.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 week started with rumours that indie music distributor Lumberjack Mordam was shutting down and ended with confirmation from CEO Dirk Hemsath. The distributor worked with a vast set of labels including Asian MAn, Thick, Springman, the Union Label Group, Chunksaah, Doghouse, Lookout, Jump Start, and Red Scare. AFI has completed their new record Crash Love and has set a September 29th release date. Brand New excited fans with the announcement of a performance alongside Glassjaw this November. They also apparently changed the name of their new record to Daisy. Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor gave some advice to unsigned artists, suggesting they give away high-quality DRM-free MP3s, collect email addresses in exchange for downloads, then offer a variety of premium packages for sale.
Drummer Jon Reilly of Big D and the Kids Table left the band. The group is currently preparing their new record Fluent in Stroll. Former Bayside member Andrew Elderbaum has a new project with the fate-tempting name of Victory Records, which he may just rename Victory Rex if the label gets litigious. The Aquabats posted an update on their new record. They also discussed the controversy surrounding a recent Denver ska festival. Labelmates Strike Anywhere, Crime in Stereo, Polar Bear Club and Ruiner will tour together soon. Look for Dillinger Four, the Riverboat Gamblers and the Arrivals as well Kinda Like A Fest 5 will feature Dead To Me, Broadway Calls and many others in Half Moon Bay, CA. This week brought a fan-shot live video of Rise Against performing "Savior" and the Gaslight Anthem performing live-to-air on BBC Live Lounge. This week also saw Mean Magazine's Cinemash recreate a scene from the 1986 Gary Oldman / Chloe Webb film Sid & Nancy. In this version Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt appear as the infamous Sex Pistols member and his equally storied partner. I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives 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.
Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured Episode 13 of Mike Hale's For Those Still Standing and the second Warped Tour Journal from our own Ben Conoley. This week we spoke with Jesse Michaels of Classics of Love (interviews), Dan Swartz and Tim Arnold of Good Old War (interview), Justice Tripp of Trapped Under Ice (interview), and drummer Penny Rimbaud of the legendary Crass (interview). Our Video of the Week featured Carbondale, IL's the Copyrights performing three songs. As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including American Rubicon, the new full length from Cobra Skulls, and the new full length from Anaheim, CA-based the Scarred. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Billy Talent, Cobra Skulls, Beastie Boys (Ill Communication deluxe), and Bad Religion (Stranger Than Fiction vinyl reissue) with tours kicking off from Set Your Goals / Four Year Strong / Fireworks (US), Chixdiggit / Kepi Ghoulie (California), Mad Caddies (California, Europe), ALL / Big Drill Car (California), the Weakerthans / Jason Collett (US), the Adolescents (Europe), Shai Hulud / Reign Supreme / The Carrier (US).
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Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including the new full length by The Takers from Gainesville, FL, a new track from Beverly, MA-based Caspian, 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, and the new full length from Kalamazoo, MI-based the Reptilian.
Carry the Torch: A Tribute to Kid Dynamite (colored vinyl!) Carry the Torch packs a walloping 39 tracks paying tribute to one of the most influential and beloved melodic hardcore bands of all time: Kid Dynamite. Released this past week on compact disc by Get Outta Town and last week on double-vinyl by Black Numbers, the latter has teamed up with Punknews.org to give collectors a serious prize package. One grand-prize winner will receive the album in three different colors, though runners-up get a little something as well.
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.
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