.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 community talking this week… The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories This was another week of Scandinavian music piracy stories. Many of you wrote in regarding the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden, in which the four founders of the popular BitTorrent tracker were found guilty of promoting copyright infringement. Meanwhile over in Norway a study suggested that pirates buy ten times more music than those who never participate in file sharing. The 2009 Lollapalooza festival will feature bands such as Rise Against, the Beastie Boys, Neko Case, the Constantines, the Gaslight Anthem, Deerhunter and Lou Reed among many others. 88 Fingers Louie (minus Joe Principe) are set to reunite in August. This week also had pointed words for popular punk/glam metal act Avenged Sevenfold, who were called a "gimmick" by Avenged Sevenfold.
Against Me! is planning to release The Original Cowboy via Fat Wreck Chords. The record features never-before-heard demos for the As The Eternal Cowboy album. Face To Face is in the studio recording a Rise Against cover for an upcoming split. 311 have revealed the track listing for their upcoming album Uplifter. NOFX are streaming their upcoming album Coaster. They also performed tracks acoustically on MySpace's Transmissions. Green Day posted a video for their new single "Know Your Enemy." The band also announced a May 16th performance on SNL along with their upcoming tour routing. The Bronx also unveiled their video for "Knifeman." Finally Social Distortion's Mike Ness joined up with a PETA campaign against factory farming. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Punknews.org is proud to continue publishing road journals from Mike Hale (Gunmoll, In The Red). Having packed up his belongings, moved out of his apartment, and committed himself to living as a touring musician, Mike has some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and now Episode 9 of For Those Still Standing. Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Comeback Kid (Episode 4, Episode 5), and Bridge and Tunnel (Episode 1). This week's Editors' Picks recommended music from Disguster. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new full length from Allston, MA's Kill Conrad, and Austin, TX's Broken Gold (members of the Riverboat Gamblers. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from NOFX, Mike Hale, So Many Dynamos, and Rivers Cuomo (live) with tours kicking off from Bouncing Souls / the Loved Ones / Black President (US), Fake Problems / William Elliott Whitmore (US), the Human Abstract, Vanna, Oh, Sleeper (US), Virgins (UK), and Testament / Unearth (US).
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including Minneapolis, MN based Photo Finish Records act A Verse Unsung, Cincinnati, OH's Pomegranates, the new full length from Kensington, CT's My Heart to Joy, Hotel Bible from Toronto's Junior Battles, Doylestown, PA's War Pigs, Los Angeles, CA's Black President, Golden City, the new project from Eric Richter of emo/punk pioneers Christie Front Drive, Long Beach, CA-based Adam's Dagger, the new EP from Vancouver's Living with Lions, a new record from Albany's After the Fall, Volume 2 from Mike Hale of Gunmoll's latest band In The Red, San Jose, CA's pop-punk outfit Pillowfights, Richmond-based Foundation (the latest work from Rob Huddleston of Ann Beretta and Inquisition), Detroit's Fireworks, the new EP from Hartford, CT-based Make Do and Mend, the new record from Austin Lucas, and the new record from Winnipeg teen heartthrobs Propagandhi, Saskatchewan-based three piece garage punk act Ultimate Power Duo, Riverside, CA's No Bragging Rights, Sackville, New Brunswick's lo-fi singer / songwriter Shotgun Jimmie.
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