.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 The Fest announced more bands playing this year's weekend in Gainesville. The new additions include a Gunmoll reunion show and apperances from Carpenter, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves, Vicious Cycle, American Steel and Drag The River. Dead to Me posted the song "Modern Muse" from their upcoming full length African Elephants. The band also announced that guitarist / co-vocalist Jack Dalrymple did not participate it the recording, nor will he join the band on upcoming tours. Bassist / vocalist Chicken insists that Dalrymple is still in the band though, he's just taking a fatherhood sabbatical. With their recent reunion the Get Up Kids are getting all nostalgic on us. In a recent interview Jim Suptic discussed his love for Fugazi and outright apologized if the Get Up Kids' influence help create today's glam rock-like emo / punk scene.
Suburban Home announced the next three Under The Influence pairings. Look for splits between O Pioneers!!! and New Bruises, Joey Cape paired with Mike Hale, and Kevin Seconds with Kepi Ghoulie. Jello Biafra has returned with a new band dubbed Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. The band features Billy Gould of Faith No More, Kimo Ball of Freak Accident, Ralph Spight of Victims Family, and Jon Weiss. The record The Audacity of Hype will arrive in October on Alternative Tentacles. Banner Pilot has posted the track "Greenwood" from their upcoming Fat Wreck Chords debut Collapser. Panic at the Disco has unveiled the song "New Perspective" from soundtrack to the upcoming film Jennifer's Body Label Paper + Plastick also offered up a free digital sampler this week. Chuck Ragan has announced the dates for the 2009 Revival Tour with Jim Ward (At The Drive-In, Sleepercar, Sparta), Tim Barry (Avail) and Dave Hause (The Loved Ones). Brand New has tour dates coming up with Manchester Orchestra, Thrice, and Glassjaw. AFI has shows scheduled in support of their upcoming Crash Love. Polar Bear Club will play dates in Europe followed by CD release shows. Have Heart's world-spanning final tour continues with appearances from Crime in Stereo, Cruel Hand, End of a Year and Foundation. The Letters Organize have announced a reunion show this August in Atlanta, GA. Fake Problems tour plans continue to fluxuate with the cancellation of four more shows. Finally this week saw a contestant on Indonesia Idol perform NOFX's "The Brews." I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives This week we spoke with solo artist Frank Turner (interview), drummer Benny Horrowitz of the Gaslight Anthem (interview), Paint It Black frontman Dan Yemin (interview) and vocalist Efrem Schulz of Death By Stereo (interview). As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new 12 inch EP from Doylestown, PA's Balance and Composure, and the new 7-song EP from Boston's Ringers.
So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Darker My Love, Hawthorne Heights, Norma Jean, the Real McKenzies and Zebrahead with tours kicking off from the Breeders with Times New Viking and Whispertown 2000 (US), Franz Nicolay (US), Portugal. The Man (US / Canada), the Melvins with Down (US), Harvey Danger (farewell tour), and High On Fire with Early Man (California).
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Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including Frank Turner's new album Love, Ire and Song. the new 7-inch from Scranton, PA-based Tigers Jaw, American Rubicon, the new full length from Cobra Skulls, the new full length from Anaheim, CA-based the Scarred, 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.
Win a bunch of stuff from Red Scare
The Red Scare Tour with Cobra Skulls, The Copyrights, The Sidekicks and The Menzingers is in full swing. To celebrate, the labels benevolent tyrant has decided to give away a set of six (6) releases to one lucky winner. The thing is, he refuses to tell us which ones but promises it'll be "based upon that person's locale. Kinda like a Secret Santa!" Some of the bands on the label are: Enemy You, The Falcon, Teenage Bottlerocket, Bullets to Broadway, The Methadones, The Lillingtons, Sundowner, The Copyrights, Cobra Skulls, La Plebe, The Sidekicks, Druglords of the Avenues and The Menzingers so it'll probably be a few of those.
Win music from No Harm Done No Harm Done are on the road right now supporting their 2008 Think Fast! Records album, Escape We've got five copies of the album to give away.
Win autographed stuff from Revolution Mother
Today we've got some cool stuff to give away from Ferret Records act, Revolution Mother. The band is fronted by Pro Skateboarder Mike Vallely and includes past members of Mean Season and Outspoken. The band's new album was produced by Fred Archambault (Avenged Sevenfold, Valiant Thorr) and is titled Rollin' With Tha Mutha. Win Fall of Troy vinyl and more
On October 6, 2009, The Fall Of Troy will be releasing their next album In the Unlikely Event. In the lead up to that release, the band has provided us with some cool stuff from their prior EP, Phantom on the Horizon.
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