February 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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories Blake Schwarzenbach's new band the Thorns Of Life topped the news this week. The former Jets to Brazil and Jawbreaker frontman discussed such topics as house shows, the band's upcoming release plans, drunken bike riding and more. A fan recently posted four videos of the band performing recently. Mainstream pop punkers Fall Out Boy was recently asked to write for the Rolling Stone reviews section. His band also unveiled a cover of the theme from The Simpsons. The Dropkick Murphys announced the lineup for their popular string of St. Patrick's Day shows. The March gigs will feature bands like H2O, Civet and Cro-Mags among others.

Red Scare act Cobra Skulls are recording a new album for 2009. Alkaline Trio performed an acoustic session for MySpace's Transmissions. The played acoustic versions of "Over and Out," "Love Love Kiss Kiss," "Emma" and "Cut Here." Philadelphia's Loved Ones posted the song "Distracted" from their upcoming Fat Wreck Chords EP, Distractions. August Burns Red posted their cover of Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time" from the upcoming Punk Goes Pop 2 project. Damian "Pink Eyes" Abraham from Toronto hardcore innovators Fucked Up spread their gospel via an . interview on Fox News. Bruce Springsteen has announced summer tour dates in support of his newly released album Working on a Dream. Classics of Love, featuring Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy and Common Rider, have announced some upcoming tour dates in the US and UK. Teenage Bottlerocket have announced the dates for their trip to Europe next month. Finally "How-To" video site Howcast unveiled an irony-free 9 step video explaining "How to Be Punk."

This week we said goodbye to Telefon Tel Aviv's Charlie Cooper (1977-2009). I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Ty Vaughn from Broadway Calls (Episode 1), Alex of Gatorface and Sam from Virgins] (Episode 1, Episode 2), members of Nashville's The Becoming (Episode 1), and Jeff Rosenstock of New York's Bomb The Music Industry (Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4). This week we spoke with Joby Ford of The Bronx (interview). Our Video of the Week featured TSOL performing "Code Blue" live in Pomona, CA. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including a full album from Long Island's Agent, and Athens, GA-based Pegasuses-XL (featuring members of Bomb the Music Industry! and The Arrogant Sons of Bitches). So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Ben Kweller, the Loved Ones and P.O.S. with tours kicking off from Gaslight Anthem / Polar Bear Club / Frank Turner (Europe), Parkway Drive (China), the Thermals (UK), Murder By Death / Fake Problems (US), Alkaline Trio (UK), Classics Of Love (US), and Teenage Bottlerocket (US).

January 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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories Some major tours were announced this past week. Rise Against will hit the road this summer with Rancid for a co-headlining tour of the US and Canada. Winnipeg's Propagandhi are set to venture into the US with Paint It Black. Murder By Death and Fake Problems will pair up as well. The Gaslight Anthem, following their tour in Europe with Frank Turner and Polar Bear Club, will tour the US with Heartless Bastards and Good Old War. The Warped Tour is still rolling out acts, this week adding Runner Runner, Vanna and Goodnight Anthem.

Bomb The Music Industry has delayed their new album Scrambles until February. Off With Their Heads will release a singles collection soon titled The '69 Sound. Say Anything discussed their next full length. Green Day are also rumored to be finished recording. No Friends, which features members of Municipal Waste and New Mexican Disaster Squad, posted new songs. Leathermouth, the new project from My Chemical Romance's Frank Iero is streaming its new album. This week brought video of Blake Schwarzenbach performing acoustic in Brooklyn, and Lilly Allen covering the Clash's "Straight to Hell." Look for the Gaslight Anthem on Letterman this month. Also keep an eye out for music from Social Distortion, the Sword and Samhain in the new Guitar Hero: Metallica. We also had a report back on the success Dexter Holland of the Offspring has had with his new hot sauce. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Tyler Densley of San Diego's Lewd Acts (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3) Lauren Measure and Fid of New Brunswick, NJ's The Measure SA (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3) Ryan Young of Minneapolis, MN's Off With Their Heads (Episode 1) and Jeff Rosenstock of New York's Bomb The Music Industry (Episode 1). This week we spoke with Ray Carlisle and Kody Templeman of Teenage Bottlerocket (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the Marked Men's new full length Ghosts, and the new record from New Brunswick, NJ-based Let Me Run. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Bruce Springsteen, Franz Ferdinand, Leathermouth, Sound and Shape, and the Marked Men and a reissue from the Beastie Boys with tours kicking off from SNFU (Europe), Avenged Sevenfold (US), Avenged Sevenfold (US), the Slackers (US, Europe), NOFX (US with Smoke Or Fire, UK).

