July 3, 2011

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:

• Hot Water Music shocked fans when they announced that they have signed with Rise Records.
• Screeching Weasel frontman Ben Weasel has remained relatively quiet since his incident at this year's SXSW but this week he emerged from underneath his rock to announce a new Screeching Weasel web store.
• Rise Against's Tim McIlrath sat down with PETA to discuss veganism in a recent video.
• Canada's finest, Propagandhi, teased us with a sneak peak of a new song just in time for Canada day.
• Morrissey explained why record labels don't want to put out his record.
• Doomtree decided to combine Fugazi and Wu Tang Clan which resulted in the new project, Wugazi.

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 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:

• Nick Woods of Direct Hit!
• Mike Ambrose and Audelio "Junior" Flores of Set Your Goals
• Paul Pendley of Red City Radio
• Jason Lubrano and Phil Douglas of Iron Chic
• Johnathan Coody of Ninja Gun
• Frank Turner

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: Do you like when bands change their logos or do you like them to stay the same? A: For me it depends on the logo. If Bad Religion lost the iconic "Cross Buster" logo, I think it would really be jarring. I don't think I'd stop listening but it would seem off for sure. That said, a band is a band for the music. That isn't to say their isn't a visual aesthetic involved but bands like Against Me! and Fake Problems (who have both utilized the incredibly talented Steak Mountain) have evolving logos and art and I think it's helped the band.
So…sometimes.

-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 punk curation at MySpace Music and his 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 latest full-length from Richmond, VA's Flechette
• A new track from Portland, OR's Lee Corey Oswald
• The new EP from Carbondale, IL's The Copyrights
• A new track from The Briggs' frontman Joey Briggs
• The new EP from Brooklyn, NY's Born in a Cent
• A new track from Los Angeles, CA's Beware of Safety

Also, don't forget to check out the the new EP from Brooklyn, NY's How Do We Jump This High?, John Cota's split 10" with Ten Thousand Leagues, the latest Under The Influence split 7-inch featuring Ruiner and Attica! Attica!, the new EP from New York City's The Indecent, the latest full-length from Brooklyn, NY's The Reveling, audiobook excerpts from Cro-Mags frontman John Joseph, and a new track from Long Beach, CA's The Greenery. 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. In addition to the original Punknews Podcast barreling on (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), Metal/hardcore mavens Jesse and Goodrich have spun off The Wizard's Beard into its own full-length show, which you can also subscribe to via RSS or iTunes. More new shows will be debuting very soon, so stay tuned.

June 26, 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:

• It was yet another big week in the Against Me! camp, with a White Crosses reissue planned as well as footage surfacing from the band's controversial show in Rochester. WHAT MADNESS WILL NEXT WEEK BRING?
• Riot Fest rolled out its big announcements, with a Danzig legacy set (as well as Weezer, Social Distortion and the previously announced Descendents) announced for the Chicago festival, and Descendents, The Suicide Machines, X, Hot Water Music and others announced for Riot Fest East in Philadelphia.
• Less Than Jake released a new EP and gave away a song from it, "Goodbye, Mr. Personality"
• Rise Against unveiled a new video for "Make it Stop (September's Children)"
• The Internets received a first taste of The Horrible Crowes with a clip of "Black Betty & The Moon"
• Fucked Up morphed into a schoolhouse full of shouting children for their new video, "Queen of Hearts"

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 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:

• Jason Lubrano and Phil Douglas of Iron Chic
• Johnathan Coody of Ninja Gun
• Frank Turner
• Matt McHughes of Over Stars and Gutters
• Face To Face
• Protest The Hero

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: How dumb are brand tattoos? Is a brand tattoo the same as getting a band tattoo? A: I'm going to say that unless a brand has paid you money to wreck your physical appearance that getting their tattoo is dumb. Even then it's iffy. I'm not sure if $50,000 is really worth getting a "GoldenPalace.com" tattoo on your back and ruining your life. I don't put brand and band on the same level however. Most people have emotional attachments to bands they get tattooed on their body. That isn't to say that Pepsi isn't a large part of my life, but I don't think I'd quote, "You picked the right one baby" in my senior year book. That said, I have no tattoos. So suck it.

-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 punk curation at MySpace Music and his 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 Brooklyn, NY's How Do We Jump This High?
• John Cota's split 10" with Ten Thousand Leagues
• The latest Under The Influence split 7-inch featuring Ruiner and Attica! Attica!
• The new EP from New York City's The Indecent
• The latest full-length from Brooklyn, NY's The Reveling
• Audiobook excerpts from Cro-Mags frontman John Joseph
• A new track from Long Beach, CA's The Greenery

Also don't forget to check out the upcoming full-length from Daytona Beach, FL's Nightlights, the new split from Banquets and Mayflower, the new 7-inch from Jon Snodgrass, the latest EP from Boca Raton, FL's Protagonist, the new split 7-inch from Jon Gaunt and Greenland is Melting, the debut from Mad Caddies side project Ellwood, and the latest from Lincoln, UK's The Living Daylights. 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. In addition to the original Punknews Podcast barreling on (subscribe via RSS or iTunes), Metal/hardcore mavens Jesse and Goodrich have spun off The Wizard's Beard into its own full-length show, which you can also subscribe to via RSS or iTunes. More new shows will be debuting very soon, so stay tuned.

Navel Gazing For June 19, 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:

• Chaos ensued at an Against Me! show in Rochester, with Tom Gabel taking the venue to task for overcharging the fans in attendance
• Seth Putnam of long-running grindcore act Anal Cunt passed away at 43
• Fat Mike of NOFX offered his take on Bonnaroo
• Descendents, Kid Dynamite, The Weakerthans and more were announced for this year's FYF Fest
• Alkaline Trio debuted another re-imagined old song from Damnesia, "This Could Be Love"
• A film adaptation of Green Day's American Idiot is in the works, a title that seems to become more prescient as each day passes

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 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 McHughes of Over Stars and Gutters
• Face To Face
• Protest The Hero
• Pat Graham of Spraynard
• Kris Megyery of The Brokedowns
• A new Band on Band interview featuring Banquets and Mayflower