June 21st, 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 Against Me! unveiled that George Rebelo of Hot Water Music has joined the band as their new drummer. Rebelo replaces the recently departed Warren Oakes, who left the band after a number of years to, at least in part, focus on his new Mexican restaurant. Blink-182's high profile reunion continues to roll along. Tom Delonge discussed the Rush and Pink Floyd inspired new song that they plan to unveil on tour, along with a free film and album from his other project Angels and Airwaves titled Love. Anti-Flag protest California's Proposition 8 with a new 7-inch EP on Fat Wreck Chords. The band will also be joined by Alexisonfire as co-headliners on the forthcoming Eastpak Antidote Tour. With the start of this year's Warped Tour imminent there's lots of news from that camp. Popular video game Rock Band is promising the release of Warped-themed track packs, while NOFX is set to be featured on the upcoming Warped Tour comp with an unreleased song. In other festival news the lineup for Riot Fest has been expanded to feature Butthole Surfers, New Bomb Turks, Off With Their Heads, 88 Fingers Louie, and Pegboy.

Many bands are hard at work on new records. Face To Face is writing and plans to hit the studio in July. Cobra Skulls detailed the art and track listing for the July release of American Rubicon. The Lawrence Arms will enter the studio soon to record a new 7". Moneen's next will be The World I Want to Leave Behind and will arrive on September 15th. Polar Bear Club detailed their upcoming Chasing Hamburg. Finally Glassjaw looks to have completed their new EP. The Mad Caddies have tour dates set for California and Europe soon. Naked Raygun, Paint It Black and Shot Baker will tour together this September. Rx Bandits posted a new song from their forthcoming record Mandala titled "Hope Is A Butterfly, Not Net Its Captor." Set Your Goals unveiled the track "Gaia Bleeds" from their Epitaph debut, featuring Jon Gula of Turmoil. This week brought us video footage of the Gaslight Anthem performing "Live on the Interface" as well as Rancid on the Tonight Show playing "Last One To Die." I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Punknews.org will be represented this year at the 2009 San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 19th. The current team features Punknews readers, staff from Fat Wreck Chords and our pal Mike Park of Asian Man Records. You can register here or make a general donation here.

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured Cleveland, Ohio's The Sidekicks (Episode 3). We also featured Episode 11 of Mike Hale's ongoing tour diary "For Those Still Standing." This week we spoke with solo artist Warped Tour mastermind Kevin Lyman (interview), Chris Wollard of the Draft, Hot Water Music and most recently Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves (interview), and the legendary Keith Morris of Black Flag and the Circle Jerks (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new song "No Rest" from St. Catharines, Ontario's Alexisonfire, the new full length from Calgary, Alberta's This Is A Standoff, and Minneapolis' the Gateway District (members of the Soviettes, Banner Pilot, Off with Their Heads, Rivethead). So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Alexisonfire, Classics Of Love, Bouncing Souls, Darkest Hour, Dinosaur Jr., Future of the Left, Spinnerette and the Lemonheads with tours kicking off from Brand New / Moneen (UK), Squirtgun (US / Europe), Sick Of It All (Europe), Teen Idols / The Leftovers (US), Fake Problems with Kiss Kiss, Ninja Gun (US / Canada), Sonic Youth (US), and Subhumans (UK) / Ray Gradys / Witch Hunt (Canada / US). This week also marks the kick off of the 2009 Warped Tour featuring bands like Bad Religion, NOFX, Bouncing Souls, Less Than Jake, Anti-Flag and many others.

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June 14th, 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 Fans were shocked this week to see a break in the ranks of popular punk act Against Me!. Drummer Warren Oakes has left the band, in a decision he called "mutual" and "amicable" to run a Mexican restaurant in the band's hometown of Gainesville, FL. Recent comments from Mars Volta frontman Cedric Bixler Zavala have hinted that members of At The Drive-In may have reconciled their differences, however Jim Ward, who moved on to play in Sparta and Sleepercar seemed less than enthusiastic about addressing reunion talk. The Fest, which has become one of the most important punk rock events of the year, is set to return for it's 8th year from October 30th to November 1st. More than 200 bands are expected to participate. Punknews favourites Paint It Black have announced that Fat Wreck Chords will release the band's second 7" of the summer in August. The group previewed the song "Salem" from the first disc, set for release next week on Bridge Nine.

