October 24th, 2010

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:

• Velvet Underground's Maureen Tucker talks about the Tea Party movement in the US
• Bad Religion unveiled their amazing (and Into The Unknown including) 30th Anniversary Vinyl Box Set
• Kiss frontman and cranky old loudmouth Gene Simmons went to war with the internet vigilantes collectively known as Anonymous
• The Flatliners released their video for "Monumental"
• Five employees of DC9 were arrested in the beating death which took place outside a recent Agnostic Front show. Roger Miret weighed in on the incident as well.
• Germs of Perfection: A Tribute to Bad Religion was posted for download
• Jay Weinberg responded to his recent departure from Madball

With that we hand over this Sunday evening to you, the Punknews community. From that glorious, likely bearded rabble we've see the creation of everything from message boards and Punknews fantasy sports leagues to even a band or two. So talk amongst yourselves and we'll see you Monday…

The People Must Have Something Good To Read

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

• Brian Frost and John Marullo of Protagonist interviewing Strike Anywhere
• Dan Yemin and Andy Nelson of Paint It Black
• Colin and Ryan of Spanish Gamble
• Chris Pennie of Coheed and Cambria
• Chris Farren of Fake Problems
• Mike Dean of Corrosion of Conformity

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: What's the drunkest Rich ever was at a show? A: One time my brother, Rich and I went to the Blue Lagoon in Santa Cruz to see Mike Park play with Chuck Ragan. When we walked in we saw the special was a shot of Jameson and a PBR for 3 bucks. Fast forward a few hours and we are _those_ guys yelling Chinkees songs at Mike and Rumbleseat songs at Chuck. We did get him to play Cursing Concrete. As we tried to leave I vaguely remember eating pizza and Taco Bell. We had to walk three miles to a hotel where they almost refused us a room.

That is, bar none, one of the best nights of my life. -Justin

Your trusty Punknews editors have all sorts of projects on the go. If you like what you see here do us a favour and pay a visit to Jesse Raub's coffee blogging at Bitter Press, Adam White's Niagara video blog Check In Niagara and his tumblog AdamWhite.org, Justin August's tumblogs at JustinAugust.org and Other Stuff That I Like, Bryne Yancey's Orlando blog Overheated, and Chris Moran's videos at Vimeo. Of course your day wouldn't be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors' lives. Follow @aubinpaul, @adamwhite, @jesseraub, @justinaugust, @brian_shultz, @bconoley, @dante3000 and @bryneyancey'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 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 Allston, MA power trio The Cold Beat
• The new demo from Plattsburgh, NY melodic hardcore trio Lie Captive
• The new split 7" from Long Beach, CA's Joyce Manor and fellow Californians Summer Vacation.
• The new EP from North Coast, Ireland's Under Stars and Gutters
• The new full length from Swansea, UK-based the Arteries.
• The new album from Omaha, NB-based Tim Kasher of Cursive and the Good Life.

Also don't forget to check out an exclusive track from Baltimore, MD-based You, Me, And Everyone We Know, the new 7" from Thousandaires, Albany, NY-based Aficionado's new EP, and the new full length from Montreal, Quebec's Humanifesto. You can find much more on the Punknews Music page.

The Punknews Podcast is going strong! We (try to) post a new episode every week featuring new music, commentary and bad jokes. You can check it out via your favourite aggregator with the RSS or subscribe on iTunes.

October 17th, 2010

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:

• Victory Records enlisted Gilbert Gottfried for a bizarre anti-piracy video
• A man was beaten to death after an Agnostic Front show in Washington, DC
• Weezer announced the upcoming release of Death to False Metal
• Pennywise are now back with Epitaph Records
• Footage of Bomb The Music Industry! performing Weezer's "Buddy Holly" surfaced
• Face to Face unveiled their new song "Should Anything Go Wrong"
• Less Than Jake are getting ready to hit the road with Off With Their Heads and The Supervillains
• The Menzingers are recording an acoustic LP for Red Scare
• This week also brought more tribute covers of Bad Religion songs, including Switchfoot performing "Sorrow," Guttermouth playing "Pity"