January 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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories This week Los Angeles, based radio station Indie 103.1 shutdown their FM broadcast and moved to an internet only format. The station is notable for employing such punk personalities as Henry Rollins of Black Flag, Joe Sib of SideOneDummy and Joe Escalante of the Vandals among others. Tucson-based punk act Awful Truth caused some controversy by using the photo of slain officer on their album cover. Some major festivals are announcing their line ups, with bands like the Black Lips. the Queers, Rival Schools and Teenage Bottlerocket playing SXSW and the Bouncing Souls, Night Marchers, Strike Anywhere and Propagandhi at Harvest of Hope. There was also word this week that the landmark Time Square Virgin Megastore in New York City is set to close.

This week's big release news focused on Propagandhi and their new full length Supporting Caste. Blink-182's Mark Hoppus is planning a solo album. Gallows will title their next record Grey Britain. Every Time I Die is at work on their Epitaph debut. Red Scare will release the next Menzingers album. Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba will collaborate with electronic/dance artist and internet celebrity Jeffree Star. Zao has detailed their forthcoming release as well. A number of Warner Bros acts, including Against Me!, Black Keys and the Flaming Lips are set to cover some of the label's classic bands. On the video front we saw Morrissey's "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris" and Rise Against's "Audience of One." Look for the Bouncing Souls to hit the road soon with Dillinger Four and the AKAs. This week we said goodbye to Nekromantix drummer Andrew Martinez (1983-2009). I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke with Kyle O'Neil of Detroit's Fireworks (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Brooklyn, NY-based Lymbyc Systym, and New Haven CT's Blackened. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from A.C. Newman of the New Pornographers, Bomb The Music Industry, Reel Big Fish, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Whole Wheat Bread with tours kicking off from Dustin Kensrue of Thrice, Matt Pryor of Get Up Kids, Chris Conley of Saves The Day and Anthony Raneri of Bayside (USA), Alkaline Trio, Broadway Calls and the Audition (Europe), TSOL and Black President (USA), the Adolescents (USA), Static Thought (Europe) and Ska Is Dead IV featuring the Toasters, Voodoo Glow Skulls and Mustard Plug, Buck-O-Nine.

January 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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories 2009's underway and the music industry's slowly returning from their holiday dormancy. This week saw two big singings, with Polar Bear Club hooking up with Bridge 9 and Broadway Calls moving to SideOneDummy. On the flip side of that it looks like influental melodic hardcore act Lifetime has left Fueled By Ramen. Also returning is the custom song store that Say Anything's Max Bemis controversially launched last year. There was more talk from the Blink-182 camp, with Mark Hoppus discussing the possibility of a reunion and his relationship with Tom Delonge. Victory and Epitaph Records sat at the top of a recently published independent label chart, while Anthony Raneri of Bayside kicked back at the reasoning behind recent "Biggest Flops of 2008" lists.

This week New Found Glory detailed their Epitaph debut, posting a single and planning a vinyl release on Bridge 9. T.S.O.L. meanwhile put an entire new album up for free download. Smoke Or Fire is planning to record and tour with NOFX soon. In other show news, Dillinger Four is making a long overdue visit to Fargo. Street Dogs are headed out with the Swingin' Utters and Shot Baker. The Menzingers also announced upcoming tour dates. The Economist's new spinoff magazine, More Intelligent Life, also ran a lengthy article about the reemergence of touring as the most crucial part of a band's career. Finally, Hunter Burgan of AFI was named the "Vegan Ambassador" for Macbeth Shoes, making him one of the most powerful men in the western world. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke with Brandon Rainer and Dan O'Day from the River City Rebels, who are on the road supporting their new album (interview). Suburban Home Records' head Virgil Dickerson also reponded to the "Vinyl Bubble" editorial by Punknews editor Justin August. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Oakland, CA's Nobunny and their full length Love Visions, Nashville, TN's Engineer Records act Sound and Shape, and I Am Love, the new full length from Washington, DC based Days. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Blueline Medic, Franz Nicolay of the Hold Steady / World Inferno Friendship Society, and many others with tours kicking off from No Use For A Name / Useless ID (Europe / Isreal), Comeback Kid / Carpathian / Verse (Australia), As I Lay Dying / Protest the Hero / the Human Abstract (USA), and All That Remains / the Haunted (Europe)