The Casualties have set a release date for their eighth album We Are All We Have. Drummer Mark Eggers called it the band's "most diverse album" yet. Pinhead Gunpowder detailed their upcoming greatest hits compilation "Kick Over The Traces." Victory Records will release the next record from Iowa based Destrophy. A tribute to Atom And His Package has been announced, with bands like Zolof The Rock & Roll Destroyer, MC Chris, and MC Lars involved. Gaslight Anthem confirmed dates for their headlining tour. The group will be joined by Murder By Death on all shows and will feature the Loved Ones, Frank Turner, Jesse Malin and Broadway Calls on select dates. Rx Bandits and Dredg also announced a portion of their summer tour. The Get Up Kids detailed their retunion tour, which includes shows in Europe and the UK in August and September, followed by shows in the US in September and October. This week you could preview "Carry the Torch: A Tribute to Kid Dynamite" featuring songs from the Ergs, Static Radio NJ, This Is Hell and No Trigger among others. Brody Dalle's new band Spinnerette also debuted their new single "Baptized By Fire" Finally this week saw more video of Blink-182 reunion performances. The popular three piece performed "Dammit" and "What's My Age Again?" on Jimmy Kimmel and "The Rock Show " live on the Daily Habit. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Punknews.org will be represented this year at the 2009 San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 19th. The current team features Punknews readers, staff from Fat Wreck Chords and our pal Mike Park of Asian Man Records. You can register here or make a general donation here.

This week we spoke with solo artist Matt Pryor (of the Get Up Kids / New Amsterdams) and Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy / Common Rider on his new band Classics Of Love (interview). This week's Editors' Picks recommended music from Greater Visions. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Philadelphia, PA's Lighten Up, and Orlando, FL's No Friends. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Pixies (box set), Bedouin Soundclash, Paint It Black Pinhead Gunpowder and Time Again with tours kicking off from Social Distortion / Gaslight Anthem (Germany), Limp Wrist (Europe), Propagandhi / Strike Anywhere (US), Bouncing Souls (US / Europe), Circle Jerks (California), Silverstein / Poison The Well / The Sleeping / Oceana (Canada / US), Bedouin Soundclash (US / Canada), the Misfits (US / Europe), Lower Class Brats / Vice Squad (US), and the Swellers & friends (US).

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June 7th, 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 The Rancid news keeps flowing. Lars Frederiksen and Tim Armstrong spoke out this week about the band's new album, their writing process, and the influence of producer Brett Gurewitz. Tim and Matt Freeman also discussed and debunked persistent rumours of an Operation Ivy reunion. The band will play the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien this week. Shook Ones expressed their support for the opponents of California's Proposition 8 with a new downloadable track to raise money for Lambda Legal, The ACLU of California, and Equality California. Successful alt-rock act Pearl Jam is teaming up with retailer Target for their next album. The band has wrapped up their lengthy contract with Sony Records, who released all the band's material since 1991's Ten. Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz has announced plans to launch a comic book series through Image Comics.

There are plenty of new records in the works soon. Thrice is aiming for a fall release of their new full length. Florida's Look Mexico have signed to Suburban Home Records. They'll again work with Phil Martin and August Hansen on their new record. Crime In Stereo have entered the studio with producer Mike Sapone to begin work on their as-yet untitled fourth full length. Tegan and Sara are hinting at an October release for their next. Only Crime is also writing new material. Riot Fest announced some headliners for the `09 edition of the Chicago festival, as well as plans for a Los Angeles version of the vent. The Chicago tour, set for October 7th through 12th will include Screeching Weasel, NOFX, Alkaline Trio, Murder City Devils, the Dead Milkmen and Cock Sparrer. The Gaslight Anthem is planning a fall headlining tour with Loved Ones, Murder By Death, and Frank Turner. The Voodoo Glow Skulls are also hitting the road. This week broght two new tracks from Echoes of Harpers Ferry. Anti-Flag streamed their new full length The People or the Gun. Narrows also posted their video for the song "Gypsy Kids." I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Punknews.org will be represented this year at the 2009 San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 19th. The current team features Punknews readers, staff from Fat Wreck Chords and our pal Mike Park of Asian Man Records. You can register here or make a general donation here.

