Tonight We're Going To Give It 35%

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Here's your question and answer of the week from the Punknews Formspring:

Q: Suffer or No Control - which one do you prefer and why?

A: This is like 1 and 1A, man.

While both of these albums are more or less perfect -- classic by nearly every punk's definition -- Suffer gets the slightest of nods. Suffer came first, and was a genre-defining, career-cementing, game-changing and life-altering album. "Best For You," "You Are (The Government)," "How Much Is Enough?," "Suffer," "Give You Nothing," "Do What You Want," hell I could just list the whole track listing but what's the point? Every song is a stone-cold classic.

No Control continued the themes Bad Religion established with Suffer, but Suffer popularized it and turned it into this hugely influential thing. Can't be beat.

-Bryne

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November 24, 2013

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer and I'll be your guide through some of the juiciest, most popular and otherwise noteworthy stories from the last seven days. Remember, every Punknews story is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:

• The Lawrence Arms premiered a brand new song from their highly anticipated upcoming record, Metropole .
• Arcade Fire responded to aggravated fans concerning the formal dress code being "enforced" at the group's upcoming shows.
• Ronnie Radke of Falling In Reverse announced plans for a rap mixtape.
• Polar Bear Club vocalist Jimmy Stadt addressed his vocal change on their group's new record, Death Chorus.
• We sat down with Mackie Osborne for our Rad Women Who Make Rad Art series.
• Blacklist Royals released a lyric video for "Righteous Child".

  With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves, spin some tracks in the Navel Gazing turntable.fm room and we'll see you Monday morning.

The People Must Have Something Good To Read

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

• Chris Demaks and Roger Lima of Less Than Jake
• Mackie Osborne as part of our Rad Women Who Make Rad Art series
• Jason Hall of Western Addiction
• Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio
• Elliot Babin of Touche Amore and Dad Punchers
• Deep Pockets

Tonight We're Going To Give It 35%

Punknews content is syndicated to a handful of your favorite social networks, including Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Join our Last.fm group and contribute your listening habits to our weekly charts. All of our high definition video footage can be found at Vimeo.

Here's your question and answer of the week from the Punknews Formspring:

Q: What's your stance on illegal downloading/file sharing? Do you partake yourself in such activities?

A: Most people were quick to poke fun at Metallica for taking such a strong stance against file sharing back in the day. But they predicted it would cripple the music industry, and they more or less ended up being right.

While illegal downloading has no doubt aided discovery for music fans over the years, it's also largely aided the current music consumption climate. Most kids these days treat music as completely disposable and not worth their investment, but then act like entitled little brats when the bands they like can't afford to come play their town or whatever. It's maddeningly self-serving, and no matter how many bands come out against piracy, the words never seem to resonate. And it bums me out.

The other thing I don't get: Fans who are like, "Oh, I'll download the record illegally and then buy a t-shirt from the band" or "Bands make more money touring anyway, I'll just download the album and then buy a show ticket." Obviously buying *some* sort of merch is better than not buying anything, but man, back in the day fans bought the t-shirt, the show ticket AND the album! It was totally a thing that people did! Don't act like you should be commended for your extremely minimal gesture toward a band you like by taking that slighty-less-worse stance.

If you want your favorite bands to make enough money to record and tour *and* you enjoy what they're doing, show them by opening your wallet.

-Bryne

Of course your day wouldn't be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors' lives. Follow @aubinpaul, @adamwhite, @howtobepunk, @johngentile, @ameliaaacline, @kiraface, @mcflynnthm, @andywritesstuff, @wackymondo, @Brittastrophee and @BrittStrummer's every move at Twitter. A few of the new fathers on staff have even started a punk dad blog.

Where else are you online? Share your links below and keep connected with the Punknews community.

Radio Free Punknews

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

• The new release from Oakland, CA's Acid Fast

Also, don't forget to check out a new song from Michigan's South Bay Bessie, the new album from PIttsburgh, PA's World's Scariest Police Chases, a cover from Samiam, and the new release from Milwaukee, WI's Midnight Reruns

We've also expanded our podcast empire to something that will eventually resemble a network. Be sure to check out the original Punknews Podcast (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), Adam's Ontario showcase Some Party (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), and Greg Simpson and Greg Moore's Two Gregs One Podcast.