With that we hand over this Sunday evening to you, the Punknews community. From that glorious, likely bearded rabble we've see the creation of everything from message boards and Punknews fantasy sports leagues to even a band or two. So talk amongst yourselves and we'll see you Monday…

The People Must Have Something Good To Read

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

• Chris Farren of Fake Problems
• Mike Dean of Corrosion of Conformity
• A Band on Band interview featuring The Measure [SA] and New Bruises
• Scott Sturgeon of Leftover Crack and the Star Fucking Hipsters
• MC Lars
• Rob Miller of Amebix

Tonight We're Going To Give It 35%

Punknews content is syndicated to several social media networks and we're striving to provide you with quality, 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: You guys run a site called punknews.org …do any of you guys consider yourself "punk?? (Not a criticism by any means, just a question). A: Are we living in squats and sneering at cops from beneath our towering mohawks while trying to figure out if we can afford to finish our neck tattoo before the big protest next Saturday? No.

We're just music fans who happen to love punk rock, seeing bands live and doing what we can to help them out. We're all pretty far out of our teenage subcultural years at this point, and we've got boring stuff like houses, degrees and jobs. Whether that's punk or not is up to you. -Adam

Your trusty Punknews editors have all sorts of projects on the go. If you like what you see here do us a favour and pay a visit to Adam White's Niagara video blog Check In Niagara and his tumblog AdamWhite.org, Jesse Raub's coffee blogging at Bitter Press, Justin August's tumblogs at JustinAugust.org and Other Stuff That I Like, Chris Moran's videos at Vimeo, and Bryne Yancey's Orlando blog Overheated. Of course your day wouldn't be complete without knowing every inane detail of your humble editors' lives. Follow @aubinpaul, @adamwhite, @jesseraub, @justinaugust, @brian_shultz, @bconoley, @dante3000 and @bryneyancey'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 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 Swansea, UK-based the Arteries.
• The new album from Omaha, NB-based Tim Kasher of Cursive and the Good Life.
• An exclusive track from Baltimore, MD-based You, Me, And Everyone We Know
• The new 7" from Thousandaires
• Albany, NY-based Aficionado's new EP.
• The new full length from Montreal, Quebec's Humanifesto

Also don't forget to check out the new full length from New York City's multi-instrumentalist Franz Nicolay, the new album from Albany, NY-based After the Fall, and the new EP from Las Vegas, NV's Caravels. You can find much more on the Punknews Music page.

The Punknews Podcast is going strong! We (try to) post a new episode every week featuring new music, commentary and bad jokes. You can check it out via your favourite aggregator with the RSS or subscribe on iTunes.

October 10th, 2010

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:

• Gene Simmons of Kiss and reality television fame declared this week that that musicians should "Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars."I for one welcome Gene's tryannical new dystopian music industry.
• An individual concerned by the arguable quality of recent Weezer music wants to raise $10,000,000 for the band to break up
• Less Than Jake streamed their new covers project the TV/EP
• Kris Roe of The Ataris responded to some recent online criticism
• Boy Sets Fire is set to reunite
• Blink-182 will enter the studio soon, as will The Offspring
• The schedule for The Fest 9 was released this week
• This week also brought more tribute covers of Bad Religion songs, including Cheap Girls performing "Kerosene," The Weakerthans performing "Sanity," and William Elliott Whitmore taking on "Don't Pray on Me."

With that we hand over this Sunday evening to you, the Punknews community. From that glorious, likely bearded rabble we've see the creation of everything from message boards and Punknews fantasy sports leagues to even a band or two. So talk amongst yourselves and we'll see you Monday…

The People Must Have Something Good To Read

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

• Scott Sturgeon of Leftover Crack and the Star Fucking Hipsters
• MC Lars
• Rob Miller of Amebix
• Andrew Neufeld of Comeback Kid
• A Band on Band interview with Tigon and Olehole
• Laura Stevenson of Laura Stevenson and The Cans