NOFX and Green Day lead your Your Favorite Records from May. Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured Rochester, NY's Sakes Alive!! (Episode 1), Cleveland, Ohio's the Sidekicks (Episode 1), Richmond, Virginia's the Riot Before (Episode 3) and Bomb The Music Industry! / Fake Problems (Episode 2). This week we spoke with hard partier and all around nice guy Andrew W.K. (interview), and Greg Attonito, Pete Steinkopf and Bryan Kienlen of the Bouncing Souls (interview). Our Video of the Week featured Philadelphia's Dirty Tactics performing two songs. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Akron, OH's post rock outfit If These Trees Could Talk, and the new full length from Kalamazoo, MI-based the Reptilian. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Anti-Flag, Dredg, North Lincoln, Sonic Youth, and the Aggrolites with tours kicking off from Ted Leo and the Pharmacists / Titus Andronicus (US), Social Distortion (Europe, UK), the Lemonheads (US), Dillinger Escape Plan / The Number Twelve Looks Like You (US / Canada / Europe), Faith No More (Europe), The Casualties / Leftover Crack / Trash Talk (US), Yesterday's Ring / Bridge and Tunnel (Canada), Cursive (US).

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May 31st, 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 new album from Rancid is an event to be sure, and there was no shortage of news from their camp this week. The new album Let The Dominoes Fall was unveiled to the public with a stream on MySpace this week. The band's upcoming tour partners Rise Against also had some kind words to say about the popular East Bay punks act. Also this week legendary producer Phil Spector, famous for his "wall of sound" production technique and work with bands from the Ronettes to Tina Turner to the Beatles to the Ramones, was sentenced for murder this week. Spector was found guilty of murdering actress Lana Clarkson, and is set to serve 19 years to life.

Hopeless act All Time Low is set to release Nothing Personal this July and detailed the record this week. Polar Bear Club announced the title and release date of their sophomore full length, titled Chasing Hamburg. Brooklyn, NY's The Brass (featuring members of On The Might Of Princes and Latterman) have announced the release of their upcoming 7". The Bouncing Souls premiered the first volume of their 20th Anniversary TV Spectacular. A Wilhelm Scream posted a studio clip of them working on their upcoming EP. On the tour circuit look for Brand New on the road in the US soon. Look for a summer tour featuring Anchor Down, In The Red and Bastards Of Young. Social Distortion have added some US and Canadian dates supported by Civet and the Strangers. Fake Problems will also be on the road with Kiss Kiss and Ninja Gun. This week brought new audio from Sky Eats Airplane with their cover of nu-metal relic "Nookie." Speaking of covers William Elliott Whitmore performed a cover of Bad Religion's "Don't Pray On Me" from their 1995 album Recipe For Hate.

This week we said goodbye to multi-instrumentalist, producer and former member of Wilco (Jay Bennett (1963-2009). I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Punknews.org will be represented this year at the 2009 San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 19th. The current team features Punknews readers, staff from Fat Wreck Chords and our pal Mike Park of Asian Man Records. You can register here or make a general donation here.

Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured Rochester, NY's Sakes Alive!! as they prepared their new EP (video intro). This week we spoke with Roger Manganelli of Rehasher (interview), and Zach Byrne and Andy Kavanaugh of The Goodnight Loving (interview). So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Dave House, 311, Rancid, Spinnerette, Subb, Taking Back Sunday with tours kicking off from All Time Low and Set Your Goals on the Take Action Tour Australia, This Time Next Year / A Loss for Words (US), Rise Against / Rancid / Riverboat Gamblers / Billy Talent (US / Canada), Lemuria (UK), Dillinger Four (US), Darkest Hour (US / Europe), Mastodon (UK), and Alexisonfire (US / Europe).

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May 24th, 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 critically acclaimed melodic hardcore outfit Strike Anywhere signed to Bridge 9 Records. The band will hit the studio next week to record with producer Brian Mcternan. Green Day has come into conflict with Wal-Mart over the content of their new album. The chain isn't stocking the CD because after the band refuses to produce a censored version. Blink-182's back. The band was interviewed on KROQ this week and performed two songs on Leno. RVIVR, the newest endeavor for Shorebirds and Latterman frontman Matt Canino, is planning a new 7" single. Canino has also formed the band Mutoid Men with Jawbreaker bassist Chris Bauermeister.

