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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...

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This week's most popular stories
This was a good week to be a Gaslight Anthem fan. The unabashed Bruce Springsteen nuts were joined on stage by the Boss at this weekend's Glastonbury Festival. He performed "The '59 Sound" with the band. Gaslight frontman Brian Fallon was also featured captured performing a solo cover of the Leonard Cohen classic "Hallelujah." There were a few big signings this week. A Wilhelm Scream went to Paper & Plastick, with a five-song 12-inch out this fall. Flint, MI's the Swellers joined up with Fueled By Ramen, with a new ful length due in the fall. Producer Butch Vig unveiled some news on the next Against Me! record, revealing that the band would start pre-production soon with studio time expected in August. Blink-182 have finished tracking their first new, post-reunion track titled "Up All Night." Every Time I Die was also in the news, discussing the departure of drummer Mike Novak.

Many bands were busy working on new recordings this week. Brand New discussed their next record and the future of the band. Nothington announced their sophomore full length for BYO Records. Popular act Paramore detailed their forthcoming album. Polar Bear Club is set to release a teaser 7-inch this month. Red Scare announced plans to distribute the new EP from The Isotopes. Blaqk Audio, the side project from AFI members Davey Havok and Jade Puget recorded a Love and Rockets cover for an upcoming tribute. Andrew Jackson Jihad detailed their new record Can't Maintain. The Bouncing Souls kicked off the month with a new song, "Ghosts On The Boardwalk." Brendon Urie of Panic at the Disco posted a cover of Sublime's "Boss DJ." This week saw videos from the Riverboat Gamblers ("Victory Lap"), garage rock act Wavves ("No Hope Kids"), and UK pop singer-songwriter Lily Allen ("Fuck You") This year's Red Scare Tour will feature Cobra Skulls, the Copyrights, the Sidekicks and the Menzingers. Youth Brigade will also hit the road with Off With Their Heads. Finally Bomb the Music Industry and Laura Stevenson will tour the US.

This week we said goodbye to vocalist and founder of the Seeds, Sky Saxon (1937-2009).
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Punknews.org will be represented this year at the 2009 San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 19th. The current team features Punknews readers, staff from Fat Wreck Chords and our pal Mike Park of Asian Man Records. You can register here or make a general donation here.

Rancid and the Menzingers lead the list of Your Favorite Records from June. Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured more video studio footage from Rochester, NY's Sakes Alive!! (Episode 2) and the first Warped Tour Journal from our own Ben Conoley.

Our Video of the Week featured Florida's Fake Problems performing "Heart BPM" on the Philadelphia stop of their headlining tour. As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length by The Takers from Gainesville, FL, and a new track from Beverly, MA-based Caspian. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Against Me!, All Time Low, Big D and The Kids Table, Death By Stereo, and Poison The Well with tours kicking off from Brand New (US), Rx Bandits with Dredg (US), the 10 For $10 Tour featuring Terror, Death Before Dishonor, War of Ages, Crime In Stereo, Trapped Under Ice, The Mongoloids, The Ghost Inside, This Is Hell and Vision, Fear Before with Oceana and Memphis May Fire (US), the Briggs and Left Alone (US), SNFU (Europe), and In The Red (US).

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Streaming music
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including Sudbury, Ontario's Vicious Cycle, There Are No Answers from Houston, TX's Something Fierce, Dream Homes from Chicago, IL's Dear Landlord, As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new song "No Rest" from St. Catharines, Ontario's Alexisonfire, the new full length from Calgary, Alberta's This Is A Standoff, Minneapolis' the Gateway District (members of the Soviettes, Banner Pilot, Off with Their Heads, Rivethead), Philadelphia, PA's Lighten Up, Orlando, FL's No Friends, Akron, OH's post rock outfit If These Trees Could Talk, the new full length from Kalamazoo, MI-based the Reptilian, the new full length from Sweden's Smalltown, Winnipeg's Sights and Sounds (members of Comeback Kid, Sick City and Figure Four).
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Contests
Sound and Fury Festival, Contest Package 2
Today, we're launching the second in our series of contests around the forthcoming Sound and Fury Festival in Oxnard, California. The hardcore fest includes a huge list of bands including Blacklisted, Defeater, Ceremony, Shook Ones, Shai Hulud and many more.

Win a prize package from Reel Big Fish
On July 21, 2009, Reel Big Fish will released their new DVD, Live! In Concert! via Rock Ridge Music. To celebrate the release, the band has provided a copy of the DVD and signed copies of their last album, Fame, Fortune and Fornication apiece for three winners.

Win 10 releases from 10 bands on the "10 for $10 tour"
In just over a month, ten hardcore bands will be headed out on the 10 for $10 tour. The bill will feature Bane, Crime In Stereo, Death Before Dishonor, Poison The Well, Vision of Disorder, War of Ages, This Is Hell, Trapped Under Ice, The Mongoloids, The Ghost Inside, Madball and Terror. To celebrate the run, we've got a package of music featuring all ten bands to give away to one lucky winner.
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