.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 brought us a further progress report on Rancid's upcoming album. Epitaph head and Bad Religion guitarist / songwriter Brett Gurewitz has finished mixing the release and it's set for a spring release. Blink-182's road to an inevitable reunion continues, as the three members of the pop-punk act share the stage as Grammy presenters. Winnipeg's Propagandhi unveiled the new song "Dear Coach's Corner" this week on BBC Radio 1. In a recent interview Say Anything head Max Bemis commented on his ongoing (and really amusing) tiff with the Punknews.org readership. My Chemical Romance unveiled their video for "Desolation Row". The popular band produced the Bob Dylan cover for the soundtrack of the upcoming Watchmen film. The band also discussed their upcoming fourth album.
Fat Mike of NOFX discussed the upcoming DVD release of the Backstage Passport series. He also took the opportunity to rip into Avenged Sevenfold for good measure. 311 posted an update on their next record, as did mewithoutYou who confirmed their confirm title and release date. We had news that Have Heart and Polar Bear Club would hit the road soon. The Bamboozle has unveiled their lineup, which will feature Fall Out Boy, No Doubt, Taking Back Sunday and Rise Against. The Deftones will also play the event, notable in light of the car accident that's sidelined bassist Chi Cheng. Bonnaroo will feature a diverse roster including Bruce Springsteen, the Beastie Boys, the Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails and Neko Case. This week saw new audio from In The Hollows, featuring former and current members of Champion, Pulling Teeth and Ruiner. We also heard music from Jazzbreaker, a jazz / big band tribute to Jawbreaker. This week saw a number of tributes to Bruce Springsteen, including videos from Ted Leo And The Pharmacists and Brian Fallon of Gaslight Anthem as well as Against Me!'s Tom Gabel.
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Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Alex of Gatorface and Sam from Virgins] (Episode 3). This week we spoke with Greg Attonito of the Bouncing Souls (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new album Neon Creeps from Spring, TX-based O Pioneers!!!, and South Wales based Attack! Attack!. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from New Found Glory, O Pioneers!!!, and Napalm Death with tours kicking off from Murder City Devils (US West Coast), Cute Is What We Aim For headlined Take Action Tour, Propagandhi (Australia), Kevin Seconds / Kepi Ghoulie / Vic Ruggiero (US), and Flogging Molly (US / Canada).
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including a full album from Long Island's Agent, Athens, GA-based Pegasuses-XL (featuring members of Bomb the Music Industry! and The Arrogant Sons of Bitches), the Marked Men's new full length Ghosts, the new record from New Brunswick, NJ-based Let Me Run, Brooklyn, NY-based Lymbyc Systym, New Haven CT's Blackened, 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.
Polyvinyl Vinyl Contest
It's time for our first contest of 2009. Today, our contest comes from the venerable Polyvinyl Records. This month, the label will be releasing Owen's (the ep), The One Up Downstairs 7-inch and American Football's American Football EP on vinyl. To celebrate, the label has provided two retail sets and one test press set of all three albums.
Win a exclusive Mike Park 7-inch and slkscreened art print Simple Stereo has released a unique new art print and 7-inch featuring Mike Park. The 7-inch includes the A-side, "Challenging Me" and previously unreleased B-side, "This World Is Fucked." The 7-inch features art from artist Kevin Varner and the package includes a a 7" x 14" Silkscreened Art Print/gatefold cover.
Win stuff from Two Tongues (Saves The Day, Say Anything) Two Tongues, the new project from Max Bemis and Coby Linder of Say Anything and Chris Conley and David Soloway of Saves The Day, will be releasing their forthcoming, self-titled debut, on February 13, 2009. To celebrate, we've got a contest leading up to the release where we'll be giving away copies of the album along with some exclusive stickers.
The Loved Ones distract Punknews with a contest
Philly's The Loved Ones have just released a new EP this week, a combination of covers and original material titled Distractions. The band and their label, Fat Wreck Chords are offering our readers a chance to win one of three prize packs including signed posters, CD's and a drum head from the band.
Murder City Devils Vinyl Bonanza
The Murder City Devils are back and they're ready to give you some sweet, sweet loving. We've teamed up with the band to offer the chance to win a set of their extremely limited vinyl reissues, due out next month on Sub Pop. One winner will recieve their Self-Titled album, Empty Bottles Broken Hearts, In Name and Blood and the Thelema 12".
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