Tonight We're Going To Give It 35%

Punknews content is syndicated to virtually every social media hub on the internet, and we take pride in providing unique content and communications on each. You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google Buzz and MySpace. Add your photos to our Flickr Pool and they'll appear in the sidebar here on Punknews. 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: Why do you take so long to post some news that are already plastered across mainstream news sources? For example, the West Memphis Three, Billie Joe vs. Airlines, and the REM break-up? A: Probably because those large stories are all blasted out to media outlets at the same time. The mainstream media loves that shit and snatches it up without checking details or caring about any information (simply because of the name attached to it). We know they've already posted it in real time, so we're not in a huge rush to post news that's already going to be everywhere else, so it takes another 30 to 40 minutes. Now that isn't to say we haven't been scooped on punk stories, or that we haven't posted incorrect or stories lacking details but if it's something you're likely to read in People, we're not going to bust our ass to post the exact same information as everyone else. But that may just be my lazy take.

-Rich

Your trusty Punknews editors have all sorts of projects on the go. If you like what you see here do us a favor and pay a visit to Adam White's Niagara video blog Check In Niagara and his tumblog AdamWhite.org, Ben Conoley's Canadian music site The Can Con, Chris Moran's videos at Vimeo, Jesse Raub's coffee blogging at Bitter Press and his and Goodrich's comedy podcast Marshal Music Minute with Buck Whitley, and Bryne Yancey's tumblog BryneYancey.org.

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

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 full-length from Deinze, Belgium-based Dear Hearts
• The latest EP from Chicago, IL's Cloud Mouth
• A new track from Bradenton, FL's Have Gun Will Travel
• The new EP from Miami, FL's Mute Issue
• The latest full-length from Nashville, TN's Diarrhea Planet
• A brand new song from Cincinnati, OH's Mixtapes
• The new full-length from Austin, TX's Ghost Knife

Also, don't forget to check out the new EP from The Bronx, NY's Gameday Regulars, a brand new song from Rainer, OR's Broadway Calls, a new track from Los Angeles, CA's Jon Pebsworth, a new song from East Bay Ray and the Killer Smiles, a preview of the new full-length from Gainesville, FL's Wavelets, the new split from Deer Leap and The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, and the new EP collection from New Haven, CT's Heavy Breath.

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), Jesse and Goodrich's metal/hardcore/jokes bonanza The Wizard's Beard (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), Bryne Yancey's Florida music podcast Overheated (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), and First World Problems, hosted by Ray Harkins (peta2/Sound & Fury, ex-Taken, Mikoto, Century Media), Joey Cahill (6131 Records/Sound & Fury) and Scott Arnold (subscribe via RSS or iTunes). More new shows will be debuting very soon, so stay tuned.

Navel Gazing

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:

• Fearless Records announced the next installment in their Punk Goes Pop series.
• Pour Habit and the SLO Brew venue are being sued due to a crowd surfing-related injury that took place during Pour Habit's set.
• After 31 years together R.E.M. has decided to call it quits.
• Foo Fighters retaliated with a protest of their own against the Westboro Baptist Church.
• P.S. Eliot have called it a day and will be performing their last show in December.
• Franz Nicolay started a Kickstarter account to fund his new album.
• Lagwagon announced plans to re-issue their first 5 albums.
• Streetlight Manifesto and Reel Big Fish announced the dates for yet another co-headlining tour.
• Horrible Crowes, the side project of The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon, premiered the video for "Behold the Hurricane" off of their latest release Elsie.,

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. Don't miss out on these interviews:

• Matt Taylor of Motion City Soundtrack
• Part 2 of 3 of our oral history of Asian Man Records
• Brian Gorsegner of Night Birds
• Jack Barakat of All Time Low
• Riley Breckenridge of Thrice

Tonight We're Going To Give It 35%

Punknews content is syndicated to virtually every social media hub on the internet, and we take pride in providing unique content and communications on each. You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google Buzz and MySpace. Add your photos to our Flickr Pool and they'll appear in the sidebar here on Punknews. 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: Often I read from punknews editors that the commentors are a small portion of the total punknews viewers. Do you think/know if other websites have similar situation? A: I would imagine most sites that aren't "conversation oriented" have this same situation. So, if you run a site that is exclusively a "message board" chances are most of the comments are reflective of the readers (though I'm sure there are, as the kids say, "lurkers").

With Punknews, the comments are a big part of what people read but they're not the sole purpose of the site, nor are they a driving force behind what gets reported. So, while they are something a lot of people look at and comment on, they aren't the REASON a lot of people look at the site (just another part). So if you run a similar site for any news item, I'd imagine you're looking at the same boat. Though your readers may not be as…interesting as punknews readers.

-Rich

Your trusty Punknews editors have all sorts of projects on the go. If you like what you see here do us a favor and pay a visit to Adam White's Niagara video blog Check In Niagara and his tumblog AdamWhite.org, Ben Conoley's Canadian music site The Can Con, Chris Moran's videos at Vimeo, Jesse Raub's coffee blogging at Bitter Press and his and Goodrich's comedy podcast Marshal Music Minute with Buck Whitley, and Bryne Yancey's tumblog BryneYancey.org.

