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 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.
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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.
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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Read More to check out our ongoing contests, new streaming music, social networking links and more.
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Streaming music
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.
It's Funny, I Don't Feel Like a Winner
Contests
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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Staff blogs and side projects
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Vimeo,
editor Justin August's blog
JustinAugust.org,
editor Adam White's blog
AdamWhite.org,
editor Jesse Raub's short fiction webzine
Bitter Press,
and reviews editor Brian Shultz' blogs
Over Looked and
Witness.
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