Big D and The Kids Table detailed their new album Fluent In Stroll, due out on July 7th 2009 via SideOneDummy. This September that label will also release Gold Country, the new record from Chuck Ragan. Dear Landlord posted three new songs from their upcoming No Idea debut Dream Homes. Rancid unveiled another new song, previewing "East Bay Night" online. Mall punk act Simple Plan has begun writing their next album. Four Year Strong is planning a 90s covers album titled Explains It All". The 10 For $10 tour will feature ten bands for ten bucks and will feature bands like Poison the Well, Madball, Bane, Terror and Crime in Stereo. Ska fans take note, as the English Beat and Reel Big Fish have lined up a US tour. Also look for This Time Next Year to tour with A Loss for Words. The schedule for Chicago's Windy City Soundclash was posted. Look for bands like the Falcon, the Bomb, the Arrivals, Toys That Kill, Banner Pilot, Ryan's Hope, the Copyrights, the Methadones and Sundowner among others. Finaly this week Rise Against debuted their video for "Hero of War." I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Punknews.org will be represented this year at the 2009 San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 19th. The current team features Punknews readers, staff from Fat Wreck Chords and our pal Mike Park of Asian Man Records. You can register here or make a general donation here.

Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Philadelphia's Dirty Tactics (Episode 3). This week we spoke with guitarist Travis Omilian, Trevor Reddell, Louis Barbiere and Corey Perez of Let Me Run (interview), solo artist and Hot Water Music member Chuck Ragan (interview), and John Lisa of mid nineties New York hardcore act Serpico (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new full length from Sweden's Smalltown, and Winnipeg's Sights and Sounds (members of Comeback Kid, Sick City and Figure Four). So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Bury Your Dead and the Paper Chase with tours kicking off from Relient K (US), and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes / Useless ID (Europe) Matchbook Romance will kick off their reunion shows as well.

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May 17th, 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 Now that they've left major label Epic Records, the Alkaline Trio intend to return to their roots. The band has announced plans to make a good ol' fashioned punk rock record again. Hardcore act Have Heart will call it quits after its world tour with Shipwreck A.D. wraps. Their last show will take place this October on National Edge Day. A fascinating interview with Fat Mike of NOFX wrapped up with a discussion of Fat Wreck Chords' future and their new pricing model. The Bouncing Souls have announced 20th anniversary shows featuring guests like 7 Seconds, Lifetime, None More Black and Tim Barry, along with a television special. Blink-182 further discussed their tour plans and preparation, finally unveiling dates and support from Weezer and Fall Out Boy.

American Steel have posted an update on their next full length for Fat Wreck Chords. The album is completed and will hit stores in late July. Rancid posted the first video from their forthcoming album Let the Dominoes Fall, showcasing the single "Last One to Die." Atreyu also premiered their video for "Blow." Details on the upcoming 2009 Joey Ramone Birthday Bash have been announced, with the show celebrating the late Ramones frontman to feature Fishbone, Supersuckers, and Death. The Lawrence Arms are still hinting at that show in October, among much blogging. Finally Rise Against won an award from PETA for being the "best animal Friendly band." I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Punknews.org will be represented this year at the 2009 San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 19th. The current team features Punknews readers, staff from Fat Wreck Chords and our pal Mike Park of Asian Man Records. You can register here or make a general donation here.

Punknews.org is proud to continue publishing road journals from Mike Hale (Gunmoll, In The Red). Having packed up his belongings, moved out of his apartment, and committed himself to living as a touring musician, Mike has some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and now Episode 10 of For Those Still Standing. Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured The Riot Before (Episode 2), the Flatliners (Episode 2) and Bomb The Music Industry / Fake Problems (Episode 1). This week we spoke with guitarist Chris Browne of Rochester, NY's Polar Bear Club (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new full length from Orebro, Sweden's Let Me Out, Montreal's Yesterday's Ring (features members of The Sainte Catherines and Fifth Hour Hero), a new record from Grand Rapids, MI's North Lincoln, and the new digital EP/7-inch from Scranton, PA's the Menzingers. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Cock Sparrer, Civ, John Vanderslice, mewithoutYou, and Poison The Well with tours kicking off from Misery Signals / Haste the Day / Dead and Divine / Architects / Sights and Sounds (Canada), No Use For a Name / Only Crime (Canada), The Flatliners / Hostage Life (Canada), Propagandhi / Bridge and Tunnel (US), Have Heart / Carpathian / Break Even (Australia), The Number Twelve Looks Like You / Tony Danza Tapdance Extravanganza (Canada), and the final shows from Verse featuring Shipwreck, Crime in Stereo and Soul Control.