January 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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories United Nations, which features members of Glassjaw and Thursday is continuing to run into trouble due to it's name. The group has seen it's social networking resources run dry, recently losing their presence on Facebook and Myspace. Every Time I Die has inked a deal with Epitaph Records, joining other recent high profile signings such as Thursday and New Found Glory. Jared Shavelson has left None More Black, to be replaced by Richard Minino of New Mexican Disaster Squad and Gatorface. Dillinger Escape Plan also recently lost a drummer and discussed the line up change with fans. The 2009 touring season is slowly getting underway. Off With Their Heads are headed to the UK and Ireland while No Use For A Name and Useless ID are headed to Israel.

The Bouncing Souls launched their monthly singles project this week with the song "Gasoline." The Swellers will record their new album this month. Paramore is also working on their next. Bigwig has a new 7" on the way. Victory Records has teased their 2009 release slate with upcoming records from Between The Buried And Me, Silverstein, Aiden, and Comeback Kid among others. Chris Walla from Death Cab For Cutie also declared that he intends to make a "radio record." A Wilhelm Scream has posted the unreleased song "The I Hate ___ Club." Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem posted a pair of solo tracks. Fall Out Boy posted their video for the track "America's Suitehearts." I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives We conclused 2008 with a number of retrospective articles. We saw lists of your favourite albums of 2008, our staff reviewers' favourite albums of 2008 and our editors' favourite albums of 2008. We also saw a list of the most popular stories of 2008. Don't forget about our holiday gift from last week, a video download of A Wilhelm Scream performing live at the Fest.

So what's coming up this week? Look for tours kicking off from Franz Nicolay of the Hold Steady / World Inferno Friendship Society (US), Madball, LVG and Thick As Blood (Florida), Swingin' Utters with Shot Baker and others (US) and Defeater (US).

December 28th, 2008

.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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories This week talks between Warner Music and the mega popular video site YouTube broke down over money. This puts the future of videos featuring Green Day, Against Me!, the Dropkick Murphys and My Chemical Romance in doubt. The Thorns of Life have announced a Los Angeles show. The band notably features influential Jawbreaker and Jets To Brazil frontman Blake Schwarzenbach along with Aaron Elliott of the Cometbus zine, Crimpshrine and Pinhead Gunpowder and actress / musician Daniela Sea. Another East Bay legend seems to be reemerging, as former Operation Ivy and Common Rider frontman Jesse Michaels has formed a new band as well. We also had a look at a number of new releases this week. Brand New discussed their next. Hellcat Records discussed their plans for 2009, featuring bands like Rancid, GBH, and the Aggrolites. Cursive unveiled details on their new record and the Blackout Pact discussed their final EP and final show.

On the touring front the Gaslight Anthem is lining up a busy year, planning to tour the UK with Polar Bear Club and Frank Turner then returning to North America for a trek with Heartless Bastards. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have confimed the lineups for their Hometown Throwdown shows. Look for bands like Westbound Train, Roll the Tanks, Slapshot and Big D and the Kids Table participating among others. Comeback Kid, Carpathian and Verse are headed to Australia. The Alkaline Trio, Anberlin and Single File will play the "Pick Up the Phone" tour of US college campuses in April to raise awareness of suicide prevention and mental health issues. Finally Madball will hit the US west coast Punknews.org is in As always we brought you new

