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...

This was a good week to be a Gaslight Anthem fan. The unabashed Bruce Springsteen nuts were joined on stage by the Boss at this weekend's Glastonbury Festival. He performed "The '59 Sound" with the band. Gaslight frontman Brian Fallon was also featured captured performing a solo cover of the Leonard Cohen classic "Hallelujah." There were a few big signings this week. A Wilhelm Scream went to Paper & Plastick, with a five-song 12-inch out this fall. Flint, MI's the Swellers joined up with Fueled By Ramen, with a new ful length due in the fall. Producer Butch Vig unveiled some news on the next Against Me! record, revealing that the band would start pre-production soon with studio time expected in August. Blink-182 have finished tracking their first new, post-reunion track titled "Up All Night." Every Time I Die was also in the news, discussing the departure of drummer Mike Novak.

Many bands were busy working on new recordings this week. Brand New discussed their next record and the future of the band. Nothington announced their sophomore full length for BYO Records. Popular act Paramore detailed their forthcoming album. Polar Bear Club is set to release a teaser 7-inch this month. Red Scare announced plans to distribute the new EP from The Isotopes. Blaqk Audio, the side project from AFI members Davey Havok and Jade Puget recorded a Love and Rockets cover for an upcoming tribute. Andrew Jackson Jihad detailed their new record Can't Maintain. The Bouncing Souls kicked off the month with a new song, "Ghosts On The Boardwalk." Brendon Urie of Panic at the Disco posted a cover of Sublime's "Boss DJ." This week saw videos from the Riverboat Gamblers ("Victory Lap"), garage rock act Wavves ("No Hope Kids"), and UK pop singer-songwriter Lily Allen ("Fuck You") This year's Red Scare Tour will feature Cobra Skulls, the Copyrights, the Sidekicks and the Menzingers. Youth Brigade will also hit the road with Off With Their Heads. Finally Bomb the Music Industry and Laura Stevenson will tour the US.

This week we said goodbye to vocalist and founder of the Seeds, Sky Saxon (1937-2009). 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.

Rancid and the Menzingers lead the list of Your Favorite Records from June. Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured more video studio footage from Rochester, NY's Sakes Alive!! (Episode 2) and the first Warped Tour Journal from our own Ben Conoley.

Our Video of the Week featured Florida's Fake Problems performing "Heart BPM" on the Philadelphia stop of their headlining tour. As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length by The Takers from Gainesville, FL, and a new track from Beverly, MA-based Caspian. So what's coming up this week? Look for new releases from Against Me!, All Time Low, Big D and The Kids Table, Death By Stereo, and Poison The Well with tours kicking off from Brand New (US), Rx Bandits with Dredg (US), the 10 For $10 Tour featuring Terror, Death Before Dishonor, War of Ages, Crime In Stereo, Trapped Under Ice, The Mongoloids, The Ghost Inside, This Is Hell and Vision, Fear Before with Oceana and Memphis May Fire (US), the Briggs and Left Alone (US), SNFU (Europe), and In The Red (US).

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Albany, NY's After the Fall recently recorded three new songs with NYHC producer Don Fury at his new studio in Troy, NY. Veteran producer Fury previously worked with bands like Born Against, Quicksand, Agnostic Front and Gorilla Biscuits.

The new EP is titled Collar City and will be released on vinyl on to-be-announced labels. The band released Fort Orange earlier this year.