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May 10, 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 am not Adam White, he's gone for a few weeks, so this week I'm filling in to 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 was a mix of the old and the new. The most important news was obviously that the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are going to tour and record a new album. Don't call it a comeback! For some reason the news that Rock Band added Social Distortion, Replacements and Elvis Costello set you guys off - maybe you're Guitar Hero fans? Underoath stepped in it when they seemed to not know a thing about pioneering metal act Metallica. Agnostic Front is rolling out on tour, I'd make a clever quip but I value my kneecaps. The oddly controversial Alkaline Trio decided to leave Epic, start a label and plans to record in the summer. Phew. New reformed pop-punk dieties blink182 are working on a new album and recording after their upcoming tour. Another similarly huge band you may have heard of was in the news a bit this week. Green Day news is as follows: Green Day streams songs from new album, Streams of "21st Century Breakdown", MySpace is airing a May performance, they're touring with Kaiser Chiefs and Fuse plans a Green Day day. Fat Mike of NOFX was also in the news, talking about the music industry and recent price drops. Check out Part One and Part Two. You might have heard about a band called The Gaslight Anthem who was recently interviewed in Washington Post Express. And in totally unrelated news A Wilhelm Scream is recording new EP, album, AND posted a b-side. We also took a look at Your Favorite Records from April. Fantastic taste our readers have. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Punknews.org is proud to continue publishing road journals from Mike Hale (Gunmoll, In The Red). Having packed up his belongings, moved out of his apartment, and committed himself to living as a touring musician, Mike has some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and now Episode 9 of For Those Still Standing. Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Comeback Kid (Episode 4, Episode 5), and Bridge and Tunnel (Episode 1). This week's Editors' Picks recommended music from Disguster. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new full length from Allston, MA's Kill Conrad, and Austin, TX's Broken Gold (members of the Riverboat Gamblers. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from NOFX, Mike Hale, So Many Dynamos, and Rivers Cuomo (live) with tours kicking off from Bouncing Souls / the Loved Ones / Black President (US), Fake Problems / William Elliott Whitmore (US), the Human Abstract, Vanna, Oh, Sleeper (US), Virgins (UK), and Testament / Unearth (US).

May 3, 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 am not Adam White, he's gone for a few weeks, so this week I'm filling in to 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 Left-coast punk legends the Adolescents announced plans to tour the U.S. and Europe. Speaking of bands from back in the day hitting the road, Down By Law announced plans for both a new album and a South American tour.If that wasn't enough, how about the Circle Jerks playing two shows in June? Several bands have been added to the next Guitar Hero download, including The Devil Wears Prada, Unearth and Chimaira on May 7th. Chimaira will also be joining Hatebreed this summer for a U.S. tour. What would a week be without some Green Day news? Well, Spin posted a review for the band's highly anticipated record, 21st Century Breakdown. Also posted this week was a new, free download of a track from Dinosaur Jr's upcoming album. Lucero frontman Ben Nichols performed the band's track "San Francisco" for a new "musical drama on MTV about the Memphis music scene. In other alt-country news, Warped Tour maestro Kevin Lyman announced plans for country music tour, with multiple stages and driven by sponsors. On the opposite spectrum of a country music tour, the lineup for this year's 305 Fest was announced, and will feature Elldistort, Merkit, Cult Ritual, Deserter and The Diet Cokeheads, among others.

I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Punknews.org is proud to continue publishing road journals from Mike Hale (Gunmoll, In The Red). Having packed up his belongings, moved out of his apartment, and committed himself to living as a touring musician, Mike has some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and now Episode 9 of For Those Still Standing. Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Comeback Kid (Episode 4, Episode 5), and Bridge and Tunnel (Episode 1). This week's Editors' Picks recommended music from Disguster. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new full length from Allston, MA's Kill Conrad, and Austin, TX's Broken Gold (members of the Riverboat Gamblers. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from NOFX, Mike Hale, So Many Dynamos, and Rivers Cuomo (live) with tours kicking off from Bouncing Souls / the Loved Ones / Black President (US), Fake Problems / William Elliott Whitmore (US), the Human Abstract, Vanna, Oh, Sleeper (US), Virgins (UK), and Testament / Unearth (US).

April 26th, 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 was another week of Scandinavian music piracy stories. Many of you wrote in regarding the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden, in which the four founders of the popular BitTorrent tracker were found guilty of promoting copyright infringement. Meanwhile over in Norway a study suggested that pirates buy ten times more music than those who never participate in file sharing. The 2009 Lollapalooza festival will feature bands such as Rise Against, the Beastie Boys, Neko Case, the Constantines, the Gaslight Anthem, Deerhunter and Lou Reed among many others. 88 Fingers Louie (minus Joe Principe) are set to reunite in August. This week also had pointed words for popular punk/glam metal act Avenged Sevenfold, who were called a "gimmick" by Avenged Sevenfold.