December 21st, 2008

.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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories The RIAA made news this week by announcing that it will be ending its strategy of suing individual file sharers. Their new tactic in combating file sharing will involve working with ISPs to communicate with and potentially restrict the access of file sharers. NOFX has announced a set of shows to celebrate their 25th anniversary. The shows, which will feature support from Youth Brigade, will feature past members of NOFX rejoining the band to play songs from those periods. The line up for the 2009 Harvest of Hope festival has been announced. The fest, which will run from March 6th to the 8th in St. Augustine, Florida, will feature sets from Against Me!, Propagandhi, Bouncing Souls, Strike Anywhere and Lucero among others. The Thorns of Life, the new band featuring Blake from Jawbreaker and Aaron Cometbus from Crimpshrine, are planning a Bay Area show. The routing for the 2009 Warped Tour has been announced, along with news that Less Than Jake, Ataris, and Alexisonfire are joining the trek. Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem has also announced several upcoming acoustic solo performances on the US East Coast.

A number of upcoming recording projects were discussed this week. The pioneering and still divisive Sex Pistols mused the possibility of a new album. The Smashing Pumpkins have chosen to abandon the album format. T.S.O.L. have begun recording and broadcasting their sessions live. Bomb the Music Industry! gave an update on their next one. Strike Anywhere will have a new record in 2009 as well. AFI is holding a contest to find backup vocalists for their next album. No Doubt have also decided to postpone their previously discussed new one. Fall Out Boy released a record this week and were up to all sorts of activities to promote it. Bad Religion's Greg Graffin also discussed his new book Anarchy Evolution. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke with Rob Moran of recent Deathwish signing Narrows (interviews). The band features members of Botch, Roy, Some Girls and These Arms Are Snakes. Jonah Matranga and Shaun Lopez of the recently reunited Far (interview) and Tim McIlrath, frontman of Rise Against (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Poughkeepsie, NY-based The Color Wheels. So what's coming up this week? Look for tours kicking off from Cro-Mags (US), The Measure (SA) (US), Pulling Teeth (US), and Clutch / Russian Circles (US).

December 14th, 2008

.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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories Former Dead Kennedys frontman and Alternative Tentacles head honcho Jello Biafra has written a lengthy and thought provoking letter to President-Elect Barak Obama. Mike Ness has discussed plans for the next Social Distortion record, the follow up to 2004's Sex, Love and Rock ’n’ Roll Next year's festivals were the big topic this week. Kevin Lyman unveiled that Warped 2009 will shoot for longer sets and less stages with performances by Anti-Flag, Bad Religion, Big D and the Kids Table, the Bouncing Souls, NOFX and Thrice among others. Miami, Florida's Langerado Festival will hit in March and feature Flogging Molly, Bad Brains, Against Me!, Gaslight Anthem, and the Aggrolites. Bamboozle 2009 meanwhile added bands like Third Eye Blind, Forgive Durden and Before Their Eyes.

This week mainstream pop punks Fall Out Boy streamed their new full length Folie a Deux. Brody Dalle's post-Distillers vehicle Spinnerette unveiled "Ghetto Love." Flogging Molly announced dates for their 2009 Green 17 tour. Avenged Sevenfold will tour with bands like Buckcherry and Papa Roach. Pop punks the Dopamines will soon hit the road. Escape The Fate will soon tour with Attack Attack, William Control of Aiden and Burn Halo. As for videos this week saw Metallica post "All Nightmare Long" and the Gaslight Anthem play "The '59 Sound" live on Conan. This week we said goodbye to Last Lights' member Dominic Mallory (1984-2008) and pin-up model, fashion staple and counter-cultural icon Bettie Page (1923-2008). I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke with Jonah Matranga and Shaun Lopez of the recently reunited Far (interview) and Tim McIlrath, frontman of Rise Against (interview). Our Video of the Week featured Minnesota's Off With Their Heads performing live in Richmond, VA. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new release from Belgium's Daggers, and the new full length from San Diego, CA-based Lanterns. So what's coming up this week? Look for All-American Rejects and Fall Out Boy with tours kicking off from the Night Marchers (US) and Cancer Bats / Polar Bear Club / Holly Springs Disaster (Canada / Quebec).

