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
A Los Angeles judge has blocked the use of the Sublime name by bandmembers Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh. The estate of original vocalist Bradley Nowell filed a trademark infringement suit on October 21, in advance of the band's performance at the Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival. Radiohead's Ed O'Brien raised some eyebrows with his suggestion that bandwidth throttling could be used to combat illegal downloading. The line up of the 2010 Harvest of Hope festival is coming into view, with Off With Their Heads, Small Brown Bike, Anti-Flag, and Dead to Me slated to perform. Dashboard Confessional and New Found Glory cancelled their planned tour this past week. We also had footage of the greatest Misfits cover band ever, featuring Ted Leo, Atom Goren of Atom and his PAckage and Andy Nelson of Paint It Black.

Asian Man detailed the upcoming Matt Skiba solo record , titled Demos and due in February. Controversial hardline group Vegan Reich are writing and rehearsing a new record. The same goes for Propagandhi, who are working on the follow up to Supporting Caste. Detournement, which features members of Bigwig, Ensign, Lifetime, Plan A Project and Worthless United, are planning a new 7-inch. Defunct ska-punk act Five Iron Frenzy revealed plans for a DVD. Dead To Me streamed their new record African Elephants. A radio station chatted with Descendents frontman Milo Aukerman about his current and future plans.

This week we said goodbye to founding Smugglers drummer Paul Preminger.
I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain
New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives
The Punknews crew at the Fest may have done more festing than live-reporting, but they did come back home with some cool video footage. Check out Broadway Calls performing "Midnight Hour" and "Van Rides and High Tides," Shook Ones performing a cover of Weezer's "Tired of Sex", How Dare You playing "Eat at Charlie's", and the Sidekicks performing "Looking."

Chuck Ragan, Strike Anywhere and Lucero topped your list of Your Favorite Records from October. This week we spoke with vocalist Ki Seok So of The Geeks (interview), " bassist Frédéric Leclercq of DragonForce (interview), Ned Russin, Shane Moran and Ben Russin of Title Fight (interview), Jeff Rosenstock of Bomb The Music Industry! (interview), and guitarist Dominic Maggiolo of I Refuse (interview).

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Cloak/Dagger, and new material from Durham, NC-based Red Collar.

So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Dashboard Confessional, Dead To Me, Franz Nicolay, Gatorface, Teenage Rehab, The Flatliners, Throwdown, and many others. We'll also see a number of tours kick off this week. Look for upcoming shows from AFI with Gallows (US / Canada), Motorhead, The Damned and Girlschool (UK), Quest For Fire (Canada / US), Rx Bandits supporting Glassjaw (US), Bowling For Soup with MC Lars (US), Less Than Jake with the Swellers, the Casualties, Fishbone and others (US), and Madball (South America, UK).

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Radio Free Punknews
Streaming music
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including the new digital EP from Foundation, a new track from Landmines new EP, former ALL and current Drag the River member Chad Price's first solo album, the new self-recorded, self-produced, self-released sophomore album from the Braces, Brooklyn, NY-based Laura Stevenson and the Cans, a brand new song from Indianapolis, IN-based Native, the new full length from Scranton, PA's Captain, We're Sinking, new music from Pittsburgh's American Armada, 10 songs from new Red Scare act the Reaganomics, the new full length from Buffalo's Failures' Union, the sophomore LP from Nothington titled Roads, Bridges and Ruins, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies re-release of Susquehanna, 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, and a 7" from Newark, NJ-based Troublemaker.
It's Funny, I Don't Feel Like a Winner
Contests
Win vinyl from The Arteries
On November 10, 2009, The Arteries will be releasing a US version of their album, Blood, Sweat and Beers, on vinyl. To celebrate, we've got copies of the album to give away.

Win a test press from Foundation
Foundation, the project from Rob Huddleston of Ann Beretta and Inquisition is set to release a new digital EP via Paper and Plastick. To celebrate, we've got a rare test press of his last full length, Chimborazo, to give away.

Win vinyl from PJ Bond
On November 10, 2009, PJ Bond will release his album, You Didn't Know I Was Alphabetical. To celebrate, we've got some coloured vinyl to give away.

Win stuff from Dead to Me
To go with the release of African Elephants on November 10, 2009, we've got a whole bunch of Dead To Me prizes to give away to four lucky winners.
Tonight We're Gonna Give It 35%
Staff blogs and side projects
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