November 17, 2013

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer and I'll be your guide through some of the juiciest, most popular and otherwise noteworthy stories from the last seven days. Remember, every Punknews story is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:

• Against Me! streamed the new track "FUCKMYLIFE666" from their upcoming release, Transgender Dysphoria Blues.
• Ice-T's band Body Count announced plans for a new album.
• We sat down and had a chat with Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio.
• We streamed World's Scariest Police Chases' new record in its entirety.
• RVIVR released a video for "Cut the Cord".
• Video surfaced of Quicksand's full set at Fun Fun Fun Fest.

  With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves, spin some tracks in the Navel Gazing turntable.fm room and we'll see you Monday morning.

The People Must Have Something Good To Read

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

• Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio
• Elliot Babin of Touche Amore and Dad Punchers
• Deep Pockets
• Christine Atturio of Save Ends
• Cristy Road as part of our Women Who Make Rad Art series
• Chris Matulich of Nothington

Tonight We're Going To Give It 35%

Punknews content is syndicated to a handful of your favorite social networks, including Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Join our Last.fm group and contribute your listening habits to our weekly charts. All of our high definition video footage can be found at Vimeo.

Here's your question and answer of the week from the Punknews Formspring:

Q: Misfits or Black Flag?

A: This is a good question, because one could argue that both bands, in the wake of excellent and perhaps even legendary initial incarnations, have tarnished their legacies with lineup changes, ill-fated reunions, and subpar recorded output.

While Black Flag have some of the best punk records EVER in their discography like Damaged and My War -- and are maybe the only punk band to ever release good-to-great material with three different vocalists -- Greg Ginn's reputation has, in my opinion, grown to overshadow his initial genius.

Meanwhile, the Danzig-era Misfits are arguably the coolest and most fun punk band of all time. Both bands have a bunch of classic tunes in their respective catalogues, but those old Misfits songs I think have held up better, maybe because the silliness of their subject matter has, somewhat ironically, rendered those songs more timeless.

And while most would agree that the Jerry Only-led Misfits aren't that good, it's basically a different band from the Danzig era and should be recognized as such. With Ginn still the driving creative force behind Black Flag, the band's latter-era output is still tied to him unlike with Danzig and Misfits.

Misfits by 0.5 skulls.

-Bryne

Of course your day wouldn't be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors' lives. Follow @aubinpaul, @adamwhite, @howtobepunk, @johngentile, @ameliaaacline, @kiraface, @mcflynnthm, @andywritesstuff, @wackymondo, @Brittastrophee and @BrittStrummer's every move at Twitter. A few of the new fathers on staff have even started a punk dad blog.

Where else are you online? Share your links below and keep connected with the Punknews community.

Radio Free Punknews

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

• A new song from Michigan's South Bay Bessie
• The new album from PIttsburgh, PA's World's Scariest Police Chases
• A cover from Samiam
• The new release from Milwaukee, WI's Midnight Reruns

Also, don't forget to check out the new album from Portland, OR's Autistic Youth, the split from T-Shirt Weather and Losing Sleep, and the new release from Los Angles, CA's Danger!

We've also expanded our podcast empire to something that will eventually resemble a network. Be sure to check out the original Punknews Podcast (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), Adam's Ontario showcase Some Party (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), and Greg Simpson and Greg Moore's Two Gregs One Podcast.

Navel Gazing November 10, 2013

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Brittany Strummer and I'll be your guide through some of the juiciest, most popular and otherwise noteworthy stories from the last seven days. Remember, every Punknews story is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:

• We sat down with artist Cristy Road as part of our Women Who Make Rad Art series.
• We tallied your favorite records from October with Red City Radio leading the pack
• The Lawrence Arms joined the Epitaph roster.
• World's Scariest Police Chases released a lyric video for "Punk Rock Ruined My LIfe".
• Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was located after her she was presumed missing during a prison transfer.
• Strung Out announced a few shows where they will be playing An American Paradox in its entirety.

  With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves, spin some tracks in the Navel Gazing turntable.fm room and we'll see you Monday morning.