.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 Andrew W.K., citing a recent "intense personal experience," has decided to relocate his upcoming tour dates away from religious venues. While he was light on the details, he stated that "I love going to churches and hearing music there - but I can't play my music on that sort of stage after what happened." Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls got people talking this week with a blog post about fan donations. She commented "If you think i'm going to pass up a chance to put my hat back down in front of the collected audience on my virtual sidewalk and ask them to give their hard-earned money directly to me instead of to Roadrunner Records, Warner Music Group, Ticketmaster, and everyone else out there who's been shamelessly raping both fan and artist for years, you're crazy." John Joseph of Cro-Mags fame announced that his upcoming novel would be titled Meat Is For Pussies. Film industry news sources this week announced that Fox Searchlight is interested in the upcoming Ramones biopic. Research firm Forrester Research stated that the music industry needs a "radical overhaul" to thrive. The report, as covered by Ars Technica, states that users should be able to "completely customize and share their music in an extremely open, platform-agnostic manner."
Thomas of Strike Anywhere annotated their new album Iron Front with a track-by-track preview. Fall Out Boy is set to release a Greatest Hits CD soon. Social Distortion's guitarist discussed their new album. The classic punk act hit the Foo Fighters' studio this week. This week the schedule for The Fest 8was announced. Streetlight Manifesto is playing a show at the Starland Ballroom tonight that features every track from the records Everything Goes Numb and Somewhere in the Between. This week saw North American tour dates from Thursday, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Fake Problems, European tour dates from All-American Rejects and American Steel. Footage of the Gaslight Anthem playing the Beatles' "Come Together"was also unveiled this week.
This week we said goodbye to The Death Set co-founder Beau Velasco (-2009) and Trial / Three Inches of Blood member Brian Redman (1978-2009). I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives Our Food Not Songs series of punk rock recipes featured Lemuria making Bugbear Squares. Banner Pilot, Teenage Bottlerocket and Cobra Skulls topped the list of Your Favorite Records from September. This week we spoke with Chris Wollard of Hot Water Music, the Draft and now Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves (interview), guitarist / vocalist Paul Pendley of Red City Radio (interview), guitarist Nick Bergheimer of Landmines (interview), guitarist Mike McLeod of madcowboys (interview), David "Spoonboy" Combs of The Max Levine Ensemble (interview), and AFI frontman Davey Havok (interview). As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the Cherry Poppin' Daddies re-release of Susquehanna.
So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Built To Spill, Cheap Girls, Gogol Bordello, HORSE The Band, Lucero, Mission Of Burma, Nothington, Relient K, Strike Anywhere and many others. We'll also see a huge number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from Swingin' Utters (US), Frank Turner and Fake Problems (UK), Bob Mould (US), Alexisonfire and Anti-Flag with Ghost of a Thousand and the Fall of Troy (Europe), Nothington (US), The Phenomenauts and Go Jimmy Go (US), and Teenage Bottlerocket with Cobra Skulls (US). This week will also see on of the Small Brown Bike reunion shows (details).
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Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including the new full length from Baltimore, Maryland's Ruiner, new material from London-based Apologies, I Have None, the new 7" from Washington, DC-based Lion of Judah, the new full length from Teenage Bottlerocket, Slackers frontman Vic Ruggiero's new solo project, a 7" from Newark, NJ-based Troublemaker, a preview of a new song from AFI, the new album Phoenix from Los Angeles' Orange, the latest from Rochester, NY's Such Gold, the Sidekicks' new full length for Red Scare Records, the new EP from Rochester, NY's Sakes Alive!!, the new full length from Chicago's The Bomb, the final full length from Brooklyn's Nakatomi Plaza, the Fat Wreck debut from Minneapolis, MN's Banner Pilot, and an audio book chapter from Frank Portman of The Mr. T Experience's new book Andromeda Klein.
Win a prize package from Relient K
On October 6, 2009, Relient K will be releasing their new album Forget and Not Slow Down. It's the first new studio album from the band since 2007's Five Score and Seven Years Ago. To celebrate, we've got two prize packages from the band.
Win tickets to every stop on the Bridge 9 Tour
In a week, Bridge Nine Records will be kicking off their eponymous tour with Strike Anywhere, Crime In Stereo, Polar Bear Club and Ruiner. To celebrate, the label has hooked us up with a set of two tickets for each date on the tour. All you have to do is fill out the form linked here and pick your preferred city.
Win a bunch of stuff from Teenage Bottlerocket
To celebrate the release of their Fat Wreck Chords debut, They Came from the Shadows, Teenage Bottlerocket have hooked us up with a prize package featuring a kick drum head, a limited 7-inch and more.
Win gear, music and more from Revolution Mother
We've got a prize package from Revolution Mother for one lucky winner. Along with a copy of the band's new Ferret Records release, Rollin' with That Mutha, we've got an Affliction hat, a ton of Monster Energy Drink, a skate deck, an apparel pack from Active and a pair of Von Zipper sunglasses.
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