Against Me! is planning to release The Original Cowboy via Fat Wreck Chords. The record features never-before-heard demos for the As The Eternal Cowboy album. Face To Face is in the studio recording a Rise Against cover for an upcoming split. 311 have revealed the track listing for their upcoming album Uplifter. NOFX are streaming their upcoming album Coaster. They also performed tracks acoustically on MySpace's Transmissions. Green Day posted a video for their new single "Know Your Enemy." The band also announced a May 16th performance on SNL along with their upcoming tour routing. The Bronx also unveiled their video for "Knifeman." Finally Social Distortion's Mike Ness joined up with a PETA campaign against factory farming. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Punknews.org is proud to continue publishing road journals from Mike Hale (Gunmoll, In The Red). Having packed up his belongings, moved out of his apartment, and committed himself to living as a touring musician, Mike has some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and now Episode 9 of For Those Still Standing. Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Comeback Kid (Episode 4, Episode 5), and Bridge and Tunnel (Episode 1). This week's Editors' Picks recommended music from Disguster. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new full length from Allston, MA's Kill Conrad, and Austin, TX's Broken Gold (members of the Riverboat Gamblers. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from NOFX, Mike Hale, So Many Dynamos, and Rivers Cuomo (live) with tours kicking off from Bouncing Souls / the Loved Ones / Black President (US), Fake Problems / William Elliott Whitmore (US), the Human Abstract, Vanna, Oh, Sleeper (US), Virgins (UK), and Testament / Unearth (US).

April 19th, 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 we celebrated Record Store Day! We had our firend Stevo from 1-2-3-4 Go! Records give us his thoughts on the event, which is now in its second year. Alternative Press spoke with a number of bands about their favourite stores, including the Lawrence Arms, Bouncing Souls, and Dillinger Four. Green Day unveiled Know Your Enemy, the first single from 21st Century Breakdown, as well as the lyrics and track listing for the full album. The band will celebrate the release with a club show at the Bowery Ballroom on May 18th. NOFX posted a new song from Coaster. "Creeping Out Sara" tells the story of Fat Mike meeting one Sara Quinn from Tegan and Sara backstage at a festival in Germany. iTunes' recent price increases went under the microscope recently, with Billboard reporting a decrease in sales but an increase in revenue for higher priced tracks.

The Grammy Museum has announced plans for a premiere screening of The Warped Tour documentary. The event will feature a discussion with tour head Kevin Lyman, director Jonathan Rach, and members of Fishbone as well as a live performance by the Phenomenauts. Against Me! has plans to has reissue their first seven-inch via Sabot Productions. This summer Dillinger Four will tour throughout the Midwest beginning on June 4th. The upcoming Chaos In Tejas festival will feature bands like Amebix, Cro-Mags, Cock Sparrer, the Business, Propagandhi, the Thermals, Career Suicide and Brutal Knights among others. This week saw a few interesting interviews come to life. Asian Man Records impresario Mike Park spoke about the recent Lawrence Arms represses and more upcoming projects. Mighty Mighty Bosstones singer Dicky Barrett also spoke with Adam Corolla. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Punknews.org is proud to continue publishing road journals from Mike Hale (Gunmoll, In The Red). Having packed up his belongings, moved out of his apartment, and committed himself to living as a touring musician, Mike has some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and now Episode 8 of For Those Still Standing. Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Joey Cape, Jon Snodgrass and Chad Rex (Episode 3), Comeback Kid (Episode 1, Episode 2). This week we spoke with Gregg Gillis, best known to the music world under his stage name Girl Talk (interview). Our Video of the Week featured a look at post-hardcore act Make Do and Mend. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Minneapolis, MN based Photo Finish Records act A Verse Unsung, Cincinnati, OH's Pomegranates, the new full length from Kensington, CT's My Heart to Joy, Hotel Bible from Toronto's Junior Battles, and Doylestown, PA's War Pigs. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Earth Crisis, the Breeders, and Westbound Train with tours kicking off from Shot Baker / Serf Combat (UK), Franz Nicolay / Moneybrother (US), Outbreak / Smartbomb (UK), the Specials (UK), Russian Circles / Sweet Cobra / Lichens (US), Joe Lally / Gory Tellers (US / Canada), Mad Sin (US), the HorrorPops (US), NOFX (UK), Shook Ones / Red Tape Parade (UK).