December 7th, 2008

.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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories After more than two decades, director Alex Cox is set to produce an official film sequel to his landmark 1984 film Repo Man, titled Repo Chick. As the original made great use of LA punk from the period there's high hopes for the new installment to make similar links. Plane crash survivor Travis Barker denied recent rumors that the popular pop punk act Blink-182 would soon reunite. Guttermouth is celebrating their 20th anniversary with a new record back on Hopeless Records. Hopeless also announced details on the 2009 Take Action Tour, to be headlined by Cute Is What We Aim For. We had news on the 2009 Warped Tour as well, which is set to feature Bad Religion, NOFX, Devil Wears Prada, and Flogging Molly. Next year look for the Dropkick Murphys and H2O on tour together as well. Jesse Lacey of Brand New discussed the major label experience and the viability of selling CDs. This weekend also saw the Evaporators play a special Mint Records show with where they shared the stage with Andrew WK, the Subhumans and D.O.A..

There are plenty of new releases in the works for next year. This winter will see the release of the Ergs' Trash Compactor. Cursive is wrapping up their next album and planning tour dates. The artwork for upcoming release from Strung Out and the Loved Ones was unveiled. Fearless Records has announced Punk Goes Pop 2 with the All American Rejects, Rise Against, and Thrice contributing covers. Bad Religion's next record might wait until 2010. Leathermouth, which features members of My Chemical Romance will release XO in January. Rancid's Tim Armstrong is also providing a track to a documentary series. Porcell from Youth of Today and Judge has launched a Straight Edge clothing company. William Beckett of The Academy Is posted a video cover of "Radio" by the Alkaline Trio. Video game Guitar Hero: World Tour will see additions from Nirvana, Slightly Stoopid and the Smashing Pumpkins this month. This week Vinyl Collective also launched their free Second Nature sampler. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Our Video of the Week featured an interview with Matt Caughthran of the Bronx. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Bloomington, IN-based Medusa, and Seattle, WA-based Rebuilt.

So what's coming up this week? Look for a live release from Thrice, and special editions and reissues from Pavement, Devo and the Get Up Kids, with tours kicking off from These Arms Are Snakes / Trap Them / Narrows (US), and Face To Face (South America).

November 30th, 2008

.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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories While the music pie is smaller than it once was, digital sales have become an increasingly significant slice. Major imprint Atlantic Records annoucned this past week that digital sales have surpassed the physical on their balance sheets, which is a first for a big label. Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel recently reunited with the band's original drummer Kevin Mahon for an acoustic performance in New York City. The Bouncing Souls posted an update from the studio where they're working on their new 12 song digital project. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong spoke out on that band's forthcoming album as well. The 2009 Bamboozle festival is starting to come together. We first heard that No Doubt and Fall Out Boy would headline, then saw the lineup expanded to include the Get Up Kids, New Found Glory and Face To Face.

The UK can soon expect a visit from the Gaslight Anthem, Frank Turner and Polar Bear Club. Off With Their Heads is headed out on the road in the US. The Dropkick Murphys confirmed their St.Patrick's Day shows as well. Coheed and Cambria are planning to tour with Slipknot. NOFX and Smoke Or Fire are set to hit the streets as well. Millencolin has been nominated for a Swedish Grammy, while D.O.A.'s Joe Shithead Keithley is in the running for "Most Influential Person In BC History." This week saw a full concert stream from the New Pornographers, a video from I Set My Friends on Fire, and a trailer for the upcoming Warped Tour documentary. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we teamed up with our good friends in the Gaslight Anthem for a charity auction. Head over to eBay to win a rare signed vinyl test-pressing of the band's debut LP Sink Or Swim. All proceeds are going to benefit The Syrentha Savio Endowment, a charity which provides financial assistance to underprivileged women who cannot afford the expense of fighting breast cancer. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Virginia-based trio The Two Funerals.

So what's coming up this week? Look for a live release from Panic! At the Disco, and the Vans Warped Tour 2007 DVD with tours kicking off from Social Distortion's Mike Ness (California), Lagwagon (Japan), Taking Back Sunday / Envy On The Coast (US), Isis (Europe), and Evergreen Terrace / This Is Hell / Casey Jones / Four Letter Lie (US).