream (Europe), The Spits (US), A Day To Remember with Parkway Drive and others (US).

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September 13th, 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 brought major news that Public Image Ltd is reforming in December. John Lydon's influential post-Sex Pistols act hasn't played in 17 years, but the group wil return for a series of shows to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Metal Box. The presence of Kurt Cobain as a playable character in the new Guitar Hero 5 video game has enranged the members of the Nirvana camp. Cobain's widow Courtney Love threatened to sue the shit out of Activision, while the developer claims that Love signed agreements allowing for Cobain's image to be used. Former Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl were also dismayed, with Grohl urging Activision to "re-lock" Kurt's character so that it can't be used for anything but Nirvana songs in the game. In less contentious Nirvana news, the band's 1992 Reading Set will arrive as a CD / DVD set in November. Influential post-hardcore band Small Brown Bike has announced plans to reform and play shows in the near future. At a recent product announcement Apple unveiled the iTunes LP. The digital download will accompany music with lyrics, liner notes, video, photos and other content. Another forward thinking digital initiative has arrived from Nick Cave, who has released an enhanced ebook for the iPhone. It features the text of his second novel The Death of Bunny Munro with an audiobook read by Cave and featuring original music.

Rise Against has announced plans to work on new album for release in 2010. The Lawrence Arms are gearing up for their upcoming anniversary show by asking fans to choose the set list. Brendan Kelly was also interviewed by NME with a report on his favorite songs. Suburban Home records is giving away free albumsfor their 14th Anniversary. The kids from the Harry Potter movies were spotted checking out popular UK punk act Gallows at recent shows. BYO Records has unveiled Let Them Know covers by Dropkick Murphys, American Steel, and In The Red among others. Keep an eye open for upcoming tour dates from Shook Ones and Title Fight (co-headlining) as well as an upcoming trek from the Star Fucking Hipsters, Citizen Fish and Molotov Compromise. The Fest 8 has confirmed more bands, including Broadway Calls, The Swellers, and Panthro UK United 13. New video footage arrived this week of Frank Turner performing "Poetry of the Deed" live on CNN and Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem acoustically performing "Casanova, Baby!"

This week we said goodbye to Jake Brockman of Echo & the Bunnymen (1956-2009). I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke with lead singer/guitarist John Gourley and bassist Zachary Carothers of Portugal The Man (interview), Nick and Nate from Minneapolis' Banner Pilot (interview), drummer and songwriter Brad Lokkesmoe of Dear Landlord (interview), Jon Ginoli of Pansy Division (interview), and Chase Brenneman of Living With Lions (interview).

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured another edition of Mike Hale's For Those Still Standing (

September 6th, 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 In the wake of Jim Lindberg's departure comes word that Ignite vocalist Zoli Teglas will temporarily front Pennywise. He'll appear with the band at the two day Cypress Hill's Smokeout Fest. We've also had word that Sublime intends to reunite for that event. Our best guess is they've got Black Lantern Bradley Nowell fronting them (too soon?). forgetters, the new band that features Jawbreaker / Jets to Brazil frontman Blake Schwarzenbach and original Against Me! drummer Kevin Mahon, is set to play a show this September in NYC. Speaking of Against Me! this week saw frontman Tom Gabel post a few videos of the band in the studio.

The Riot Before has signed to Paper and Plastick. The group plans to hit the studio this winter to record a new full length. Punk veterans Bad Religion are repressing some early albums on vinyl. Lucero posted the new song "Smoke" from their upcoming album 1372 Overton Park, due in October. The 4th Annual Red Oktoberfest in Chicago will feature bands like the Lawrence Arms, Off With Their Heads, the Copyrights, La Plebe, Smalltown, the Menzingers, Mike Park and the Reganomics (Ryan's Hope). The Misfits have a huge tour lined up with dates in Mexico, the US, and Canada. Guttermouth is headed to the great white north. The Bronx' new sideproject Mariachi El Bronx will support the Killers on tour. Finally Blink-182 has postponed shows following the death of band friend DJ AM. 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 Thomas Barnett of Strike Anywhere (interview), the voice of geek America Rev. Norb of Boris the Sprinkler (interview), guitarist Chris Chasse of Nations Afire (interview), and drummer Lee Barrett of Gallows (interview).

Paint it Black, Polar Bear Club and Set Your Goals topped the list of Your Favorite Records from August. Our Food Not Songs series of punk rock recipes featured Fake Problems making "It's Great To Be Shepherds Pie." As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the Sidekicks' new full length for Red Scare Records, the new EP from Rochester, NY's Sakes Alive!!, the new full length from Chicago's The Bomb, and the final full length from Brooklyn's Nakatomi Plaza.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Polar Bear Club, Saosin, Ruiner, Vivian Girls, and Cuff The Duke with tours kicking off from Every Time I Die with Bring Me the Horizon, Oh, Sleeper, Architects (North America), Gaslight Anthem with Murder By Death, the Loved Ones, Frank Turner, the Measure SA (North America), Naked Raygun with Paint It Black and Shot Baker (US), Angry Samoans with Dirty Tactics (US), And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead with Secret Machines and Future of the Left (US), and These Arms Are Snakes with dd/mm/yy (North America).

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