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

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 EP from The Bronx, NY's Gameday Regulars

Also, don't forget to check out a brand new song from Rainer, OR's Broadway Calls, a new track from Los Angeles, CA's Jon Pebsworth, a new song from East Bay Ray and the Killer Smiles, a preview of the new full-length from Gainesville, FL's Wavelets, the new split from Deer Leap and The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, the new EP collection from New Haven, CT's Heavy Breath, and a pair of new tracks from Cedar Falls, IA's A Past Unknown.

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), Jesse and Goodrich's metal/hardcore/jokes bonanza The Wizard's Beard (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), Bryne Yancey's Florida music podcast Overheated (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), and First World Problems, hosted by Ray Harkins (peta2/Sound & Fury, ex-Taken, Mikoto, Century Media), Joey Cahill (6131 Records/Sound & Fury) and Scott Arnold (subscribe via RSS or iTunes). More new shows will be debuting very soon, so stay tuned.

September 18, 2011

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Bryne Yancey 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:

• Bad Religion was tapped to play the national secular event, The Reason Rally
• Weezer is giving fans the choice of Blue or Pinkerton at their upcoming Riot Fest set
• The Offspring are aiming for a 2012 release of their new album
• Sick of it All detailed their upcoming re-recorded retrospective, 'Nonstop'
• Paper and Plastick detailed Are You With The Band?, a compilation of female-fronted bands to benefit Planned Parenthood
• The Spits detailed their new full-length
• Living with Lions launched a Kickstarter to recoup FACTOR money
• Fat Wreck Chords announced plans for a Fest-only 10-inch, Fat Music for Fest People
• Speaking of The Fest 10, we launched our first written Fest feature by highlighting ten under the radar bands to catch

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. Don't miss out on these interviews:

• Kerry McCoy of Deafheaven
• Tyson "Chicken" Annicharico of Dead to Me
• Part 1 of 3 of our oral history of Asian Man Records
• Matt Canino of RVIVR and Latterman
• David Kelling of All Teeth
• Cassie Ramone of Vivian Girls

Tonight We're Going To Give It 35%

Punknews content is syndicated to virtually every social media hub on the internet, and we take pride in providing unique content and communications on each. You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google Buzz and MySpace. Add your photos to our Flickr Pool and they'll appear in the sidebar here on Punknews. 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 makes a band name "good?" A: The best answer is how fitting it is for the music and how the band actually sounds. I love Fugazi (The band and the name) because it works. The name is a bit off kilter and not part of my normal dialect, but it works because the band is a bit off kilter and deviates (or did before they were aped by every Tom, Dick and Jane) from the standard format of rock music.

What makes one 100% bad is jumping on naming trends. You can say what you want but there was 100% a trend in the late 90's of spelling your band name like you were an inbreed, illiterate dickface. It doesn't make Staind any worse because they misspelled their name (not like you could make Staind any worse) but it certainly makes their name look stupider when lined up with Korn, Limp Bizkit, Puddle of Mudd and an array of other shit shoveling names.

So basically, try to find a name that works with your music and isn't of the current trend. I'd say right now, it's long stupid names that sort of make sentences but only sentences that a complete asshat would say.

-Rich

Your trusty Punknews editors have all sorts of projects on the go. If you like what you see here do us a favor and pay a visit to Adam White's Niagara video blog Check In Niagara and his tumblog AdamWhite.org, Ben Conoley's Canadian music site The Can Con, Chris Moran's videos at Vimeo, Jesse Raub's coffee blogging at Bitter Press and his and Goodrich's comedy podcast Marshal Music Minute with Buck Whitley, and Bryne Yancey's tumblog BryneYancey.org.

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

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 brand new song from Rainer, OR's Broadway Calls
• A new track from Los Angeles, CA's Jon Pebsworth
• A new song from East Bay Ray and the Killer Smiles
• A preview of the new full-length from Gainesville, FL's Wavelets
• The new split from Deer Leap and The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
• The new EP collection from New Haven, CT's Heavy Breath
• A pair of new tracks from Cedar Falls, IA's A Past Unknown

Also, don't forget to check out the new EP from Chicago, IL's So Many Ways, a new song from Chicago, IL's JuiceheaD, six new tracks from San Francisco, CA's Nothington, the debut full-length from The Briggs frontman Joey Briggs, the latest from Noord-Holland, NL's Sweet Empire, a new track from Ruhrpott, Germany's SS-Kaliert, and the latest from Charlotte, NC's Pullman Strike. You can find much more on the Punknews Music page.

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), Jesse and Goodrich's metal/hardcore/jokes bonanza The Wizard's Beard (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), Bryne Yancey's Florida music podcast Overheated (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), and First World Problems, hosted by Ray Harkins (peta2/Sound & Fury, ex-Taken, Mikoto, Century Media), Joey Cahill (6131 Records/Sound & Fury) and Scott Arnold (subscribe via RSS or iTunes). More new shows will be debuting very soon, so stay tuned.